Grants and Contributions

This project will build a three-year collaboration between Thompson Rivers University and the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. This will allow researchers across the Indo-Pacific to strengthen their research collaboration through the support of a major research project on food security. In Year 1, the project will conduct a literature review, design surveys, and hold a conference in Sri Lanka in December 2025. Year 2 will expand research to other South Asian countries and host a hybrid conference in Canada, with ongoing dissemination activities. Year 3 will focus on further dissemination and establishing a Food Security in the Indo-Pacific Working Group for future research. The publication of open-source conference proceedings as well as two op-eds will be published in major media outlets in Sri Lanka and Canada, a co-authored peer-reviewed manuscript will be submitted to a top-tier journal, and a public policy document will be created to propose a framework for food security as a core objective of Canada’s

The Global Concessional Financing Facility (GCFF) mobilizes financial resources to support middle-income countries affected by refugee crises. Canada is 1 of the 10 members of the Steering Committee for this financing mechanism. Recognizing the global public good provided by these countries in hosting significant populations of refugees, GCFF uses donor contributions to significantly reduce interest rates on loans provided to host countries by partner multilateral development banks. This lower-cost financing targets projects that improve the well-being of refugees and local host communities in areas such as education, health, and job creation, aiming for sustainable development outcomes.

This project helps underserved communities in developing countries build financial stability by supporting new financial tools ultimately mobilize both public and private capital to bridge the financing gap for the Sustainable Development Goals.
To achieve this objective, the project provides design funding grants in addition to knowledge, tools, resources and training on blended finance to fund and asset managers. This seeks to enable them to design and launch impact-focused and gender-inclusive solutions targeted towards underserved markets in emerging and developing countries.

This project seeks to further Canada’s support to Ukraine’s digital resilience by providing targeted cyber training courses to Ukrainian government agencies. It is imperative to bolster Ukraine's cyber defences and enhance its ability to rebuild and modernize its critical digital infrastructure. Strengthening these capabilities is not just a strategic necessity for Ukraine, but also a crucial step toward ensuring the stability of global cybersecurity networks. As malicious cyber activity can target Canadians or Canadian interests from any part of the world, it is essential that Canada works to ensure all states have the tools and capacity to effectively combat cyber threats that might emanate from their country, while also working with allies to secure global networks.

This project supports the Government of Ukraine’s efforts to strengthen decentralized recovery planning and implementation. Project activities include : (1) training in Gender-Based Analysis+ (GBA+) to relevant national authorities to strengthen their capacity to deliver inclusive recovery initiatives; (2) supporting the national Ministry for Restoration to strengthen its capacity to analyze and communicate recovery data; (3) training and supporting local authorities on strategic planning, project management and results reporting; (4) training and supporting local civil society organizations to strengthen their capacity to represent vulnerable communities; and (5) granting funding to selected local recovery projects.

This project will continue WTRP support for the IAEA’s promotion of the Code of Conduct and its Supplementary Guidance through a three-year, multi-donor project that will deliver an expanded list of activities to advance political commitment to and the implementation of the Code.

The project seeks to strengthen and diversify study programs at higher institutes of applied science and technology (HIAST) linked to the environment with a view to adapt them to the labour market; to strengthen the will and capacity of higher institutes to work to solve environmental issues via innovation and applied research; and to develop an environmental culture and train citizens in the fight against climate change in Tunisia.

This project seeks to support a resilient health system to respond to adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs in select communities in Dinajpur and Netrokona Districts of Bangladesh. It takes a comprehensive approach to advancing SRHR by going beyond health services to address gendered inequalities, discriminatory social norms and institutional structures. These structures limit access to sexual and reproductive health services and promotion of SRHR in Bangladesh.

Project activities include: (1) providing training on environmentally safe, gender-responsive, and adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and supportive supervision to health facility workers; (2) training community health workers on gender-sensitive and adolescent-friendly SRH or maternal, newborn and child health services. These services include family planning, sexual and gender based violence, referrals, men’s engagement, and healthy behaviours; (3) launching a psychosocial care program to guide adolescents in decision-making, psychosocial health and SRH, and gender based violence (GBV), and provide mental health referrals; (4) supporting local communities to undertake community-led action plans to address community-specific SRHR barriers and concerns, including child, early, forced marriage, gender-based violence and teen pregnancies; and (5) supporting the promotion of adolescent friendly comprehensive sexuality education, including GBV issues and a welcoming and safe school environment for all adolescents in local schools.

The project directly seeks to reach an estimated 210,937 people and 450,000 indirectly.

The project aims to achieve more equal enjoyment of health and health rights for marginalized women and girls in fragile contexts in Haiti and Cameroon. The project aims to empower displaced people and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in the Mayo-Tsanaga and Mayo-Sava districts of Cameroon’s Far North region and the Gressier and Léogâne communes in Haiti’s Ouest department. The project uses an innovative feminist Triple Nexus approach to strengthen the resilience of health systems and communities to cope with the crises affecting the targeted areas. Project activities include the following: (1) training health personnel to improve the quality and safety of health services that meet the needs of women and girls; (2) renovating and equipping health care facilities in a sustainable way to make them more inclusive and resilient to crises; (3) supporting community workers in promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights and mental health services for displaced people and survivors of sexual and gender based violence; (4) developing training programs for community mediators on participatory justice and conflict prevention and resolution; and (5) carrying out advocacy actions on the health rights of women and girls to encourage greater sexual and reproductive justice.

This project aims to improve equality and enjoyment of human rights among grassroots, Dalit, Indigenous, and religious minority women and girl’s rights holders living in poorest, most marginalized conditions in Nepal, Bangladesh, and the Indo-Pacific. The project seeks to increase meaningful participation of an estimated 950 minority women living in poorest most marginalized conditions in public leadership, decision-making and democratic processes. It also aims to increase transparency and accountability in inclusive, gender-responsive public planning and service delivery for minority women and girls’ rights holders through training and an estimated 740 responsibility holders, 670 elected officials, 10 networks and 390 community based organizations/women’s rights organizations (CBO/WROs).
Project activities include: (1) training existing and potential duty bearers on feminist leadership; (2) expanding capacities and connections between existing and potential women leaders; (3) conducting awareness and learning campaigns in support of women’s leadership with community stakeholders; (4) conducting intergenerational dialogues with political parties and leaders on women’s leadership potential; (5) facilitating workshops with local governments on power analysis, critical self-reflection and feminist leadership; (6) training women leaders, community based organizations, women’s rights organizations and networks on inclusive citizen-led accountability practices and advocacy; (7) training local media on investigative methods for promoting accountability; and (8) facilitating dialogues among minority women leaders, women’s rights organizations, civil society organizations, networks, and local government institutions.