Grants and Contributions

The UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme to Eliminate Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) contributes to ending female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM or cutting) by 2030 through accelerated collective and multi-sectoral action by mobilizing a broad spectrum of actors at community, national, regional and global levels. It is the largest global programme to accelerate the abandonment of this harmful traditional practice and thereby advance women’s and girls’ rights, health and well-being.

Project activities include: (1) providing capacity development (including comprehensive sexuality and life skills education) that promotes gender-equitable norms, including the eliminating FGM or cutting; (2) implementing an alternative rites of passage programme by supported communities; (3) supporting medical and paramedical schools to mainstream FGM or cutting into curricula training; (4) supporting institutions and systems (education, health, child protection) to integrate the prevention of and response to FGM or cutting in policies and plans; (5) creating a multi-sectoral evidence-based, gender-transformative FGM or cutting elimination policy or strategy; and (6) supporting the development of budgeted emergency preparedness and response and disaster risk reduction plans that integrate sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence and harmful practices.

Direct beneficiaries are girls and women at risk of (68 million) or affected by (200 million) FGM or cutting, and their families, communities, local and national institutions, particularly in 17 targeted countries (Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Yemen) and especially in hard-to-reach areas.

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The purpose of this contribution is to provide funding to develop a prevention and/or intervention approach to address local youth gun and gang activity.

This contribution supports the implementation of improvements to The Meadoway multi-use trail system in Section 7. The Meadoway will establish a complete active transportation route linking downtown Toronto and Rouge National Urban Park via a safe, accessible, and naturalized multi-use trail network.

The contribution supports revitalizing the spiritual and cultural connection of Mistawasis Nehiyawak to the buffalo and to the landscape. The contribution enables youth to observe, experience and foster development of buffalo management skills that will benefit the Sturgeon River plains bison, as well as cultivate a knowledge and relationship necessary to bring buffalo back to Mistawasis lands.

This 38-month project aims to ensure full participation in economic life for women who are part-time entrepreneurs (flexipreneurs), and to help them improve their economic security and prosperity, by trialling a new approach to financing and support that is tailored to their needs in order to assist them in starting up, sustaining, and growing their businesses.

To achieve this, SADC Shawinigan plans to engage partners and establish an implementation committee; develop a plan on assessment measures and data collection; establish and execute a trial project in several Quebec regions for a flexi-loan tailored to women flexipreneurs needs, with flexible conditions and a streamlined assessment process; introduce support services and specialized workshops for women flexipreneurs; and share results and lessons learned.

A three-month extension will allow for continued support and training for flexipreneurs, as well as the promotion of flexiprêt services. It will also serve to mobilize potential partners to sustain and scale up the project.

The purpose of the Indigenous Habitat Participation Program and the Salish Sea Initiative, is to support the participation of Indigenous peoples in activities relating to the conservation and protection of fish and fish habitat, including the development of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ (DFO) policies, program elements and regulations and the development of their technical capacity to support greater involvement in the conservation and protection of fish and fish habitat.

The purpose of the Oceans Management Contribution funding is to support the development and implementation of oceans conservation and management activities in Canada.

Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture

Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture