Grants and Contributions

Thee Idea to Innovation (I2I) Grants aims to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology originating from the university and college sector and promote its transfer to a new or established Canadian company. The I2I Grants provide funding to college and university faculty members to support research and development projects with recognized technology transfer potential. This is achieved through defined phases by providing crucial assistance in the early stages of technology validation and market connection.

The Justice Support Basket Fund is a 5-year multi-donor pooled fund led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to which Canada contributes. The project contributes to the fight against impunity in Haiti by strengthening the capacities of institutions and players in the judicial system, and by ensuring better coordination with the Haitian National Police (PNH) for investigations, prosecutions and judgments. As a starting point, the project proposes to strengthen the independence and integrity of judges and government commissioners. It also provides for the establishment of an international mentoring system for anti-gang, financial and gender-based violence units. This will help to speed up priority cases, as well as building the capacity of the judicial system at community level to improve access to justice.

This project is part of Canada’s Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) Program. It supports local and regional women’s rights organizations (WROs), lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex plus (LBTQI+) groups and feminist networks working to promote the rights of women and girls and advance gender equality in developing countries. It provides multi-year core funding and rapid responsive funding, strengthening institutional capacity and bolstering feminist alliances, as WROs and their networks are critical change agents. The Program continues to respond to the globally recognized and significant gap in funding and support for WROs and movements worldwide. It recognizes that those groups working at intersecting forms of discrimination and in crisis- and conflict-affected countries are funded even less. The Renewed WVL Program includes enhanced support for WROs, LBTQI+ organizations, and women human rights defenders working in crisis- and conflict-affected settings and a more intentional approach to reaching structurally excluded groups. This includes but is not limited to LBTQI+ communities, women and girls with disabilities, Indigenous women and girls and young feminists.

The project, implemented by Gender Links, supports approximately 50 rights-focused organizations across South Africa. The project helps them improve their structures, programming and capacity to deliver quality services in order to advance the rights of women, girls and gender non-conforming individuals.

The project aims to strengthen the resilience of health systems, communities and individuals in the Bounkani and Tchologo regions, by improving access to quality sexual and reproductive health services, as well as to gender- and conflict-sensitive professional training centers. On the one hand, the initiative works with health structures and various care providers to improve their capacity to deal with sexual and reproductive health and rights, as well as gender-based violence. On the other hand, it aims to increase employability and access to financial resources to foster the economic empowerment of young women and mothers.
Project activities include: (1) training health providers in identifying and caring for survivors of gender-based violence; (2) providing health facilities with equipment, health products and medicines; (3) strengthening the organizational capacities of the Network of Women Mediators (Réseau des femmes médiatrices) in raising awareness and caring for survivors of gender-based violence, and in community intervention; and (4) building the capacity of the Women's Training and Education Institutes (instituts de formation et d'éducation féminine) and the Mobile Training Units (Unités mobiles de formation) to offer high-quality and diversified vocational training to women and girls in the Bounkani and Tchologo regions.

This initiative directly benefits around 3,040 people (60% of whom are women) and indirectly benefits 180,182 people living in the communities in the 2 regions targeted by the project.

This project aims to enhance Ukraine’s capacity to prevent, detect and respond to chemical weapons incidents or inadvertent chemical releases. The Project will be implemented by the Organisation for the Prohibition for Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and key activities include: 1) acquisition and delivery to the State Security Service of Ukraine of detection, identification and monitoring equipment for first responders; and 2) provision of capacity building training on the delivered equipment.

The project aims to scale-up climate and weather information services and climate-smart agriculture approaches to help farmers understand climate risks, anticipate, and manage extreme weather events, take advantage of favorable climate conditions, and adapt to climate change in the Nicaraguan Dry Corridor. The project focuses on making climate and weather information services more user-friendly and gender-sensitive to improve the ability of farmers, in particular women, to apply climate data. Project activities include: (1) designing climate information services that better reflect and service women’s needs in agriculture; (2) developing new modalities and dissemination channels to make climate data more accessible to women; (3) designing and mainstreaming bundles of best-fit climate-smart agriculture technologies and biodiversity conservation approaches across the farmlands of Nicaragua’s Dry Corridor; and (4) building capacity of rural women leaders on climate and biodiversity-focused advocacy and governance. Direct beneficiaries include at least 1,000 rural women smallholders from 18 farmer organizations in Nicaragua’s Dry Corridor. Over time, the project aims to deliver climate resilience impacts and indirectly benefit 30,000 farming families across 58 municipalities in Nicaragua.

The purpose of this funding is for Ya' thi Néné Lands and Resources to facilitate on-going dialouges and analysis between CNSC staff and a working group.

The purpose of this funding is to assist Paul Sedran to review the application from Ontario Power Generation for a licence to construct for the Darlington New Nuclear Project and participate in a potential hearing

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