Grants and Contributions

The purpose of the Indigenous Habitat Participation Program and the Salish Sea Initiative, is to support the participation of Indigenous peoples in activities relating to the conservation and protection of fish and fish habitat, including the development of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ (DFO) policies, program elements and regulations and the development of their technical capacity to support greater involvement in the conservation and protection of fish and fish habitat.

Funding will support research to National Defence's Fast Forward: Forecasting global emerging threats Challenge. The Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are seeking innovative forecasting models that leverage the power of publicly available information, statistical methods, and machine learning models to assist DND with forecasting flashpoints and emerging threats around the world.

Funding will support research to National Defence's Fast Forward: Forecasting global emerging threats Challenge. The Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are seeking innovative forecasting models that leverage the power of publicly available information, statistical methods, and machine learning models to assist DND with forecasting flashpoints and emerging threats around the world.

The objectives for CSC are to create, promote and facilitate access to service opportunities that are meaningful to young Canadian, and support lasting civic engagement, as well as to provide youth with life and work skills.

Lunarwell turns dirty lunar ice into clean water with the help of sunlight and the Moon's vacuum

Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative

The Project focuses on strengthening cybersecurity in the construction sector by addressing the risks and vulnerabilities specific to this sector.

This project seeks to enhance equitable health systems responding to and managing the long-term health needs of targeted vulnerable communities. This includes Tonj North County, Warrap State, South Sudan and Tulo Woreda, West Hararghe, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. Project activities include: (1) establishing a Health Training Fund (HTF) and supporting the diversification of funding for student loans in Ethiopia; (2) conducting awareness-raising sessions on sexual and reproductive health and rights conducted for women and girls; (3) supporting health centres to provide sexual and reproductive health (SRH). This includes access to contraception and family planning, mental health, prevention and treatment of STIs, safe abortion and post-abortion care and access to youth-friendly health services; and (4) providing capacity building training to health care and nutrition center staff including community members on basic emergency care, maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN), STI prevention, Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (BEmONC), integrated community case management of common childhood illnesses (ICCM), wash for nutrition, and nutritional screening. The project benefits 75,000 rights-holders including men, women, girls, boys and people with disabilities in both Ethiopia and South Sudan.

This project aims to address key gender inequality and human rights issues, particularly: harmful social norms regarding gender and sexuality; lack of adequate information on or access to comprehensive SRH services particularly for safe abortion; lack of decision-making power by girls and women regarding their health and sexuality; as well as limited capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) including women’s rights organizations and youth-led organizations to effectively advocate for SRHR at local, national, regional and international levels. SHIFTS will also strengthen the resilience of health systems in the focus countries to deliver integrated SRHR services through focusing on the WHO’s building blocks of health systems including service delivery health workforce, access to essential medicines, and leadership/governance.

Project activities include: (1) Providing technical support to selected facilities for the development and implementation of quality improvement mechanisms (including procurement); (2) delivering trainings to health care providers on gender responsive SRH services including abortion; (3) delivering comprehensive sexuality education to adolescents and young people from marginalized communities in and out of schools; (4) providing SRHR awareness campaigns to community influencers; (5) providing technical assistance to local CSOs in project countries on advocating for SRHR at local, national, regional and international levels; and (6) delivering technical assistance to Canadian CSOs on promoting human rights based approaches to SRH among Canadians.

The project is expected to directly benefit 2 450 094 people ( 2,039,193 women, girls and young women and 410 901 men and boys) targeting adolescent girls, women and the most marginalized communities in the three focus countries including persons with disabilities, LGBTQ communities and internally displaced persons. The project will also indirectly benefit 4 697 990 people including community members, health care workers, teachers, youth peer educators, youth networks and community leaders.

This project aims to enhance participation in inclusive governance, in particular by women and girls in Mali, the DRC, Somali Diaspora in Kenya, Kenya, South Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Iraq, Syrian Diaspora in Turkey, and the Philippines. Project activities include: (1) Journalists and content-creators trained on inclusive governance principles, countering gendered- information manipulation, gender-transformative reporting, and on digital, physical, and psycho-social security strategies; (2) Journalists and content-creators trained on content monetization strategies, grant writing, digitalization, and revenue diversification; (3) Local grassroots women rights movements, CSOs, CBOs & activists trained on media relations, digital & media campaigns, communication planning, and digital, physical, & psycho-social security strategies; (4) Civil servants, government officials, and political aspirants trained on gender-sensitive communication strategies, and GBA+ analysis in data collection, policy-formulation, budgeting and service delivery; and (5) Thematic Roundtable discussions between media, government officials, and women’s rights CSOs and CBOs on gender equality, women representation and civic engagement.