With events scheduled to take place around Vancouver in conjunction with International Women’s Day on March 8, one group is aiming to keep the issue of gender equality on the public radar throughout the month.

The Jane Doe Legal Advocates' Group, a coalition of organizations that work with women survivors of violence, is releasing a recommendation each day in March for measures they want to see the provincial government implement to promote women's safety.

Darcie Bennett, the campaigns director at Pivot Legal Society, said the initiative is focused on emphasizing “well-established” solutions to ending violence against women and gender inequality.

“All these answers are out there—women’s groups have been providing them for decades at this point,” Bennett told the Straight in a phone interview.

“We know what we need to do, it’s just time to commit the political will to doing it. We’ve got lots of reports, we’ve got lots of...plans, and now it’s time for action."

Bennett noted the Provincial Office of Domestic Violence created in March 2012 is tasked with developing a three-year strategy to address domestic violence, and has requested public input on the issue.

Some of the recommendations the advocates group is calling for include a fully funded legal aid system, for the Residential Tenancy Act to be amended to ensure that a women isn’t stuck with the costs of breaking a lease if she has to leave a violent situation, and for the implementation of a provincial anti-poverty plan.

Bennett said she wants to see that plan address issues including pay equity in sectors typically dominated by women, and affordable family housing.

“Family housing is a really important need, in social housing, but also just in the rental sector generally—there’s a real lack of affordable housing for families, and it has a definite impact on women who are trying to leave violence or making a decision around that and knowing that it’ll be really hard to house their children on their own,” she said.

The 31 recommendations, which were sent to the B.C. office of domestic violence, will be released each day in March on the Jane Doe Legal Network blog and on Twitter.