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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Indigenous Workers and Unions
The Case of Winnipeg’s CUPE 500 Download 869.69 KB36 pages Indigenous people have worked for wages for more than 150 years in Canada, and before that in what was to…
Winnipeg’s Inner City
The State of the Inner City 2017 report launch included an infographic breaking down information, stats and solutions. Why Fight Poverty and Income Inequality? Cycle of Poverty Root Causes Strengths…
Fast Facts: State of the Inner City Report 2017
Every year CCPA-Manitoba conducts research on Winnipeg’s Inner City for our State of the Inner City report. Emerging out of conversation and collaboration with community-based partners we examine the issue…
Justice Starts Here
A one-stop shop approach for achieving greater justice in Manitoba Download 1.71 MB120 pages Understanding unique access to justice challenges faced by specific groups highlights the importance of a more…
Research for Communities: Justice Starts Here
A one-stop shop approach for achieving greater justice in Manitoba In the report Justice Starts Here: A one-stop shop approach for achieving greater justice in Manitoba, authors Allison Fenske and…
Cost of Doing Nothing
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Download 1.27 MB44 pages As the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) continues, a new study looks at the…
Fast Facts: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
The cost of doing nothing to prevent tragedy As the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) continues, a new study looks at the problems of reactive…
Social Impact Bonds and the Financing of Child Welfare
Download 802.78 KB28 pages Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) are a relatively new way of financing social services in Canada. They differ from the normal way of financing social services in…
Fast Facts: Reconciliation Lives Here
State of the Inner City Report 2016 This year’s State of the Inner City Report tackles arguably the most important issue of our time: healing and reconciling Canada’s relationship with…
State of the Inner City Report 2016
Reconciliation Lives Here Download 752.12 KB57 pages Reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada is arguably the most important issue Canada faces today. While the urgency may have emerged…
Work Life: Time to give back to Manitoba’s North
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press, Dec 6, 2016 Those of us who were hoping that the Throne Speech would have details about a strategy for Manitoba’s North were…
The IRCOM Model
Housing and Wrap-Around Supports for Newcomers in Winnipeg Download 866.01 KB28 pages The successful settlement and integration of immigrants and refugees is a multifaceted, complex, and long-term process that requires…
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