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PROJECT:
Women's Human Resources Development Needs
in the Context of Small- and Medium-size
Enterprise in Canada in 1998
| Client |
- North-South Institute
- APEC HRD NEDM Project
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| Deliverable |
Gender and Lifelong
Learning: Enhancing the Contributions of Women to Small- and
Medium-sized Enterprises in Canada for the 21st Century
(North-South Institute, 1997), an extensive research paper
prepared as the Canadian case study for an APEC HRD project:
Gender and Lifelong Learning. The project culminated in a
conference in Taipei (June 1998) from which recommendations went
forward to the APEC HRD committee regarding training and business
supports for women. Specific areas of concern are access to
non-traditional professions (science, trades and technology),
access to business supports (childcare, technology, and credit),
and access to advancement (removing barriers and changing
attitudes). |
Production
Processes |
- complete research management
- extensive literature review and
on-line search
- demographic and statistical
analysis
- framing of very broad concepts
- report writing and production
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Content
Expertise |
- barriers to training and
advancement for women in Canada
- small- and medium-sized
enterprises and business development
- women’s organizations and
resources in Canada
- workforce demographics and
issues
- future directions for economic
development for women
- lifelong learning issues and
opportunities
- assessment and recognition of
prior learning
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| Partner |
Advisory committee with
representatives from:
- North-South Institute
- Status of Women, Canada
- Women’s Bureau, HRDC
- Industry Canada
- women entrepreneurs themselves
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| Date |
Fall 1997 to Spring
1998 |
| Contact |
Heather Gibb
Senior Researcher
North-South Institute
Ottawa, Canada
613-241-3535
hgibb@nsi-ins.ca |
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