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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Fast Facts: Newcomer Families
The role of housing and wrap around supports in Winnipeg As housing advocates across the country recognize National Housing Day on November 22nd, we must continue to acknowledge the central…
Video – Creating Pride Through Decent Work in Manitoba
Social Enterprises in Manitoba Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba office interviews Social Enterprise participants from Build and Manitoba Green Retrofit. Great stories and great ideas. CCPA-MB on Social Enterprises…
Social Housing with Supports – The Case of WestEnd Commons
Download 2.96 MB36 pages Since late 2014, twenty-six families in Winnipeg’s inner city have been living in a new, supportive social and affordable housing complex called WestEnd Commons. The innovative…
Financial Inclusion and Manitoba Indigenous People
Results from an Urban and Rural Case Study Download 1.29 MB54 pages This research project used a case study approach to examine access to mainstream Financial Institution (FI)1 services in…
The Next Step
Literacy Programming in Manitoba Download 342.69 KB20 pages Economists have estimated that low literacy levels cost the Canadian economy billions of dollars annually (Gulati 2013; McCracken and Murray 2010; Sharpe…
How Government Support for Social Enterprise can Reduce Poverty and Greenhouse Gases
Download 773.12 KB24 pages A new Errol Black Chair paper explains how a combination of governmental policies and initiatives in Manitoba allows social enterprises to reduce Manitoba’s greenhouse gas (GHG)…
Work Life: Investing in Social Enterprise to reduce poverty and green house gases
A new Errol Black Chair paper explains how a combination of governmental policies and initiatives in Manitoba allows social enterprises to reduce Manitoba’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while training and…
The Political Economy of Culturally Appropriate Foods in Winnipeg
A Case of Refugee Path Immigrants (RPI’s) Download 1 MB 52 pages Culture, acquired taste and past experience shape people’s food preferences (Adekunle et.al, 2010, 2011, and 2012) and their…
Fast Facts: Mothering Project – Effective prevention with vulnerable families
“The root causes of neglect—including poverty, poor housing, food insecurity, and substance abuse—lie beyond the scope of the child welfare system to resolve. But a collaborative approach, working with parents…
Fast Facts: Lived Experience and Perspectives: Women, Mental Health and Housing in Winnipeg
Supportive Housing is an important model on the housing continuum and a positive choice for many people living with mental illness. Whether it is because a person faces greater challenges…
State of the Inner City Report 2015
Drawing on our strengths Download 1.57 MB76 pages Poverty is deeply-rooted, spatially-concentrated, complex, often racialized, and not quickly solved. It damages, and in some cases ruins, the lives of those…
Fast Facts: Gains are being made – State of the Inner City Report 2015
It has recently been claimed in the media that nothing is working in the fight against poverty. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives State of the Inner City Report 2015:…
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