Grants and Contributions

March 2025 - A 7.7 magnitude earthquake and a 6.4 magnitude aftershock struck central Myanmar on March 28, 2025, resulting in extensive destruction and loss of life. A state of emergency has been declared in 6 regions, home to over 28 million people. The earthquake compounds an already fragile situation driven by an ongoing conflict, displacement and past disasters.

With GAC's support, the World Food Programme (WFP) helps provide emergency food and nutrition assistance and logistical services to address lifesaving and time-critical needs of vulnerable people living in the affected regions. Project activities include: (1) providing immediate food and nutrition assistance; (2) distributing emergency cash assistance; and (3) supporting logistical operations.

With Global Affairs Canada (GAC) support, Save the Children Canada will provide lifesaving assistance to address the urgent nutrition and protection needs of crisis-affected people across the globe for three years. This project will focus on improving the nutritional status of vulnerable populations and enhancing the protective environment so that risks of violence are mitigated, through delivering emergency nutrition and complementary health and water, sanitation and hygiene services in approximately 15 countries each year.

Country-level interventions will be implemented through a global program that will allow for a greater overall coherence and visibility of sectoral results achieved. Countries of implementation will be selected on a yearly basis and in consultation with GAC, with priority given to extreme nutrition crisis in countries experiencing protracted. At least half of the budget will be directed towards nutrition sector activities.

Project activities include: (1) providing emergency nutrition services for girls and boys under 5 and pregnant and lactating women and girls, including Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM), supplementary feeding programs, micronutrient supplementation, community outreach, and providing treatment of severe acute malnutrition; (2) providing emergency infant and young child feeding services for parents/caregivers of girls and boys under 5; (3) providing health services for girls and boys under the age of five, as well as women of reproductive age; (4) providing community and /or facility-based health and water and sanitation services; (5) providing survivor-centered protection services to at risk groups, including referral, case management, psychological first aid (PFA), care for child survivors, and tailored psychosocial support (PSS).

March 2025 - West Bank and Gaza continue to experience deteriorating humanitarian conditions, with high levels of need in health, protection and sexual and reproduction health and rights (SRHR). In 2025, the United Nations estimated that 3.3 million people require life-saving assistance. Gaza experienced mass destruction, with 60% of buildings, including 92% of homes and 88% of schools, damaged or destroyed. An estimated 1.9 million people, or 90% of the population, are internally displaced and face severe shortages of food, water, shelter, and healthcare, with the health system collapsing.

With GAC’s support, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) helps provide lifesaving sexual and reproductive health services and protection in the West Bank and Gaza. Project activities include: (1) providing emergency obstetric care and sexual and reproductive health services to women and adolescent girls; (2) ensuring protection from and response to gender-based violence; and (3) providing health services, supplies, commodities and medication, dignity kits, and reproductive health kits to crisis-affected people.

February 2025 - The World Health Organization (WHO) works with countries and partners to prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from hazards that create health emergencies, including disasters, disease outbreaks and conflicts. The WHO’s Contingency Fund for Emergencies (CFE) is a replenishable multi-donor fund that provides resources necessary to rapidly scale up WHO’s initial response to health-related outbreaks and emergencies.

With GAC’s support, the CFE helps the WHO react early to prevent health emergencies from escalating. Project activities include: (1) deploying experts to assess outbreak threat; (2) delivering essential medicines, supplies and equipment; (3) training health personnel; and (4) strengthening health sector coordination and health information systems.

March 2025 - A 7.7 magnitude earthquake and a 6.4 magnitude aftershock struck central Myanmar on March 28, 2025, resulting in extensive destruction and loss of life. A state of emergency has been declared in 6 regions – home to over 28 million people. The earthquake compounds an already fragile situation driven by an ongoing conflict, displacement and past disasters.

With the support of Canada and other donors, OCHA fulfills its mandate through activities that include: (1) strengthening humanitarian leadership; (2) establishing and overseeing coordination systems; (3) monitoring and reporting on humanitarian situations; (4) advocating on behalf of affected people; (5) supporting the assessment and prioritization of humanitarian needs and strategic planning; (6) promoting emergency preparedness; and (7) mobilizing funding for humanitarian assistance.

The project presented by the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), through the Observatoire francophone pour le développement inclusif par le genre (OFDIG), consists of facilitating two forums for influential women in collaboration with the National University of Vanuatu and a closing activity. The project activities include: 1) organising a forum in Vanuatu in the second half of 2025; 2) organizing a second forum in Cambodia in 2026; 3) organizing a closing activity in Vietnam in 2027 which will conclude the project by disseminating and promoting the results of data analysis. During each forum, a portrait of gender equality, associated with women's participation in public life and decision-making powers, will be created. The participants in this project are: organizations involved in the promotion of women's rights, Francophone and Asian universities (including young researchers from the UQAM/OFDIG network), and experts and decision-makers. The project aligns with Strategic Objectif number 3 ("Investing in and Connecting People") of Canada's Indo-Pacific Strategy. This forum is a platform for reflection, sharing, and collaboration among opinion leaders, influential women, academics, and emerging young leaders from Francophone countries and the Asia-Pacific region.

Pursue short-term research and/or teaching activities in Latin America and the Caribbean as a means of exploring, creating and advancing institutional partnerships in the areas of research, student mobility, joint programming, capacity building, and others

Pursue short-term research and/or teaching activities in Latin America and the Caribbean as a means of exploring, creating and advancing institutional partnerships in the areas of research, student mobility, joint programming, capacity building, and others

Pursue short-term research and/or teaching activities in Latin America and the Caribbean as a means of exploring, creating and advancing institutional partnerships in the areas of research, student mobility, joint programming, capacity building, and others

Pursue short-term research and/or teaching activities in Latin America and the Caribbean as a means of exploring, creating and advancing institutional partnerships in the areas of research, student mobility, joint programming, capacity building, and others