A Declaration of Work.
Eviance is a values-driven organization committed to exploring and challenging issues through a structural and systemic intersectional lens. Our researchers and knowledge mobilization staff are trained to conduct their work in a reflexive way that honours diverse knowledges, empowers the disability community and builds capacity for change. Intersectionality and reflexivity, inclusion and equity, human rights, connected work, sustainable solutions, and capacity building frame our commitment to our clients and our field.
Intersectionality is central to our work, as we as an organization seek to understand the systems and processes of domination and oppression (e.g., sexism, racism, classism, colonialism, ageism, ableism, homophobia, sanism) that simultaneously produce experiences of discrimination and privilege and the complexity of how people individually experience discrimination and privilege based on these locations. We choose to go deeper into our practice by binding intersectionality to reflexivity through practicing a critical awareness of our privilege and social locations as researchers and educators.
Intersectionality and reflexivity.
Our work engages inclusive practices and authentic engagement with diverse disability and equity-seeking groups as we focus exclusively on projects that promote inclusion and remove barriers to equity with, and for, people with disabilities.
Inclusion and equity.
Our work is guided by, and furthers the social justice intent of, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and other international social justice frameworks and global initiatives, such as Build Back Better and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Human rights.
Eviance believes in connected work by building relationships and facilitating the sharing of diverse knowledges between grassroots groups, organizations, institutions, the private sector, government, and high-level policy makers. Our solutions network approach encourages strategic partnerships to create long lasting and grounded solutions to issues important to human rights and inclusion.
Connected work.
The central goal of our community-based research projects and knowledge-to-action activities is the development of recommendations that are attainable, easy to understand and easy to implement in order to create sustainable realistic change that is both long-term and transformative.
Sustainable solutions.
Our organization has people with lived experiences and allies involved in all aspects of our work and we have a reputation for authentic engagement and reciprocal knowledge sharing. It’s through modeling our relational ways that we are able to work with others to build their capacity to do the same.
Capacity building.
