Grants and Contributions

Project activities include: (1) building the capacity of adolescent girls to exercise their rights and demand services related to their sexual and reproductive health; (2) engaging men, boys, and communities to support gender equality and the rights of adolescent girls; (3) ensuring the availability of commodities and supplies in local health facilities; (4) building the capacity of service providers at multiple levels to ensure availability of quality services related to gender-based prevention and response, social protection, and social justice; (5) addressing policy implementation, regulatory and accountability bottlenecks; (6) strengthening the capacity of institutions and regulatory bodies to coordinate and standardize delivery of quality services; and (7) encouraging meaningful participation of young people to demand accountability.

Specifically, the project will focus on 4 main activity areas. (1) Purchase and install way-finding signage in key locations of existing trail systems and develop self-guided maps and itineraries aimed at cyclists that elevates the visitor experience and encourages extended visits. (2) Develop and promote self-guided tours in conjunction with motorcycle and car clubs to encourage visits to regional assets. (3) Develop and promote digitized self-guided tours for regional assets, heritage sites and cultural attractions aimed at visitors and residents. (4) Coordinate with cities and municipalities within Waterloo Region to develop a comprehensive digitized map of all cycling, walking and hiking trails on a platform that includes hotels, restaurants, major attractions and gamefies use to include value-added incentives from local businesses. The project is anticipated to create 1 and maintain 2 jobs.

The community league assessed its aged building to make it a new net zeron carbon, energy efficient and fully accessible and properly suited to the needs of the local community. Building assessments ultimately determined a failed structure 50 years ahead of its life expectancy and costs to repair the building were too high and would not improve energy efficiency, program needs or accessibility.

Training will be undertaken with member societies and a range of federal, provincial and local stakeholders and processes standardized for access to justice across the organization.

The project will then develop evidence-based and culturally appropriate promising strategies to address violence again girls by organizing local community protection plans for victims of gender-based violence and female genital mutilation.

A series of activities will be undertaken to build national, provincial/territorial and local capacity, including through training and research to guide the creation of resource manuals that share best practices on leadership, board governance, Indigenous-specific gender-based analysis and partnership development, collaboration and networking and strategic planning.

Sex and gender differences exist in the objectives above, making sex and/or gender issues an important component of this research initiative. CIHR will require applicants to consider sex as a biological variable and gender as a socio-cultural factor in their research.

This project also supports Iraq’s recovery from conflict by funding FFS initiatives that have the potential for longer-term development impact, with a focus on livelihoods projects.

The project will focus on girls, adolescent & women, including those experiencing disabilities, internally displaced people (IDPs), migrants, refugees, LGBTI youth and young mothers.

The initiative will address a main push factor of irregular and forced migration – the lack of safe, equitable, flexible, quality and relevant educational and training opportunities.

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• Foster knowledge mobilization and impact: Foster knowledge mobilization activities throughout the research process to inform the local adaptation, implementation and adoption of integrated care policies and interventions at the community-level and/or population levels.