Policy Matters

Between 2021-23, student researchers, Tanja Samardzic and Britanny Pompilii, from the University of Guelph’s Community Engaged Scholarship Institute, were engaged to work with Sustainable Livelihoods Canada in the development of an Annotated Bibliography and an associated Literature Review. The work of the student researchers was supervised by Dr. Mary Ferguson of Eko Nomos, an independent consultancy.

The student researchers were asked to search for and review scholarly and other written works pertaining the experiences of women who had experienced gender based violence in relation to 6 policy areas: access to supports and services, child custody and access, criminal justice/criminalization, housing security, income security and status.

The reviewers each feel honoured to have been chosen to perform this work on behalf of Sustainable Livelihoods Canada for the evaluation and learning work on the Rebuilding Lives Grant stream with the Canadian Women’s Foundation. They likewise feel indebted to the numerous scholars and activists who provided the literary sources upon which these documents are based.

Read the Policy Matters Bibliography and Literature Review (lit review available in English and in French)