Grants and Contributions

The project aims to strengthen and expand grassroots women's movements to promote gender equality and equity across all aspects of life.

Project activities include: (1) supporting research on cacao NBS; (2) providing technical training on cacao NBS and technical support for cocoa farmers; (3) helping associations or cooperatives and their members set up and implement diversified cacao agroforestry plots and prepare for ‘zero deforestation’ certification standards; (4) delivering an inclusive organizational strengthening program for participating associations or cooperatives; (5) developing gender-sensitive and climate change-resilient business plans and strategies; (6) setting up transformative women leadership schools within participating associations or cooperatives; and (7) facilitating market access by linking innovative financing mechanisms and connections with potential buyers.

It supports local and regional women’s rights organizations (WROs), lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex plus (LBTQI+) groups and feminist networks working to promote the rights of women and girls and advance gender equality in Global South countries. The Program responds to the globally recognized and significant gap in funding and support for WROs and movements worldwide.

Project activities include: (1) developing a gender-sensitive social and behavioral change communication strategy with local implementing partners and women's rights organizations (WROs), for the adoption of healthy SRHR behaviors and practices; (2) providing technical assistance to local implementing partner civil society organizations (CSOs) and WROs for organizational capacity building and gender mainstreaming; (3) implementing local solutions to SRHR and nutrition challenges with women, adolescent girls, men and boys; (4) providing comprehensive, skills-based SRHR, wellness, health and development programs for adolescent girls, boys, parents and guardians of adolescents; (5) building the technical capacity of managers and civil servants in the management, analysis, use and contingency planning of sexual and reproductive health, nutrition and community and facility climate data; and (6) providing technical assistance to government officials, health facilities and community health representatives on inclusive governance in the field of sexual and reproductive health and nutrition.

Support to NI is a critical component of Canada’s leadership role in global nutrition and poverty reduction programming, and the delivery of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) priority to improve gender-sensitive nutrition for the poorest and most marginalized.

The Global Center seeks to support the Israr Coalition to refine and expand training on gender and PVE across its full membership, equip Coalition members to navigate the challenges and risks associated with delivering training in gender and PVE in community settings, and facilitate avenues of cooperation between government and women-led CSOs on PVE, with an emphasis on trust building and incremental steps that reflect the sensitivity of such efforts in the Moroccan context.

Finally, this funding will also be used to support the hiring of a local staff/consultants (a gender expert and a program manager), and the sustainability of the CCoE in Malaysia, through train-the-trainer programming for the CCoE staff related to both curriculum delivery and student success best-practices.

The project focuses on addressing violence as a barrier to girls’ education and providing support for developing materials to enhance the integration of gender equality across the Safe to learn campaign.

This project aims to increase the economic participation and resilience of 18,400 disadvantaged youth (10,915 young women and 1,050 youth living with disabilities) in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Somalia. It does so by providing them with the skills and support needed to succeed in the growing green economy. The project aims to improve the teaching capacity of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions by revising curricula and providing technical and material support, particularly in emerging and green skills. It also supports disadvantaged youth gain marketable skills needed to successfully find and sustain employment through financial support for TVET enrollment, entrepreneurship training, and employability skills training. The project also seeks to increase formal employment and entrepreneurship opportunities by providing business development services, internship placements or access to waged jobs. It also aims to enhance the capacity of labour market actors and financial institutions or

This project contributes to poverty reduction in Ukraine by increasing rural women’s income and addressing the deficits in food production caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion, environmental challenges, and persistent gender inequality. The project targets women farmers, members and leadership of selected agricultural cooperatives, agricultural extension services, agricultural marketing boards, and government decision-makers.