Grants and Contributions

Through this project, WFP will boost income generation opportunities and livelihood diversification of vulnerable households and promote women’s empowerment and household care practices in Venezuela. The project will enhance individuals’ technical skills towards more diversified and reliable sources of income, through training and follow up programmes; support households to meet their immediate food needs through food transfers to promote their participation in technical and life skills training; and strengthen the capacity of local organizations and institutions to design and implement training programmes for livelihood diversification and the creation of income generating opportunities at community level.

The project will operate in Amazonas, Apure and Sucre, Falcón and Delta Amacuro over a three-year period.

The project aims to assist some 10,000 people within the framework of its livelihood support strategy, including women, caregivers of people with disabilities, and indigenous communities.

The project aims to advance gender equality and the human rights of women and girls by strengthening Mongolia’s capacity to respond to gender-based violence. The project will work closely with civil society, the justice sector and government agencies in Mongolia to enhance their capacity to mainstream a victim-centred approach and implement systems of cooperation to combat gender-based violence. Activities include: (1) training delivered to primary advice and legal aid assistance providers to apply a victim-centred approach; (2) implementing public awareness campaigns with a specific focus on nomadic herder groups; (3) developing an operational model covering facilities, systems, processes, and information management relating to the specialized family courts in Mongolia; (4) implementing healthy relationship and life skills pilot program for adolescent boys.

This project aims to improve the agency of women and girls, including marginalized populations, to exercise their sexual and reproductive health and rights, in Malawi and South Sudan. Project activities include: (1) training midwives to deliver evidence-based, rights-based, gender-responsive sexual and reproductive health services; (2) implementing digital platforms with sexual and reproductive health and rights content on services and information; (3) training district health staff and community facilitators in a social accountability tool to identify service vulnerabilities; (4) providing midwifery associations with technical assistance on advocacy for the integration of midwifery services into health systems; and (5) strengthening women's health and rights organizations.

The ''Justice and Fight against Impunity in Haiti (JISTIS)'' project, implemented by LWBC, is centered in an approach called ''empowerment through law'' for the most vulnerable people, in particular women, displaced and rural populations, and victims of gender-based violence (GBV). An empowerment through law approach enables people to acquire a better knowledge of their rights and of justice mechanisms and helps build the capacities of those providing legal aid and judicial assistance services. In addition, advocacy and strategic litigation actions are carried out to create jurisprudential precedents as a lever for transformative change in Haiti's legal framework and the country's fight against impunity.

The project will ensure: (1) to raise awareness and mobilise people in vulnerable situations about their rights and possible legal remedies; (2) to improve the provision of legal and judicial services accessible to victims of human rights violations, particularly for internally displaced populations and for those living in rural areas; and (3) to build the capacity of justice sector actors and civil society organisations in their documentation of human rights violations, their contributions to jurisprudence to advance human rights in a context of fragility, and their advocacy efforts for systemic reforms towards the defence and protection of human rights.

The project will support the Government of Angola’s efforts to create regional stability through inclusive dialogue, conflict resolution, and mediation. It will be framed by the Luanda Peace Process, an Angolan initiative to establish and implement sustained peace between the Governments of DRC and Rwanda. Following recent decisions by regional bodies and the AU, the Luanda process is to be merged with the Nairobi process which had been led by the Kenyan government. This investment will support Angolan engagement in this new merged process focused on peace mediation for the crisis in the DRC. The project will also establish a Centre of Excellence for Peace and Reconciliation, build capacity in the Angolan Ministry of External Relations to support inclusive peace building and conflict resolution, and provide administrative, logistical, and advisory support for mediation dialogues and verification missions. These efforts will strengthen the role of the AU Champion of Peace and Reconciliation which is held by Angolan President João Lourenço.

South Sudan is one of the world’s most fragile states, with decades of conflict contributing to some of the worst health indicators in the world. The country’s poor health outcomes result from a significantly underdeveloped health sector. The project is a multi-donor trust fund that delivers the Government of South Sudan’s basic package of health and nutrition services in all 10 states from the community to the state level. The initiative is the backbone of the healthcare system in South Sudan. It delivers much needed supplies and services to improve health outcomes, especially for women and children. The basic health package includes services such as maternal and newborn child health care, immunization, treatment for infectious diseases, family planning, and support for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. To enhance sustainability, the World Bank collaborates with the Ministry of Health in co-financing efforts and capacity-building initiatives.

This project aims to strengthen the capacity of Mexican authorities to control and monitor illicit substances, to detect and dismantle clandestine laboratories, and to better analyze, manage, and dispose of synthetic drugs and chemical precursors. Through such efforts, this project will help counter the production and flow of illicit substances, with a particular focus on synthetic drugs, to and through Mexico with the ultimate objective of enhancing regional safety and security.

To be implemented by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), this project will leverage relevant subject matter expertise to deliver training, equipment, and technical support to enhance Mexico’s capacity to counter the production and trafficking of synthetic drugs and increase relevant information sharing across the wider region.

Project activities will include: (1) Delivery of on-site training on safe handling, disposal, and analysis of synthetic drugs and precursor chemicals; (2) Facilitate and convene discussions with key authorities involved in dismantling synthetic drug laboratories and handling chemical precursors; and (3) Development of a curricula meant for sharing lessons learned and best practices based on current collaborative work and gender responsive mechanisms.

The project aims at improving the resilience of agricultural livelihoods, particularly for women, by promoting the adoption of gender-responsive climate-smart agriculture practices. The project will operate in five regions of northern Ghana where farming communities are highly vulnerable to droughts and other climate-related challenges. Project activities include: (1) tailored training programs on climate-resilient farming practices and resources to enhance women’s capacity to adapt to climate change and to address specific barriers such as limited access to land, technology, and financial services; (2) access to financial products such as low-interest loans, waived collateral, and flexible repayment terms tailored to 14,500 smallholders farmers for purchasing farming inputs and to 480 agribusiness traders for storage and trade as well as to 20 small and medium size enterprises to enhance value-added processing; and (3) leadership training to strengthen women’s ability to take an active role in community planning and decision-making processes related to agriculture and climate adaptation within their communities.

This project aims to improve biodiversity and key ecosystem health along Honduras’ Atlantic and Pacific coasts using nature-based solutions. It responds directly to Canada’s commitment to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to safeguard and restore biodiversity. The project focuses on people dependent on these ecosystems, particularly women, youth, and Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples, whose livelihoods remain threatened by climate change, habitat loss, and ecosystem degradation. Project activities include: (1) strengthening protected areas governance and management; (2) restoring ecosystems and recovering threatened species through nature-based solutions; (3) improving agroforestry, agriculture, ecotourism and cattle ranching sustainability through model nature-based solutions; (4) strengthening public sector biodiversity policy framework; and (5) enhancing women’s empowerment and Indigenous people’s rights.

The project aims to strengthen public service governance with a focus on ethics and human rights, transparency, accountability, civic engagement, and equitable participation, especially for women. Activities include: (1) Technical assistance to support the mainstreaming of gender equality in policymaking; (2) Organize workshops among the public and private sectors on leading practice in ethics and human rights; (3) Provide technical assistance to targeted civil society organizations in monitoring of the implementation of development policies; (4) Mentor select civil servants in community engagement and women’s empowerment.