Grants and Contributions

Enhance public safety features on exhibition grounds.

Support for construction of fisheries maintenance and repair facility

Support for construction of fisheries maintenance and repair facility

Provide startup programming, mentorship, and operational support

Strengthening access to legal and economic resources for the LGBTIQ+ community in the Western Province through workshops and legal aid.

Advancing the economic empowerment of women in the Sabaragamuwa province through tailored capacity-building and entrepreneurial support

Canada's Fisheries Fund will transform and drive innovation in the fish and seafood sector in Canada with a focus on developing the sector to better meet growing market demands for sustainably sourced, high-quality fish and seafood products.

March 2022 – Humanitarian needs stemming from the crises in Syria and Iraq remain significant throughout the Middle East. Continued violence in Syria raises little prospects for the voluntary, safe, sustainable and dignified return of over 5.6 million refugees in the region. Internally displaced persons range in the millions in Syria and Iraq, and refugees facing protracted displacement in host countries continue to face acute humanitarian needs in Jordan and Lebanon. Yemen continues to face one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises, with approximately 20.7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. In Libya, an estimated 823,000 people, including around 248,000 children, are in-need of humanitarian assistance as a result of persisting political instability, conflict and insecurity, the breakdown of the rule of law, a deteriorating public sector and a dysfunctional economy.

With GAC’s support, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) supports the coordination of humanitarian responses to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) across the Middle East, namely in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Libya and Syria. Project activities include: (1) improving , informing and implementing cluster SGBV and SRH services and strategies; (2) monitoring and evaluating the performance of the GBV and SRH responses, including producing informational and analytical products; and (3) building the capacity of frontline, local and national SGBV-response and SRH actors to provide quality SGBV and SRH responses.

February 2022 - The conflict in northern Ethiopia is well into its second year and has given rise to one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. An estimated 9.4 million people in the three conflict-affected states currently require humanitarian assistance, including up to 90% of the population of the Tigray region. Displacement, disruption of livelihoods, and constraints on humanitarian access have left at least 400,000 people facing famine conditions and human rights abuses, including widespread sexual violence, have marked the conflict since its outset.

With GAC’s support, Save the Children addresses the essential health, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), and protection needs of conflict-affected populations in Ethiopia’s Afar region. Project activities include: (1) providing material and technical support to local health facilities and operating mobile health units in hard-to-reach areas; (2) restoring damaged water and sanitation facilities serving internally displaced persons sites and host communities; and (3) training health providers and local authorities to better address critical protection needs. The project also includes a development component, through which Save the Children addresses the longer-term sustainability of the above health, WASH, and protection outcomes through (4) system strengthening activities; and addresses gender inequity faced by women and girls through (5) improved sexual and reproductive health and rights and sexual and gender-based violence services and responses.

Strengthening access to legal and economic resources for the LGBTIQ+ community in the Western Province through workshops and legal aid.