Grants and Contributions

Watershed Stewardship for a Changing Climate

Operating costs: The project aims to support the English-speaking entrepreneurs in the Lower Laurentians and southern Lanaudière over a three-year period.

Acquisition of equipment: The project aims to increase the production capacity of a company that specializes in metal and plastic transformation.

Equipment acquisition: The project aims to increase the production capacity of a company that specializes in metal and plastic transformation.

The overall purpose of the Aquatic Invasive Species Program is to minimize introduction of aquatic invasive species and minimize risk of consequences from them.

This project aims to increase the adaptation of young rural women and their communities to climate change in the Guéra province of Chad. The project also contributes to strengthening the skills and effectiveness of groups and cooperatives in developing climate-smart food systems with and for young women groundnut and sesame producers.

Project activities include: (1) training women in peanut and sesame production in soil restoration and conservation techniques adapted to water stress and based on improved local knowledge; (2 ) implementing community reforestation and restoration campaigns for strategic aquatic and wetland ecosystems. This is for adaptation to climate change based on nature-based solutions that meet the needs of young women groundnut and sesame producers and their communities; (3) supporting groups and cooperatives in developing high-value marketing channels for young women producers; and (4) setting up pilot leadership laboratories supporting innovative and non-traditional social, economic and environmental initiatives of young rural women in the field of Climate Change Adaptation.

The direct beneficiaries of the project are 5,000 people, mainly women peanut and sesame farmers, and their communities, including 3,500 women and young women and 1,500 men and young men. Indirect beneficiaries are estimated at more than 45,000 family members of the direct project beneficiaries.

This project aims to increase the resilience of rural communities, especially women and youth, to climate change by sustainably improving biodiversity and connectivity of strategic ecosystems. The conservation of ecosystems, biodiversity and the benefits derived from them, also implies improving the effectiveness of members of farmers' organizations and cooperatives, to develop agroforestry value chains that respect biodiversity and are adapted to climate change. And finally, in a context marked by conflicts, the sustainability of the results implies an increased commitment of local communities, in favor of an inclusive and equitable governance of natural resources.
This project, based on a nexus approach, will promote access to sustainable economic opportunities and the reduction of inequalities, especially for women and youth, in order to counter threats from climate change and desertification, but also extremism. This project will directly benefit over 10,000 people, of whom 8,000 are women in 12 communities; 12 farmer organizations; and 200 community leaders in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region.

Designed as a multi-donor program, and in partnership with the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), the project provides grant funding and technical assistance to accelerate the development and scale-up of climate finance solutions in developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. The key objective of the project is to contribute to the development of a pipeline of investable solutions aimed at achieving climate change mitigation and adaptation outcomes, in sectors such as clean energy, climate-smart agriculture and nature-based solutions. It also includes mobilizing resources, particularly from the private sector, for the sustainable development goals.

Project activities include: (1) delivering grant funding to selected applicants to structure, launch, and expand their blended finance solution; (2) providing technical assistance to selected applicants to develop their capacities to ensure their blended finance vehicles can generate business traction and accelerate the mobilization of capital; and (3) developing a learning hub as a critical knowledge platform, capturing learnings and ensuring knowledge transfer to various actors, thus creating synergies and increasing efficiencies in the climate finance ecosystem.

The project’s direct beneficiaries are selected individuals and institutions implementing climate finance solutions in developing countries. These actors contribute to addressing the impacts of climate change and increasing the capacity of economically disadvantaged groups, including women and girls, by financing projects with climate mitigation and adaptation as the main intended impacts. Between 14 to 20 grantees are expected to be supported by the end of the project.

The Strengthening Ethiopia’s Adaptive Safety Net (SEASN) project is a social protection initiative designed to reduce poverty and vulnerability among the rural poor and help to stabilize household health and nutrition during economic shocks, enhance livelihoods during stability, and enable people to overcome their vulnerability to food insecurity. The SEASN will support the Government of Ethiopia's efforts to improve the income of 2.5 million climate-vulnerable rural households and strengthen the rural safety net mechanism.

The ultimate outcome of the project is to strengthen the national capacities for intercultural dialogue and conflict prevention, ensuring effective participation of indigenous peoples, with a focus on indigenous women. To achieve this goal, the project aims to produce two outcomes: 1) strengthen the capacities of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE) to facilitate the monitoring of the implementation of the agreements reached between the Government and indigenous organizations; 2) reinforce the capacities of national actors to build and sustain a permanent dialogue network.

This project has two levels of implementation: 1) contributing to the proper functioning of the monitoring mechanism of the agreements between the Government and the indigenous organizations. From this perspective, the final beneficiaries are the indigenous peoples of Ecuador, who will have a formal space to monitor the fulfillment of their demands; 2) generating a network of specialized dialogue and facilitation practitioners (women and men). This will allow the indigenous peoples, women, youth, and other Ecuadorian social groups, to have access to consensual facilitation and mediation solutions. This solution will be built from the local experience and approaches, promoting social cohesion and the peaceful resolution of conflicts.