Lessons from the CanWaCH Canadian Collaboratives for Global Health

CanWaCH is pleased to invite members and partners to a virtual event, Partnering for Impact: Lessons from the CanWaCH Canadian Collaboratives for Global Health, taking place on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT.

This session will highlight the findings, lessons and practical tools emerging from three collaborative projects focused on key challenges in global health and gender equality. Participants will hear directly from project leads and partners and consider how this work can inform future research, programming, partnerships and policy dialogue.

The three collaboratives will focus on:

• 10 a.m. EDT, Digital Storytelling for Global Health Research and Action, exploring participatory approaches to strengthen research dissemination, data quality and knowledge uptake
• 10:50 a.m. EDT, Addressing Gender and Nutrition Data Gaps, advancing a toolkit to help operationalize the Gender-Transformative Framework for Nutrition across the program life cycle
• 11:40 a.m. EDT, Collecting Data on Self-Managed Abortion in Humanitarian and Fragile Settings, generating recommendations and tools to support more rigorous data collection and use

Please note a slight change in the original schedule of presentations. The “Addressing Gender and Nutrition Data Gaps” Lab will now deliver its presentation at 10:50 a.m. EDT. The “Collecting Data on Self-Managed Abortion in Humanitarian and Fragile Settings” Lab will now deliver its presentation at 11:40 a.m. EDT.

English and French simultaneous interpretation will be provided, and participants are welcome to join the full session or select the segment or segments most relevant to your work.

More information on the collaboratives is available here​.