Grants and Contributions

Additional countries and regional entities will also be supported through learning exchanges and actions that strengthen health and rights promotion efforts.

Through the ALIGN (Advancing Learning and Innovation on Gender Norms) platform platform, the project provides resources for policymakers, practitioners, and civil society actors to incorporate GESI strategies in their work, promoting resilience and equality in changing geopolitical contexts.

This project aims to builds resilient food systems and empowers communities in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. The United Nations World Food Program implements this project to address the interconnected challenges of climate change and environmental degradation, food insecurity, and socio-economic instability. It works to strengthen communities against climate change and improve their ability to manage shocks independently, reducing the need for humanitarian assistance. The Sahel Integrated Resilience Programme seeks to reach over 5 million people (50.8% women) in 4,500 villages and rehabilitate 420,000 hectares of land by 2028. The project focuses on areas most vulnerable to climate shocks and food insecurity. It rehabilitates degraded land, improves agropastoral productivity, and connects smallholder farmers to local markets. The project also addresses malnutrition, promotes climate-resilient crops, and supports local food systems. Project activities include: (1) creating asset and supporting smallholder market; (2) integrating nutrition; and (3) integrating school-based package interventions.

This project will study the evolution of the atmospheric content in brown dwarfs. The observations will inform both our theoretical understanding of brown dwarf and extrasolar planet atmospheres, and future observations with JWST and other space- or ground-based large telescopes.

Most of the hydrogen gas in the Universe is ionized, but prior to the formation of galaxies, the Universe was neutral. Once stars started forming, a significant phase change occurred in the universe, a process known as “Reionization”. This project will look for the faintest possible sources of Reionization, tiny dwarf galaxies. The project targets strong-lensing clusters which provide a factor of 3 - 50 boost in the brightness of background sources. This increase in sensitivity allows the detection of extraordinarily low-mass galaxies (the equivalent of large star-clusters) during the reionization epoch and quantify their role in this process.

This grant supports the purchase of camera equipment for Rama First Nation to document their Land Based Learning program.

The Hay River Metis Government Council (HRMGC) will construct a new Trades, Cultural and Traditional Learning Facility.

Nunavut Economic Developers Association (NEDA) will develop two Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) tools for community level economic development in Nunavut.

Project activities include: (1) conducting country-focused analysis and research on Illicit Financial Flows (IFF) and their link to financing of terrorism for each recipient country; (2) hosting a regional roundtable for government stakeholders in the recipient countries to share the information collected in the analyses; (3) delivering 2 training sessions for each country for criminal justice practitioners on IFFs and the link to terrorism financing; and (4) organizing a regional workshop on sharing best practices and lessons learned in the application of knowledge and skills gained through national training sessions.

Maintain and build out capacities through the L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic and the Manitoba Legal Clinic for the Arts to deliver intellectual property law related information to clients.