Grants and Contributions

Develop digital adoption plan

Develop digital adoption plan

A comprehensive road study will be completed to determine what measures can be taken to provide a safer environment for pedestrians and all types of active transportation, as well as motor vehicles.

The objectives of the program are to:.•Support greater influence and control over Indigenous ELCC programs and services by Indigenous peoples;.•Improve quality and accessibility of Indigenous ELCC with an emphasis on cultural and language content;.•Support a more holistic and integrated system of quality ELCC services for Indigenous peoples; and.•Adapt and improve existing federal programs to be more flexible, adaptable and horizontal across federal departments as a first step prior to transferring control..

This project focuses on activities to protect people in Northern Ethiopia – specifically Afar, Amhara, and Tigray. It seeks to prevent the threats posed by explosive remnants of war that resulted from Ethiopia’s two years civil war between the Government of Ethiopia and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. The project also aims to use mine action as an entry point to reduce tensions among community members and between communities. This also includes the Ethiopian Mine Action Authorities, Ethiopian officials, and international actors. Project activities include: (1) delivering tailored explosive arms risk education and peacebuilding awareness messages to target communities; (2) conducting non-technical surveys to assess the scale and scope of explosive arms contamination in Afar, Amhara, and Tigray; (3) delivering tailored training to the Ethiopia Mine Action Office on gender-sensitive planning, prioritizing, and coordinating of the sector; and (4) collaborating with the Ethiopia Mine Action Office, to develop a National Technical Standard and Guidelines for humanitarian mine action operations in Ethiopia.

This project aims to support the operationalization of the axes of the Forest Strategy 2030 to prevent overexploitation and lack of valuation of the forest sector in Morocco. The project’s contribution to the implementation of the 2030 Forest Strategy will take the form of technical support, expertise and support on the ground, in order to help achieve the expected results. The activities of this project include: 1) differentiating and developing national parks and productive forests to maximise their efficiency in terms of valorisation, environmental preservation and conservation; 2) reinvent and restructure the participatory approach around local issues and based on incentives aimed at making the population the primary forest partner; 3) reform the institutions around agencies based on a legal framework adapted to the success of the implementation of dynamic management of spaces, open to partnerships and oriented towards performance.

The ‘Strengthening school canteens in Burkina Faso’ project seeks to improve children’s nutrition, particularly for girls in schools in the north of the country. The project would provide breakfast and lunch to children in 450 schools per year, with half of them targeting schools with displaced children. To increase local production capacities and individual skills, the project will provide financial and technical support to local producers, with a focus on women. Training provided will include climate-smart agricultural methods such as those that promote better usage of water and forest resources. In some communities, the project would use an innovative approach by providing meals based from the supported producers. Finally, the project would provide equipment and training to school employees to improve the performance and sustainability of school canteens. The project would reach 114,600 direct beneficiaries, (47,500 girls and 47,500 boys) as well as 19,600 local producers, community members and school workers, of which 10,192 are women.

This project seeks to advance gender equality in Colombia by improving the recognition, redistribution and reduction of unpaid care work disproportionally shouldered by women, which has been exacerbated during the pandemic. The project will: i) strengthen Colombian government capacities to design and implement a comprehensive set of policies, programmes and services to guarantee the rights of those providing and requiring care, with an institutional framework to respond, and the capacity to produce and use data related to the care economy; ii) support Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Women Rights Organizations (WROs) in advocating for a participatory, inclusive and accountable national and local care systems and participate in their design and implementation; iii) assist local governments in designing and implementing care solutions (e.g. care services for children, people with disabilities and elderly; introducing time saving technologies) specific to their local context; iv) scale-up local initiatives in partnership with the private sector, WROs and governments. The project would be funded by a combination of the Branch's reference levels ($3 million) and the Department's Strategic Priority Funds ($3 million) associated with the Prime Minister’s commitment on unpaid and paid care work.

The project is to develop a testbed to demonstrate a link to an optical ground station with a high-altitude platform (HAP). The ground-to-balloon optical links will create C-band (1550 nm) and novel mid-wave infrared (MWIR) transmitter/receiver pairs between a HAP and an optical ground station. The testbed will allow field testing of optical components to be used in optical SatCom for both C-band and MWIR links. This data will be invaluable to partners within the Consortium, as well as the broader scientific community at large. There is also strong potential in the future to use the ground station to collect data on atmospheric scintillation and weather effects on NIR/MWIR optical links in Canada.

The employee will be in charge of: programming games, implementing game mechanics, developing the user interface, integrating different modules.