Grants and Contributions

Empowering women and girls in tourism management, through the creation of women groups to combat GBV, creating opportunities for women to enter the tourism sector and promoting financial autonomy.

Psychological support and humanitarian assistance for women and children in Jenin Camp.

With the support of Global Affairs Canada (GAC), CANADEM responds to urgent requests for short-term technical assistance by providing rapid and qualified technical expertise on topics of international peace and security importance. Project activities include: (1) contracting, financing, insuring and deploying selected experts; (2) developing specific set of Terms of Reference; (3) conducting pre and post-deployment debriefs with experts; (4) monitoring deployments, including ongoing duty of care services and procedures and collect reports; and (5) receiving and processing experts’ reports and evaluations, and sharing lessons learned.

The project aims to provide a structuring and transformative response to the challenges related to sexual and reproductive health and rights experienced by indigenous women and adolescent girls in Bolivia, Peru and Guatemala, because of their gender and ethnicity. On one hand, it aims to increase the adoption, by and for indigenous women and adolescent girls and their communities, of innovative and culturally relevant solutions that will have a direct impact on the health inequalities they suffer. On the other hand, it intends to improve the provision of intercultural health services and comprehensive sexuality education programs by integrating ancestral practices and knowledge through capacity building of health care providers, including midwives and traditional healers, to offer coordinated and complementary quality health services. The project will also address rights violations of indigenous women and adolescent girls by mobilizing duty-bearers, including men and adolescents, to strengthen the promotion and protection of sexual and reproductive rights through partnerships with civil society organizations.

This project aims to enhance enjoyment of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) of adolescent girls and women in 480 rural communities with high child marriage prevalence across the Bombali, Falaba, Kambia, Karene, Koinadugu, Moyamba and Tonkolili Districts of Sierra Leone. Project activities include: (1) improving the capacity of peripheral health units health professionals and the knowledge of women and adolescent girls to increase the use of family planning and sexually transmitted infections services among women and adolescent girls; (2) improving the capacity of intermediaries (including community leaders, teachers and health providers) to advocate for women and adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive rights including decision making on marriage; (3) strengthening Mothers’ Clubs’ capacity to promote and support educational access and retention for girls, especially girls at risk of child early and forced marriage; (4) engaging district governments and key stakeholders to ensure the fulfillment of women and adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive rights; and (5) raising community members’ awareness of women’s and girls’ SRHR and the detrimental impact of child marriage. Implemented in partnership with CAUSE Sierra Leone, the project expects to directly benefit approximately 240,000 people living in rural areas across Sierra Leone.

The Biodiversity for Resilient Ecosystems in Agricultural Landscapes (B-REAL) project aims to conserve and restore biodiversity in intensively farmed, climate-stressed regions of Colombia, Kenya and Peru. The project integrates biodiversity practices into agriculture, involving women as producers and traditional knowledge holders in the co-design of intervention. It also promotes nutritious and underutilized local crops to improve farmers’ incomes. This funding is part of Canada’s commitment made at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in December 2022 in Montreal. It aligned with the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils, one of the Group of Seven (G7) Apulia Food Security Initiatives. Project activities include: (1) co-creating biodiversity interventions; (2) implementing technologies through demonstration plots, tree nurseries, community seed banks, and training programs; and (3) conducting gender-responsive market assessments and using market incentives for conservation.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations program aims to restore resilient, inclusive and sustainable agricultural livelihoods, especially for ethnic minority women affected by Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam. The project supports the recovery of agricultural livelihoods while addressing both immediate needs and fostering long-term resilience to mitigate future risks. It focuses particularly on empowering women and ethnic minority populations by strengthening their capacities and ensuring their active participation and leadership in the recovery process. Project activities include: (1) collecting baseline data of the vulnerable households, assessing the market and identifying local traders to participate in the voucher program; (2) providing vouchers to beneficiaries, including sensitization on voucher entitlement and how to use vouchers; (3) facilitating trainings for facilitators and beneficiaries on climate-smart agriculture practices; (4) providing nursery services, seedlings and agri

Cyclone Response – Support to victims of Cyclone Chido.

This project aims to improve the health and nutrition of women, adolescents, and children in Bauchi, Kaduna, and Kebbi states in Nigeria. It does so by improving coverage of gender-responsive Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health (MNCH), and nutrition services. Project activities include: (1) training health professionals and community services providers to provide integrated gender responsive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), MNCH and nutrition services; (2) providing technical and financial support to states and local government authorities to procure, transport and deliver essential SRHR, MNCH and nutrition supplies including data tools and commodities; (3) raising awareness among community influencers and leaders on sexual and reproductive health (SRH), MNCH and nutrition related rights and services and harmful gender norms; (4) empowering civil society organizations and local community organizations to promote responsive SRH, MNCH and nutrition related rights and services; (5) training policy makers and program managers on effective planning, programming and decision making for gender responsive SRHR, MNCH, and nutrition services; and (6) strengthening the health information management systems for decision making in regard to SRHR, MNCH and nutrition services.

This project aims to ensure migrants' rights and foster sustainable integration into host communities in Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Peru. Across these countries the project seeks to enhance the protection, regularization, and socio-economic integration of Venezuelan migrants and refugees and other nationalities in the Latin America region.