Grants and Contributions

Applicants with a design for a remote healthcare technology concept were invited to apply to the Challenge. After competing in Stage 2 of the Challenge as a semi-finalist, the recipient was selected as a finalist for a $350,000 cash prize.

Applicants with a design for a remote healthcare technology concept were invited to apply to the Challenge. After competing in Stage 2 of the Challenge as a semi-finalist, the recipient was selected as a finalist for a $350,000 cash prize.

The purpose of this project is to address main challenges in the areas of dynamics and simulation of mechanical systems with applications to robotic systems, contact dynamics, vehicles and machines. The additional funding will enhance the project and extend the work to space robotic systems and address additional objectives. These additional objectives include the development of methods and tools for AI-assisted space robotic contact tasks using the redundancies of robotic arms, and the modelling and analysis of complex space robotic end-effector mechanisms and space robotic contact. The expected results will further strengthen these sectors and will generate the basis for new business opportunities and contribute to the creation of new jobs.

Applicants with a design for a remote healthcare technology concept were invited to apply to the Challenge. After competing in Stage 2 of the Challenge as a semi-finalist, the recipient was selected as a finalist for a $350,000 cash prize.

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.

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)