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Native Women's Association of Canada

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Sustainable Development

    • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Advocacy and outreach
  • Capacity building
  • Education and training of women
  • Human rights of women
  • Indigenous women
  • Millennium Development Goals
  • Policy advice
  • Research
  • Trafficking in women and girls
  • Violence against women
  • Women and poverty
  • Women and the environment
  • Women in power and decision-making

    • Social Development:
  • Employment
  • Indigenous issues
  • Poverty
  • Social policy
  • Youth

    • Sustainable Development:
  • Biodiversity
  • Capacity-building
  • Climate change
  • Education
  • Gender equality
  • Health
  • Integrated decision-making
  • International law
  • Partnerships
  • Poverty
    • Geographic scope: National
    Country of activity:
  • Canada
    • Millennium Development Goals:
  • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Improve maternal health
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
    • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 2005
    Organizational structure: NWAC was incorporated in 1974 and is one of the five officially recognized National Aboriginal Organizations (NAOs) whose purpose is to represent and speak, at the national level, on behalf of Aboriginal women in Canada.The NWAC is led by an elected national president whose term is three years. The president is the official spokesperson for NWAC and has the authority to act on behalf of the Board of Directors. The NWAC is governed by a Board of Directors that includes the President of NWAC, the President or designate of each of the Provincial/Territorial Member Associations (PTMAs) as well as four Elders and four youth to represent the four directions.
    Number and type of members: NWAC represents 12 Provincial/Territorial Member Associations of Aboriginal women's organizations across Canada from coast to coast to coast.
    Funding structure:
  • Other sources
  • Grants from Governments
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
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