Manitoba Research Alliance Project
Community-based research towards transformative solutions to complex poverty
For over 20 years, the Manitoba Research Alliance (MRA) has produced community-based research in partnerships with academic and community partners.The CCPA’s Manitoba office, the host organization on our four successful SSHRC projects, has a solid reputation for working collaboratively and producing quality, policy-relevant research. The MRA’s work is interdisciplinary, widely accessible and facilitates the multi-directional flow of knowledge.
Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities
- Examining neoliberal policies that uphold complex poverty
- Exposing impacts of complex poverty on people and communities
- Highlighting community-driven transformative solutions toward sustainable change
- Producing research with a policy impact
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Lived Experiences and Perspectives
Women, Mental Health and Housing in Winnipeg Download 2.28 MB32 pages This project is a qualitative research study seeking to understand the experiences of women with mental illness living in…
Fast Facts: New Federal government – opportunity to end crisis of poor housing
For Winnipeg residents with low incomes, the lack of affordable quality housing is a crisis. According to the 2011 National Housing Survey, 34,000 Winnipeg renters paid more than 30 percent…
Addressing Core Housing Need in Canada
Download 3.83 MB 54 pages Social housing is at risk in Canada. Just a few decades ago, Canada had an internationally recognized social housing portfolio, but today the supply of…
Fast Facts: Many Canadians in need of good housing
Housing markets are not able to produce the accommodation needed by many sections of the population. Consequently public support and investment have been necessary to build, maintain and manage a…
The Impact of the Harper Government’s “Tough on Crime” Strategy
Hearing from Frontline Workers Download 521.95 KB37 pages Crime rates in Canada have been steadily dropping for over a decade, while prison populations have been increasing in recent years. Commentators…
Fast Facts: The Tough on Crime Strategy Has Not Made Our Communities Safer
Crime rates in Canada have been steadily declining for more than a decade, yet prison populations have been increasing in recent years. Commentators have attributed this disconnection between dropping crime…
The Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba
2nd Edition “This 2nd Edition of the Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba is a timely reminder that the health of people is determined more by economic and social inequality…
Fast Facts: Why Canada Needs a Real Housing Policy
Every developed country except Canada knows that safe, affordable housing is a critical key to social, physical and emotional well-being. The list of poor outcomes associated with poor and unaffordable…
Fast Facts: Fresh Food Fuels Change
An innovative pilot evaluation People are food insecure when they do not have access to, or enough money to buy safe and nutritious food, preventing them from enjoying a healthy…
“It’s Home”
Listening to Female Post-Secondary Students in Northern Manitoba, Canada Download 822.62 KB24 pages Our research study responds to questions: how do female students define and measure their own successes? And…
Fast Facts: Lessons from Toronto
Winnipeg’s Rooming House Challenge On April 16th, 2014, a fire broke out in a rooming house on Enfield Crescent in Winnipeg’s St. Boniface neighbourhood. The fire resulted in the death…
Making the Case for a Labour Market Intermediary
The Experience of Build Download 1.17 MB 20 pages This report weaves together findings from data gathered through two other research reports published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives…
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