Grants and Contributions

It enhances the knowledge and skills of government officials, particularly in assessing gender and environmental sustainability/climate change in planned infrastructure, developing bankable PPP projects, and governance, policy and coordination of the PPP sector.
Project activities include: (1) conducting an analytical screening of the government’s 2021-2025 Medium-Term Investment Plan of PPP projects to identify strong candidates for public tendering and prepare a feasibility study for a viable PPP project; (2) studying women’s needs and infrastructure development in Vietnam and assessing gender gap in the operations of a selected government agency; (3) preparing curriculum and recruiting candidates for women’s executive and internship programs; (4) providing training and workshops on skills-building to assess PPP proposals; (5) providing seminars, advice and policy support to the Vietnamese government on the implementation of the PPP Law.

The project aims to increase access to justice for victims of gender-based violence (GBV) in El Salvador, particularly women and girls, so that they can implement their rights more effectively.

This 12-month project with Regina Treaty / Status Indian Services Inc. will develop and implement a holistic program delivery approach that addresses the diverse needs of clients to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk Indigenous women and children.

This will be achieved by recruiting a clinical mental health counsellor, holding family support group sessions, delivering group counseling sessions, and working closely with partners in services such as addictions, mental health, shelter supports, training and employment, wellness programs, and other types of family supports.

At the end of the project, the organization will have the capacity to provide traditional cultural healing strategies and trauma-informed services to victims and survivors of Human Trafficking.

The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices.

Aligned with the Government of the Philippines’ post-coronavirus (COVID-19) recovery response, this project works to increase the productivity of cacao farms and enterprises, particularly those led by women, while promoting gender equality and resiliency in communities vulnerable to conflict and climate change.

Project activities include: (1) assessing needs, providing training and offering matching-grants to financial and business service providers in the cacao sector; (2) providing investment capital to financial intermediaries and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); (3) improving the farming and business practices of cacao smallholder farmers and co-operatives, through training and matching grants; (4) offering workshops and retreats to women and men cacao smallholder farmers, and appointing gender equality champions, to promote gender equality in households and communities; and (5) increasing awareness of the gender and environmental needs of cacao smallholder farms, SMEs and co-operatives through an advisory council.

Project activities include: (1) training women farmers on climate-smart agricultural processing and production, leadership, association-based entrepreneurship, and their fundamental rights, including the right to land; (2) integrating women farmers into existing literacy and financial literacy initiatives; (3) providing positive masculinity training to men and traditional leaders, including youths; (4) providing elected officials from cooperatives and agricultural unions with training on inclusive governance and financial management practices, as well as on gender equality; (5) providing cooperatives and unions with support to develop business models and fund agricultural projects that promote climate change adaptation in predominantly female value chains; (6) providing regional women’s organizations with support to advocate for women’s economic rights among officials and conduct awareness campaigns; and (7) building the operational capacity of the Fédération nationale des femmes rurales.

Project activities include: (1) strengthening health systems’ capacity to provide gender-responsive, COVID-19 and adolescent-friendly SRHR and psychosocial support services, including for CEFM, for unmarried and married adolescents girls; (2) improving sexual education for adolescent girls in and out of school, focusing on building decision-making, communication and risk reduction related to SRHR, sexual and gender-based violence, and CEFM; (3) enhancing adolescent girls and young women’s leadership capacity to challenge harmful gender norms and practices that impact SRHR; (4) empowering women’s organizations, men’s groups, faith/traditional leaders, and child protection influencers to address gender roles, cultural barriers and negative CEFM consequences; and (5) supporting families and communities to be COVID-19 responsive, while building the community’s capacity and the health care system to provide gender-responsive and adolescent-friendly information and services on COVID-19 prevention.

This project establishes a link between the skills system and infrastructure and economic development strategies, including promoting green enterprises to ensure long-term benefits for human capital development, sustainable employment and improved livelihoods. This project uses gender equality and women’s empowerment as a central theme to drive improvements in policy, skills and business service provision to empower Bangladeshi women.

This project aims to improve the protection and security of the most vulnerable human rights defenders (HRDs), especially women and Indigenous defenders, at-risk or currently under attack.
Project activities include: (1) providing training to increase HRDs’ knowledge of risk and protection measures; (2) providing legal, psychological, physical and other protection services with differentiated approaches to women's human rights defenders; (3) providing training to state and civil society actors, and communication campaigns to increase their knowledge of the role and importance of HRDs, especially women and Indigenous defenders; and (4) supporting the creation and/or consolidation of protection mechanisms for HRDs, such as policies, protocols, dialogue and coordination spaces by state and civil society actors, including specific mechanisms for women.

Project activities include the following: (i) delivering better family planning services and post-abortion care to more than 200,000 women and adolescent girls; (ii) raising awareness among more than 1,000,000 people through interactive radio programs or other kinds of campaigns on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and gender based violence (GBV); (iii) providing 465 community members, 120 female members of women’s groups, and at least 200 community health centre care providers and mobile midwives with training on SRH and GBV; (iv) training 16 district-level trainer-supervisors so as to ensure the sustainability and good governance of the health system; (v) holding sessions to lobby 150 key decision makers and policy leaders on SRH and GBV issues at the national and regional levels; and (vi) building the capacity of 20 media representatives to ensure awareness of and proper communication on the issues of gender inequality.

Project activities include: (1) delivering six training workshops to criminal justice practitioners in countries along the transnational smuggling routes leading to Canada to detect, investigate and prosecute migrant smuggling in a gender-informed manner; (2) providing ongoing mentoring and advisory services to selected practitioners handling migrant smuggling cases in investigating and collecting evidence; (3) holding two trans-regional meetings and/or conferences to take stock of trends, patterns and challenges in addressing migrant smuggling; and (4) producing an Assessment Report on trends and patterns of transcontinental migrant smuggling.