Grants and Contributions

This assessed contribution represents Canada’s long-term support to the Commonwealth Youth Programme, which delivers the Commonwealth Secretariat’s youth work. The Commonwealth Youth Program uses these funds and other members’ funding to achieve its mandate. The Commonwealth Youth Programme's mandate includes: (1) engaging and recognizing young people; (2) supporting member governments through technical assistance and advocacy; and (3) professionalizing youth work.

The Commonwealth Secretariat's current Strategic Plan (2021 to 2025) guides the work of the Commonwealth Youth Programme and establishes youth empowerment as a cross-cutting theme. The overall objective is to enhance youth’s effective participation and equal opportunities in leadership, governance, economic and social development.

Creating a climate awareness and action movement in the local community of Bargny by raising awareness about environmental issues and mobilizing people, with a focus on solutions.

Changing perceptions on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and gender through youth-led advocacy in Zhemgang.

To empower and enhance the entrepreneurship opportunities of the indigenous women communities in Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia, through developing agro-food processing initiatives that produce long shelf-life products from fresh produce.

Strengthening food security and diversifying the local economy through the implementation of a Pacú fish farming system and formalization of the association of women artisans from the Ese EjjaEyiyoquibo Community, in response to threats from mercury contamination and sociocultural changes.

Surface engineering and thermal spray (TS) coating technologies are used to enhance base materials sustainability and to add functionality to products with applicability in a variety of industries and sectors e.g., automotive, aerospace, oil and gas, energy, and defense. Constantly changing customer needs and demands require TS coating manufacturers to be flexible enough to augment the output of TS processes in an increasingly competitive global market while delivering high-quality products at low cost. These targets can be reached by making use of existing digital technologies to capture and exploit data, leading to highly flexible and reconfigurable coating production processes, optimized equipment usage, predictive maintenance, on-line spray monitoring, and end product (i.e., coatings) quality control. Within the proposed Project it is intended to instrument a high power/enthalpy APS torch with video cameras and acoustic sensors to record continuously the process and further analyze through images and sound processing capabilities based on machine learning algorithms. These video and audio data-sets will be examined for feature selection engineering and extraction and possible trends which can indicate discernible patterns. Ultimately, if a pattern were to arise, machine learning could be leveraged to monitor and automate the spraying process.

The project scope is enhancing marketing and social media capabilities to include AI marketing tools for advertising, content generation, and customer management.

The project’s goal is to introduce and implement Digital Twin technology by integrating Flair3D with IoT sensors, to enhance and improve complex construction workflows while involving academia to create innovative college programs.

An engineering driven initiative on implementation of a high velocity manufacturing strategy

The Jr. Software Developer will join the Edge Compute group to support the RAVEN project, which focuses on advancing the capabilities of satellite-based computing systems. This role will be crucial in enhancing our software quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) processes, as well as managing various aspects of the project lifecycle. The candidate will also engage in Python programming tasks related to the operating system, automation, and Docker container management, contributing to the development and optimization of our satellite systems.