Grants and Contributions

The project, focuses on confirming the baseline value proposition of a novel receptor scaffold technology by showcasing superior features of the firm's T-cell product compared to standard of care in vivo. The technology will then be expanded to build a treatment directed towards solid tumours.

The project seeks to enhance and develop research on the impacts of wildfire evacuations in First Nation communities as well as to advance the First Nations Wildfire Evacuation Partnership's existing communication activities to expand efforts to engage Tribal Councils and First Nation communities in knowledge sharing to help increase First Nations' resiliency in the event of a wildfire.

This grant represents Canada’s institutional support to Girls Not Brides. Girls Not Brides uses these funds and other donors’ funding to achieve its mandate of ending child, early and forced marriage.

Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of 1,600 civil society organizations in 100 countries. They have members in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. They are united by a commitment to end child marriage and enable girls to reach their full potential. Project activities include: (1) raising awareness of the harmful impact of child marriage by encouraging open, inclusive and informed discussion at the community, local, national and international level; (2) facilitating learning and coordination among organizations working to end child marriage; and (3) and, mobilizing all necessary policy, financial and other support to end child marriage.

Canada’s support to Girls Not Brides contributes to sustaining a global movement to end child marriage, and to ensure that the movement leads to tangible change for the girls at risk or affected by this harmful practice.

This project supports the United Nations Population Fund and United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund Global Programme to End Child Marriage, a multi-donor joint United Nations program. It aims to eliminate child marriage in 12 countries in Africa and South Asia where the rates of child marriage are among the highest: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Yemen and Zambia. The project focuses on enabling girls at risk of child marriage to choose and direct their futures, through activities aimed at bringing about change in the empowerment of girls, with the ultimate aim to prevent child marriage and support already married girls. Project activities include: (1) building the skills and knowledge of girls at risk of child marriage and married girls; (2) supporting girls to enrol and remain in formal and non-formal education; (3) engaging in dialogue with families, communities and leaders to protect girls from child marriage and uphold their rights; and (4) working with health and protection systems to implement guidelines, protocols and standards for girl-friendly health and protection services.

The N-LEAP program is designed to actively engage Arctic and Northern Canadian youth in shaping international Arctic policy and governance structures. By providing opportunities for learning, capacity building, and participation, the program aims to provide opportunity for Arctic and Northern Canadian youth to enhance their understanding of international Arctic policy and amplify their voice in policy dialogues through 2 project components:

1) Sending policy delegation to International Arctic Policy

2) Implement 2 Arctic Policy Cohort

Demonstration and validation of advanced technologies for reducing fugitive methane emissions at the Neuville technical landfill

Above the Waste: Innovating Landfill Gas Management with Aerial Technology

Identifying Methane Surface Emissions – A Comparison of Field Method Approaches and Detectors at Three Canadian Landfills

Species at risk and status of manmade landscapes on Île Bizard and for general application

Freshwater Ecosystem Health in the Cocagne Watershed