Grants and Contributions

2 - To support youth-focused environmental humanitarian and/or community-based projects in commemoration of victims of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 tragedy.

To build Indigenous and local communities' capacity to participate maintain and/or manage parts of the transportation system

This project helps improve economic well-being especially among women in northern Sri Lanka. It supports transformative change within Sri Lanka’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and contributes to economic empowerment, well-being, and inclusive growth. This project supports the sustainable growth of start-up, early-stage, and growth-stage enterprises for a strengthened gender-responsive entrepreneurial ecosystem. Project activities include: (1) providing gender-responsive and inclusive incubation and acceleration services to targeted entrepreneurs; (2) engaging members of the diaspora communities as coaches and investors; and (3) providing specialized training for fund managers and other stakeholders on Gender Lens investing and impact measurement.

The project aims to enhance the adoption of gender-responsive and inclusive Nature-based Solutions for climate change adaptation in the Guinean forests of West Africa. Implemented in Ghana, Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire, the project takes a systems approach to mitigate key climate challenges through interventions that plan for, pilot and scale Nature-based Solutions for climate adaptation that contribute to enhanced biodiversity and gender equality.

Project activities include: (1) completing, analysing and sharing genetic and environmental DNA (eDNA) based biodiversity assessments; (2) selecting and distributing multipurpose tree species that support gender-responsive climate adaptation and biodiversity; and (3) improving capacity of local businesses, women’s organizations and cooperatives, to deploy more sustainable gender responsive livelihoods models implemented for Nature-based Solutions with biodiversity benefits.

The consortium formed by World University Services Canada (WUSC) and the Centre d’étude et de coopération internationale (CECI) is responsible for the implementation of the project, with the collaboration of key partners such as ABANTU for Development, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and ICRAF-CIFOR.

The project benefits rural forest populations residing in target regions, particularly women. The project aims to reach 211,652 beneficiaries (of whom 50% women and 50% men). The project also targets more than 900 intermediaries, including actors and stakeholders at different scales, representatives of local village leadership, national women’s organizations, and business owners or leaders, policymakers and investors.

March 2023 – Humanitarian needs in Ukraine continue to be significant. The 2023 Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) indicates 17.7 million people require humanitarian assistance in Ukraine this year. Priority needs result largely from attacks on energy and shelter infrastructure, which hampers access to water, food, health care, transportation, telecommunications, and other essential services. The war is impacting women and men in different ways and is exacerbating pre-existing inequalities.

With GAC’s support, Save the Children Canada is supporting a two-year, integrated gender-responsive multi-purpose cash assistance and protection, including child protection and against sexual and gender-based violence, responding to life-saving basic and protection needs for IDPs, non-IDPs, and returnees in east Ukraine. Project activities include: (1) distributing multipurpose cash assistance and shelter top-up cash assistance to identified households; (2) providing age appropriate and gender responsive non-food items, including winterization items, to identified crisis affected households; (3) providing cash assistance to highly vulnerable households with child protection needs, to access gender-responsive services; (4) strengthening capacities of key child protection stakeholders’ to provide age and gender appropriate child protection services; (5) providing age and gender responsive child protection case management services to identified girls and boys; (6) enhancing awareness of protection risks and availability of protection services among crisis-affected communities, including through mobile teams; and (7) enhancing capacity of female and male community members on gendered protection risks.

This project aims to increase the capacity of law enforcement, border control, and forensic laboratories in 5 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, (Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica) to detect, identify and report on synthetic drugs and their precursors. Also, the project seeks to strengthen the collaboration among the respective countries to increase information exchange on synthetic drugs and their precursors to enhance their drug control strategies, develop more complete and comprehensive drug legislations, and improve early warning systems to provide guidance on effective responses.

The project aims to promote peace and stability in conflict-affected states.

This project aims to strengthen Indonesia’s climate mitigation and adaptation efforts, and improve the sustainability of coastal livelihoods, by supporting the restoration and protection of mangrove ecosystems in North and East Kalimantan. Project activities include: (1) restoring degraded mangrove ecosystems and protecting intact mangroves with a focus on nature-based solutions; (2) building policymakers' capacity to better incentivize mangroves' restoration and protection; (3) introducing more sustainable fishing and aquaculture techniques to local communities; and (4) improving the licensing regime to provide vulnerable communities with greater access to mangrove resources.
Beneficiaries include 20,000 poor and vulnerable coastal women and men, with women making up 40 percent of participants receiving training on improved livelihoods and restoration approaches.

This project aims to support the Government of Indonesia in establishing healthier blue carbon ecosystems that can help Indonesia better adapt and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Blue carbon refers to carbon sequestered and stored in coastal and marine ecosystems such as mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrasses. Projects activities include: (1) promoting the full integration of blue carbon ecosystems into national development and climate change strategies; (2) positioning blue carbon as the sixth component in Indonesia’s Nationally Determined Contribution plan; and (3) incorporating blue carbon within the national monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system. Direct project beneficiaries include over 1,000 policymakers at national and subnational levels (40% women). Indirect beneficiaries include many coastal communities – particularly women, youth and other vulnerable populations. Also, these communities would benefit from having biodiversity and livelihood of better-managed blue carbon ecosystems.

February 2023 - Before the Taliban takeover, the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan was already one of the worst in the world. Since the Taliban takeover, humanitarian needs continue to worsen, and the challenging operational context has been further complicated. In 2023, an estimated 28 million people will require humanitarian assistance due to conflict, chronic food insecurity, displacement, the coronavirus (COVID-19), widespread economic decline, and climatic events.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is mandated by the United Nations General-Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, help meet their basic needs, and expand opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF works in developing countries through its development and humanitarian assistance programming to fulfill its mandate, including promoting the equal rights of girls and women and support their full participation in the political, social, and economic development of their communities.

With Global Affairs Canada’s support, in humanitarian emergencies, UNICEF is providing life-saving health and nutrition interventions for children, pregnant and lactating women to support the treatment, growth and development of healthy children. The main activity for this project is to procure ready-to-use therapeutic food to treat severe acute malnutrition and child wasting.