Four National Women's Groups: CCLOW · CFWEC · CRIAW · NOIVMWC

Appendix A - The Four National Women's Organizations in this Coalition

The Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women is a national voice for women's education and training in Canada. Our goals is to achieve social, political, and economic equality for women through improved and expanded learning opportunities. CCLOW supports formal, non-formal, lifelong, and experiential learning as well as education for adults based on feminist principles or equality of inclusion.

The Canadian Farm Women's Education Council identifies and speaks out on training issues and/or barriers related to farm women; provides a forum for networking and training opportunities for farm women; acts as a resource for government policy makers; and, provides liaison between government and farm women on training issues.

The Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women facilitates and supports research for the advancement of women by recognizing women's diverse experiences and perspectives; creating spaces for developing women's knowledge; bridging regional isolation and providing communication links between/among researchers and their communities. CRIAW is committed to research which promotes social justice and equality for all women.

The National Organization of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women of Canada is a non-profit, non-partisan, and non-sectarian organization. The purpose of the organization is to ensure equality for immigrant and visible minority women, within bilingual Canada. NOIVMW's objectives are to form a united national voice and liaise with other national women's groups for the betterment of the status of immigrant and visible minority women; to put in place strategies that will combat sexism, racism, poverty, isolation and violence; to act as an advocate on issues dealing immigrant and visible minority women; to heighten public awareness on the status of immigrant and immigrant minority women; and to work with all levels of government, public and private agencies to develop effective strategies.