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GRAN Update February 2026
Born without Water: The Crisis in Our Delivery Rooms (WaterAid 2026)
WASH 101
GRAN Update March 2026
GRAN Update April 2026
GRAN Update May 2026
WASH Leave Behind (double-sided bilingual handout)
GRAN Update January 2026
Change Starts with Water – Presentation slides from GRAN Learning Event with WaterAid Canada (January 2026)
Water and Gender – Activity Kit for World Water Day 2026
Fact Sheet World Water Day
Water and Gender — Facts and Figures (UN Water)
WASH: A Pathway to Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls (WaterAid Canada)
The Ripple Effect: How water insecurity impacts Indigenous women (Native Women’s Association of Canada)
Adolescent Girls’ Access to WASH (UNICEF)
What is Water Security? (UN info sheet)
From Commodity to Common Good: A Feminist Agenda to Tackle the World’s Water Crisis (UN Women)
The World has Entered its Water Bankruptcy Era (CBC Radio The Current | January 30, 2026 | 13 min. audio)
UN Global Water Bankruptcy Report 2026
Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation (Report of UN Special Rapporteur)
UN expert urges ‘profound changes’ in Canada to uphold First Nations’ water rights (CBC News November 2024)
Ending Gender-Based Violence: A National Conversation for Change, The Walrus Talks November 2025 (Video recording 1h 30m)
GRAN Update November 2025
16 Days Awareness and Education Toolkit (Gov’t of Canada)
16 Days of Activism Fact Sheet 2025 (Gov’t of Canada)
GRAN Update October 2025
GRAN Update September 2025
Online Gender-based Violence: It’s Not Just Words
Deep-Seabed Mining (UN Policy Brief 2025)
Small Sips Series – Child Hunger
Small Sips Series – Right to Food
Education and Nutrition: Learn to Eat Well (UNESCO 2025)
Living in Hope: Education in Refugee Camps Readers’ Theatre (Phyllis Webster)
Creating safe digital spaces
FAQs: Digital abuse, trolling, stalking, and other forms of technology-facilitated violence against women
Orange Campaign 2025 Backgrounder
Child Hunger Campaign Final Report (August 2025)
Friends and Allies
Welcome to GRAN: An Orientation for New Members (December 2022)
GRAN Organization — How We Work (January 2024)
Barriers to Education Readers’ Theatre (Phyllis Webster)
Oscar and Grandma Podcast (May 2019)
Hope for the Future: Achieving Human Rights for Older Women in sub-Saharan Africa Readers’ Theatre (Phyllis Webster)
Grandchildren and Grandmothers Talk (May 2019)
Backgrounder: Engaging Men and Boys through Education to End Violence against Women and Girls (February 2019)
Backgrounder: Education for Refugees (June 2020)
UNESCO World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE)
GRAN “Word Cloud” created for National Gathering (February 2022)
GRAN Renewed Vision, Mission and Reorganization (February 2022)
GRAN Framework – Infographic and Key Principles (May 2022)
GRAN Annual Report April 1, 2023 – March 31, 2024
Celebrating Our Accomplishments – Power Point Presentation given at GRAN Hello Friends! Gathering (May 2024)
Introducing the Grandmothers Advocacy Network — a double-sided bilingual handout, ideal for first visits with MPs (February 2026)
Introducing GRAN — for new and prospective members (February 2026)
Everything is Tuberculosis: Interview with author John Green on CBC’s The Current (March 13, 2023)
Child Hunger Slide Presentation — downloadable PowerPoint file (March 2025)
Resource List to Help with Preparing Presentations on Child Hunger
Joint Letter to the Minister of International Development urging a $750 Million Pledge to Global Nutrition
Towards 2030: Strengthening Canadian Leadership in Nutrition
10-Year Commitment to Global Health and Rights: Global Affairs Canada Annual Report for 2022-2023
GRAN graphics for use on social media etc.
Food for Thought: Using Advocacy to Tackle the Malnutrition and Hunger Crisis (Presentation slides from GRAN Learning Event with Dominique Denoncourt November 2024)
GRAN Diane Scaletta: Polio Survivor and Immunization Champion (October 2024)
Child Hunger Backgrounder (November 2024)
Protecting Children’s Right to a Healthy Food Environment (UNICEF 2019)
Menu of Ideas for Community Outreach
Child Food Poverty: Nutrition Deprivation in Early Childhood (UNICEF – June 2024)
Without Fairness and Finance, the Energy Transition Won’t Be Fast (February 2024)
Addressing Ecological Debt: Equity and Justice for Climate-Related Loss and Damage (Kairos Canada November 2023)
2023 Global Report on Food Crises — In Brief (May 2023)
Who’s Tipping the Scales? The growing influence of corporations on the governance of food systems, and how to counter it (IPES-Food 2023)
The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems (FAO 2023)
The State of the World’s Children 2019 (UNICEF) — Children, Food and Nutrition
“Food Matters” Reading List (University of Victoria)
THE WALRUS TALKS: Global Hunger Crisis (October 2022) — Video 1 hr. 16 min.
A Deeper Dive: Contributions and Resilience of Older Women in these Challenging Times by Maud Bruce-About — article begins on page 4 (September 2022)
UN expert praises older women’s resilience (September 2022)
Protect the Promise – 2022 UN Progress Report on the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030) Digital Version (October 2022)
UN Advocacy Brief on Older Women (March 2022)
Growing her Future: Climate Financing and Global Food Security — Presentation by Canadian Foodgrains Bank — Video 1 hr. 6 min. (October 26, 2021)
Food Sovereignty Presentation with Dr. Elizabeth Vibert — Video 1 hr. 8 min. (April 28, 2021)
Namibian Villagers Fight Against Oil Giant — 9-minute video (Sky News March 31, 2021)
Craig Mokhiber of the UN OHCHR on why now is the time to demand a Convention on the Rights of Older Persons, 10 minute video (February 2021)
ILC Letter to Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Seniors in Support of a Convention on the Rights of Older Persons (December 2020)
A UN Convention on the Rights of Older People: Five reasons why we need one. Five things that should be in it. [Two-page handout from HelpAge International] (February 2021)
Grandma Has Rights Too, Peggy Edwards article (December 2020)
Climate Justice Presentation with Dr. Louise Comeau — Video 1 hr. 10 min. (January 2021)
Template Letter to Municipality (September 2025)
Template for Mayoral Proclamation (September 2025)
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Ressources en français

Naître sans eau : La crise dans nos salles d’accouchement
EAH – Fiche d’information bilingue
Eau et genre – Kit d’activation : Journée mondiale de l’eau 2026
Fiche d’information Journée mondiale de l’eau
Droits humains des peuples autochtones à l’eau potableet à l’assainissement (Rapport du Rapporteur spécial)
L’effet domino : Comment l’insécurité liée à l’eau affecte les femmes autochtones
FAQ : Harcèlement en ligne, traque obsessionnelle, divulgation de données à caractère personnel et autres formes de violence à l’égard des femmes à l’ère du numérique
Création d’espaces numériques sûrs
Document d’information sur la campagne orange 2025
Cadre de sensibilisation du mouvement GRAN
Introduction au Mouvement de soutien des grands-mères — pour les nouvelles et potentielles membres (février 2026)
Introduction à GRAN — bilingue — idéal pour les premières visites avec les députés (février 2026)
Le cadre de sensibilisation du mouvement GRAN (mai 2022)
L’Engagement de 10 ans du Canada en matière de santé et de droits dans le monde : Rapport annuel 2022-2023
Pauvreté alimentaire de l’enfant : Les conséquences des privations nutritionnelles durant la petite enfance (UNICEF – juin 2024)
16 jours d’activisme ressources du gouvernement du Canada 2024
Qui fait pencher la balance? L’influence croissante des grandes entreprises dans la gouvernance des systèmes alimentaires et comment la contrer (IPES-Food 2023)
La situation des femmes dans les systèmes agroalimentaires (FAO 2023)
Glossary of Terms related to hunger and malnutrition (FAO)
La Situation des enfants dans le monde 2019 (UNICEF) — Enfants, nourriture et nutrition
GRAN Saving the Okavango Delta Learning Event with panelists Ina-Maria Shikongo, Rob Parker, and MP Elizabeth May — Video 1 hr. 20 min. (May 28, 2021)

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