Grants and Contributions

This project supports three legal empowerment organizations across Latin America to implement action research projects addressing key natural resource governance challenges in the region. The project’s aim is to understand how innovative legal empowerment strategies can help communities know, use and shape the law to advance reforms in natural resource governance and support the empowerment of women and marginalized groups. This is done through actions that increase the participation of women and marginalized groups to drive legislative and policy reform. In supporting action research projects, Namati Inc. builds the capacity of partner organizations to lead collective action and advocacy in the region. Practical strategies generated in this project are shared broadly for use by other civil society organizations. These outcomes directly contribute to poverty reduction, reduced pollution and reduced health impacts on populations, allowing for broader meaningful participation in the economy.

The project aims to improve access to quality education in Somalia for marginalized adolescent girls between the ages of 10 to 19, including nomadic girls, girls with disabilities and affected by conflict and violence. To encourage the enrolment and retention of girls, the project works with religious leaders, parents, men and boys to address barriers that hamper the demand for and access to education for girls, while strengthening the capacity of the government, schools and teachers to provide inclusive and gender-responsive education for girls.
Project activities include: (1) renovating schools to improve water and sanitation for menstrual hygiene management and the re-integration of out-of-school girls into the education system; (2) providing scholarships for the most marginalized girls to cover tuition and basic school supplies; (3) supporting girls’ empowerment forums in schools that promote girls’ rights and agency as well as boys’ forums working on positive masculinity and gender equality; (4) training teachers, with a specific emphasis on female teachers,) on quality, inclusive, gender-sensitive curriculum delivery, including improved methodologies in literacy and numeracy teaching and techniques to support crisis-affected students facing mental health issues; and (5) supporting women’s rights organizations and adolescent girls’ organizations in their advocacy for girls’ quality education.

There is also a significant need for education and life skills learning support for the approximately 300,000 Rohingya children and adolescents, as well as needs for teacher training, psycho-social activities to deal with shock and trauma and awareness raising among Rohingya children, adolescents and their families on issues such as child rights, gender violence and personal safety.

This project aims to improve the economic empowerment of 25,200 marginalized youth, including 15,120 adolescent girls and young women, in Rwanda, Somalia and Tanzania by providing skills development and Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) through the Building leadership, Opportunities and options for marginalized women and girls (BLOOM) Africa initiative. BLOOM Africa is implemented through a multifaceted approach to address issues across individual, community, and systemic levels. At the individual level, the project supports empowering marginalized adolescent girls and young women to develop skills, advocate for their rights to skills development and access economic opportunities, overcome barriers and promote safe work environments. At the community level, the project promotes social and behavior change to support equitable community structures, challenge traditional gender norms, and address discriminatory practices and power imbalances. At the systemic level, it aims to create compreh

Through this project, the United Nations Office for Project Services supports the Haitian National Police (HNP) to equipping and improving infrastructure at their National Police School and Academy (ENP and ANP) to build their ranks and expertise to effectively counter gang violence and regain control of the country. Project activities include: (1) procuring and distributing essential goods and equipment to enhance training quality, operational effectiveness, and security; and (2) acquiring and oversee rehabilitation processes of infrastructure, which could include electrical system improvements to ensure that training installations adhere to modern safety, security, health, and accommodation standards.

The project aims to procure solar powered radios to support remote learning for children’s reading circles, which is predominantly comprised of girls.

The FPBC conference provides forest professionals with a one-stop opportunity to earn professional development credits and is key to supporting FPBC mission of protecting the public interest by ensuring BC has competent forest professionals. The 2025 conference is scheduled for February 5-7 at the Victoria Conference Centre in Victoria and is planned as a hybrid event offering opportunities to participate either in-person or virtually. The 2025 conference will feature a combination of plenary and breakout sessions with a focus on the interconnectivity of all aspects of forest managements and land-use planning. Indigenous perspectives on forest management are incorporated throughout the conference sessions.

The Innovation in Apprenticeship Stream aims to support innovative approaches and strengthen partnerships to address apprenticeship challenges in the Red Seal trades.

The stream supports projects that:
• use innovative approaches or expand best practices to address challenges limiting apprenticeship outcomes in Red Seal trades
• involve broad-based partnerships between organizations across sectors, regions or trades

The HAWC satellite mission, currently under development, plans to place into orbit three Canadian atmospheric observation instruments, including TICFIRE, a radiometer designed to capture radiances emitted toward space in the thermal infrared and far-infrared. One of the first steps in processing TICFIRE data will be to classify the observed atmospheric scenes, which may consist of clear sky, aerosols, ice clouds, liquid clouds, or mixed-phase clouds. Measurements collected during the PONEX campaign by the FIRR-2 instrument, a precursor to TICFIRE, will be used to develop and evaluate artificial intelligence algorithms for atmospheric scene classification. This type of algorithm, which allows for the consideration of a wide range of variables affecting infrared emissions, is currently being considered in several satellite missions as a replacement for traditional classification approaches based on threshold systems using a limited number of variables.