Grants and Contributions

The Pandora Mission is low-cost space telescope designed measure the composition of distant transiting planets. The Pandora payload has the unique capability of measuring precision photometry simultaneously with near-infrared spectroscopy that will enable scientists to disentangle stellar activity from the subtle signature of a planetary atmosphere.

With a launch date of March 2025, the Pandora mission represents a new class of low-cost space mission that will achieve out-of-this-world science.

This project’s purpose is to educate, train and actively engage as many students (college, bachelors, masters and doctorate) as possible in STEM and in particular, space technology and science.

Killick-2 is a project proposed by Memorial University (MUN) for the Canadian Space Agency CUBICS initiative.

The RADSAT-SK2 project’s main purpose is to enable Saskatchewan post-secondary students to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to participate in the Canadian aerospace industry, while contributing to scientific research in space technologies. A major goal of the project is to bring together the University of Saskatchewan and University of Regina under the common effort of demonstrating and evaluating the effectiveness of new radiation mitigating technologies for computer hardware in space, engaging students in unique hands-on learning, and educating the public about Canada's and Saskatchewan's contributions to STEM.

Securing ancestral land ownership for tribal communities through mobilisation, capacity building, strengthening the local governance and the use of a GIS-based mapping technology that serves as crucial evidence in claiming land entitlements in Raigad district, Maharashtra State (India)

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

This project seeks to reduce climate and disaster risk in Latin America and the Caribbean through the accelerated implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, ensuring that it incorporates a climate-smart, gender-responsive approach to foster greener, more sustainable, and equitable communities. It also seeks to improve climate-smart disaster prevention by reducing existing climate and disaster risks and avoiding generating new and emerging risks. Project activities include: (1) creating conditions to strengthen gender equality and women’s empowerment in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction processes throughout the region; and (2) strengthening the understanding of disaster risks, including vulnerability, exposure, a lack of coping capacity.

With GAC’s support, OCHA supports the coordination and scale-up of earthquake relief efforts in Turkey.

Project activities include: (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 seeks to enhance food and nutrition security and resilience for people in Lebanon by increasing the adoption of gender-responsive, nutrition-sensitive climate smart agricultural practices amongst farmers, improving the performance of selected fruits and vegetables value chains (VC) through cooperation at farmers’ and VC actors’ level, and creating an inclusive enabling environment in which VC actors – from farmers to distributors – operate.
The project will build the technical and organizational capacity of small-scale fruits (apples) and vegetables (tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and eggplants) farmers – women in particular – and their organizations, allowing them to participate more effectively in selected value chains. The project also supports other VC actors – from input producers to processors and traders – to adopt innovative technologies at the production or marketing and processing levels and to become more inclusive and responsive to farmers’ needs. At a policy level, the project facilitates dialogue between VC actors and the government to promote the design and implementation of inclusive policies, legislation and programs that meet the needs of farmers and orientes toward developing sustainable and inclusive value chains.

This project aims to increase the economic empowerment of women and adolescent girls as well as their access to mental, sexual, and reproductive health services in the Niamey and Agadez regions of Niger. Project activities include: (1) setting up a transformational leadership school for women's economic groups members; (2) providing training for peer educators to carry out awareness-raising activities on the health rights of women and adolescent girls; (3) supplying medicines and medical equipment to health facilities; and (4) training and mobilizing educators and ambassadors of change to promote the right to health and the economic empowerment of women and adolescent girls. The project's direct beneficiaries are estimated at 33,000 women and adolescent girls. Indirect beneficiaries are estimated at over 348,000 members of the communities targeted by the project.