The 2025 CanWaCH Academy is quickly approaching! Join us from September 22 to 25 for a range of engaging sessions and trainings designed to help you adapt and respond to a rapidly changing world. From navigating advocacy in a shifting geopolitical landscape to building strategies for impactful storytelling, the Academy will offer timely, skills-based learning to support resilience and strengthen capacity.
As humanitarian needs increase and more members work in fragile and crisis-affected settings, the Academy will also explore how we can collaborate more effectively to support women, children and adolescents in the most challenging contexts.
From November 3 to 6, the global community will gather in Bogotá, Colombia, for the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP). The conference brings together researchers, advocates, policymakers and youth leaders to share knowledge, strengthen partnerships, and advance global commitments to sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender equality.
To support meaningful Canadian participation, CanWaCH is pleased to launch an ICFP 2025 Delegation Bursary program. The program offers a limited number of bursaries to help members engage in this important global forum and bring insights back to strengthen our collective work in Canada.
It’s been one year since CanWaCH’s landmark Healthy World Conference explored the intersection of climate, gender and global health, and we heard calls for better integration and coordination across these sectors. Explore the powerful insights from this gathering in our Reflection on Conversations at the Healthy World Conference summary.
One of the clear calls for CanWaCH was to support the development of robust technical guidance for global health partners seeking to better integrate environment considerations in their work. We are therefore delighted to share the newest edition in our technical guidance series: Technical Guidance Note: The Integration of Climate, Gender Equality and Health into Programming in Development and Humanitarian Contexts.
CanWaCH is thrilled to announce the next French offering of our virtual gender equality training sessions! This training is designed to build the confidence and capacity of the CanWaCH membership in delivering gender transformative health programming. Through a series of three modules, delivered across five sessions, participants will learn how to integrate gender transformative approaches into their work.
Sessions will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. EDT on October 21, 22, 24, 28 and 31. Please only register if you can commit to all dates and times. Share with your Francophone colleagues!
As we head into a busy fall and winter, we need your help to capture a snapshot of CanWaCH member plans and activities from now through International Development Week. Our two minute survey asks you which major events you are planning to attend and which days of observance are most important to your organization. If your plans aren’t confirmed — that’s ok! Please complete it to the best of your ability.
As you finalize your fall plans, don’t forget to save the date for the CanWaCH AGM on November 17!
The new CanWaCH membership year begins on October 1, 2025! Watch your inbox for a renewal invoice sent via Glue Up, on September 30. Per our policies, your annual CanWaCH membership renews automatically and your organization will be issued an invoice, payable in advance of our Annual General Meeting in November.
If you have any questions or would like to update the contact information of the individual in your organization responsible for making the payment for this invoice, please advise us at [email protected] as soon as possible. We look forward to another successful membership year!
Partners In Health Canada is launching the Doing Hard Things With Friends Reading Club: a space to gather around short essays, speeches and reflections that spark conversation about global health, solidarity and what care really means. Participants receive a short reading in advance, then join a 60–90 minute guided conversation. Sessions are offered both in person (Toronto) and online (Zoom).
Everyone is welcome! Students, health workers, justice-curious folks and members of the global health community.
September marks several moments connected to sexual health and reproductive rights (SRHR), including World Sexual Health Day, World Contraception Day, International Safe Abortion Day and Gender Equality Week. CanWaCH and the Inter-Agency Working Group (IAWG) on Reproductive Health in Crises have prepared an English and French social media toolkit for our members to use on their social media channels throughout the month.
We’re excited to welcome the Public Health Association of British Columbia and the Ingram School of Nursing to the CanWaCH membership!
Through advocacy, collaboration, education and research, the Public Health Association of BC provides leadership to promote health, well-being and social equity. A voluntary, non-profit and member-driven charity organization, their work spans the spectrum of public health practice, including prevention, promotion, protection and policy.
A department at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, the Ingram School of Nursing seeks to educate current and future nurses, advance the art and science of nursing through impactful research, and optimize health and health equity globally through academic excellence, impactful research, strengths-based nursing and innovation.
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program has been a cornerstone of the global health data ecosystem for nearly four decades. With the abrupt termination of its funding earlier this year, there is an urgent need for the global community to assess and address the implications of this gap and chart a sustainable way forward for generating and making available critical health data.
Following virtual consultations engaging hundreds of Canadian and global partners, CanWaCH is pleased to share the following resource which provides background context, useful insights, relevant links and calls to action for the sector.
Canada’s moment to act: Five priorities for a healthier world, CanWaCH
A Reflection on the Role of Technology in Youth-led Social Impact Initiatives, Hani Rukh-E-Qamar via Write to Thrive
Beyond International Youth Day: Demanding more than optics, Rae Jardine via Write to Thrive
International Youth Day: A letter of gratitude to youth, Deborah Ola via Write to Thrive
Miscarriage in silence: Intimate loss and the cold, detached language of clinical care, Nisha Malhotra via Write to Thrive
What if we don’t achieve the SDGs because we are, simply, too talented?, Johanna Manga via Write to Thrive
A Partnership for Improving Health, Plan International Canada
Canada’s moment to Lead: Investing in NTDs to Achieve Health for All, Canadian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases (CNNTD)
Electricity Enhancements Save Lives in Malawi, Partners In Health Canada
How Mothers Arrive at PIH Clinics Around the World, Partners In Health Canada
PIH Opens New Maternal Home in Chiapas, Mexico, Partners In Health Canada
Protecting HIV Funding and Global Health Investments, Stephen Lewis Foundation
Raised in crisis. Raised to lead., Plan International Canada
Tour the Future Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone (Video), Partners In Health Canada
What are humanitarian aid workers really like?, World Vision Canada
Working through war: CARE’s humanitarian staff in Sudan, CARE Canada
September 11, Global Reads – AKFC’s Book Club (September Edition)
September 12, New Innovations to Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality: Tools to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
September 16, NCTR Education Presentations: Part 3: Reconciliation and Resilience: Moving Forward Together
September 17, Funding Health, Advancing LGBTIQ Equality: Why the Global Fund Matters Now
September 17, Webinar Wednesdays: Insights from the Brazilian Unified Health System
September 22-25, CanWaCH Academy 2025
September 22, Surviving the Residential School System
September 23, Uncovering the Truth: Ground Searches
September 24, The Ongoing Legacy of the Residential School System through Child Welfare
September 24, Webinar Wednesdays: From Tension to Transition – Central Alberta’s Journey to Regional Victim Services
September 25, Join us for the #LeadOnTB advocacy day on Parliament Hill!
September 25, Reflecting on the TRC’s Calls to Action 10 Years Later
September 26, Confronting Residential School Denialism
September 29, Youth access to contraception in Canada: What happens when cost is removed?
October 2-6, 19th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH)
October 20 to December 7, Mobilizing One Health
October 27 to 28, HRN Sphere Training – Montréal
November 3 to 4, HRN Sphere Training – Ottawa
Education Specialist (Dietitian) – Global Health, SickKids. Application deadline: September 15
Development Coordinator, Indigenous Programs, Right to Play. Application deadline: September 16
Events Coordinator and Administrator (Part-time, Temporary), Dignity Network Canada. Application deadline: September 16
Events and Corporate Partnerships Manager, Right to Play. Application deadline: September 17
Policy and Advocacy Officer, Results Canada. Application deadline: September 26
U-Report Canada – Share your voice! (Youth Opportunity), UNICEF Canada. Application deadline: September 30
Call for Board of Directors, Fòs Feminista Canada. Application deadline: October 15
CNNTD Emerging Leaders Fellowship, Canadian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases (CNNTD). Application deadline: October 30
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, BCCWH. Application deadline: November 14
WAIMH 19th World Congress: Call for papers, WAIMH. Application deadline: December 1
Business Development Specialist, Save the Children. Application deadline: open until filled
Have an opportunity that you would like to share with us? Please contact us at [email protected].
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