Grants and Contributions

This 32 month project with Covenant House Vancouver will develop and implement intervention practices that will advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for youth aged 16 to 24 at risk of, or survivors of, sexual exploitation and human trafficking in Vancouver.

This will be achieved by researching, drafting, distributing and evaluating a practice guide, tool kit, and training model to support frontline staff and community partners to provide empowerment supports for trafficked youth.

At the end of the project the organization will have strengthened policies and practices with respect to human trafficking and sexual exploitation of youth. CHV staff will be fully trained and supported to implement best practices, and the tool kit generated by the project will be shared at a training session for community partners.

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

The supplement funds will be used to address higher project-related costs than what was budgeted in the project outset.

This 30-month project will convene a network of national racialized, immigrant and refugee women’s alliance in Canada. The organization will develop a project charter to guide its engagement with grassroots and other racialized, immigrant and refugee women’s groups to map out needs, interests and viability. The organization will carry out a needs assessment, develop an action plan to advance racialized, immigrant and refugee women's prosperity and address priority challenges.

The additional funding of $10,000 will cover the cost to allow women from the Atlantic and Pacific regions to attend the organization’s National Summit of Racialized, Immigrant and Refugee Women.

Project activities include: (1) distributing learning and communication materials/ gadgets; (2) developing a parenting program that provides cash assistance and training on gender-equitable parenting; (3) improving capacity building within care institutions; (4) developing home-based assessments for government to monitor children’s learning and well-being; and (5) establishing communication platforms to strengthen stakeholder engagement.

Project activities include: (1) providing monthly food assistance to families via a food e-card; and (2) providing technical assistance to enhance governance and gender-sensitivity of Lebanon’s national social assistance program.

This 38-month project with the Sudbury and Area Victim Services/Services aux victimes du grand Sudbury (SAVS) will develop and implement promising practices through the design and implementation of the Holistic Arts-Based Program (HAP) to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk populations and survivors of human trafficking in Northern Ontario.

This will be achieved by 1) delivering the HAP through group facilitation in the Sudbury Area; 2) empowering youth to gain self-compassion, empathy, and effective coping strategies; and 3) delivering trauma-informed materials to youth groups.

At the end of the project, the organization will have 1) delivered HAP to at-risk populations and survivors of human trafficking, including at-risk females and LGBTQ2S+ youth; 2) provided real-life skills training on mindfulness and self-awareness to youth; and 3) enhanced availability of trauma-informed bilingual materials in the Sudbury Area.

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

In doing so, it aims at enhancing development and implementation of gender responsive Government of Canada global refugee education campaign informed by technical; and strategic advice of refugee and displaced girls, boys and youth. Project activities include: (1) conducting regular coordination meetings with Refugee Education Council and specialized sub-working caucuses; (2) providing training in leadership, communication and advocacy awareness and skills to Refugee Education Council members; and (3) developing an Advisory Council-led Gender Responsive Action Plans.

This 38-month project with Victim Services Toronto will develop and implement promising prevention practices to advance knowledge of school leaders and to enhance empowerment supports for at-risk youth population and survivors of human trafficking.

This will be achieved by engaging key partners and stakeholders in a Human Trafficking Advisory Collaborative Committee, conducting human trafficking professional learning webinars, and developing and distributing a human trafficking tip sheet for school leaders.

At the end of the project, the organization will have developed an effective and replicable human trafficking professional learning model for school leaders which can be implemented across Canada.

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

This project aims to sustain the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring Evaluation Commission (RJMEC)’s critical role in the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS). This project works to advance the permanent constitution-making process, increase public awareness of the implementation of the R-ARCSS, bolster the RJMEC Secretariat’s engagement with transitional institutions and mechanisms, and enhance RJMEC’s staff capacity. The RJMEC’s mandate under the R-ARCSS is to steer South Sudan through the transitional period until the 2022 planned elections, and to promote provisions implementation as described in this peace agreement.
Project activities include: (1) the monitoring and overseeing the implementation of the R-ARCSS and the Reconstituted Transitional Government of National Unity mandate and tasks, including adherence of the Parties to the agreed timelines and implementation schedule; (2) facilitating the establishment and the operationalization of security mechanisms critical to the R-ARCSS; and (3) building the capacity of relevant actors, institutions and mechanisms critical for the successful implementation and effective monitoring of the peace process. A Chairperson heads the RJMEC, supported by a Secretariat.

Project activities include: (1) promoting the collection and dissemination of data and modelling COVID-19’s impact on nutrition with a focus on how gender and other inequalities can be addressed; (2) increasing the effectiveness of COVID-19 response programming for nutrition by generating and disseminating nutrition data on women, children and vulnerable populations to inform decision-making; and (3) synthesizing and harmonizing data to inform national and global nutrition policies and program priorities.

•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).