Grants and Contributions

The Sustainable Energy and Economic Development in Jordan project (SEED II) aims to improve the livelihoods of women, youth, and marginalized groups in poor communities of the Jordan Valley region through renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions.

The Protecting Marine Biodiversity in Aqaba project aims to conserve and restore marine and terrestrial biodiversity in the Gulf of Aqaba and surrounding coastal area, while fostering economic opportunities through innovative eco-tourism initiatives. It seeks to enhance the resilience of marine and land ecosystems in the region against the threat of climate change and human activity. On land, the project introduces native plants near dams along the coast to preserve essential habitat for birds, mammals, and reptiles. In the sea, artificial coral reefs are installed to provide additional habitat for marine life, serving as nurseries and feeding grounds for fish and other organisms. The project seeks to strengthen women’s entrepreneurial roles in coastal ecosystem management and resilience to enhance and improve the well-being of the broader coastal community, including women and youth. The project also focuses on effectively removing solid waste from the protected areas through clean-up dives, and relocating vulnerable corals developed on this waste.

The Market-Oriented Vocational Training project aims to respond to the request made by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) for Donor contributions to the initiative supporting the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sector in Jordan. The project supports the government of Jordan’s efforts to modernize its vocational sector.

The Feminist Solutions to Climate Change-Driven Food Insecurity (FEMIN-ACT) project aims to address Iraq’s poverty reduction and food insecurity in Iraq through an integrated approach to agricultural development.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.