Grants and Contributions

Hire a consultant to advance commercialization of the company’s wild blueberry leaf powder

Purchase equipment for pharmaceutical research

Hire a consultant to advance commercialization of the company’s wild blueberry leaf powder

Funding awarded to prepare for and participate in the public hearing process for the NPS 10 Pipeline Relocation Project.

This project addresses gaps in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and girls in Haiti. More particularly, this project strengthens and scales up previous work on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), and gender equality in the eleven clinical sites of the Lower Artibonite and Central Plateau. Project activities include: (1) addressing the most urgent clinical needs of survivors of SGBV; (2) ensuring that those in positions of authority at the health, judicial and community levels are educated and engaged in the reduction, mitigation and prevention of SGBV through surveillance committees, created to support survivors and promoting survivors’ rights; and (3) engaging girls, women, boys and men in an educational and empowering approach towards gender issues that aims to increase the resiliency of women and girls, and change social norms around SGBV.

This project is expected to reach 1.1 million people, while also strengthening linkages with broader women’s health services, community health programs, and Haitian civil society organizations.

This project is implemented through a partnership between Partners in Health Canada, and its Haitian sister organization, Zanmi Lasante.

Contribution to assist Algonquins of Ontario in participating in the environmental assessment and future Commission hearing process for the Near Surface Disposal Facility.

Contribution to assist Algonquins of Ontario in participating in the environmental assessment and future Commission hearing process for the Nuclear Power Demonstration Closure Project.

This project aims to increase the empowerment of girls, adolescent girls and women through education, including those who are refugees, displaced, returning to their countries of origin and persons with disabilities in the Great Lakes region. The project is a regional response to the educational needs of girls, adolescent girls and women. The project identified twenty-four primary and secondary schools in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda to benefit from its activities, with a total of 34,827 students between the ages of 5 and 18 (50% of whom are girls and 80% of whom are refugees/displaced persons). The project anticipates helping 22,172 girls enrolled in these schools (between the ages of 5 and 18, and of whom 73% are refugees or displaced persons) to experience an improvement in their education. 1,280 out-of-school girls and women will benefit from informal vocational training and support to develop income-generating activities and 6,300 women to strengthen their commitment to girls' education. This totals 22,314 empowered girls, adolescent girls and women as direct beneficiaries of the project. Project activities include: (1) conducting a participatory, holistic and gender-sensitive study on the individual status of girls and adolescent girls, including refugees, displaced persons, returnees and persons living with disabilities (RDRD), and the obstacles and specific demands related to their education; (2) developing, with the education staff, teaching and learning materials that are inclusive, gender-sensitive and adapted to the realities of the most vulnerable girls and adolescents, including RDRD; and (3) strengthening coordination mechanisms among local, national and regional actors involved in women's education to increase their participation and the consideration of their voices.

The project is implemented by the Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie and the Centre for International Studies and Cooperation in partnership with local partners, including Caritas in the DRC, Maison Shalom in Rwanda, the Concertation des collectifs des associations féminines de la région des Grands-Lacs and Humanité et inclusion (Handicap International).

Through contribution agreements, the CFLI provides financial assistance to cover all or part of the costs of relatively modest projects conceived, designed and implemented mainly by local authorities, institutions or organizations. The program aims to assist in the advocacy of Canada’s values and interests, and to strengthen Canada’s bilateral relations with foreign countries and their civil societies. The CFLI also seeks to provide humanitarian assistance in the immediate aftermath of natural disasters and emergencies.

Strengthening Women Social-economic Empowerment in Libya for housewives and other interested women