Grants and Contributions

This project contributes to Canada’s $120 million loan for the Government of Ecuador.

The Climate Leadership and Action for Indigenous Women in Nepal (CLAIWN) project seeks to enhance climate rights of Indigenous women and girls in 2 of 3 districts (Sindupalchok, Kavre and Ramechhap) of the middle hills region of Nepal. Project activities include: (1) training Indigenous women and girls as climate action leaders; (2) preparing gender-integrated and Indigenous women-led Community Adaptation Plans of Action (CAPAs); (3) creating a mentorship and support program for Indigenous women and girls climate leaders between Canada and Nepal; (4) establishing an innovation fund to support local climate action initiatives; (5) training of government officials on gendered effects of climate change and barriers to climate action for Indigenous women and girls; (6) creating policy recommendations for gender-responsive and inclusive climate action; and (7) implementing advocacy activities to promote CAPAs and gain local government approval and support.

Working closely with Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER, Canada) and local partners, Himalayan Grassroots Women’s Natural Resource Management Institution (HIMAWANTI), Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN),and the National Federation of Indigenous Women (NFIW), the project benefits 4,000 Indigenous community members, particularly the Tamang People. The project addresses the ecological, livelihood and wellbeing threats that climate change poses to the rights of Indigenous communities in Nepal. This project aligns with the Government of Nepal policies on climate change notably its National Action Programme of Adaptation (NAPA).

This project aims to improve the capacity of recipient states to reduce threats posed by malicious cyber activity, including cybercrime. Project activities include: (1) facilitating a regional training on international law and cyber norms; (2) convening virtual roundtables to examine the threat of cyber scam compounds in Southeast Asia; (3) producing awareness-raising materials on cyber security through a South Asian lens; and (4) launching the Global Cyber Accountability Report. The Stimson Center implements this project.

This procurement project will enhance the capacity of the HNP to operate and respond to criminal gang activity in high-risk areas while ensuring HNP personnel are provided with the appropriate protective gear and equipment to reduce causalities and increase operability in policing activities.

The IIJ offers a three-year, multi-sectoral, comprehensive capacity-building programme, encompassing foundational courses on successfully investigating and prosecuting crimes related to the financing of terrorism and other transnational crimes and seizing profits and assets gained from or for the purposes of these crimes; thematic regional workshops on key and emerging Countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) issues; and support for the development of a contextualised good practices manual on public-private cooperation in CFT.

The project will contribute to increased resilience against foreign and national information operations that seek to erode the quality of democracy and the international rules-based order. The project will first conduct an extensive network analysis, qualitative interviews with stakeholders, and desk research to establish a solid empirical foundation about “information operations” (those operations and actors seeking to influence the public discourse and election campaigns) in each country. The project will combine local knowledge on key actors and key narratives being spread online with research techniques seeking to draw a picture of the way the political debate is being shaped by Foreign Influence and Manipulation of Information (FIMI). Subsequently, the project team will conduct an extensive mapping exercise in each pilot country and identify key civil society actors that are working on pro-transparency political reforms, political participation of women and the youth, and other related issues. Finally, the project will create spaces of dialogues to bring together oversight actors (i.e. electoral management bodies, political finance oversight agencies, etc.), legislators and civil society organizations to share experiences and lessons learnt, which will, in turn, build their capacities not only to better understand the problem but also equip them with practical guidelines for developing appropriate policy measures to improve information integrity in online spaces, including designing appropriate interventions to tackle the use of FIMI against women.

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Supporting office equipment purchase.

The purpose of this agreement is to support engagement on Regional Tables with the Government of Canada.