Grants and Contributions

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 operates operate in 5 regions of northern Ghana where farming communities are highly vulnerable to droughts and other climate-related challenges. Project activities include: (1) providing training through tailor-made 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) facilitating access to financial products such as low-interest loans, waived collateral, and flexible repayment terms. These financial products are tailored to 14,500 smallholder 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) delivering leade

This project aims to improve economic wellbeing of young people, especially young women, in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka. It seeks to enhance the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system and increase inclusive employment opportunities tailored to local needs. As a result, this significantly improves economic prospects for young people, especially young women. Project activities include: (1) updating existing curriculum to align with analyses and best practices including gender sensitivity; (2) identifying labour market gaps and needs in consultation with industry stakeholders, and strengthening the job matching mechanisms; and (3) developing a collaboration agenda with local TVET stakeholders.

This project is part of Canada’s Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (RWVL) Program. It supports local and regional women’s rights organizations (WROs), lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex plus (LBTQI+) groups and feminist networks working to promote the rights of women and girls and advance gender equality globally. It provides multi-year core funding and rapid responsive funding, strengthens institutional capacity and bolsters feminist movements, as WROs and feminist movements are critical change agents. The Program continues to respond to the globally recognized and significant gap in funding and support for WROs and feminist movements worldwide. It includes enhanced support for WROs, LBTQI+ organizations, and women human rights defenders (WHRDs) working in crisis- and conflict-affected settings and a more intentional approach to reaching structurally excluded groups. This includes but is not limited to LBTQI+ communities, women and girls with disabilities, Indigenous women and girls and

This project aims to develop and host an outgoing trade mission in fiscal year 2025, bringing a delegation of up to 20 First Nations leaders, entrepreneurs, subject matter experts, and key stakeholders from British Columbia to Aotearoa/New Zealand. This project is implemented in collaboration by British Columbia Assembly of First Nations and the Federation of Maori Authorities in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It seeks to build relationships with Maori counterparts through 8 events in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada, with 4 outgoing Canadian First Nations and 4 incoming Maori. The project focuses on building economic partnerships, sharing knowledge, and creating new connections between Indigenous communities and their respective countries. The mission delegates invited represent key sectors such as forestry, energy, mining, fisheries, agriculture and agri-business, and tourism.

This project aims to combine expertise from Digital Media Zone (DMZ) at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) with key assets from Chiba University (Japan) to promote entrepreneurship education, co-innovation, and ecosystem development, in a collaboration between Canada and Japan. It focuses on 2 strategic initiatives, including a Knowledge-Sharing Workshop at EXPO Osaka 2025 and an immersion program at DMZ’s Basecamp in Toronto. At EXPO, Japanese universities learn in a workshop about TMU/DMZ’s Zone Learning model, focusing on entrepreneurship hubs and mentorship programs, while Canadian organizations share their incubator methodologies. The project also features an Entrepreneurship and Innovation Challenge, where 10 Canadian and 10 Japanese students collaborate on real-world solutions, supported by preparatory workshops. The Toronto Immersion Program at DMZ Basecamp seeks to host 15 staff and students Chiba University for workshops, mentorship, and networking with Canadian startups.
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This project aims to increase access to finance for women-owned and -led small and medium enterprises (WSMEs) in Vietnam. It seeks to establish a finance facility under the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to provide grants and technical assistance to financial institutions, alongside commercial loans from the ADB and other lenders. These grants and technical assistance aim to incentivize financial institutions to increase outreach to WSMEs. The project also seeks to facilitate greater awareness and capacity of financial institutions to identify and support underserved women entrepreneurs in Vietnam in the long-term. Project activities include: (1) providing performance-based lending or outcome-based lending to incentivize financial institutions to increase their outreach to WSMEs; and (2) providing technical assistance grants to build the capacity of financial institutions partners. The project aims to reach up to 2,200 new WSME borrowers through ADB’s private sector financial partners. It also directly benefit

This project aims to advance the promotion, respect, and fulfilment of human rights and gender equality across the occupied Palestinian territory for the period of 2024 to 2028 (5 years). Using a holistic approach, it seeks to operationalize international standards within judicial systems and procedures in a manner that tangibly realizes human rights. This is done through scaled-up professionalization, judicial integration, use of e-justice solutions, quality legal education and evidence-based advocacy.

The project aims to promote peace and stability in conflict-affected states.

This project aims to conduct strategic visits to member institutions of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) in Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Korea to learn about their unique agricultural and sustainability needs. The APRU Food Security and Agritech Hub, co-hosted by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), supports this initiative. Through this project, Simon Fraser University aims to establish a collaborative research and innovation hub and seeks to co-host symposia on food security and agritech in Singapore (2025 and 2027) and Canda (2026). The project also aims to explore innovative solutions using advanced technologies such as alternative proteins, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things sensors, and robotics in agriculture.

The Project aims to enhance the well-being of small-scale producers and businesses in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta rice supply chain by promoting the transition to low-carbon practices. By integrating gender equity, sustainability, and economic empowerment, the project aims to foster a more resilient and environmentally responsible rice sector in Vietnam. The Project will benefit approximately 20,500 rice producers, including 50% of women and 20% of ethnic minorities, by encouraging climate-smart practices in high-yield provinces such as Tra Vinh, An Giang, and Soc Trang. Project activities include: (1) Training rice producers, particularly women and ethnic minorities, in climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices to improve productivity, reduce emissions, and strengthen climate resilience; (2) Providing technical assistance on voluntary low-carbon rice labeling; (3) Expanding capacity-building programs designed to equip rice producers, particularly women and ethnic minorities, with financial literacy, leadership,