Women’s Employment Readiness pilot program

How to Apply: 

Women have been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Inequalities that existed before the pandemic have been made worse. The pandemic has also greatly affected jobs in service sectors, which employ larger numbers of women.

The Women’s Employment Readiness (WER) pilot program will fund organizations to provide and test pre-employment and skills development supports for women. Projects will also include working with employers to reduce barriers to employing women. Four groups of women will be targeted:

  • racialized and/or Indigenous women
  • women with disabilities
  • women from the LGBTQ2 community
  • women who have been out of the workforce for a long time

Projects must be national in scope. That is, they must serve participants in 2 or more provinces/territories. Projects can be regional in scope if they will serve participants located in Official Language Minority Communities.

Eligible organizations can apply for funding up to $2.5M per project, per year. All projects must end by March 31, 2023.

External Deadline: 
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research