Grants and Contributions

Project activities include: (1) providing gender-responsive nutrition services through targeted health facilities treating severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) cases in girls and boys under 5 and Pregnant and Lactating Women and girls; (2) training health workers on optimal gender-responsive Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies practices; (3) establishing and maintaining waste segregation and disposal systems in targeted Health Facilities (HFs); (4) distributing hygiene kits to families of children with SAM and MAM cases in targeted HFs; and (5) providing gender-responsive protection services including referral, case management, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support at community level and at identified Sexual and Gender-based violence shelters.

Project activities include: (1) distributing multipurpose cash assistance; (2) providing health and nutrition services, including immunizations and treatments for severe and moderate acute malnutrition; (3) raising awareness through campaigns on preventing water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) related diseases; (4) case management; and (5) training child protection committees and community leaders to identify and respond to child protection, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), and sexual exploitation and abuse.

The region also experiences a lack of health services and a substantial increase in sexual and gender-based violence(GBV), used as a weapon of terror and a source of extortion against an already vulnerable population.

This toolkit will also be translated into French and will be used by organizations to improve access to services for Two-Spirit, Trans, and Gender-Diverse folks accessing organizations, and to improve organizations’ ability to retain Two-Spirit, Trans, and Gender Diverse employees.

Through this 14-month systemic change project, The Canadian Association for Girls and Science (CAGIS) will help advance the economic security and prosperity of girls and gender-diverse youth in the ON, Prairies, and Pacific Regions.

Through this 24-month project, the Portail VIH/sida du Québec will address 2SLGBTQI+ communities’ needs and barriers to equality. To achieve this, the organization will conduct a literature review on sex education in Quebec, focusing on issues surrounding HIV, sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs), and inclusivity in connection with 2SLGBTQI+ realities. They will produce, record, and promote a series of documentary podcasts on the topic, and they will include a diversity of voices and experiences. They will develop a new workshop to promote more inclusive sex education and then deliver it for free to parents, educators, healthcare professionals, and community partners across the province. They will also develop additional tools to bolster the inclusion of 2SLGBTQI+ youth in sex education and HIV and STBBI prevention, and they will use various communication channels to ensure the target audience can access and use these tools.

Project activities include: (1) strengthening gender-inclusive WASH facilities in health facilities; (2) strengthening emergency water assets and water trucking support in at-risk communities; (3) strengthening emergency sanitation infrastructure in at-risk communities; and (4) providing emergency cholera hygiene kits and promoting hygiene awareness.

With GAC’s support, Canadian Lutheran World Relief supports access to gender-responsive protection and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) response services in crisis-affected communities, focusing on women and girls.

Project activities include: (1) restoring water points and sanitation facilities; (2) distributing non-food items or multi-purpose cash grants; and (3) providing protection services to mitigate the increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) for vulnerable women and girls.

It seeks to increase the provision of and access to safe, inclusive, gender-sensitive education for girls, through efforts to reduce physical, structural and social barriers to girls’ education in flood-affected communities.