Grants and Contributions

The purpose of this funding is to support English River First Nation in hosting a traditional sweat lodge ceremony in Saskatoon and Cold Lake performed by Elders.

The Caribbean regional logistics hub and centre for excellence serves as a central location to strengthen the region’s ability to efficiently respond to humanitarian emergencies. The Hub, co-led by the World Food Programme, supports the prepositioning and deploying emergency relief supplies, including food and basic items, and logistics capabilities and expertise in the Caribbean for emergency responses. With Global Affairs Canada's support, the WFP supports emergency preparedness and relief operations in the Caribbean. The project aims to enable timely and efficient emergency responses from WFP and for other humanitarian partners. Project activities include: (1) pre-positioning, procuring, distributing and transporting essential food and non-food items for crisis-affected people in official development assistance-eligible countries in the Caribbean; and (2) providing logistics equipment and technical assistance to impacted countries and humanitarian partners.

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement relies on national societies such as the Canadian Red Cross to maintain personnel resources available for additional capacity and surge support to its humanitarian response operations worldwide. Canada maintains a robust humanitarian toolkit that enables rapid responses to crisis including through supporting the deployment of humanitarian experts.

With GAC’s support, the Canadian Red Cross is deploying technical personnel to respond to humanitarian emergency operations of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Project activities include: (1) supporting the deployment of humanitarian experts; and (2) providing pre- and post- deployment services and training.

The project consists of in-depth qualitative interviews with Canadian Armed Forces Veterans to explore the experience of participating in disaster relief support with focus on occupation training, career impacts, military-to-civilian transition, and health outcomes.

Support Indigenous groups as they develop, grow and maintain aquatic resource and oceans management departments that can provide fisheries, habitat, science, and oceans related services along a watershed.

To encourage scientific research and related scientific activities (e. g. data collection, integration, monitoring, and communication, including communication via conferences and symposia) and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the areas of: (a) Fisheries and Aquaculture Science; (b) Ecosystem Science; (c) Oceanography and Modelling; and (d) Freshwater Science.

Contributes to the recovery of endangered, threatened, and other species of concern, by engaging Canadians in conservation actions to benefit wildlife and to protect aquatic species at risk.

To promote awareness of, and involvement in, conservation, protection and restoration of Canadian Pacific fish stocks and habitat to achieve healthy, sustainable and naturally diverse stocks and habitat.

Grant awarded under the Participant Funding Program to Nibinamik First Nation to help it prepare for and engage in Indigenous consultation activities and public participation opportunities related to the assessment process for the Webequie Supply Road Project.

The goal of the project is to add a storm drain as well as an outfall or any other solution to safely drain the roadway of Ducharme Boulevard, which faces several excessive accumulations of rainwater (leading to untimely closures of the boulevard and posing a safety hazard for the community).