Global Compact Network Canada

Purpose

Through this 30-month systemic change project, the UN Global Compact Network Canada will help advance women’s representation in leadership and decision-making roles by targeting male allyship. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers within gender norms and attitudes, and authority, voices at the table, and decision-making power by focusing on the role of male allyship for gender equality. This will be done through conducting consultation sessions with women from equity-deserving groups to understand existing challenges and gaps to their career development, convening a male allyship working group to create space for candid conversations and identify areas where support and guidance is needed, bringing women leaders together in an advisory committee to discuss the impact allyship had on their careers, and developing a Male Allyship Action Plan Guide to highlight actionable steps and resources for any organization wanting to enhance allyship within their diversity, equity, and inclusion work. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.