Grants and Contributions

Develop digital adoption plan

Develop digital adoption plan

Develop digital adoption plan

Develop digital adoption plan

Enhancing LBTQ economic strengthening in Zambia (Phase II).

This project helps women and youth farmers in the Dry Corridor of Honduras. It aims to improve their lives by using a circular economy. Turning waste into resources addresses poverty, climate risk, and gender inequality. It encourages farmers to produce variety: not only coffee and cacao but also fruits, honey, poultry, vegetables, and tubers. The project teaches farmers how to be more resilient to climate change through technology and best practices. It also helps farmers get better access to technical, business, and financial services. The project promotes gender equity and human rights. Project activities include: (1) financial literacy and management training for women and young farmers; (2) workshops on gender equity, masculinity, and human rights; and (3) helping farmers connect with local and international markets. The project benefits women of different ages, socio-economic backgrounds, ethnicity and migratory status. It also benefits young farmers and micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in agri-food; cooperatives; and associations.

[January, 2024] The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations’ frontline agency in the fight against hunger. It responds to emergencies, saves lives by quickly getting food assistance (cash or in-kind) to vulnerable food insecure populations and helps prevent hunger. As the global lead agency for logistics and emergency telecommunications, WFP plays a major role in providing common services for the humanitarian community. It transports humanitarian workers, carries light cargo for humanitarian agencies and carries out emergency medical and security evacuations. This project operates in the Middle East, North Africa and Ukraine.

With GAC’s support, WFP provides targeted food assistance to vulnerable populations to reduce acute malnutrition and food insecurity, and protect livelihoods. Project activities include: (1) distributing food and cash-based transfer; (2) providing supplementary feeding for children under the age of 5 years, as well as pregnant and lactating women; and (3) providing logistical support and enabling access to the most remote and challenging locations.

Following the JWST Cycle 2 GO Announcement of Opportunity published on July 6, 2023, the CSA is providing funding via a Grant Agreement to the university to conduct their research using the JWST data.

The project will use spectroscopic time-series monitoring to investigate the condensate clouds of the isolated exoplanet analog SIMP J0136+09. Observing one full rotation each with NIRSPec and MIRI instruments will provide data for the most detailed phase-resolved atmospheric investigation of any extrasolar atmosphere to date. The results of this program will provide crucial insight on the importance of time-varying atmospheric processes for brown dwarfs, isolated planetary-mass objects and bona fide directly imaged exoplanets.

Following the JWST ERS and Cycle 2 GO Announcement of Opportunity published on July 6, 2023, the CSA is providing funding via a Grant Agreement to the university to conduct their research using the JWST data.

This project will use NIRSpec to conduct phase curve spectroscopy to study the atmospheric structure of Neptune-size exoplanet LTT 9779b. NIRSpec will measure the planet’s global thermal and molecular structure, alongside measuring its cloud properties at all longitudes. This project aims to provide a definitive benchmark for hot-Neptune’s against which to compare the next generation of small exoplanet atmospheric circulation models.

Following the JWST ERS and Cycle 1 GO Announcement of Opportunity published on June 14, 2021, the CSA is providing funding via a Grant Agreement to the university to conduct their research using the JWST data.

This project will target the stellar-mass black hole V404 Cyg combining JWST and ALMA observations. The black hole pulls material off the companion star, some of which can be transported back outwards in the form of a jetted outflow. The project will observe how the millimeter/infrared emission varies with wavelength and time in the lowest luminosity states. Such novel observations allow for detailed tests of competing models for emission near black holes, and reveal crucial insights into black hole physics, stellar evolution, and jet formation.