Communications and Consultations
Description: Contains information relating to communications, consultations procedures, guidelines and other general information, media relations and special events.
Document Types: Communications products, consultations, media relations, Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case, International Women's Day, National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, Women's History Month.
Record Number: SWC 2000

Gender-Based Analysis
Description: Contains information on Gender-Based Analysis and gender mainstreaming in the Government of Canada, international institutions and foreign governments.
Document Types: Implementation strategy, evaluations, methodologies, presentations, tools, training, gender mainstreaming.
Record Number: SWC 3000

Policy Analysis, Development and External Relations
Description: Contains information on organizations and administration internal to the Policy Analysis, Development and External Relations Directorate. Information related to the substantive work of the directorate is found under Gender Equality / Women's Issues, and under the International, Federal, Provincial and Territorial sections.
Document Types: Structure, work distribution, planning, retreats and guidelines and protocols related to working methods, conference participation.
Record Number: SWC 4000

Research
Description: Contains information related to the Research Directorate, the Policy Research Fund and funded Research projects.
Document Types: Calls for proposals, policy Research projects, external committee, and evaluations.
Record Number: SWC 5000

Women's Program and Regional Operations
Description: Contains information concerning the promotion of women and financial assistance to voluntary associations working to improve the status of women in Canada.
Document Types: Funding guidelines, funded initiatives, accountability framework, grant and contributions management, regional organizations by province.
Record Number: SWC 6000

Federal, Provincial and Territorial Government Organizations and FPT Relations
Description: Contains information on federal government departments, agencies, boards, commissions, corporations and councils, including correspondence related to their mandates, structures, priorities, etc., that is corporate or general in nature and not issue-specific.
Document Types: material relating to federal-provincial / territorial relations, including status of women and other cooperation and liaison activities; information on individual jurisdictions that are relevant to Status of Women's work and mandate.
Record Number: SWC 7000

International Governmental Organizations; International Events / Activities; International Non-Governmental organizations; International Relations and Foreign Countries
Description: Contains information on Canada's participation in, and the work of, international organizations that is relevant to gender equality, including their decision-making bodies, status of women entities, secretariats, human rights conventions and other agreements, and their conferences, summits and other special events. Also contains similar information on international relations generally that impacts Status of Women's work and information about specific countries, including geographic, demographic, policy and other information about a country that is hosting an international event or sending a visiting delegation to Canada.
Document Types: United Nations, Commonwealth, Organization of American States, Asia-Pacific Cooperation, Council of Europe, La Francophonie, International Non-governmental organizations, International Relations and Foreign Countries.
Record Number: SWC 8000

Organizations
Description: Contains information and correspondence relating to Canadian non-governmental Organizations, associations, centres, committees, groups, Organizations, and others that are relevant to Status of Women Canada's mandate and activities.
Document Types: Alphabetical list of all groups i.e. Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada, Assembly of First Nations, Business and Professional Women's Clubs of Canada, Caledon Institute for Social Policy etc. to YWCA's.
Record Number: SWC 9000

Gender Equality / Women's Issues
Description: Contains information on gender equality objectives, plans, mechanisms and statistics and human rights implementation in Canada as well as issue-based material within Status of Women's work and mandate, including Acts and legislation currently in force, information related to reviews of, and proposals for, Acts, regulations, policies, programs concerning an issue; relevant committee work, consultations and special events; issue-specific statistics, research, reports and other information from government and non-government sources, including comparative studies across countries.
Document Types: Government plans and priorities; gender equality government plans; gender equality human rights instruments; diversity, inclusion and demography; economic and fiscal issues; employment, labour market, education and training; health and environment; housing and homelessness; justice system, peace and security; media, arts, culture, recreation and sport; governance issues: politics, public service and voluntary sector; violence.
Record Number: SWC 9500