Grants and Contributions

Yukon University - Exploring Northern and Indigenous Perspectives of the Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators

G15+ Indicators of well-being in Quebec

Americana 2023

This project aims to enhance the climate-resilience of vulnerable agriculture households in the Southern Iraqi Governorates of Babil, Missan, Muthanna, Najaf, Al Qadisiyah, Thi-Qar and Wasit. Project activities include: (1) strengthening the capacities of rural households by providing technical assistance, capacity-building tools, and training on climate-smart agriculture. This is through Food and Agriculture Organization’s successful model of Farmer Field Schools. The model focuses on a participatory and field-based learning approach implemented over a production cycle; (2) connecting participants to private sector partners to help strengthen agricultural value chains and support private sector engagement to help communities; and (3) introducing an innovative approach to the food-energy-water nexus. This is by installing solar energy technology over water canals to power low-emission irrigation systems and reduce water evaporation.

The Pandemic Fund, a new World Bank-hosted Financial Intermediary Fund, aims to reduce the risks associated with pandemics by providing a dedicated stream of additional, long-term funding to address gaps in pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPR) activities. This fund supports low and lower-middle income countries and at regional and global levels. Project activities include: (1) helping countries and regions to detect, report and share information on disease outbreaks; (2) building resilient health systems that can withstand health emergencies, including trained healthcare workers, safe health facilities, and tools and materials needed to adequately deliver health services; (3) building trust and improving communication within communities; and (4) improving equitable access to vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics and essential supplies.

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). CEPI uses these funds, along with other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate.

CEPI’s mission is to accelerate the development of vaccines and other biologic countermeasures against epidemic and pandemic threats so they can be accessible to all people in need. This project supports CEPI’s 2022 to 2026 strategy (CEPI 2.0), which has three strategic objectives: (1) preparing for known epidemic and pandemic threats; (2) transforming future responses to novel infectious disease threats; and (3) creating, building and enhancing new and existing connections to enhance global collaboration on infectious disease threats. Project activities include: (1) investing in research and development for promising vaccine candidates and platforms that target emerging infectious diseases of concern, along with enabling science activities that would help produce these vaccines; (2) advocating globally

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, the World Health Organization (WHO) respond to immediate health needs. Project activities include: (1) treating the wounded, trauma-affected and others in need of health care, prioritizing emergency medical services people with disabilities, older persons, children, and other vulnerable groups; (2) providing life-saving sexual and reproductive health services, including prenatal care; and (3) coordinating the health cluster response to emergency health needs in Ukraine.

This project provides critically required demining equipment and related personal protective equipment to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU) as part of Canada's support to Ukraine in the face of Russia's unprovoked and illegal invasion. Project activities include the drafting, implementing, and monitoring of four contracts with equipment suppliers by the Canadian Commercial Corporation.

This project supports a sector-leading mine action program, focused on developing high-quality national demining capacity and capability to address widespread explosive hazard contamination throughout Ukraine.

Project activities include: (1) supporting survey and clearance operations in areas impacted by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine; (2) providing explosive ordnance risk education (EORE) and community outreach in areas contaminated with explosive hazards; and (3) training and equipping Ukrainian deminers to International mine action standards and providing mentorship support, as needed.

Through this project, Canada provides a contribution to the Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Prevention Multi-Partner Trust Fund (CRSV-MPTF) that help create the implementation of the Framework of Cooperation signed between the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict and the Government of Ukraine. It aims to enhance Ukrainian’s capacity to actively prevent and respond to conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV).