Grants and Contributions

With GAC’s support, Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) addresses the critical protection and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ethiopia’s conflict-affected Tigray region. Project activities include: (1) providing unconditional cash grants, shelter materials, and essential household items to affected households; and (2) restoring damaged water and sanitation facilities serving IDP sites and host communities. The project also includes a longer-term development component, through which CLWR addresses gender equality, economic empowerment and local climate change resilience by, respectively, (3) supporting livelihoods and income generating activities for women and other vulnerable people; and (4) developing community-level climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies.

May 2022 – The humanitarian situation in Ukraine deteriorated significantly following the Russian military offensive beginning February 24.This has resulted in an estimated 5 million people displaced to neighbouring countries including Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, and nearly 8 million people internally displaced. The UN estimates that over 12 million people need immediate humanitarian assistance. On March 1, 2022, humanitarian partners issued appeals for approximately US$2 billion to support the humanitarian response inside Ukraine and the humanitarian needs of Ukrainians seeking refuge in neighbouring countries. In light of the complexity of the crisis, it is anticipated that humanitarian needs will grow. This requires ongoing donor support to allow partners to scale up their humanitarian response in Ukraine and neighbouring countries.

This project aims to foster gender responsive parliamentary governance across 19 Latin American countries through regional network building, technical assistance, and capacity development of parliamentarians, parliamentary staff, women’s advocates and civil society. The project seeks to dismantle political, structural and legislative barriers to gender equality and women’s empowerment.

The project implements activities to strengthen the capacities of parliamentary stakeholders for national and collaborative gender-sensitive actions across a range of sustainable development issues, including climate change, which are not often seen as gender issues. By tackling existing challenges to women’s meaningful participation in parliamentary action, the project supports advocacy to fight and adapt to climate change in the region.

Increasing the capacity of media professionals in Sri Lanka to identify, investigate and report mis/disinformation ethically, through interactive trainings.

Strengthening the Capacity of Bhutanese Media for Climate Change Reporting through capacity building and other tools required for reporting.

Strengthening the capacity of the journalists in Bhutan to bring out the voices of rural marginalised genders to mainstream media by women and queer journalists.

Creating awareness amongst the Bhutanese people on menstrual hygiene through improved menstrual health and
hygiene management and access to sustainable sanitary pads for women and girls.

Promoting economic resilience through empowerment and vocational training of vulnerable women and youth including Venezuelan migrants and host community members in Bartica, Region 7

The purpose of this project is to provide funding to the association to support market development activities to expand export opportunities for the Canadian wood products industry.

This project will significantly increase the features and functions of an existing platform for a novel system which has successfully shown in lab results to provide significant accuracy and advanced automation from comparable industry systems.