Grants and Contributions

Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname; (4) providing training, capacity-building, and technical assistance for restoration, repopulation, rehabilitation and management of coral reefs and coastal ecosystems; and (5) collaborating, cooperating, and building partnerships with other regional and global initiatives, and research and learning institutions, to support better ecosystem protection and management regionally and globally.

The project aims to increase fruit production between 15 and 30% in the five targeted municipalities, and update the national fruit strategy from the findings and lessons learned of these local experiences. Project activities include: (1) supporting coordination between local and national actors, and decision makers in the fruit chain; (2) strengthening the capacity of national and local actors to conduct assessments and prepare strategies using a value chain approach; (3) developing and implementing tools to effectively involve women and youth, and promote energy efficiency in value chain assessments and planning; (4) training farmers in fruit cooperatives in agro-techniques, management and market studies, with an emphasis on training women and youth; (5) providing equipment and inputs to strengthen fruit cooperatives capacities to increase fresh and processed fruit production and sales; (6) supporting cooperatives in the implementation of quality control mechanisms; (7) training direct (for example, preparation for retail and industry, cleaning and storage, processing, distribution and commercialization) and indirect (service and input providers such as seeds, fertilizers and pesticides, soils studies and water provision, packaging, and transport) actors in the value chain approach; (8) providing equipment and inputs to strengthen the capacity of these key actors in the value chain to help overcome bottlenecks identified in the assessments; and (9) implementing enabling practices to incorporate gender equality and promote youth employment among direct and indirect actors of the value chain.

• To develop cross-community collaborations that will provide an interdisciplinary learning platform and training environment for early career researchers and trainees

Ongoing measurement and evaluation with quarterly analysis to identify learnings to integrate. (Ongoing for the duration of the project.)

To scale up, they will build on Ontario’s lessons learned and adapt the training/classroom resources for use in New Brunswick, Quebec, British Colombia and Yukon ensuring they meet each province/territory's curriculum requirements.

The Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts (ANDPVA) will achieve this by challenging gender stereotypes at the Indigenous community level and pushing for policy change to better address gender-based violence (GBV) and provide adequate support to survivors; providing safe spaces for women and gender-diverse individuals to share stories, resources and hosting sharing circles to discuss GBV topics such as Indigenous Human Trafficking (IHT) and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), and reducing the feeling of shame for survivors; creating and hosting a culturally aware course on Indigenous GBV (including IHT and MMIWG) for band council members to educate them on stereotypes as well as influence the creation of new policies to prevent GBV within the community; creating partnerships with band council members (in Ontario and Quebec) to influence new policies; and performing an evaluation of the cultural relevancy and impact of the trainings for Indigenous communities, including lessons learned and proposed next steps for a national expansion.

This will be achieved by creating a travelling exhibition and activity guide that will enable host organizations, communities, and governments across Canada (remote, rural, urban) to learn about Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and how to address it in their own environment.

QMUNITY will develop and execute education and outreach plans around Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer identities for settlers outside the Vancouver Lower-Mainland to help share knowledge of sexual and gender identities, as well as integrate learning outcomes from the organization’s social impact research on how to best serve Indigenous and racialized Queer, Trans and Two-Spirit people

TransCare+ will: 1) Develop a public-facing executive summary of the project's plan for engaging in community-based research that includes the findings from the comprehensive baseline data collection, 2) Synthesize research findings into accessible graphics, visual fact sheets, and educational social media posts/videos for wider distribution, 3) Develop and deliver a youth-led recommendations-for-practice document that includes an analysis of research findings and action steps, 4) Create an e-learning module based on research findings for each of the groups: RLQGD youth/survivors, secondary survivors & GBV service providers, 5) Work with the youth community outreach and research facilitators to engage RLQGD youth in knowledge-sharing, and 6) Host a virtual knowledge-sharing symposium for rurally located GBV service providers, to share information on the research findings.