Grants and Contributions

Additionally, it will focus on addressing the lack of gender analysis in Northern climate disaster management, strengthening local leadership structures, and fostering sustained Indigenous engagement.

To achieve this, the organization will collaborate with and engage frontline workers and sexually and gender-diverse people in the Haut-Saint-François region to determine their specific needs.

Project activities include: (1) restoring water points and sanitation facilities; (2) supporting local health facilities; and (3) providing protection services to mitigate the increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) for vulnerable women and girls.

Also, hunger, displacement and conflict increase the risk of sexual and gender-based violence, especially for the most vulnerable.

Also, hunger, displacement and conflict increase the risk of sexual and gender-based violence, especially for the most vulnerable

This is frequently due to societal norms that deprioritize their needs or to the breakdown of local protection mechanisms increasing their vulnerability to sexual and gender-based violence. This is particularly true in situations of conflict or insecurity such as those in Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Somalia, and South Sudan.

With GAC’s support, Oxfam Canada and Quebec help provide a multi-sectoral humanitarian response to address sexual and gender-based violence within crisis-affected communities in Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Somalia, and South Sudan.

Project activities include: (1) restoring water points and sanitation facilities in drought-affected communities; (2) providing unconditional cash grants or food vouchers to food insecure households; and (3) strengthening local protection services to mitigate the increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) for vulnerable women and girls.

December 2024 - As a result of the ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces, Sudan faces a complex and unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Its characteristics comprise massive protection violations, the displacement of over 11 million people and dire levels of acute food insecurity and malnutrition in many parts of the country. More than 680,000 Sudanese refugees require assistance in eastern Chad. Also, more than 180,000 Sudanese refugees and 630,000 South Sudanese returnees require assistance in South Sudan.

With GAC’s support, Plan International Canada helps provide life-saving multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA), child protection support and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to vulnerable refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities in Ouaddaï in Chad, Upper Nile in South Sudan and North Darfur in Sudan. Project activities include: (1) providing urgent child case protection management; (2) establishing and operating child- and adolesce

Through this 26-month project, Spark Your Pride – Culture, History and Arts Organization of Saskatchewan Inc. will address the needs and barriers to equality for 2SLGBTQI+ communities. This will be achieved by collecting oral histories and photos from 2SLGBTQI+ seniors throughout Saskatchewan, developing strategies and tools to help share those stories, building a network of 2SLGBTQI+ seniors provincially and nationally, conducting research, and developing a theatre piece to engage 2SLGBTQI+ youth with the history of 2SLGBTQI+ people in Saskatchewan.

The initiative focuses on responding to the urgent health, nutrition, and protection needs of particularly vulnerable groups, including pregnant and lactating women, persons with disabilities, adolescents and young mothers, infants and children under 5, and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Project activities include: (1) providing primary health services via health facilities and mobile teams, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and psycho-social support (PSS); (2) supporting the rehabilitation and maintenance of health facilities providing essential services to crisis-affected populations; (3) distributing dignity, hygiene and essential kits to targeted women and girls; (4) establishing and training of community liaisons and outreach groups on key health, protection, and nutrition issues, including SRH, SGBV, protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), and infant and young child feeding (IYCF); (5) conducting regular screening and monitoring for moderate and severe acute malnutrition (MAM and SAM); (6) providing nutrition treatment services and referrals for MAM and SAM cases; (7) establishing maternal, infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN) safe spaces in health facilities; (8) establishing and maintaining women and girls safe spaces, including PSS, case management and referral services for SGBV; (9) and organizing SGBV awareness campaigns with key stakeholders, such as community leaders and relevant security actors.