Grants and Contributions

Expand infrastructure to support an emerging community-based eco-tourism strategy.

Acquire specialized equipment to improve productivity and enhance aggregate operations

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). ICRC uses these funds, and other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate. The ICRC’s mandate is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. They achieve this through programming in protection, assistance, preventive action, and cooperation with national societies.
Project activities include: (1) continuing to protect people affected by armed conflict, including addressing needs arising from sexual and gender-based violence; (2) providing food and non-food items, water and basic health services; (3) promoting international humanitarian law; (4) cooperating and providing capacity building with national societies of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to lead an inclusive movement response in armed conflict; and (5) improving the treatment, living conditions and livelihood opportunities of detained persons.
The ICRC’s activities specific to gender equality and gender-based violence include: (1) providing psychological and social support to victims of sexual violence; (2) increasing women’s economic security as heads of households, for example by providing cash grants to start a business or assistance to access government benefits; and (3) including women and girls in all phases of the humanitarian response cycle.

Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture

To facilitate the sale or transfer of surplus lighthouses to non-profit organizations and municipalities and continue to provide a service to Canadians.

This project addresses youth crime and violence in Clarendon, Jamaica by supporting young people in starting or strengthening their businesses. Project activities include: (1) delivering training workshops to youth participants on entrepreneurship, financial literacy, marketing, and life skills; (2) providing one-on-one mentorship and guidance to youth participants by experienced entrepreneurs and professionals; (3) organizing networking events and guest speaker sessions to enhance youth participants’ business knowledge and expand their professional networks; and (4) allocating seed funding for youth participants’ new business ideas.

This project is part of the Local Engagement and Action Fund (LEAF) that supports civil society and local organizations across the Caribbean to implement initiatives that respond to local needs and advance the aims and strategic objectives of Canada’s Caribbean Regional Development Program.

This project aims to achieve equitable, quality education for girls and boys, particularly the poorest and most vulnerable in developing countries, as well as in conflict, crisis-affected and humanitarian settings. This project supports the implementation of UNGEI’s Strategic Priorities 2023-2027. As a leader in gender equality and education, UNGEI works to increase awareness and participation of decision-makers in gender-responsive education sector planning, and increase the data available to support the need for gender-responsive quality education in low-income countries. Project activities include: (1) championing feminist expertise, leadership and partnerships in the education sector including girls’ and women’s rights movements; (2) engaging Ministries of Education (MoEs) and other education actors (including CSOs) to commit to and deliver gender transformative education policies and programmes; (3) catalyzing new strategies to protect and extend gains on addressing harmful gender norms and practises in and through education; and (4) Leading and bringing together global and local expertise on gender and education to generate and improve utilization of data and evidence. 5) Increasing support to/leadership of women in Ministries of Education, including teachers, principals and school staff.

Enhancing habitat in American eel turbine-injury recovery zones below a hydroelectric dam

Irving Paper Steam Supply Optimization

Monitoring the disease landscape to protect Wood Bison, Caribou, and Greater Sage Grouse health