Grants and Contributions

The project seeks to strengthen the UN’s capacities in integrated conflict analysis, conflict-sensitive development, conflict prevention, peacebuilding, and preventive diplomacy, and contribute to system-wide learning. Project activities include: (1) providing analytical, advisory, facilitation, coordination, and capacity-development services to national actors to undertake conflict prevention initiatives.

The purpose of this project is to provide the Mountain Warfare Ski School (MWSS) a facility that is capable of establishing practical service and preventative maintenance to vehicles, as well as to establish a learning environment that supports a variety of instructional needs and allows for multi-gender occupancy to support female integration efforts into LAF operations.

Project activities include: (1) co-develop with, and provide learning programs for youth in leadership, digital skills and innovation, gender equality, social innovation and entrepreneurship; (2) offer community placements to young women so they can train local partners and collaborators to develop gender responsive policies and programs; (3) create linkages between the private sector and governments to develop policies and programs to close the gender digital divide (inequality for women and girls with regard to the access, use and impact of technology); (4) train DOT local partners to act as regional hubs that identify, execute and scale youth leadership, social entrepreneurship and social innovation programs that are gender responsive; and (5) test new business models with DOT local partners and collaborators in Ghana, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia.

This project will seek to learn from and engage with the gendered space of insider mediation in nonviolent socio-political movements, to improve their effective contribution to conflict transformation.

Project activities include: (1) providing tailored, long-term training and mentorship for Congolese women’s organizations; (2) providing Congolese women’s organizations with direct, multi-year funding; (3) establishing and strengthening networks of women’s organizations by facilitating exchanges to share experiences, accomplishments and lessons learned in order to build solidarity around a common vision for the feminist movement; and (4) supporting women’s rights organizations in the design and development of their advocacy strategies.

Project activities include: (1) recruiting and training volunteers in gender equality, ethics, participatory approaches, innovation, inclusion, and resilience approaches to support partners; (2) implementing global funds to support partner initiatives advancing gender equality; (3) implementing peer learning initiatives addressing women's leadership and approaches to inclusion, innovation, and resilience; (4) creating spaces for dialogue by young leaders to share their thoughts and influence decision-makers on gender equality and youth engagement; and (5) organizing public events on global and gender inequalities to reach and engage diverse Canadian audiences.

Environmental exposures associated with social, economic, and physical environments in which children live, learn and play, can affect brain development with implications for life-long mental health.

Environmental exposures associated with social, economic, and physical environments in which children live, learn and play, can affect brain development with implications for life-long mental health.

The ultimate goal is to learn from both the historical data and the community to build sustainable agricultural practices that can support food security in the face of climate change.

Co-creation activities, storytelling, and lessons learned from individuals with lived experience will support the development of policies and strategies tackling poverty, unemployment and housing.