by Emmett | Apr 12, 2014 |
Eko Nomos and Associates worked with OCASI on a project designed to help settlement agencies and housing service agencies increase their effectiveness in supporting newcomers, in particular women and refugee claimants who face particular risk factors, by providing concrete strategies to improve the linkages within and between settlement agencies and between the settlement and housing sectors. Stronger linkages will benefit newcomers by ensuring that they have better and timely access to reliable and culturally sensitive housing information, and that their housing needs and challenges will be identified and more effectively addressed before they become significant... 
by Emmett | Apr 12, 2014 |
Over a one year period Eko Nomos and Associates facilitated a series of community building workshops that culminated in the creation of the Huron Food Action Network (HFAN). HFAN now works in food education, food distribution and processing, and food policy... 
by Emmett | Apr 12, 2014 |
Eko Nomos, C Lang Consultants and Eco-Ethonomics worked with Oxford County Public Health and the Woodstock and Area Community Health Center on community consultations to identify municipal policies that could enhance food security. This policy development intervention engaged the citizens of Oxford County in numerous ways – consultations, sharing of perspectives, and education on emergent food security issues. The resulting policy development document lays out recommendations for broad collaboration, leadership development, and continued work toward a food secure Oxford... 
by Emmett | Apr 10, 2014 |
Eko Nomos worked as the developmental evaluation consultant with a collaborative of the Woman’s Abuse Council of Toronto, the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic and Elizabeth Fry Toronto on a two year project funded by Status of Women Canada to undertake a gender-based analysis of the impact of policy and systems on women’s safety and to develop recommendations and actions to promote the integration of gender considerations into decision making processes on the issue of woman’s safety. Although the project was focused on the experiences of women living in Toronto it sought to leverage and build upon the work already initiated by the violence against women sector more broadly. This project resulted in a web based tool that mapped policy intersections that created unsafe conditions for newcomer women. The results of this work can be seen here: http://womanabuse.ca/policiesmatter/home.html. Blueprint... by Emmett | Apr 10, 2014 |
Canadian Labour Force Development Board, a non-profit organization that has since dissolved, hired Eko Nomos to act as the principal investigator for a research project assessing the impact of changes in legislation on: women’s participation in training programs; women’s organizations and their clients; and, funding allocations to training...