Absolutely. The women's program is very focused on working with and supporting collaborations and partnerships. For us, it's a key ingredient of sustainability. It allows communities to take into consideration their own circumstances, identify the recipes that will work for them, and identify and take advantage of the assets they have available to them. For the most part, projects under the women's program are required to have partnerships or bring collaborations to the table to create an action plan that the community can then own and continue to work on once we are no longer there as a funder.
The specific aspects in terms of benefits very much relate to sustainability. We have learned that when it comes to aboriginal communities, it's particularly important, because the communities need to be able to tackle their issues in a culturally appropriate manner. They are the best judges of what will work. So yes, we're very much into collaborations and partnerships.
On another level, in terms of partnerships outside the specific project, when we have projects submitted to us or when we're approached by a community for a project, we usually involve partners such as Aboriginal Affairs, the Department of Justice, Public Safety—those who have maybe more intimate knowledge of that specific community or could be bringing an ingredient to the table in addition to what we're looking at funding.