Alberta Ministry of Culture and Status of Women

Purpose

In this 24-month project, Alberta and Women and Gender Equality Canada will co-invest in the development of strategies to engage men and boys to prevent domestic violence in the Province of Alberta. This will be achieved through scaling existing initiatives for funded organizations; facilitating community engagement; and identifying emerging opportunities. By the end of this project, Alberta will have a prevention strategy developed that will advance the role of men and boys as key participants in gender equity and gender-based violence prevention in the Province of Alberta and Canada. The project partners include the Government of Alberta’s Ministry of Culture and Status of Women and Ministry of Community and Social Services, as well as the non-profit organizations Sagesse, Next Gen Men and Men&. The project steward and fiscal agent, Sagesse Domestic Violence Prevention Society, will conduct a robust evaluation and final report to ensure that project objectives are achieved, which will include identifying what it looks like to engage men and boys in preventing domestic violence in the Province of Alberta.