Grants and Contributions

P009567001 & P009567002 & P009567003: This project is part of Canada’s Women’s Voice and Leadership Program, which supports local and regional women’s organisations and networks that are working to promote women’s rights, and advance women’s empowerment and gender equality in developing countries. This is done by supporting activities, building institutional capacity, and promoting network and alliance-building as women’s rights and feminist organizations are critical agents of change. The Program also responds to the globally recognized, significant gap in funding and support to women’s rights organizations and movements around the world. This project strengthens the capacity of women's rights organizations in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq to further empower women and girls in the region, through advocacy and the delivery of quality services to women and girls, particularly those in vulnerable situations.

This 27-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Oxfam Canada will achieve this by engaging underrepresented women, living in the Atlantic, Ontario, Prairies and Pacific regions, to inform and develop pandemic recovery responses that address intersectional barriers to early learning and childcare (ELCC) accessibility, affordability, quality and inclusiveness. Relationships will be built between equality-seeking organizations and other stakeholders to collaborate across sectors to advance underrepresented women's engagement in ELCC advocacy networks. Oxfam Canada will develop and disseminate advocacy tools within these networks and launch community-based public communication tools, resources and mobilization moments to effectively advance ELCC policy solutions that are inclusive of addressing the barriers of underrepresented women.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices and increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change to support women’s equality. Oxfam Canada will achieve this in partnership with Child Care Now, and Childcare Resource and Research Unit, and will be guided by a diverse advisory panel with representatives from the four targeted regions. With this project, Oxfam Canada will help women’s economic recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 by advancing policy changes to increase access of underrepresented groups to early learning and childcare.

The project seeks to benefit nearly 500,000 people, 95% of whom are adolescent girls and young women between the ages of 15 and 24. Oxfam Canada is implementing this project in partnership with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the Guttmacher Institute, Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, and various Women’s Rights Organizations and Youth-led Organizations across Uganda and Mozambique.

Through this 27-month systemic change project, Oxfam Canada in partnership with Child Care Now, National Congress of Black Women Foundation and Childcare Resource and Research Unit will help advance women’s economic recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 by advancing policy changes to increase access of underrepresented groups to early learning and childcare (ELCC).

The Humanitarian Coalition is made up of nine Canadian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that include: Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Canadian Lutheran World Relief, CARE Canada, Islamic Relief Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Québec, Plan International Canada, Save the Children Canada and World Vision Canada.

Although ongoing fighting and other access restrictions have hindered full needs assessments in Tigray, an estimated 29 million people in Ethiopia are likely to require humanitarian assistance in 2021.

With GAC’s support, Oxfam is rehabilitating and upgrading critical water, sanitation, and hygiene systems and services for South Sudanese refugees living in Ethiopia’s Gambella region.

Moreover, malnutrition continues to grow as a result of the harmful effects of the COVID 19 pandemic, which is contributing to a worsening of the malnutrition situation and is leading to health problems.

With GAC’s support, Oxfam-Québec is meeting the urgent needs of approximately 57,317 people who are affected by conflict in Lac province.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased and equitable use of disease-preventing, appropriate and gender-responsive WASH materials, facilities and services; (2) improved food security through increased and equitable access to lifesaving cash assistance and non-food items for crisis-affected people, and (3) enhanced use of gender sensitive and rights-based protection services for vulnerable women, men, girls and boys.
The expected ultimate outcome is lives saved, suffering alleviated and human dignity maintained in countries experiencing humanitarian crises or acute food insecurity.

Youth Take Charge

This project aims to improve access to sexual and reproductive health care for vulnerable and marginalized adolescent girls and young women in Bolivia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, Honduras, Jordan, Lebanon, and the occupied Palestinian territory. Project activities include: (1) educating and working with adolescent girls and young women on topics related to their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); (2) educating and working with adolescent boys and young men on issues such as gender equality, SRHR, and cultural practices related to masculinity, gender, and sexuality; (3) training health care workers to provide inclusive and accessible sexual and reproductive health services and practices, particularly to adolescent girls and young women; (4) providing better equipment to health facilities across the project countries, in order to improve their capacity to offer comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services; and (5) working with civil society organizations and rights’ groups to advocate for better SRHR related policy. The project works to benefit over 90,000 adolescent girls and young women across the project countries. This project works in partnership with Plan International Canada, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada(SOGC), and RNW Media, as well as numerous local women’s rights groups and youth organizations across the project countries.