2023 Annual Report – Centre Arc Hub

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2021 Annual Report

Collective Commitment: Emerging Anti-Racist Practice for Canadian International Cooperation

This study acts as the inaugural baseline report to assess the extent of anti-racism efforts in Canada’s international cooperation sector and build collaborative and evidence-based strategies to promote human rights, achieve equitable outcomes and address the sector’s legacy of racial bias.

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2022 Annual Report

Collective Commitment: Sustaining Efforts Towards Anti-Racist Change in Canada’s International Cooperation Sector

Now in its second year this study continues to inform our collective efforts and experiences in fighting to revolutionize the way we do our work and to ground us in collective commitments to promoting human rights, achieving equitable outcomes and addressing the sector’s legacy of racial bias.

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Key highlights

Organisation’s administration

63% responding organizations have hiring or recruitment policies and practices that include explicit reference to anti-racist principles.

Comms and advocacy

39% responding organizations have explicit reference to anti-racism in policies or procedures that guide: public communications practices and/or brand guidelines, fundraising and/or fund solicitation practices; advocacy and/or stakeholder engagement practices.

Programming

35% responding organizations have explicit reference to anti-racism in policies or procedures that guide your project or program development practices.

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Organizational self-assessment (comparative data 2022-2023)

Recommendations

Create a collaborative and intentional organizational anti-racism strategy.
Investing human and financial resources to create inclusive, safe and sustainable work environments.
Center affected communities/relevant groups in antiracism work, in all things.
Measure monitor and use qualitative and quantitative data to inform workplace structures, people and culture.
Redefine communications and reporting strategies and outputs to reverse harmful dominant storytelling, framing and reporting that uphold and are key to racially biased and colonial architecture.