Grants and Contributions

Animated episodes and lesson plans will be translated into local dialects and formatted for both in-class and distance learning. Social messages on gender equality, and non-violence, among others, will be conveyed through comic books and posters, customized radio theatre, and TV broadcast. Additionally, teachers and parents/caregivers will be trained on pedagogies that promote peace, human rights, and gender equality.

The project will benefit 50,000 children, including 30,000 girls, in 100 schools in the BARMM.

This 37-month project with Angels of Hope Against Human Trafficking will develop and implement promising intervention practices that will entail trauma-informed mental health and harm-reduction focused addictions counselling and implementation of peer support programs to advance knowledge and enhance long-term, bilingual empowerment supports for survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation in Northeastern Ontario. Specifically, the project will center the lived experiences of survivors, including Indigenous women and girls, and specific challenges, including intergenerational trauma, racism, colonization and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

This will be achieved by providing trauma-informed mental health and harm-reduction focused addictions counselling to address trauma, developing coping skills, and building individualized care plans; implementing peer support programs for survivors to share their experiences rebuilding their lives, regaining independence and restoring relationships with family and community; and conducting an external evaluation of the pilot project while documenting the impact of the services provided on survivors of human trafficking.

At the end of the project, the organization will have:
1. Helped restore relationships between survivors and their families and communities to inspire healing through peer support programs for survivors and loved ones;
2. Improved wellbeing for survivors facing mental health and addictions challenges through peer support programs as well as ongoing trauma-informed, harm-reduction focused addictions and mental health/trauma counselling;
3. Supported survivors in regaining their independence and reintegrating into their communities;
4. Expanded empowerment supports in northern, rural and remote regions of Northeastern Ontario, including for underserved populations;
5. Documented the impact of the services provided on vulnerable populations through attendance records and case management software.

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

• Incorporating sex and gender into health research makes for better science that is more rigorous and more applicable to the needs of everybody. The Institute of Gender and Health (IGH) will provide bridge funding for applications that are relevant to its mandate:
o CIHR-IGH mandate is to foster research excellence regarding the influence of sex and gender on health and to apply these findings to identify and address pressing health challenges facing men, women, girls, boys and gender-diverse people.
• These one (1) year operating grants afford Principal Investigators an opportunity to resubmit their research proposal without the loss of momentum, staff, or trainees.

• Incorporating sex and gender into health research makes for better science that is more rigorous and more applicable to the needs of everybody. The Institute of Gender and Health (IGH) will provide bridge funding for applications that are relevant to its mandate:
o CIHR-IGH mandate is to foster research excellence regarding the influence of sex and gender on health and to apply these findings to identify and address pressing health challenges facing men, women, girls, boys and gender-diverse people.
• These one (1) year operating grants afford Principal Investigators an opportunity to resubmit their research proposal without the loss of momentum, staff, or trainees.

• Incorporating sex and gender into health research makes for better science that is more rigorous and more applicable to the needs of everybody. The Institute of Gender and Health (IGH) will provide bridge funding for applications that are relevant to its mandate:
o CIHR-IGH mandate is to foster research excellence regarding the influence of sex and gender on health and to apply these findings to identify and address pressing health challenges facing men, women, girls, boys and gender-diverse people.
• These one (1) year operating grants afford Principal Investigators an opportunity to resubmit their research proposal without the loss of momentum, staff, or trainees.

Project activities include: (1) Providing Technical Assistance to the Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency to establish a functional gender unit within the agency, develop gender toolkits, guidelines, and plans for PHC and Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) programming; (2) Training frontline health workers on adolescent friendly sexual and reproductive health and gender equality for RMNCAH programming; (3) Training key policy makers and health program managers of the Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency on Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Gender Equality in PHC and RMNCAH service delivery; (4) Facilitating mobilization exercises for men and boys on positive masculinity and gender-responsive behaviors in RMNCAH services; and (5) Training women support groups on RMNCAH, Gender Equality, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, women leadership, and strengthening women’s agency.

Mines Advisory Group works to improve stakeholders' abilities to include gender considerations and gender-sensitive initiatives in ammunition and weapons management activities. It seeks to understand SALW impact on communities through a gendered lens.

Project activities include: (1) providing training and technical support for the destruction and disabling of weapons and ammunition; (2) increasing waste management of ammunition remnants; (3) providing technical support for the marking of weapons; (4) conducting a feasibility study on weapons tracing; (5) mitigating threats of explosive ordnance through education; (5) integrating gender considerations in arms management; (6) advocating for a national policy on the management of seized weapons; and (7) identifying alternate sources of income for artisanal weapons producers.

•The Healthy Cities Research Initiative is a multi-institute initiative co-led by the Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH), Institute of Aging (IA), Institute of Gender and Health (IGH), Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR), Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health (IIPH), Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA), and the Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes (INMD).

• The CIHR Personalized Health Initiative, in partnership with CIHR’s Institutes of Aging (IA); Cancer Research (ICR), Gender and Health (IGH); Genetics (IG); and Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR) will offer funding for applications that are determined to be specifically relevant to CIHR’s Personalized Health Initiative as described below.
o Building on the investments made through CIHR’s Personalized Health Initiative, this priority announcement aims to maximize these previous investments driving evidence-based implementation of Personalized Health approaches by increasing the sharing of real-world data application and data management at the international level.

• The CIHR Personalized Health Initiative, in partnership with CIHR’s Institutes of Aging (IA); Cancer Research (ICR), Gender and Health (IGH); Genetics (IG); and Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR) will offer funding for applications that are determined to be specifically relevant to CIHR’s Personalized Health Initiative as described below.
o Building on the investments made through CIHR’s Personalized Health Initiative, this priority announcement aims to maximize these previous investments driving evidence-based implementation of Personalized Health approaches by increasing the sharing of real-world data application and data management at the international level.