Grants and Contributions

Establish a state-of-the-art compounding pharmacy in NB to serve Eastern Canada market

Support the development of start-ups via the Summer Institute (SI) business accelerator

Support UNB Energia Ventures to deliver a startup accelerator program in 2023-2025

Support the development of start-ups via the Summer Institute (SI) business accelerator

Strengthening sanitation solutions for rural high schools in Siem Reap by providing bio-sand water filtration system (BSF) for clean, safe drinking water and capacity building to local village leaders to facilitate access to clean water for all community members living around the school.

This project aims to enhance the gender-responsive resilience of farming households, especially women-headed, and their agri-food livelihoods to the impacts of climate change in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka. Project activities include: (1) developing gender-responsive and sustainable land use and watershed management plans; (2) disseminating findings from a gender and poverty related barriers study, at local and national levels; and (3) connecting vulnerable women and men to service providers, to access resources to develop sustainable agribusinesses.

The project aims to assist the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in supporting community-driven recovery and rehabilitation efforts in rural and peri-urban locations. This includes up to 5 hromadas (communities), in Dnipropetrovska, Kharkivska, Sumska, and other Oblasts in Western and Central Ukraine. The project focuses on providing help to internally displaced persons who are seeking durable solutions. The project seeks to support the development and implementation of local recovery plans that align with the Government of Ukraine’s decentralization reform efforts and national recovery programs and policies led by the Ministry for Restoration. IOM aims to establish small grants and technical assistance mechanisms to empower civil society and community-based organizations to identify and implement community-level activities and local rehabilitation projects.

Project activities include: (1) empowering local ownership of the recovery process; and (2) addressing barriers to durable solutions and broader recovery efforts, including small-scale infrastructure rehabilitation, in selected locations. IOM aims to design, develop, and deliver targeted capacity-building activities and establish a community-of-practice coordination platform for sustainable collaboration and knowledge-sharing.

This project aims to restore critical agricultural livelihoods for small-scale farmers and rural households, that have decreased or halted production due to the presence of land mines and other explosive remnants of war on their lands. Implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in partnership with the World Food Programme, and in collaboration with Fondation Suisse de déminage, project activities include: (1) identifying, mapping and surveying agricultural land suspected of having mines and explosive remnants of war; (2) providing education to rural communities on explosive remnants of war , including girls, boys, women, men, older adults and persons with disabilities; (3) providing technical support related to mine and explosive remnants of war clearance and disposal; (4) providing technical assistance related to soil testing, decontamination and rehabilitation; and (5) providing matching grants, vouchers and in-kind packages (seeds, animal feed, agricultural equipment), allowing rural households and small producers to return to production as quickly as possible.

This project contributes to protecting the dignity and rights of women and girls in Ethiopia by integrating the provision of sexual reproductive health and rights information, supplies, and services with sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) prevention and response. This includes abortion and post-abortion care. Canada’s funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) would increase the availability and accessibility of gender-based violence and family planning services. Also, gender-based violence survivors would receive free legal aid, and UNFPA would be able to continue supporting national justice mechanisms to evaluate laws, ensuring they are aligned with regional and international human rights mechanisms. As well, health facilities would be strengthened through capacity building of health staff, and procurement of medical and non-medical supplies.

Project activities include: (1) developing a gender-based analysis (GBA) plus strategy to outline approaches to and tangibly plan for integrating lessons learned from previous work, ongoing needs assessment, intersectionality, feminist monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and learning; (2) providing gender-based violence survivors with free legal aid; and (3) providing dignity kits that contain menstrual pads, underwear, and sanitary napkins accompanied by key information on GBV, GBV risks, and access to GBV services.

This project is part of Canada’s Renewed women’s voice and leadership (WVL) program. It supports local and regional women’s rights organizations (WROs), lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex plus (LBTQI+) groups and feminist networks working to promote the rights of women and girls and advance gender equality in developing countries. It provides multi-year core funding and rapid responsive funding. It seeks to strengthen institutional capacity and bolster women’s rights alliances, as WROs and their networks are critical change agents. The Program continues to respond to the globally recognized and significant gap in funding and support for WROs and movements worldwide. It recognizes that those groups working at intersecting forms of discrimination and in crisis- and conflict-affected countries are funded even less. The renewed WVL program provides enhanced support for WROs, LBTQI+ organizations, and women human rights defenders working in crisis- and conflict-affected settings and a more intentional approach to reaching structurally excluded groups. This includes, but is not limited to, LBTQI+ communities, women and girls with disabilities, Indigenous women and girls and young feminists. This project aims to support 5 local implementing partners and their 210 staff to advance their objectives and priorities, and empower them and their organizations to advance women’s, girls, LBTQI+ individual and collective rights in Peru. The project also aims to benefit 10,000 women and female youth, Indigenous women, LBTQI+ people, 600 community leaders, and local and regional authorities directly. Cuso International is implementing the project.