Competition

* Unless explicitly noted, all times indicated for deadlines are for the appropriate NL timezone (NST or NDT)

Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Ministers responsible for the Status of Women launched the National Action Plan to End Gender-based Violence (GBV-NAP) in November 2022. The GBV-NAP is a 10-year plan that sets a framework to end gender-based violence in Canada. The GBV-NAP is informed by over 1,000 recommendations from Indigenous partners, survivors, frontline organizations, and experts. You can read more about the GBV-NAP here.

The GBV-NAP identifies five pillars under which Federal, Provincial, and Territorial governments can advance work on preventing and addressing gender-based violence:

• Pillar One: Support for survivors and their families;

• Pillar Two: Violence prevention;

• Pillar Three: Responsive justice system;

• Pillar Four: Implementing Indigenous-led approaches; and

• Pillar Five: Social infrastructure and enabling environment.

On December 15, 2023, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador (GNL) announced a $13.6 million four-year bilateral agreement (the Agreement) with the Government of Canada as part of the GBV-NAP. The funding is supporting the Provincial Government’s work in addressing and preventing gender-based violence, while building capacity for violence prevention through knowledge tools, educational resources, and other prevention initiatives. The goals of the GBV-NAP include: engaging all people in Canada in changing the social norms, attitudes and behaviours that contribute to gender-based violence; Addressing the social and economic determinants that contribute to and perpetuate gender-based violence; Ensuing anyone facing gender-based violence has reliable and timely access to culturally appropriate and accessible protection and services; and improving the health, social, economic, and justice outcomes of those impacted by gender-based violence.

The Community Violence Prevention Program

Violence prevention safeguards individuals, families, and communities from physical, psychological, and social harm and creates safer environments where individuals can thrive. Government is committed to providing support for organizations and projects that are working to prevent violence and support the well-being of women, girls, and gender diverse people throughout Newfoundland and Labrador. The Program’s purpose is to increase collaboration with community partners to address the root causes of gender-based violence. The Program will provide grants to support targeted, community-driven efforts, led by community partners within our province, particularly those in rural areas, to address violence against highrisk populations.

Projects must fall into 1 (or more) of the 5 GBV-NAP pillars & include at least 1 of the following focus areas:

• Building community support networks, especially at the regional and municipal levels;

• Supporting survivors, their families, and their communities;

• Engaging men and boys in gender-based violence prevention;

• Ending the normalization of violence in communities;

• Addressing the stigma against gender-based violence; and/or

• Promoting healing and well-being of those impacted by gender-based violence.

In addition to the external funding agency’s submission procedures, this opportunity must also be submitted for Departmental, HSS Faculty, and Research Initiatives and Services (RIS) institutional reviews and approvals via Memorial's Researcher Portal (RP). In order to facilitate the HSS Faculty’s administrative review, please ensure "Heather C. O'Brien (Grants Facilitator)" and “Matthew Milner (Grants Facilitator)” are added as "Team Members" on your RP file. 

In accordance with University-wide approval protocols, all tabs of the RP file must be completed, the completed application must be uploaded to the “Attachments” tab, all supporting documentation including support for cash and in-kind commitments and/or letters of support must also be uploaded, and “Submit” must be pressed prior to the HSS internal deadline listed below. HSS cannot guarantee completion of an administrative review for application files that are incomplete and/or are submitted after the HSS deadline. For more detailed submission instructions and information, please consult the HSS Research Support Services website.

If you plan to apply to this competition or other research funding opportunities (as either PI or CI), e-mail an HSS Grants Facilitator, Heather C. O’Brien (HSSResearchAdmin@mun.ca or 864-8603) or Matthew Milner (HSSResearchGrants@mun.ca or 864-8050), to notify the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of your intent to apply. E-mailing the intent to apply as early as possible will help to facilitate an efficient review. A Grants Facilitator can answer any questions you may have about internal or external submission procedures and may also be able to help with proposal development.