Grants and Contributions

This 25-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. Women’s Shelters Canada will achieve this by working to reduce the level of technology-facilitated violence experienced by Canadian women and create a safer online environment for them. Adjustments will be made by private service providers to their policies and practices and adapted and translated training and tools for frontline workers, including a culturally based Indigenous component, will be developed and delivered regionally across Canada. As well, Women’s Shelters Canada will work with a technology provider to implement tech safety corporate practices within their organization, such as a trauma-informed Safe Team and cyber safety training.

At the end of the project Women’s Shelters Canada will have contributed to reducing systemic barriers by providing frontline workers with the knowledge and tools to help women recognize and practice cyber safety, and by creating change in a technology provider’s policies and practices.

The University of Montreal’s International Health Unit is implementing this project in partnership with the Hygeia Initiative, the Panzi Foundation and numerous local partners including women’s and youth rights groups.

P008082001 : The DANBÉ project aims to fill the SRHR gap for women and adolescent girls in the Sikasso and Segou regions by strengthening the capacity of health facilities through regular training and coaching of providers, provision of medical and non-medical equipment, and improved and more integrated management of SRHR/GBV services. Women and girls would have access to a full range of services, including emergency obstetric and neonatal care, family planning, comprehensive sexuality education, prevention of sexually transmitted infections, and prevention and response to GBV. The project will strengthen the capacities of the relevant technical departments of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs and the Ministry for the Promotion of Women, Children and the Family in order to improve the availability and quality of services.

P008082002: This component aims to strengthen the capacity of 28 health facilities to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, through the training of health personnel on infection prevention and control, communication and social mobilization, and the provision and proper management of inputs. These health centers would also be provided with personal protective equipment.

This project seeks to support the realization of the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), well-being and dignity of marginalized adolescent girls and boys in all their diversity, in Dar es Salaam and Dodoma City Council. The Accelerated Hope and Development for Adolescents in Tanzania (AHADI) project focuses on supporting adolescents according to their age groups (10-14 years of age and 15-19 years of age) and works in five urban districts and their surrounding communities. Project activities include: (1) identifying and addressing barriers to health-related human rights for adolescent girls and boys; (2) supporting adolescent girls (10-19 years of age) in making informed decisions on nutrition, SRHR and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) protection services by enhancing the capacity of guardians, community influencers and community institutions, such as the police, to advocate for adolescent girls’ protection and the reduction of harmful traditional practices and norms; (3) enhancing the inclusive and equitable use of quality adolescent-friendly, gender-responsive and pandemic-responsive and resilient SRHR and nutrition services, including substance misuse prevention and iron and folic acid supplementation; (4) responding to the increased vulnerability of young girls to violence, unwanted pregnancy, disrupted health services and impacted livelihoods, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; (5) empowering the most vulnerable adolescent girls and boys (15-19 of years of age, including SGBV survivors, substance users, those living with disabilities, those living on the streets and those engaged in transactional sex) to participate in gender-equitable poverty reduction activities through the labour market and entrepreneurship programs; and (6) integrating a life skills and economic empowerment component to enable adolescent girls to have greater financial autonomy, reducing their poverty and the burden of unpaid care.

The project seeks to directly reach 284,139 girls and 192,480 boys (approximately 60% of the adolescent population in the project area) and 137,487 women and 137,486 men caregivers, 1,000 women and 1,160 men faith/community leaders, 250 women and 250 men teachers, and 200 women and 200 men community health workers. An additional 183,315 girls and 122,210 boys will benefit indirectly.

The objective of the IRP is to improve the ability of (SPO)s to participate in the social finance market (i.e. secure a repayable investment), as well as to engage in procurement and outcomes-based funding opportunities by:.• Enabling SPOs to gain a variety of skills and competencies along the investment readiness continuum;.• Supporting the readiness of established expert services providers to provide nation-wide capacity-building services to SPOs in one or more key area along the investment readiness continuum; and.• Supporting the advancement of Canada’s SI/SF ecosystems by responding to identified system-level gaps (e.g. building the capacities of social finance intermediaries, advancing impact measurement, and supporting SI/SF awareness and knowledge mobilization)..

The key objective of the Sectoral Initiatives Program is to improve the availability and use of sectoral labour market information, national occupational standards, and accreditation and certification regimes among stakeholders; and to support better application and integration into appropriate programs and activities.

The overarching objective of the Union Training and Innovation Program aims to strengthen apprenticeship training systems to better support a skilled, inclusive, certified and productive trades workforce by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of training provided. .The streams have the following specific objectives: .Stream 1 (Equipment) will increase investment in training equipment and materials for higher quality training, leading to a more skilled and productive trade workforce. .Stream 2 (Innovation in Apprenticeship) will support innovation and enhanced partnerships to address long-standing and complex challenges that limit apprenticeship outcomes. .Stream 3 (Women in Construction Fund [WCF]) will support projects that expand or replicate successful models to encourage more women to participate and succeed in apprenticeship and the skilled trades. Stream 4 (Trades Exploration and Experience Program) will support projects that encourage Canadians to explore, prepare for, participate and succeed in apprenticeship and skilled trades careers. This stream is limited to participants who are not registered apprentices..

ZeroIN is a food-tech company developing technology to solve one of the biggest problems of modern society, sugar overload. The company is developing the next generation of sugar substitutes using an environmentally friendly process technology designed from circular economy principles.

As Virtual Marine continues to deliver more simulators to clients around the world, the number of issue inquiries and tickets from clients, both internally and externally, increase proportionally.

To construct critical infrastructure to enhance airport safety To purchase equipment to enhance airport safety