Grants and Contributions

Strengthening environmental sustainability in Palau through developing a co-management approach to resource management across four states, including meetings, joint surveillance exercises and developing standard operating procedures.

Strengthening economic independence of marginalized women through production-based economy.

Combatting disinformation and stigmatization against women in politics in Guatemala through media literacy and fact-checking workshops, as a contribution to gender equality.

Strengthening health personnel and institutional coordination in the Macuelizo and Azacualpa municipalities in Honduras, for a more effective response in addressing sexual gender-based violence through training, meetings and sharing experience from other successful communities. 

Strengthening the rights of Indigenous women through the Law School of the Indigenous Peoples University by incorporating two specific modules on Indigenous Women´s Rights, workshops and replication sessions, and dissemination among key actors key actors in the two Municipal Commonwealths of Lempira Center COLOSUCA and Parque Nacional Montaña de Celaque MAPANCE, Honduras. 

Funding will support concept development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Challenge: Safer passage during minefield breaching operations in Ukraine.  The Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are seeking early-stage solutions for detecting mines and other obstacles in modern minefields, and clearing a route through the minefield by defeating them in some manner. Technologies developed will support capabilities in Ukraine as well as advance the capabilities of the CAF in future minefield breaching or clearance initiatives.

Wildfire Smoke Plume Rise
(project seeks to combine machine learning (ML) and numerical weather prediction (NWP) to produce a deterministic lightning forecast over the United States and Southern Canada)

Improving the Tracking of Wildfire Smoke by Combining Ground-based and Spacebased Lidar Measurements

Grant to enable participation in the Indigenous Oversight Forum for NGTL cowriting committee.

Grant to support the participation of Indigenous Peoples in CER’s Rules of Practice and Procedure Review.