Under the community fund and the partnership fund in the past, since I've been the minister and prior to that, we've had a strong focus on the three pillars. Although they're announced as three pillars for the action plan for women, a lot of the granting and funding of projects has been in line with economic security and increasing women's prosperity. There's a focus on ending violence against women and also seeing women in leadership roles.
All of these vary in their different levels. I think all of us around the table recognize, using economic security as an example, that you'll see women at different levels. Some women have not even been able to write their own cheques or be a part of that normal budgeting process in the home. There are projects out there that help them go through that process, should they find themselves in a situation in which they need to know how to do it. They may be single, for a number of reasons. There are also those who are by far more advanced.
An example would be, say, in the business communities: a businesswoman runs a small or medium-sized enterprise and she has been in business for some time, so that she has a little more financial literacy, but then she's also looking for more than what she has, in terms of accountability and accounting practices and knowing what further steps she can take by way of even market access. It varies at all the different levels.
That's why we reach out to the grassroots organizations and the communities on the ground: we believe that they are best suited. They know what's going on in those communities in the community of people and women they're dealing with, so they develop projects that are tailored to those different levels of women.
The same would go for leadership, in terms of political aspirations or increasing political literacy, but also leadership within their own community and being more active and being a part of the normal, everyday things that go on in the community. There are projects to support that aspect as well.