Grants and Contributions

[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 Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Colombia, El Salvador, Global, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Pakistan and Venezuela.

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.

This project aims implement the Accelerator Fund by enhancing the bankability of projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly in nature-based solutions and climate change adaptation.

Project activities include: (1) funding feasibility and technical studies on new technologies; (2) developing climate action plans with private sector companies; (3) identifying trends that they can use to replicate and scale successful initiatives; (4) increasing awareness and developing action plans for gender equality and diversity; (5) supporting financial institutions in implementing recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures and the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures; and (6) documenting case studies and sharing lessons learned with interested stakeholders.

This project aims to address the critical sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs of conflict-affected women, girls, and young people in Myanmar. It does so with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The project supports women, girls, and youth to realize their SRHR and fulfill their potential by improving gender equality and preventing gender-based violence (GBV). Project activities include: (1) developing education programs for women, girls, and young people on SRHR, GBV, and mental health and psychosocial support services (MHPSS); (2) developing community awareness programs and training sessions on SRHR, GBV, and MHPSS; (3) facilitating training sessions and community meetings focusing on reinforcing positive coping strategies, social norms, and non-violent behavior; and (4) providing integrated quality SRHR, GBV, and MHPSS. This project aims to benefit 800,000 women, girls, and vulnerable people across Myanmar.

This project supports the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) in mobilizing private investment in sustainable and inclusive infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa and south and Southeast Asia. Canada’s contribution helps to scale up PIDG’s operations in early-stage infrastructure project development in poorer countries. It also provides targeted technical assistance to support gender lens investments, increase opportunities for women in existing infrastructure investments, document and share lessons learned on gender and infrastructure.

October 2024 – On October 20, 2024, Hurricane Oscar made landfall in Cuba, causing severe floodings in the province of Guantanamo, further exacerbating the population's limited access to basic and nutritious food. In response, the United Nations launched a Response Plan in October to assist 478,000 crisis-affected people. This plan is in addition to the World Food Programme (WFP) Emergency Appeal for nutrition and anemia prevention launched earlier in 2024 in Cuba to respond to the needs of 350,000 crisis-affected children.

With GAC’s support, WFP works to save lives and help reduce the suffering of people affected by the humanitarian crisis. Project activities include: (1) the provision of emergency food assistance, including distributing powdered milk to vulnerable children; (2) raising awareness and promoting good nutritional practices to help prevent anemia, including breastfeeding; and 3) the provision of logistics services to support the humanitarian response and meet the immediate needs of crisis-affected populations in Cuba.

This project aims to improve the climate resilience of communities relying on forest ecosystems in Vietnam, especially women and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC). The project seeks to achieved this by developing a high-quality, inclusive and gender-responsive forestry carbon market. It also addresses the power imbalances and barriers that IPLCs, particularly ethnic minority women, face in equitably participating in the forestry and carbon trade, ensuring consideration is given to their unique needs and climatic vulnerabilities. Given their exposure to climate change, the project supports four provinces in Vietnam: Ha Giang, Lai Chau, Son La, and Soc Trang. The three northwestern provinces (Lai Chau, Ha Giang, Son La) have experienced severe increases in temperature, with forecasts of an increase of 2-4ºC in the coming decades. Heat stress in the region is affecting forests, their biodiversity, and the availability of food and resources for IPLCs. The coastal province of Soc Trang, in the Mekong Delta, is affected by rising sea levels, causing the loss of mangroves, and impacting income-generating activities such as fishing. These provinces are among the poorest in Vietnam, with 95% of population being ethnic minority groups. Project activities include: (1) developing decision-making supporting tools for government agencies to design, implement and monitor a high-quality, inclusive and gender-responsive forestry carbon market; (2) facilitating policy dialogues at the national level between public and private sectors, civil society, and women or IPLCs-led organizations, for the design of legal frameworks that support high-quality, inclusive and gender-responsive forestry carbon market development; (3) training private sector actors on social, climate and biodiversity integrity principles for high-quality, inclusive and gender-responsive forestry carbon market development; and (4) developing guidelines and a toolbox to support community members, especially ethnic minority women and IPLCs and their enterprises, in designing and implementing high-quality, inclusive and gender-responsive forestry carbon projects that promote equitable and sustainable forest management. The project estimates 12,000 direct beneficiaries (6,000 women) and 244,125 indirect beneficiaries (122,063 ethnic minority women). This project also aims to support 400 decision-makers and 410 private sector actors.

This technical assistance facility will help to improve the environment and well-being of vulnerable populations, especially women, in Africa, Asia and Latin America . It seeks to support small-scale financial institutions such as banks, microcredit, and micro-insurance companies that are supported by the Aequitas Impact Investment Fund (P01202001). Technical assistance will help small-scale financial institutions and their clients to improve the availability of financial products (such as microcredit and micro-insurance) and services to underserved populations, including women, small and medium enterprises, youth, and smallholder farmers. Project activities include: 1) Appui fourni aux institutions financière sur la réduction de l’empreinte écologique de leurs opérations; 2) Formation en éducation financière fourni aux micro, petites et moyennes enterprises, notamment celles dirigées par les femmes; and, 3) Appui fourni aux institutions financière pour la distribution de l’offre sexospécifique de produits et services financiers intelligents face aux changements climatiques auprès des micro, petites et moyennes entreprises, notamment les femmes entrepreneures*

Through this project, Global Affairs Canada intends to expand the United Nations partnership on the rights of persons with disabilities (UNPRPD) joint program to 5 additional countries through a grant to the UNPRPD fund. Utilizing funding from GAC’s $100 million care commitment, this project aims to assess and address deficiencies in the care and support systems for persons with disabilities in Colombia, Kenya, Mozambique, Panama, and Tanzania. The project ultimately aims to increase independent living opportunities for persons with disabilities, especially women while improving the well-being of paid and unpaid caregivers who provide support to them.

This project seeks to strengthen the Media Freedom Coalition (MFC) Secretariat’s ability to ensure the actions of MFC member countries on media freedom are not only coordinated, inclusive and effective, but that they are targeted and impactful for journalists and media actors in the countries they represent. The project will support the MFC leadership through clear processes and administration; support members to act by providing resources, ideas and connections; ensure information flow between stakeholders to promote coordination; organize key MFC activities such as events; communicate the MFC’s work to key audiences; and monitor and evaluate MFC activity.

The objective of this AO is to support Canadian students to participate in national and international space conferences and training events that will offer them the opportunity to learn about and be involved in the latest developments in space science and technology, to develop their professional network, and in some cases, present their research results at the national and international level.