Grants and Contributions

June 2023 - In 2023, approximately 332 million people across the world are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection in part due to ongoing conflicts, natural disasters, and disease outbreaks. In response to the unprecedented level of humanitarian needs, GAC’s humanitarian assistance is providing predictable, multi-year, multi-country support to longstanding partners in protracted humanitarian contexts globally.

With GAC’s support, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is providing assistance to address the urgent needs of up to 5,544,000 beneficiaries from 2024 to 2027. This project focuses on providing access to primary and secondary healthcare, including the provision of sexual and reproductive health services in countries where MSF are operating, specifically in approximately six countries affected by conflict, situations of violence and other emergencies each year. Country-level interventions will be implemented through a global program that will allow for a greater overall coherence and visibility of sectoral results achieved. Countries of implementation will be selected on a yearly basis and in consultation with GAC, with priority given to extreme health crisis in countries experiencing protracted conflict such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At least half of the budget will be directed towards humanitarian crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. To ensure that MSF is able to act quickly and effectively respond when humanitarian emergencies occur, MSF will dedicate funding to responding to unforeseen crises in any country in which MSF operates and for which MSF is capable of accepting institutional funding. The release of funding to emergency operations will be done in consultation with GAC, recognizing the need for a balance between a timely response and accountability of funding and decision-making.

Project activities include: (1) providing at least 4,000,000 primary healthcare consultations to vulnerable populations; (2) providing approximately 765,000 patients with sexual and reproductive healthcare services; (3) providing disease case management in areas of response; (4) providing malnutrition screening and therapeutic feeding care to children under the age of five; and (5) distributing non-food item kits including bed nets, and sanitation supplies, specifically targeting pregnant and lactating women, and children under the age of five.

This project aims to increase the realization of social and labour rights of women paid care workers, specifically women early childhood development workers in Ecuador and Paraguay. Project activities include: (1) training women care workers on professional early childhood development skills and knowledge, gender equality, life skills, and labour and protection rights; (2) providing training and sensitization to communities and families, especially men, about gender equality, women’s labour rights, and equal distribution of unpaid care; (3) training and supporting women’s rights organizations on leadership, care economy, and evidenced-based advocacy; and (4) training government officials on culturally sensitive and gender-responsive policy implementation and service delivery for women paid care workers.

The project implementation is a collaboration between Plan International Canada, Plan International Ecuador and Plan International Paraguay who will co-implement this project with Asociación de Trabajadoras Remuneradas del Hogar del Ecuador and Asociación Solidaridad y Acción in Ecuador and Coordinadora Nacional de Organizaciones de Mujeres Trabajadoras Rurales e Indígenas and Asociación Mil Solidarios in Paraguay.

The project aims to reach 5,430 women early childhood development workers, with 2,780 in Ecuador and 2,650 in Paraguay. It also seeks to indirectly impact 13,570 individuals, with 4,470 in Ecuador (2,272 women) and 9,100 in Paraguay (4,770 women).

This project aims to provide a concrete, innovative and transformative solution to the multidimensional marginalization experienced by women and girls involved in domestic work in Guatemala and Honduras. Project activities include: (1) raising awareness among men and boys to achieve recognition and redistribution of care work; (2) providing women and girls with financial literacy training and building their capacity to strengthen the collective enterprise model; (3) conducting training on cooperatives and collective enterprises in order to provide services and develop sustainable business relationships; and (4) building the capacity of women’s organizations and women’s and girls’ rights organizations to better defend female workers’ rights. This initiative is co-implementedby women’s organizations and women’s and girls’ rights organizations, which include the following: the women’s cooperative movement (Consejo Nacional de las Mujeres Cooperativistas in Guatemala and Consejo Nacional de la Mujer Cooperativista in Honduras), groups of paid care workers and domestic workers (Asociación de Trabajadoras del Hogar a Domicilio y de Maquila, Centro de Apoyo para las Trabajadoras de Casa Particular in Guatemala, and Red de Trabajadoras Domésticas in Honduras), as well as organizations with strong community roots known for their efforts to transform unequal power relations, such as the Asociación Generando Equidad, Liderazgo y Oportunidades and the Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala.

The project is expected to reach 4,500 women and 1,250 girls involved in paid care work in Guatemala and Honduras.

This project aims to improve the lives of survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) through the Global Fund for Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (GSF). It seeks to work with survivors of CRSV globally to enhance and ensure their access to reparations and comprehensive reparative measures addressing their urgent needs. Project activities include: (1) providing grants for civil society organizations to ensure survivors receive interim reparative measures; (2) advocating at the international and national levels for policy, programmatic and legislative development to improve access to reparations for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence; and (3) providing technical assistance to States and other stakeholders to develop their national reparations programmes.

The project aims to benefit and encourage the participation of women and girls, as they are more likely to experience conflict-related sexual violence. It also seeks participation from men and boys, depending on the context.

This project aims to increase the meaningful participation of women from the Zambian police in United Nations (UN) peace operations. As part of the bilateral partnership between Canada and Zambia under the Elsie Initiative for Women in Peace Operations, this project complements other capacity-building and training activities implemented to support this objective. Project activities include: (1) providing logistical and administrative support to the Zambia Police Service in the rollout of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) training; and (2) delivering a training of trainers course. The Royal Canada Mounted Police deliver this to increase the pass rates of women police officers interested in participating in UN missions.

Grant for Institutional Support to the UN Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues to support the work of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) to build expertise on Indigenous issues and mainstream related issues throughout the UN system.

This youth focused initiative is implemented in the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon by the Dallaire Institute for Children, Peace and Security, and Local Youth Corner Cameroon, a national youth-led organization. The project aims to improve inclusive and gender-responsive participation of women and men who are youth in formal and informal peace processes for Anglophone regions of Cameroon.

Project activities include: (1) providing technical and small-scale financial support to youth-led organizations to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate gender-responsive initiatives that support peace efforts; (2) providing opportunities to youth led organizations to engage with one another and other stakeholders on conflict affected youth experiences and role of women and men who are youth in peace efforts; (3) conducting mapping of current national and local level peace processes in Cameroon; (4) documenting and disseminating practices and successes of youth-led community peace initiatives; and (5) providing opportunities for youth led organizations to advocate with local and national peace process stakeholders for inclusive and gender-responsive youth participation in the peace process.

Through the establishment of a locally led and experienced body of youth peacebuilders with the advocacy and mediation capacities, networks, and peer support to engage national and community level peace initiatives, the project directly contributes to more inclusive participation of youth in peace processes, peacebuilding, and conflict resolution in Cameroon. This initiative directly benefits more than 3,000 Cameroonians living in the North-West and South-West regions, including women and men youth are youth, and youth leaders and youth groups, women civil society organizations leaders, and government officials.

Through this project, the organization “Terre des Hommes Italie” (TDH-IT) supports efforts to reduce the risk of juvenile delinquency, increase access to justice for women and youth detainees, and support their reintegration into society. Project activities include: (1) providing legal assistance to women and youth detainees in pre-trial detention; (2) assisting Haiti’s Prison Administrative Directorate (DAP), an arm of the Haitian National Police (HNP), implementing activities that support the reintegration of detained women and youth. This includes professional and literacy training and psychosocial support; (3) providing training, internship opportunities, and psychosocial support for marginalized young women and men from underprivileged communities in Port-au-Prince; (4) locating the families of released inmates (women and youth), and sensitizing their families and communities to reduce stigma and promote supportive environments that foster successful reintegration; and (5) supporting Haitian authorities in developing guidelines and standard operating procedures for their Specialized Foster Home program for released young offenders and at-risk youth.

Contribution agreement with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Nuclear Energy Agency to support the Framework for understanding nuclear security challenges and implementation project.

The purpose of this funding is for the Canadian Environmental Law Association to participate in the Environmental Non Government Organization forum meetings with CNSC.