Grants and Contributions

This project aims to increase the effectiveness of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping by reducing peacekeeper fatalities and increasing the capabilities of UN peacekeeping missions to implement their mandates in a gender-responsive manner. This project supports the UN Department of Peace Operations, Department of Operational Support, and Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance in developing, revising, and delivering specialized training. This is to better prepare uniformed personnel and civilians deploying to UN peace operations to support the UN Secretary General's Action for Peacekeeping and Action for Peacekeeping Plus agenda. The training focuses on leadership, technology, medical, and mine action themes.

This project builds on the pilot phase of the Elsie Initiative for Women in Peacekeeping. It supports national security sector actors in targeted troop and police contributing countries (T/PCCs) to increase support and capacity to advance women’s meaningful participation in UN peacekeeping. Project activities include: (1) providing targeted and data-informed technical assistance to to three T/PCCs; (2) supporting new barrier assessments for uniformed women in peace operations in T/PCCs through the Elsie Initiative Fund Help Desk; and (3) consolidating lessons learned and best practices on the implementation of barrier assessment recommendations.

Canada's support of the United Nations Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) aims to increase women’s participation in, and implementation of, peace processes and peace agreements. The WPHF's Rapid Response Window (RRW) is a critical funding mechanism that addresses urgent funding gaps with rapid, short-term support. This project supports to the WPHF's work in Haiti, to provide rapid funding to local women's organizations responding to the crisis and the needs of women and girls. Project activities include: (1) undertaking advocacy and technical support; (2) building capacity for women to meaningfully participate by promoting favourable attitudes towards their participation in conflict prevention; (3) addressing barriers to women’s representation and participation in peace negotiations; and (4) ensuring women’s and girls’ safety, health and security are assured, and their human rights respected through measures that prevent acts of violence, facilitate access to services for survivors, and strengthen accountability.

This multi-donor project led by the World Bank aims to improve inclusive, government-led service delivery that supports the recovery and consolidation of peace in South Sudan. Project activities include: (1) providing training and technical assistance to build capacity of government institutions; (2) establishing systems necessary for better governance and service delivery, such as a national social registry; (3) serving as a platform for coherent policy dialogue between government and development partners on reform priorities and how to achieve them; (4) collecting and publishing fiscal data to support transparent public financial management; and (5) preparing a policy and legislative framework required to support women’s economic inclusion through the Women’s Economic Enterprise Fund.

This project seeks to increase Nature-based Solutions (NbS) best practice, knowledge and capacities of climate change and biodiversity practitioners in developed and developing countries. Project activities include: (1) providing support for project design, implementation and monitoring; (2) improving climate change vulnerability and biodiversity assessments, baselines, targets and monitoring systems; (3) tracking and reporting on progress, global sharing of lessons learned; (4) monitoring implementation of corrective actions; tracking and reporting on progress of Canada’s NbS and biodiversity portfolio; and (5) capturing and synthesizing tools and lessons from the above activities at a portfolio level and widely sharing and promoting this information to NbS practitioners and other stakeholders.

This project provides direct benefits to between 150 to 600 NbS for climate adaptation and biodiversity project staff, with subsequent impacts benefiting 500,000 to over 1,000,000 women and men in Sub-Saharan Africa and worldwide.

The multi-donor Technical Assistance Fund aims to maximize the potential of the Government of Tanzania's Health Basket Fund. The Health Basket Fund, which Canada contributes to through its $75 million Strengthening Tanzania's Primary Healthcare System for Women and Girls Project, supports the primary healthcare elements of the Government of Tanzania’s Health Sector Strategic Plan V. The Technical Assistance Fund contributes to building the government’s capacity in four areas critical to the success and sustainability of the Health Basket Fund. These areas include primary healthcare financing, primary healthcare quality of care, climate-smart primary healthcare and evidence generation and use for primary healthcare.

Project activities include: (1) providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Health to ensure harmonization, integration and use of the Mama na Mwana client feedback mechanism for primary healthcare, with particular attention to the input of women and adolescent girls and boys; (2) providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Health to develop a national capacity-building plan for primary healthcare leadership and health management, including evidence-based and gender-responsive planning, budgeting, monitoring and data use; (3) completing a Mid-Term Review of the Health Basket Fund, integrating gender equality and environmental considerations; and (4) developing a National Roadmap for Implementation Research in primary healthcare to identify and address Health Basket Fund challenges and opportunities, including those related to gender equality and environmental sustainability.

The purpose of the Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP) contribution agreement is to support Canadian SMEs identify international partners in CIIP target countries for industrial research and development collaboration that has good potential for commercialization.

This project is related to increased knowledge and collaboration with stakeholders and/or international organisations.

This project is related to increased knowledge and collaboration with stakeholders and/or international organisations.

The purpose of this agreement is to assist the recipient iwth the costs of hosting the International Energy Efficiency Hub (EE Hub), a platform to promote international collaboration on energy efficiency.