Find a variety of FIT resources here for applicants engaging in the FIT process (from the application process, testing your innovation and developing your gender strategy to documenting your results) or for anyone interested in learning more about innovation testing.
Resources and tools may include articles, case studies, guides, templates, webinars, videos and podcasts.
MCIC Lunch and Learn – September 14, 2021 Featuring two FIT-funded innovative educational projects administered by Change for Children and Canada Students Offering Support.
Episode 5 : What Climate Action Innovators can Learn from Pre-Colombian Indigenous Sustainable Development Practices in the Amazon Forest
In this episode, learn about pre-Colombian sustainable development practices by Indigenous peoples in the Amazon forest. To innovate climate action, we sometimes need to look back. Dispelling the assumption of an untouched wilderness, we will share the research of Archeologist …
This resource is meant to guide FIT-funded Innovators who have an Integrated Environmental Assessment (IEA) and Environmental Management Plan (EMP) reporting requirement. We also hope that this resource can be used by others as a how-to guide to planning, conducting …
This session aims to enhance our understanding of how to develop a gender equality strategy for the social innovation space and testing environment, using FIT’s Gender Equality Strategy guide. The session focuses on how to conduct an In-Depth Gender Scan …
We discuss with CAUSE Canada how they are working against gender-based violence, as part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, 2020 campaign.
We discuss with Make Music Matter how they are working against gender-based violence, as part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, 2020 campaign.
This webinar aims to enhance understanding of how to integrate gender into the testing environment through the use of FIT’s Rapid Gender Scan tool (RGS). The RGS is a gender analysis framework that helps you capture essential information about gender …
Micro-learning 1: Introduction to Gender Equality and Testing Innovation
The webinar covers key gender terms and definitions, explains why gender considerations should be incorporated in development work, and includes a FIT case study to highlight best practices for gender integration.
CanWaCH – Proposal Writing with a Gender Equality Lens
Webinar hosted by CanWaCH – Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health. Learn how to strengthen capacity in proposal writing while incorporating a gender equality lens. Presenters provide practical solutions, examples and strategies around proposal writing with a GE lens …
This document is intended to explore the business case for gender equality and testing for SMOs. This business case focuses on the rational for being gender responsive or transformative during the testing of an innovative solution. Firstly, this business case …
Episode 4: How to prepare your FIT Concept Note or Proposal, with Gisèle Maisonneuve
A conversation with Gisèle Maisonneuve, an Expert Review Panel member for FIT Concept Notes and Proposals Intakes 1 and 2 provides some tips and tricks on how to prepare your FIT Concept Note or Proposal. This conversation will provide some …
This episode tells the story of women in the community of Las Arrugas, Guatemala. Meagan Secord also speak with Maria Jose about Guatemala’s civil war and how it affected thousands of families.
Episode 3: Engaging Men & Boys to Achieve Gender Equality with Vurayayi Pugeni
In our third episode, we chat with Vurayayi Pugeni, Area Director in Southern Africa, Central Africa and Nigeria with the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) about how to address gender issues using different innovative approaches.
Quick reference: measures to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse
The CHS Alliance Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Handbook providesa useful current overview of what your organisation should already have in place.
The Code of Conduct: A Template for addressing sexual violence in small and medium ICOs
This Code of Conduct has been elaborated by AQOCI with the goal of facilitating work on sexualviolence and meeting Global Affairs Canada’s requirements regarding protection of sexualexploitation and abuse (PSEA) for medium and small ICOs. It was designed taking intoconsideration …
How will you know if your innovative solution is achieving its expected outcomes? How can you determine its effectiveness? Developing a testing framework is a key part of the testing process which allows you to gather evidence, adapt and learn …
Episode 2: Innovation at IRCOM with Dorota Blumczynska
Testing, learning and growing are at the heart of the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba’s innovative approach. We talk to Executive Director, Dorota Blumczynska, about how to build community, honour your values and create an environment where everyone …
In our first episode, we explore how Make Music Matter developed, tested and scaled the innovative Healing in Harmony program to bring music therapy to survivors of conflict and trauma with founder and CEO Darcy Ataman.
This webinar provides an overview of the concept notes we received in Intake 2, an explanation of the FIT review process and general feedback from our second concept note evaluation.
Stakeholder Analysis Webinar and accompanying document
In this webinar, FIT is providing you with a stakeholder analysis tool that could be helpful in project planning as well as down the road when you’re developing communication and evaluation plans for your project. This webinar is intended as …
Fishbone Diagram with Q&A Webinar and accompanying documents
A “fishbone” diagram is a visual way of thinking through cause and effect. It is often used in business but can be equally effective in thinking about social innovations. The aim is to use the diagram to deconstruct and, possibly, reconstruct causal relationships between different factors in decision-making.
