Grants and Contributions

This project aims to enhance the economic empowerment of women paid childcare providers in Kenya and Malawi.
Project activities include: (1) supporting women's paid childcare groups and collectives to develop and execute gender-responsive advocacy and coordination strategies; (2) developing gender and disability-responsive curriculum, training, and certification standards for childcare; (3) supporting policymakers and regulators to advance gender-transformative laws, policies and regulations for childcare; (4) developing campaigns to raise awareness about sexual and gender-based violence and the rights of women in paid childcare; (5) providing matching grants to local organizations to develop and expand innovative and gender-responsive business services and models for women paid childcare providers; and (6) supporting financial service providers to develop and expand gender-responsive products or services that meet the needs and capacities of women childcare providers.

World University Service of Canada (WUSC) implements this project in partnership with local organizations Uthabiti Africa, the Coalition of Violence Against Women and the Women’s Legal Resources Centre, in collaboration with other local partners. This project expects to reach 42,000 women childcare providers, including microenterprise operators and childcare workers, operating in target areas of Kenya and Malawi.

This grant is Canada's institutional support to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). IATI uses members’ contributions to achieve its mandate, making information on international aid spending easier to access, use, and understand. It seeks to ensure donor countries, developing country governments and non-governmental organizations publish more timely, comprehensive, and forward-looking information on international development assistance in a common, open data standard.

IATI Secretariat responsibilities include: (1) maintaining the IATI Registry, website and tools; (2) facilitating technical discussions related to the IATI standard, data publication and use; (3) assessing progress on open aid data; and (4) providing technical support to publishers and users of the data.

The project aims to strengthen the climate resilience of targeted high Andean ecosystems and populations. Project activities include (1) providing technical assistance to targeted communities in the high Andes to enable and strengthen ecosystem-based adaptation measures and climate resilient value chains; (2) establishing a financing facility with public and private investments to provide indigenous men and women with access to finance sustainable livelihoods; and (3) increasing women’s participation in territorial planning and governance processes. The German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) implements this project.

This project seeks to enhance the socio-economic inclusion and integration of migrants, refugees and returned emigrants. This includes women and children in selected host countries of Latin America and the Caribbean who participate in the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity (APEP). The project works via 2 complementary components: (1) technical assistance to host governments in designing and implementing strategies in response to the refugee and migrant crises; and (2) collaboration with the private sector in promoting access to economic opportunities for migrants and host community members. This includes women, Indigenous Peoples, and persons with disabilities. Project activities include: (1) strengthening the capacity of host country governments to provide regularization, documentation, and protection services to refugees and migrants; (2) providing access to basic services and social protections, including housing and social infrastructure, for refugees and migrants; (3) improving access to health, quality education, and skills development for refugees and migrants; and (4) improving economic opportunities for refugees and migrants, including access to employment, financial services and capital. The Grant Facility on Migration of the Inter-American Development Bank implements this project. To date, over 1.8 million refugees and migrants and their host communities have benefitted from the Facility's operations and technical cooperation. Canada's support via this project seeks to reach 71,604 additional direct beneficiaries.

This project aims to reduce suffering and improve the mental health and psychosocial well-being of
conflict-affected Ukrainians, and strengthen the systems and delivery of mental health and psychosocial support in Ukraine. Canada will contribute to three strategic priorities of the World Health Organization's overall Mental Health Program for Ukraine (2023-2028). Project activities include: (1) supporting capacity-building of technical coordination groups through the Ukraine National Mental Health Center, and the national and sub-national working groups, including for humanitarian response; (2) working with local health service providers to support direct service provision through Primary Health Centers (PHC) professionals and community stakeholders; (3) supporting social cohesion programming, and promoting health rights programming with civil society organizations.

The project aims to improve the human dignity of women, particularly Indigenous and rural women domestic care workers in Honduras. Project activities include: (1) training paid domestic workers on life, technical and negotiation skills and rights. This includes training on gender equality, gender-based violence, labour rights, financial literacy, digital education and environmental sustainability; (2) developing Community Action Plans through social analysis and action to recognize, reduce and redistribute care work; and (3) providing technical assistance to form new and strengthen existing women’s unions, networks and platforms at the local, regional and national level. CARE Canada and CARE Honduras co-implement this project alongside the National Union of Domestic Workers, the Council for the Integral Development of Rural Women and the Center for Women’s Studies in Honduras.

The project seeks to directly reach 13,000 people (11,000 women and 2,000 men), including domestic care workers, stakeholders from women’s rights organizations, unions, and women and men community members.

This project contributes to Canada’s $120 million loan for the Government of Ecuador. It supports the country’s Clean Energy Transition and Promotion of Private Investment in the energy sector. It does so through building workforce capacity, promoting universal access to clean energy, and addressing gender and accessibility issues in the energy sector. Project activities include: (1) providing tools and training to develop an orderly, fair, and inclusive energy transition process; (2) increasing access to electricity service in remote and Indigenous communities; and (3) reducing discrimination based on gender and disability in the electricity sector.

The Climate Leadership and Action for Indigenous Women in Nepal (CLAIWN) project seeks to enhance climate rights of Indigenous women and girls in 2 of 3 districts (Sindupalchok, Kavre and Ramechhap) of the middle hills region of Nepal. Project activities include: (1) training Indigenous women and girls as climate action leaders; (2) preparing gender-integrated and Indigenous women-led Community Adaptation Plans of Action (CAPAs); (3) creating a mentorship and support program for Indigenous women and girls climate leaders between Canada and Nepal; (4) establishing an innovation fund to support local climate action initiatives; (5) training of government officials on gendered effects of climate change and barriers to climate action for Indigenous women and girls; (6) creating policy recommendations for gender-responsive and inclusive climate action; and (7) implementing advocacy activities to promote CAPAs and gain local government approval and support.

Working closely with Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER, Canada) and local partners, Himalayan Grassroots Women’s Natural Resource Management Institution (HIMAWANTI), Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN),and the National Federation of Indigenous Women (NFIW), the project benefits 4,000 Indigenous community members, particularly the Tamang People. The project addresses the ecological, livelihood and wellbeing threats that climate change poses to the rights of Indigenous communities in Nepal. This project aligns with the Government of Nepal policies on climate change notably its National Action Programme of Adaptation (NAPA).

This two-year project is designed to build capability to deter and reduce cyber threats by more robust implementation of international law, the UN cyber norms, and confidence-building measures (CBMs) and in a way that is tailored to regional, sub-regional and national priorities and concerns within the Indo-Pacific region. It builds on the Stimson Center’s ongoing Cyber Accountability project as well as a long track record of work in the region on issues of peace, security, and development. The project is focused on;

1) building knowledge and awareness to support implementation of the cyber norms, relevant law, and CBMs in the Indo-Pacific region to foster accountability
2) enhancing the voices and perspectives of Indo-Pacific states and non-governmental stakeholders on priority cybercrime and security threats facing the region.

This procurement project will enhance the capacity of the HNP to operate and respond to criminal gang activity in high-risk areas while ensuring HNP personnel are provided with the appropriate protective gear and equipment to reduce causalities and increase operability in policing activities.