Grants and Contributions

The United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) primary mandate is to oversee the coordination of international humanitarian responses, in partnership with national and international actors, to achieve more coherent and effective humanitarian action. This grant represents Canada’s support to the UN Country-Based Pooled Funds, managed by OCHA, in Myanmar, Ukraine, Venezuela, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and the Regionally-hosted Pooled Fund (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger).

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) primary mandate is to oversee the coordination of international humanitarian responses, in partnership with national and international actors, in order to achieve more coherent and effective humanitarian action. This grant represents Canada’s country- and regional-level support to OCHA in emergency contexts.

The United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) primary mandate is to oversee the coordination of international humanitarian responses, in partnership with national and international actors, facilitating the achievement of more coherent and effective humanitarian action.

With the support of GAC and other donors, OCHA fulfills its mandate in Afghanistan.

This project aims to support the Government of Indonesia in establishing healthier blue carbon ecosystems that can help Indonesia better adapt and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Blue carbon refers to carbon sequestered and stored in coastal and marine ecosystems such as mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrasses. Projects activities include: (1) promoting the full integration of blue carbon ecosystems into national development and climate change strategies; (2) positioning blue carbon as the sixth component in Indonesia’s Nationally Determined Contribution plan; and (3) incorporating blue carbon within the national monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system. Direct project beneficiaries include over 1,000 policymakers at national and subnational levels (40% women). Indirect beneficiaries include many coastal communities – particularly women, youth and other vulnerable populations. Also, these communities would benefit from having biodiversity and livelihood of better-managed blue carbon ecosystems.

This project continues and builds on past support to the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) and seeks to address urgent peacebuilding needs in fragile and conflict-affected states through locally-led, gender and youth-responsive, catalytic investments. Project activities include: (1) supporting fast and flexible initiatives that address gender and youth inclusion; (2) facilitating United Nations transitions from peacekeeping to local level peacebuilding; and (3) supporting cross-border and regional programs.

The far-field radiation pattern of the OPA array is formed by the coherent superposition of the radiation of each individual nano-antenna.

Project activities include: (1) providing training and technical assistance to build capacity of government institutions; (2) establishing systems necessary for better governance and service delivery, such as a national social registry; (3) serving as a platform for coherent policy dialogue between government and development partners on reform priorities and how to achieve them; (4) collecting and publishing fiscal data to support transparent public financial management; and (5) preparing a policy and legislative framework required to support women’s economic inclusion through the Women’s Economic Enterprise Fund.

NRC single-section passively mode-locked InP quantum dot and quantum dash
ridge-waveguide lasers are capable of data rates up to 20 Tbit/s from a single
laser and over a single optical fiber, achieved through a combination of pulse
amplitude modulation or quadrature amplitude modulation, and wavelength
division multiplexing among >40 coherent optical channels. This technology has
potential to increase dramatically the bandwidth and efficiency of optical
networks while reducing overall cost and parts count, improving data and
communications with remote regions across Canada.

These different analysis perspectives will be
integrated in a single, open-source software tool and database infrastructure
to ensure optimal use of available data and coherent guidance.

The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) has reached over 59 million globally and doubled over the last ten years, with women, children and marginalized groups often facing the greatest impacts. Conflict, violence, and natural disasters are internal displacement’s largest drivers. A common thread across these crises is the significant number of IDPs in protracted situations and the lack of progress on self-sufficiency and durable solutions. This overstretched the humanitarian system’s capacity to support IDPs.
This project contributes to Canada's support of the Office of the Special Adviser (OSA) to the UN Secretary-General on Solutions to Internal Displacement. With GAC's support, the OSA promotes a more effective, transparent, and accountable global humanitarian system in response to internal displacement.

The Office of the Special Adviser on Solutions to Internal Displacement mobilizes action on protracted displacement. It catalyzes a change in approach in how the UN system and other actors engage on this issue. Canada directs its contributions to United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA, which serves as Secretariat in supporting the OSA.

Project activities include: (1) taking preventive actions on displacement, especially on Climate Change; (2) promoting more solutions-friendly, humanitarian-lead responses to displacement; (3) modelling development-lead solutions pathways; and (4) creating the enabling internal and external environment or architecture for a new approach to solutions.