Grants and Contributions

The Discovery Grants Program assists in promoting and maintaining a diversified base of high-quality research capability in the natural sciences and engineering in Canadian universities; fostering research excellence; and providing a stimulating environment for research training.

The Discovery Grants Program assists in promoting and maintaining a diversified base of high-quality research capability in the natural sciences and engineering in Canadian universities; fostering research excellence; and providing a stimulating environment for research training.

The Discovery Grants Program assists in promoting and maintaining a diversified base of high-quality research capability in the natural sciences and engineering in Canadian universities; fostering research excellence; and providing a stimulating environment for research training.

Museums Assistance Program - Museum Assistance Program-Collections Management

Canada Arts Presentation Fund - Programming Support

Canada Arts Presentation Fund - Programming Support

Meherali from the University of Alberta, Faculty of Nursing in collaboration with the Aga Khan University (AKU), proposes a research project aiming to understand how Indigenous Knowledge (IK) contributes to climate change adaptation and resilience in Sindh, Pakistan amid extreme heat and flooding.

Pakistan is continuing its flood recovery efforts in response to the 2022 devastating floods that impacted the lives of over 33 million across the country.

The project aims to respond to critical challenges caused or exacerbated by the 2022 floods, while strengthening resilience to climate change and shocks for flood affected and at-risk communities. The project also aims to strengthen proactive mitigation and gender-responsive disaster preparedness and recovery, accelerate resilient access to and provision of essential basic services, and promote access to assets and strategies critical to the resumption and resilience of livelihoods, particularly for women and girls in flood affected communities.

The project is aligned with the Government of Pakistan’s, “Resilient Recovery, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Framework”.

This project aims to improve the economic resilience of Afghan women by facilitating employment and livelihoods opportunities in the health and early childhood development sectors. Project activities include: (1) providing vocational and work-readiness skills training targeting employment opportunities; (2) providing entrepreneurial skills training and resources for business start-up; and (3) raising awareness and knowledge among community members, especially men, on the importance of inclusive employment and women’s access to services.

This project aims to improve the equal enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) by women and adolescent girls in situations of poverty, marginalization and vulnerability. Project activities include: (1) developing a gender-sensitive social and behavioral change communication strategy with local implementing partners and women's rights organizations (WROs), for the adoption of healthy SRHR behaviors and practices; (2) providing technical assistance to local implementing partner civil society organizations (CSOs) and WROs for organizational capacity building and gender mainstreaming; (3) implementing local solutions to SRHR and nutrition challenges with women, adolescent girls, men and boys; (4) providing comprehensive, skills-based SRHR, wellness, health and development programs for adolescent girls, boys, parents and guardians of adolescents; (5) building the technical capacity of managers and civil servants in the management, analysis, use and contingency planning of sexual and reproductive health, nutrition and community and facility climate data; and (6) providing technical assistance to government officials, health facilities and community health representatives on inclusive governance in the field of sexual and reproductive health and nutrition.