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‘Engage’ Gathering marks 6.5 years of Women’s Empowerment and Active Citizenship
More than 100,000 women in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, and Tanzania have engaged in community-based activities such as livelihoods and leadership training, advocacy efforts, and community organizing through Engage partner organizations over the past six...
Travel and Learn in Nepal
StFX students are invited to apply for a fully funded opportunity to travel to Nepal and participate in a five-day Feminist Leadership Workshop with global activists and community leaders.
From Agroecology to Advocacy: Coady’s Work for a Sustainable World
From Earth Hour to Earth Day, Coady Institute is marking this season of climate awareness by walking alongside communities and partners across the globe - and close to home - to advance agroecology, biodiversity, and climate resilience in pursuit of a healthier, more...
Whose Knowledge Counts?
Coady’s Marian Turniawan travelled to Kenya to help lead a groundbreaking collaborative research process that placed rural women farmers at the heart of the study — not just as subjects, but as co-researchers shaping the future of gender-transformative agroecology.
The Alliance Bioversity International-CIAT and Coady Institute Host Forum
Coady Institute and Alliance Bioversity International-CIAT brought together global experts in Cali, Colombia to explore how carbon and biodiversity credit markets can better serve frontline farming communities.
A Journey of Giving Back
Empowered by her experience at Coady Institute, Prossy Nantongo has transformed her own journey into a powerful force for change – equipping marginalized girls across Africa with the skills, confidence, and support to shape their own futures.
Loretta Bennett-Donor Profile
Education Helps Women Reach Potential.
“Contributing to the Coady scholarship fund is the least I can do to help these young women as they work to make their communities a better place.”
Learning across borders: ‘Engage’ fellows at CASAE Conference
In May 2025, nearly one hundred students and practitioners of adult education gathered at Coady Institute, St. Francis Xavier University for the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) Atlantic Regional Conference, Learning with Community....
Holding Each Other to Our Values: A Collective Practice of Feminist Leadership
Samaan Aawaaj advances feminist leadership as a collective, accountable, and values-driven practice that intentionally shares power, centers excluded voices, builds allies, and persistently challenges inequitable systems to support just and thriving communities.
Hugh Landry
Coady Institute is saddened by the death of Hugh Landry who passed away January 21, 2026.
Between Rupture and Renewal: Education in a time of Interregnum
Community engagement gives me hope.
Coady to Celebrate International Development Week
As part of International Development Week (February 1 to 7), Coady Institute and the Atlantic Council for International Cooperation (ACIC) …
Making Communities Safer in Nigeria
Kate Ibeanusi is a Nigerian justice advocate and Coady Institute graduate …
Finding Her Voice
How Heidi Abramyk Reclaimed Culture and Confidence Through IWCL.
Support Social Change
At Coady Institute, we believe that lasting change begins when people come together to learn, share knowledge, and lead within their own communities.
Your Coady Connection: Inspiring Change, One Story at a Time
Welcome to this edition of the Coady Connection. As we walk with community—on campus, locally, and around the world—we’re reminded that real change grows from strong relationships.
A Great Place to Live is A Great Place to Visit
Across rural communities in Atlantic Canada and beyond, a quiet transformation is underway in the tourism sector: one that puts residents’ well-being at the forefront and reimagines development as a community-rooted process.
Climate Smart Farming Techniques Improving Lives in Cameroon
Coady graduate Jicenta Nchangnwie Foncha is using the knowledge gained from her studies to lead ELAM—an organization she co-founded in 2024—to train and support small-scale farmers in Cameroon.
Help Coady Take Flight
Coady Institute’s Help Coady Take Flight Aeroplan campaign invites donors to contribute Aeroplan points to support participant travel, reduce program costs, and help bring Indigenous and community leaders to Coady courses in Canada and around the world.
Advocacy for Children and Women in Kenya
Peggy Namadi Saka empowers marginalized children and youth to shape policy and development in Kenya, a mission strengthened by Coady Institute’s training and the Katherine Fleming International Development Award.