We are unique because we have developed and apply our own house style (The CanAfro Methodology- created by marrying Western and Indigenous African research approaches) of racially and culturally appropriate research methodology. Additionally, we reinvest our income in our charitable and non-profit community initiatives! Our projects and services are mainly in our own main areas of expertise. These include, but not limited to:
Western concepts of socialization are different from non-Western understandings. What are the effects of re-socialization for people of African origin as soon as they land in the Western world. Does it has an impact on their wellbeing and success?
We have been using Eurocentric research methods for most of our research projects and also in our educational and professional settings. They have been used as hallmarks of standard. Times have changed and people are consulting non-Eurocentric research methods too.
Canada has welcomed an increasing number of refugees and immigrants from diverse cultural backgrounds. It still continues to welcome people with the financial and professional skills to add more value to Canada and a small group of people based on humanitarian grounds to work and build a getter life.
Development is mutual and the model we follow is not the aid-focused model but the investment and cooperative model to international development. Given the origin and work experience of most of our team and boards, we will be focusing on the East African region. Projects directly focused on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are addressed in this...
This would be our core area of work. Historically, marginalized BIPOC communities have been at the receiving end of data-injustice from the collection to the dissemination stages. We aim to build that data trust among the community.
In terms of the services offered to African, Caribbean, and Black-identifying (ACBi) and other marginalized communities, the Institute would engage in educational programing based on our research projects and Knowledge Mobilization (KM).
This is one of the areas of our work. We will work to critically study and find solutions to pressing equity and anti-racism concerns of the African, Caribbean and Black-identifying community in KWC and Ontario. Research, public forum and discussion will also be the highlight of this segment.
Africa and people of African origin have been innovators since prehistoric times but were rarely given credits. We can create and do create and innovate. There seems to be a focus on Black entrepreneurship training and programs in Canada but with limited support of until they become full-fledged businesses. This cluster will research and consult...
This section proffers leading research and consultancy activities related African, Caribbean, and Black-identifying (ACBi) and marginalized communities and the media, governance and law, An important and an innovative product of this segment will be the production of new risk and human rights metrics to track risk factors and human rights concerns...
