Grants and Contributions

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

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

Laval University proposes a research project in Thailand in collaboration with Thammasat University. This project's activities include: 1) analyzing the development of soft power by states in the region in cyberspace; 2) mobilizing of soft power in the expression of geopolitical conflicts in Southeast Asia; 3) identifying the opportunities that this situation represents for Canada, its population, its diplomacy, and its businesses. This project rely on a significant research component, around which training and knowledge dissemination activities are integrated. It will be structured around three main axes: the representation of geopolitical conflicts in the South China Sea in cyberspace, the online expression of soft power by Southeast Asian countries, and Canadians' perception of information circulating in and about Asian cyberspace. This project is aligned with 4 of the 5 Strategic Objectives of Canada's Indo-Pacific Strategy: 1. Promoting peace, resilience and security; 2. Expanding trade, investment and supply chain resilience; 3. Investing in and connecting people; 5. Canada as an active and engaged partner to the Indo-Pacific.

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the World Food Programme (WFP). WFP uses these funds, along with other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate.

WFP is the food assistance arm of the United Nations and is the largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger in the world. Its mandate is to provide food assistance quickly to vulnerable people in humanitarian emergencies such as natural disasters, civil conflict and war, and reduce global food insecurity.

Project activities include: (1) saving lives and protecting livelihoods in emergencies; (2) supporting or restoring food security and nutrition, and establishing or rebuilding livelihoods in fragile settings and following emergencies; (3) reducing risk and enabling people, communities and countries to meet their own food and nutrition needs; and (4) reducing under-nutrition and break the intergenerational cycle of hunger.

Annual host country grant to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

This project aims to advance equitable economic growth in Nigeria’s agricultural sector by raising the productivity of women and youth-focused smallholder farmers and raising the business performance of women-owned small and medium enterprises and the value chains, focusing on women and youth. Also, the project will improve the enabling environment for women by working with the government, civil society, and farmer cooperatives to support inclusive and gender-responsive agri-food systems.

Project activities include: (1) designing and deploying more accessible and adapted financial services, markets and information for women and youth led farmer cooperatives and businesses; (2) providing support to micro, small and medium women-led businesses to address shared value chain productivity constraints; (3) improving leadership abilities of women and youth in cooperatives and agribusinesses; and (4) supporting sector-specific government agents and civil society actors, such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

March 2025 - The International Committee of the Red Cross’ (ICRC) primary mission is to protect the lives and dignity of people affected by armed conflicts and other situations of violence. The ICRC assists and works to prevent further suffering by promoting and strengthening international humanitarian law. The ICRC collaborates with local Red Cross and Red Crescent national society staff and volunteers to implement its protection and assistance programmes worldwide.

With GAC and other donors’ support, the ICRC’s humanitarian operations aim to provide protection, emergency relief, and other essential services to people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence. This includes in Syria, West Bank and Gaza, Lebanon, and Yemen.

Project activities include: (1) engaging with warring parties on the respect for international humanitarian law; (2) conducting protection activities to support those protected under international humanitarian law; (3) assisting people affected by conflict and violence