Grants and Contributions

The project aims to create a classroom ready teacher resource for Grades six to eight Science & Technology teachers. The teacher resource will excite all learners to discover the social, economic and environmental impact of Canadian space technology and develop scientific and technological literacies through STEM experiences. Three interdisciplinary activities will be created to build student skills in engineering design, scientific research, scientific experimentation, and coding. The activities will engage students in scientific concepts in biology, chemistry, physics and earth & space sciences connected to the Ontario Science & Technology curriculum.

This project contributes to improving the health and well-being of the most vulnerable adolescent girls in Ethiopia, in particular, out-of-school girls and young mothers in the Afar and Oromia regions. It seeks to enhance adolescent girls’ access to Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Nutrition (ASRHN) services and to improve their economic independence through nutrition and climate-smart income generation. Project activities include: (1) providing capacity-building training and coaching to health care providers, government staff and community facilitators to deliver integrated and comprehensive gender and adolescent-responsive ASRHN services; (2) establishing and rehabilitating gender-responsive and sustainable water sources, including rainwater storage and solar water systems; (3) providing gender-responsive technical assistance for the establishment and operationalization of Youth-Led Savings and Loans Association, including skills-based training in entrepreneurship and financial literacy; (4) reactivating Sexual and Gender-Based Violence committees at the district level; and (5) delivering gender-responsive and age-specific training on sexual and reproductive health rights and nutrition (SRHN), and related life skills to in-school and out-of-school adolescent girls and boys.

The project aims to reach 204,110 girls, boys, women and men directly. The ultimate beneficiaries are 128,518 adolescents, which includes 63,879 out-of-school girls, 34,144 in-school girls, 18,501 out-of-school boys and 11,994 in-school boys. Because adolescent girls have less access to SRHN information and services, and girls who are married young are much more likely to be malnourished, this project focuses on out-of-school girls and young married mothers.

The strengthening Investments in Gender Responsive Climate Adaptation (SIGRA) initiative seeks to advance climate action, food security, and inclusive governance in Ghana. This project aims to improve the resilience of Ghanaian citizens, particularly women, girls, and vulnerable groups, through investing in inclusive and gender-responsive climate adaptation initiatives.

The project seeks to strengthen the enabling environment at the national and local levels while supporting women’s voices and involvement in policy decisions concerning climate change adaptation. Specifically, the project provides technical assistance and support to strengthen governance and national systems with key central level Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDA) while providing direct grants to five Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) funding local gender-responsive climate adaptation projects. The initiative further supports regional government stakeholders in the Northern and Volta regions. It strengthens the ability of targeted MMDAs to plan, implement, and report on climate adaptation initiatives. The project also strengthens women-led civil society organizations’ (CSOs) participation, voice and influence in government decision-making.

Project activities include: (1) supporting Ghanaian ministries and agencies with technical assistance on gender-responsive budgeting and climate adaptation; (2) providing technical assistance to MMDAs on climate risk assessments and formulating gender-responsive climate adaptation initiatives; (3) providing funds to MMDAs for gender-responsive climate adaptation plans; (4) supporting women-led CSOs to conduct outreach, awareness raising, and advocacy on gender equality and climate adaptation at the MMDA and national levels; and (5) supporting organizational development of regional structures of the Ministry of Local Government, Decentralization and Rural Development, Environmental Protection Agency, and the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. The SIGRA project directly benefits 627,000 Ghanaian citizens (51% women) and up to 5 million people in the Northern and Volta regions.

This project enhances the economic and climate resilience of the African population, in particular women and youth, post COVID-19. Project activities include: (1) developing a gender-responsive roadmap, toolkit and metrics to implement the African Union’s Green Recovery Action Plan and measure progress on action and desired outcomes; (2) conducting a gender-responsive capacity needs assessment of at least seven African Union member states and three Regional Economic Communities; (3) developing and delivering a capacity building program on the implementation of the African Union’s Green Recovery Action Plan, which targets 360 policymakers - with at least 40% women and youth; (4) establishing a Climate Finance Unit within the African Union Commission and developing an inclusive National Climate Finance Strategy for African Union member states; (5) hosting six African Union Green Finance Investor Roundtables; and (6) providing targeted training on climate finance to at least 75 officials directly linked with Ministries of Finance in AU member states.

This project supports the Africa Disaster Risk Financing program’s multi-donor trust fund. It seeks to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities, women, and girls to climate disasters in six African countries by adopting ex-ante climate disaster risk financing instruments. The project contributes to improving the capacity of governments and private sector actors for efficient and timely gender-sensitive responses to climate disasters. It does so by increasing access to climate disaster risk financing instruments. It also seeks to enhance protection against climate shocks by improving preparation and response to climate disasters.

Project activities include: (1) conducting risk diagnostics to develop climate disaster risk financing strategies; (2) collaborating with the African Risk Capacity in Regional Member Countries to train and carry out workshops to develop gender-responsive contingency and response plans; and (3) facilitating premium subsidies payments for climate disaster risk insurance. This project directly benefits women and men who are vulnerable to climactic shock.

The project aims to reduce barriers to education and meet the needs of young girls and boys in terms of nutrition, overall health and sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Diffa, Tahoua, and Tillabéry regions of Niger. Project activities include: (1) Sensitizing girls, boys, and their communities on sexual and reproductive health and rights, including prevention of gender-based violence, female genital mutilation, and early marriage; (2) providing adequate sanitation, water, and hygiene services; (3) training adolescent girls on nutrition, health, and communication for social behavior change; and (4) sensitizing communities on the importance of education for all children, especially girls. The number of direct beneficiaries of the project is estimated at 80,810, including 54,790 girls in the Diffa, Tahoua and Tillabéry regions.

This project aims to improve the resilience of vulnerable populations, including women and children, to climate shocks in Africa. Project activities include: (1) developing tools and disseminating guidelines on gender equality in disaster risk management; (2) providing support to the African Risk Capacity (ARC) member states for monitoring and reporting on the implementation of disaster response, including gender activities and gender-disaggregated data; and (3) providing technical assistance to national experts to establish a network of trainers on gender in disaster risk management. The project seeks to support the ARC to expand beyond the current member countries to reach all 55 African Union (AU) member countries.

The project seeks to improve the climate resilience of marginalized communities, particularly women and youth, and ecosystems that are structurally vulnerable to climate change, through nature-based climate solutions in six Lake Chad Basin protected areas registered under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. The project directly supports 315,000 people (75% women) through improved resilient agriculture practices and communitarian conflict resolution processes. Two million people will benefit from new or improved ecosystem services by restoring 10,000 hectares of wetlands. Also, 2.7 million people displaced due to conflict (60% children and 25% women) will indirectly benefit as the project contributes to regional stabilization strategies, including peaceful conflict resolution and communitarian processes.

This project aims to strengthen the effectiveness of law enforcement agencies to prevent, detect, investigate and respond to chemical and explosives terrorism incidents. Project activities include: (1) outreach with relevant national decision makers and senior-level representatives of beneficiary countries; (2) delivery of training to facilitate intelligence sharing on national and regional chemical and explosive threats; (3) verification activities for counterterrorism intelligence; (4) development of tailored country-specific action plans; (5) delivery of training and capacity-building sessions; and (6) delivery of an in-person “Global Congress on Chemical Security and Emerging Threats”.

The Global Code of Conduct for Gathering and Using Information about Systematic and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence is a code of conduct and standards for the safe, effective and ethical gathering and use of victim or survivor information on systematic and conflict-related sexual violence. A system developed through global consultations, with survivors at the heart of its work. The creation of the Code responds to the proliferation of harmful information-gathering approaches that are not sensitive to survivor trauma, are uncoordinated and are ineffective for documentation purposes. These harmful practices include re-traumatization, personal security, violations of privacy rights, and failed justice outcomes.

This Project focuses on building awareness and implementing the Code with key stakeholders, such as investigation authorities, humanitarian actors, civil society, media, policy-makers, governments and other organizations and individuals working on information-gathering with survivors. Using the Code properly means integrating it into systems, processes, policies, contracts and terms of reference of investigation teams. Targeted activities can occur in Colombia, Iraq, Myanmar, Syria and Ukraine, among others.