Grants and Contributions

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) primary mandate is to oversee the coordination of international humanitarian responses, in partnership with national and international actors, in order to achieve more coherent and effective humanitarian action. This grant represents Canada’s country- and regional-level support to OCHA in emergency contexts.

With the support of Canada and other donors, OCHA fulfills its mandate by: (1) strengthening humanitarian leadership; (2) establishing and overseeing coordination systems; (3) monitoring and reporting on humanitarian situations; (4) advocating on behalf of affected people; (5) supporting the assessment and prioritization of humanitarian needs and strategic planning; (6) promoting emergency preparedness; and (7) mobilizing funding for humanitarian assistance.

The project aims to strengthen the resilience of ecosystems and vulnerable populations, especially women and youth, to climate change in the regions bordering the Great Green Wall in Senegal, through reforestation, natured-based solutions, climate resilient agriculture, inclusive climate governance and advocacy.

This project aims to restore the human dignity of repatriated migrants and members of their communities by addressing their protection needs, including risks related to human trafficking, sexual exploitation and abuse.

The project aims to improve food security by increasing income for households working in agriculture in Sudan, with a particular focus on women and youth. Project activities include: (1) developing an inclusive, gender-responsive strategy for improving agricultural markets in target states; (2) supporting set up and strengthening for agribusiness hubs, which will provide services to farmers and agricultural business owners; (3) training farmer groups and small- and medium-sized businesses on food processing, managerial, marketing, and trade promotion techniques; (4) improving access to finance for agricultural business owners, especially for female-led businesses; and (5) facilitating collective action and advocacy to level the playing field for female entrepreneurs.

This project seeks to improve nutrition for the poorest and most marginalized, especially women, adolescent girls, and children in Bahi and Itigi Districts in Tanzania and Moroto, Nakapiripirit and Nabilatuk districts in Uganda. Project activities include: (1) training Community Health Workers on maternal, infant, young child and adolescent nutrition and health practices; (2) training district and ward extension officers on nutrition-sensitive agriculture and small animal husbandry; (3) training and grants for women’s care groups for income-generating activities and skills development; (4) upgrading water, sanitation and hygiene facilities at selected schools related to handwashing and menstrual health management; and (5) training health care providers on integrated management of severe acute malnutrition.

The project aims to reach 214,764 direct beneficiaries (124,562 women and 90,202 man) and 92,105 indirect beneficiaries (34,500 women and 57,605 man in Tanzania and Uganda. Action Against Hunger together with local partners, implements this project that includes Sustainable Environmental Management Action in Tanzania and Karamoja Women’s Umbrella Organization in Uganda.

With the support of GAC and other donors, the ICRC’s humanitarian operations aim to provide protection, emergency relief and other essential services to people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence, as well as to promote respect for international humanitarian law. Project activities include: (1) protecting and assisting people affected by conflict and violence through providing medical care, income support, and food assistance; (2) ensuring the respect of international humanitarian law in the treatment of civilians not taking part in hostilities and detainees; (3) promoting humanitarian principles (neutrality, impartiality and independence) among all stakeholders; and (4) participating with all stakeholders in negotiating safe access to populations in need.

This project aims to reduce biological threats by strengthening health security capacities for disease surveillance and response, specifically focusing on integrated disease surveillance at the sub-national level, event-based surveillance, genomic surveillance, and epidemic intelligence.

Grant for Institutional Support to the UN Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues to support the work of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) to build expertise on Indigenous issues and mainstream related issues throughout the UN system.

It is essential to ensure that ML systems can achieve regulatory compliance
and satisfy the standard requirements.
This project will focus on developing a taxonomy of state-of-the-art ML
offensive/defensive technologies based on a comprehensive literature
review, including a collection of open-source adversarial challenges and
defense utilities; devising efficient security and privacy defense mechanisms
against the threats faced in the ML model training and prediction phase; and
developing an empirical framework consisting of a toolset of best practices
that can be leveraged to enable robust ML application development and
deployment.

Artificial
Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize drug and material
discovery by analyzing evidence from a large amount of previously
accumulated data, thereby significantly accelerating the process. This
Project will examine searching for molecules with optimized properties in the
presence of different types of oracles, corresponding to estimators of the
desired properties at varying degrees of computational cost and fidelity. The
Project aims to build an efficient and effective machine learning framework
for searching molecules with designed properties, and showcase its
applications on antibiotic and materials discovery, thereby enabling AI?empowered candidate discovery.