2026 Policy & Learning Forum

Join DAWN Canada and our partners for two rich days of intense learning and sharing at our Policy & Learning Forum: Truth, Resilience and Change! Advancing Intersectional Policy & Learning in Canada.

Held in the lead-up to the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), the Forum will create a space to bring research, lived experience, policy and practice together to identify gaps, share important new research and learning, and explore how public policy can better reflect the realities and priorities of women, girls and gender-diverse people with disabilities and deaf women.

Through plenary sessions, fireside chats, breakout sessions and facilitated discussions, participants will have opportunities to learn from and with our communities and contribute to conversations aimed at advancing meaningful, intersectional policy change.

Info: OPENING & REFLECTIONS FOR THE DAY AHEAD with Elder Irene Compton Truth & Reconciliation in Policy

Info: The Eldridge Decision – Reconciling Gaps Between Law and Policy in Canada

Info: Policy & Service Good Practices and Gaps in Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights

Info: Oh Yes, Let's Talk About Sex

Info: Foundations in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Info: Building Trust, Building Power: A Deaf-led Approach to Research

Info: The Care Economy: Canada's Next Economic Infrastructure

Info: Root Resilience, Root Change, Root Justice

Info: Disability Justice & the National Action Plan

Info: Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development (EDID) and Collective Advocacy

Info: Working the Bench – The Ahluwalia decision and coercive control

Info: From Theory to Practice – Rooting Resilience and Change

Info: EDID - Gender-based Violence – a transnational perspective

Info: The Promise of Brain Capital

Event venue

The Westin Ottawa, 11 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Canada

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