Our team is growing! Capacity Canada is ecstatic to announce that Kazi Mitul Mahmud is the newest member to join our team. Mitul is joining as the Project Coordination and Communication Lead for our new project – Makeover: Women’s Leadership Co-Creation Studio: Advancing Equitable Nonprofit Sector Change.
A firm believer in social justice, Mitul has worked in the non-profit sector for eight years. Fighting for gender equality is at the core of her professional and personal life. Mitul has published several policy briefs for the G20 and many leading non-profit organizations in Bangladesh on forced migration and women’s unaccounted work, respectively. An astute communicator and researcher, she has completed her Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of London and holds an MBA in Marketing and a PGD in Educational Leadership from a Bangladeshi university.
Mitul’s experience in project management and coordination, research, and advocacy campaigns will be an excellent addition to our Makeover Project. We are excited to have Mitul as part of our team and look forward to working with her!
What is the Makeover Project?
February marked the beginning of Capacity Canada’s new project – Makeover: Women’s Leadership Co-Creation Studio: Advancing Equitable Nonprofit Sector Change.
The 15-month project, funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE), will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. Capacity Canada will achieve this by addressing systemic barriers to women’s underrepresented participation within both services’ delivery leadership and governance roles of non-profit organizations. The first group meeting brought together the advisory table that included members from five partnering agencies: Coalition of Muslim Women, Women’s Crisis Services of Waterloo Region, YWCA of Cambridge, Sexual Assault Centre of Waterloo Region, and SHORE.
At the end of the project, Capacity Canada will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, and finally addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.
Capacity Canada acknowledges the support of WAGE for this project and is thankful for the opportunity it has given us. The WAGE works to advance equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression through the inclusion of people of all genders, including women, in Canada’s economic, social, and political life.
