Our Approach

Model for Change

The project has four main objectives:

Participatory Research

The proposed project will use community-based research methods to increase understanding of the project issues through equitable and reciprocal partnerships, with all partners sharing expertise and direction of the project, and integrate knowledge into action for policy and social change that reflects the expertise, decisions, and needs of community partners.

Our research methods primarily involve 20 community conversations with the groups impacted by poverty and systemic marginalization, ensuring that Indigenous and local knowledge is centred and becomes the basis of best practices and recommendations put forward.  These groups, who are most likely to live in poverty and who face marginalization and systemic discrimination, are often isolated from decision-making process. The research methods draw on an intersectional rights-based approach to participation, centre local knowledge when shaping recommendations, and build towards reciprocity so that engagement is meaningful. 

Catalyze Local Engagement

This project will support and catalyze the active engagement of historically marginalized communities in Canada’s realization of the SDGs and increase the awareness in those communities of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.  Leveraging the strong horizontal partnership between three national social justice networks, Campaign 2000, Canada Without Poverty (CWP), and Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ), and affiliated networks throughout the country, this project will reach communities who are often left out of policy development and decision making.  Each organization has local partners across the country and collectively engages marginalized communities in every province and territory across Canada.  These partners have developed relationships of trust with local communities and will engage community members with the tools developed and supports available through this project.

Developing New Indicators

This project will engage historically marginalized communities to contribute towards developing indicator recommendations that demonstrate progress for the SDGs in ways that are meaningful both at the community and government levels.  Building on Campaign 2000’s work on analyzing government progress towards ending poverty, this project will use an intersectional and rights-based framework to analyse and examine the interactions between multiple SDGs, identify barriers faced by marginalized groups including the compounding nature of experiences of multiple barriers, and identify appropriate, locally informed narratives, indicators and measurements to monitor progress towards ending poverty.

Engage New Partners

This project will expand partnerships through adding new partners identified based on relevance to furthering the SDGs and contributing to identifying solutions available to families, communities, the non-profit sector and various levels of government.  New partners will be identified and engaged in activities at the local, provincial and territorial and national levels and will target those who are not usually engaged in these processes.

Through these objectives, the project aims to achieve the following outcomes: