Grants and Contributions

The project aims to build the capacity of 72 Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutes to deliver gender-sensitive skills training. The project also collaborates with industry partners to hire, promote and retain women in the workplace.

Through this 24-month project, The Circle Salt Spring Education Society will scale the Pass It On Boys program to strengthen the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) prevention sector. It will scale to a new community addressing the need for initiatives that support boys through safe spaces and social-emotional learning (SEL).

Through this 24 - month project, HIV Edmonton will address the needs and barriers to equality for 2SLGBTQI+ communities. This will be achieved by creating digital stories and complimentary collateral resources to combat stigma and discrimination experienced by those living with HIV and AIDS, led by the community. HIV Edmonton will partner with community organizations to provide presentations. The stories will also be shared through events held by HIV Edmonton and presented at a conference.

Building on the success of Mirova’s Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund, this successor Fund seeks to continue increase climate adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity protection, community inclusion and gender equality. The Fund aims to improve the environment and well-being of vulnerable populations, including smallholder farmers and women in emerging markets.

The main activities are 1) technical and material support for mobile outreach and delocalized health services, 2) training for primary health care providers, including community and outreach health care providers, particularly in family planning and the prevention/management of gender-based violence, 3) awareness-raising among women and adolescent girls on the concepts of good sexual health practices, and 4) technical assistance to institutions and organizations in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of SRHR policies and programs.

Strengthened partnerships and co-developed tools, strategies and guidelines for climate action aim to increase the use of gender-responsive nature-based solutions. These solutions will benefit climate change adaptation and biodiversity conservation.

Through this 25-month project, Accompagnement des femmes immigrantes de l’Outaouais (AFIO) will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity through systemic change. The project will address systemic barriers impacting immigrant women to improve their financial literacy levels. AFIO intends to develop a collective action plan, taking into consideration the main barriers and best practices on financial literacy for immigrant women, and to actively promote this plan among key players in the financial literacy ecosystem. The main activity for this project is to create a financial support network that is tailored to immigrant women’s needs. The project will also include an awareness and advocacy component within the financial support network to deconstruct myths and biases around immigrant women’s financial literacy and to encourage the adoption of recommendations from the collective action plan. An external evaluation will measure and assess the impact of this systemic change project.

The project aims to advance gender equality and the human rights of women and girls by strengthening Mongolia’s capacity to respond to gender-based violence. The project will work closely with civil society, the justice sector and government agencies in Mongolia to enhance their capacity to mainstream a victim-centred approach and implement systems of cooperation to combat gender-based violence. Activities include: (1) training delivered to primary advice and legal aid assistance providers to apply a victim-centred approach; (2) implementing public awareness campaigns with a specific focus on nomadic herder groups; (3) developing an operational model covering facilities, systems, processes, and information management relating to the specialized family courts in Mongolia; (4) implementing healthy relationship and life skills pilot program for adolescent boys.

Project activities include: (1) training midwives to deliver evidence-based, rights-based, gender-responsive sexual and reproductive health services; (2) implementing digital platforms with sexual and reproductive health and rights content on services and information; (3) training district health staff and community facilitators in a social accountability tool to identify service vulnerabilities; (4) providing midwifery associations with technical assistance on advocacy for the integration of midwifery services into health systems; and (5) strengthening women's health and rights organizations.

The objectives of the Labour Funding Program are to:.• promote respect for fundamental labour rights and international obligations through capacity building of labour administrations and exchange of good practice in the areas of labour relations and working conditions; .• develop and transfer knowledge on effective approaches to address the labour dimensions of globalization in Canada and internationally; .• strengthen relationships that foster collaboration, partnership, alliances and networks to address labour issues; .• support the capacity of governments, labour and management, and employers and employees to identify and address labour issues; and, .• promote knowledge sharing through the development, exchange and application of knowledge, tools and resources that address labour issues and/or sustain or enhance labour practices and labour relations. .