Grants and Contributions

This project supports the Government of Iraq in implementing the National Strategy to Combat Violent Extremism. This strategy aims to enhance the Government`s capacity to analyze and respond to drivers of violent extremism in high-risk communities. Project activities include: (1) developing and delivering the prevention of violent extremism (PVE) capacity-building curriculum for the Government of Iraq ministers and institutions; (2) developing and delivering community engagement protocol for practitioners and service providers engaged with communities exposed to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant narratives; and (3) providing sub-grant funding to local government, and civil society and community-based organizations to implement PVE plan of action initiatives.

This project seeks to improve the understanding and implementation of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), particularly among Venezuelan migrants and refugees. The project aims to increase the protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), in all their diversity, in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Project activities include: (1) training on prevention of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) for adolescent girls and boys, SRHR, gender-transformative life skills and transformative masculinities; (2) training frontline protection and health service providers in gender-and adolescent-responsive and inclusive protection and SRHR service provision; (3) providing equipment and supplies for SRHR service providers, including menstrual health needs; (4) implementing a communications strategy to challenge negative gender norms, promote AGYW`s rights, the role of men and boys as allies, and the prevention of xenophobia; and (5) strengthening the capacity of local organizations, particularly women’s rights organizations, youth-led organizations and migrants rights organizations through virtual learning and multi-country exchange sessions for project staff and key actors.

The project aims to reach 122, 619 beneficiaries (65% women) aged 10 to 29. It directly benefits frontline protection and healthcare staff, community leaders, parents, caregivers, and partners. It also supports women’s rights organizations, youth-led organizations, migrant and refugee organizations and healthcare and protection facilities in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

The first replenishment of the Green Climate Fund (GCF-1) aims to build on the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) existing portfolio to deepen its support to key transformative initiatives identified by countries in each of its eight results areas (energy generation and access; transport; buildings, cities, industries and appliances; forests and land use; health, food and water security; livelihoods of people and communities; ecosystems and ecosystem services; infrastructure and the built environment) to achieve the Paris Agreement goals.

This project aims to advance the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of adolescent girls and young women in Cox's Bazar host communities and refugee camps. Project activities include: (1) organizing young married women’s groups and training them on gender equality and inclusion, SRHR, mental health support, protection and decision-making; (2) training members of men’s clubs on gender equality and inclusion, SRHR, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and mental health; (3) training facility and community-based service providers on gender- and adolescent-responsive and inclusive service delivery and referral on sexual and reproductive health (SRH), SGBV and mental health; (4) refurbishing and equipping government and partner health care facilities and supplying them with job aids and logistics to provide gender- and adolescent-responsive and inclusive SRH, SGBV and mental health support services; (5) identifying, local women’s rights organizations and linking them with local young women’s groups and adolescent girls’ groups for collective local action on gender equality, SGBV, SRHR, mental health and harmful traditional practices.

LEAP targets marginalized groups in Rohingya camps and host communities facing multifaceted dimensions of exclusion. LEAP aims to directly reach more than 79,000 people, including 49,873 women and girls, in four unions (the lowest administrative unit) in Ukhiya and Teknaf subdistricts, seven unions in Ramu subdistrict, eight unions in Cox’s Bazar Sadar subdistrict and two Rohingya refugee camps (for 7,000 of these women and girls).

Capacity building support delivered through IOM Iraq’s Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE) programme.

The project aims to strengthen social cohesion in Tajikistan through provision of more effective, better coordinated support by actors engaged in supporting implementation and monitoring of the new PVE Strategy II, in line with the principles of ‘do no harm’, human rights, gender equality and conflict sensitivity. The activities will do this through supporting amendments/ recommendations to the key law, policies and programmes in the C/PVE domain and development of a detailed M&E system which will strengthen monitoring of implementation of the Strategy both at the national and local levels. In line with the recommendations of CTED, the project will also create/strengthen platforms and mechanisms of cooperation and exchange of information on PVE in collaboration with communities and CSOs.

This project will aim to provide comprehensive support to the Government of Bangladesh to strengthen community policing in order to counter terrorism and violent extremism in Bangladesh. Along with strengthening the Community Police Units and capacities of the Community Police Officers, in line with the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy and the Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism, the project will also aim to support and strengthen the government efforts to design, establish and implement the relevant key components of a Bangladesh national counter-terrorism strategy, including strengthening capacities of Anti-Terrorism Unit as lead agency for countering violent extremism.

The project aims to address the terrorism-arms-crime nexus, by enhancing criminal justice responses to prevent and combat the illicit trafficking of SALW and to disrupt the illicit supply of such arms to terrorist groups. The project aims to build the capacities of border control, customs, criminal justice officials, and legislators. The project will contribute to the enhancement of national legislative, strategic, and operational capacities of the Central Asian countries to properly prevent, detect, and counter the firearms trafficking and consequently the associated activities of terrorism and organized crime. Through its regional component, the project contributes to a higher level of cooperation and cohesion in addressing firearms trafficking and related issues.

The purpose of this CanExport Associations contribution agreement is to support organizations and ultimately aims to increase the competitiveness of Canadian companies, in the international marketplace, on a sectoral basis, thereby contributing to Canadian prosperity and the growth of the Canadian economy. This financial support enables the recipient to undertake new or expanded international business development promotion activities, in a given sector, for the benefit of its entire industry (member and non-member firms).

UNICEF uses these funds to recruit and assign up to two young Canadians to JPO positions, allowing them to gain field-based professional experience in international development and help support the organization's mandate towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.