Grants and Contributions
About this information
In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
$12,000,000.00
May 8, 2013
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Food Self-Sufficiency for Farmers
5007059583 P000254001
This project aims to help 200,000 women, men, girls and boys feed themselves by increasing their incomes so that they can purchase more food, or by increasing their ability to grow more food. The project targets farm-based families in eight districts in the West and East Hararge and South Gondar zones of rural Ethiopia who are traditionally dependent on food aid for several months a year. It provides training to adults and youth, both women and men, to help them develop the skills needed to increase their agricultural productivity or start small businesses, and to help them secure the necessary loans to fund these initiatives.
The project also establishes or strengthens community-level groups, such as Production and Marketing Associations, to help farmers improve their access to the private sector and commercial markets, thereby enhancing their potential to increase their incomes. The project assists communities in working together to develop and implement community plans to address common challenges such as climate change and barriers to gender equality, which are both important factors that prevent families from being able to feed themselves. In addition, the project seeks to assist local government partners, including agricultural extension workers and food security officers, to obtain the knowledge, skills, and experience they need to more effectively plan, manage, and deliver agriculture and other food security programming which is gender inclusive and environmentally sustainable.
The Food Self-Sufficiency for Farmers project is implemented jointly by CARE Canada and CARE Ethiopia.