Grants and Contributions

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.

This project aims to enhance the resilience of communities to respond to worsening climate conditions that disrupt agricultural production and food systems in South Sudan. It seeks to work with women and men smallholder farmers to diversify their agricultural sources of income through climate-resilient techniques and assets. The project also aims to empower women to manage community-based tree nurseries and seed banks and access new opportunities in fishing, fruit farming, beekeeping and small livestock. Project activities include: (1) building the capacity of women and men smallholder farmers and fisherfolks on new, climate-resilient skills. This covers agricultural techniques, harvesting and storing, animal husbandry, agroforestry, fish processing and handling, and maintaining crop biomass for livestock consumption; (2) providing inputs, such as drought resistant crop variants, fishing equipment and gear, and small livestock; (3) establishing disaster-risk management committees to develop flood and drought response plans; and (4) improving early extreme weather warning systems, including establishing 3 automated weather stations across the targeted areas. This project is expected to directly reach 8,000 households (60% women), and 50,000 people indirectly. It focuses on communities in 3 of the country’s 10 states, namely Eastern Equatoria, Jonglei, and Unity, which are the most vulnerable to climate change and affected by local conflict.

This one-year grant provides institutional support to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realization by all peoples of all the rights set forth in the Charter of the United Nations and in international human rights laws and treaties. Project activities of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights include: (1) preventing human rights violations; (2) ensuring respect for all human rights; (3) promoting international cooperation to protect human rights; (4) coordinating related activities throughout the United Nations; and (5) strengthening and rationalizing the United Nations system in the field of human rights. It will also support the advancement and ongoing operationalization of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Office Management Plan.

The project aims to increase women and girls' access to civic and political leadership opportunities in Chile, Bolivia, Honduras, Peru, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and Argentina to achieve better representation and gender equality. Over a 24-month period, the project would monitor and document the impact of information manipulation on women participating in electoral processes through national-level surveys and statistical analysis, conduct training and workshops to equip women candidates and activists with strategies to identify and combat gendered information manipulation, and launch awareness and advocacy campaigns to educate the public and policymakers on its effects on women's political participation. Additionally, the project would collaborate with regional partners, multi-stakeholder organizations, and tech platforms, where appropriate, to influence improved digital governance measures and policies instituted by state authorities.

This project aims to address the high rates of unintended pregnancies; maternal mortality; sexual and gender-based violence; and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs. The project will address individual, relational, community, and societal factors to improve SRHR outcomes. The project centers on a localization approach with adolescent girls and young women; women and youth rights organizations; and community stakeholders leading activities to encourage local ownership and sustainability.

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 young feminists.

This project supports inclusive and sustainable economic growth by strengthening the capacity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), particularly those led by women and under-represented groups, to access Canadian and international markets. It aims to strengthen trade support institutions (TSIs) in 16 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America to deliver inclusive, gender-responsive, and sustainable services to SMEs. The project also seeks to improve the ability of TSIs to integrate gender equality and social inclusion into their operations and to enhance the export readiness of SMEs. Project activities include: (1) training TSIs to deliver export-readiness and climate-resilient services to SMEs; (2) developing gender action plans and tools to support inclusive service delivery; and (3) coaching SMEs to improve their export offerings and connect with international buyers.

This project consists of a research and analysis on the rapid increase in the use of scam call centres in Ukraine that seek to capitalize on the conflict to boost criminal operations. This research will be used to advance the understanding of the call centre phenomenon both in Ukraine and globally, and as a result, increase operational efficacy, institutional awareness and societal resilience to this form of transnational organized crime.