Recommendation 1: A GBA+ (Gender-Based Analysis, plus “race”, ability, social-economic status, sexual orientation, legal status etc.) approach underpins public policy and spending related to pandemic recovery in BC, informed by a diversity of voices.

Recommendation 2: Recovery plans demonstrate a clear commitment to honouring the histories, acknowledging the current inequities and meeting the particular requirements of Indigenous women and girls and of their communities, and to incorporating recommendations from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls enquiry and the calls for action from organizations and movements like Black Lives Matter and Idle No More.

Recommendation 3: Decision makers should engage women and those facing gender-based marginalization, women-led organizations and equity-seeking groups in their recovery planning. Please offer us direct, accessible ways to provide input and invite us directly into your conversations.

Recommendation 4: Governments resist a retreat into a conservative, austerity approach where equity and social justice are seen as distinct from a sustained and meaningful economic recovery. Equity and social justice must not come second to economic recovery.

Recommendation 5: Stable and substantial funding is earmarked for non-profit and charitable organizations, which not only engage women through their workforce, but also serve thousands of women and children across the province.