Grants and Contributions

This project proposes to 1) Support the establishment of Joint Operations Centres at both the Mandera and Lamu border points to gather and analyse information to disrupt and deter illicit trade from which al-Shabaab earns income through taxation and extortion. (2) Enhance regional and inter-agency cooperation for investigations on the recovery of proceeds of crime and assets used in the commission of cross-border illicit goods. (3) Enable the development of localized guidance frameworks to guide coordinated inter-agency border management.

It also aims to facilitate technical assistance to expand the ability of high-impact small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to qualify for and manage financing. Project activities include: (1) offering financing incentives to financial institutions (both local and international in Sub-Sahara Africa); (2) offering impact bonus to financial institutions that serve borrowers that are inclusive (gender and youth) and contribute to food security on the continent; and (3) providing technical assistance for early and growth stage SMES, both pre and post investment.

This project aims to enhance the gender equality and economic empowerment of women and girls in the 6 Wards of Mbooni, Kenya. It seeks to help 10,848 direct beneficiaries by promoting economically viable enterprises and engaging the wider community in advancing gender equality and human rights. The project also supports 76,430 indirect beneficiaries by increasing household food security through campaigns, competitions, and community awareness programs. This includes high school and college activities, aiming to reach 4,030 students. The project uses Men and boys as project design informants and change agents to support women’s and girls' activities and dismantle barriers and negative gender perceptions or stereotypes. Project activities include: (1) establishing poultry production and sales groups; (2) providing women-led and women-majority cooperative enterprises start-up capital, including poultry, feed, equipment, etc.; (3) identifying and training men champions to help prevent, respond to, and mitigate sexual and gender-based violence (GBV); (4) training existing police, health workers, and counsellors on GBV support service operations and delivery mechanisms for vulnerable women; (5) training men, boys, women, and girls on dividing labour or unequal burden of care, decision-making, positive masculinity, and GBV roles; and (6) training women-majority cooperative enterprises in business management skills, profitability analysis, marketing, sales, and negotiation through market linkages.

Following the JWST ERS and Cycle 2 GO Announcement of Opportunity published on July 6, 2023, the CSA is providing funding via a Grant Agreement to the university to conduct their research using the JWST data.

This project will study accretion onto the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, Sagittarius A*, using MIRI MRS IFU time-series spectral monitoring of Sgr A* and its surrounding region.

This project aims to use satellite measurements and targeted experiments to evaluate and improve the current understanding of chemical emissions from Canadian forest fires, crucial for enhancing modeling of smoke plumes and assessing their impacts on human health and the environment.

Species at Risk Act Consultation, Cooperation, and Accommodation Pilot Project with Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn Negotiations Office

Mitigate the impacts of the total seal products ban imposed by the European Union (EU). This program is designed to assist Canadian Indigenous peoples access the EU market using the Indigenous exemption, and to assist the commercial seal products industry develop and renew access to other markets.

Contribution agreement with the University of Illinois to support the North American Technical Center of the Information System on Occupational Exposure network.

CANGrow is a novel modular polyculture indoor food production system that will enable long term space exploration. The CANGrow system incorporates novel technologies in order to offer the widest possible variety of foods with optimal yield. It grows a diversity of biologically efficient food products: strawberries, cherry tomatoes, two root vegetables, microgreens, four unique culinary herbs, mini-head lettuce, an algae superfood, and a mycelial meat substitute - “space bacon”. The technology has the potential to provide over 500kg of nutrient dense food annually.

In March 2023, a neutron star (a dense stellar corpse) brightened by a factor of 10,000 in the X-rays, as it consumed material torn from a small companion star. This neutron star is located in the globular cluster Terzan 5, a cluster of about a million old stars that is rich in neutron stars. AstroSat observed the X-rays from this neutron star with its three X-ray instruments. We will study the AstroSat data, along with data from other X-ray instruments, to search for pulsations at the neutron star spin period; to look for evidence of gas blocking our view of the neutron star; and to study light reflected from the material falling onto the neutron star. We hope to infer the spin of the neutron star, the orbital period of the neutron star and its companion star, and how the infalling material falls onto the neutron star. This study can help us understand the physics of neutron stars, and of how they suck mass from companion stars and consume it.