Grants and Contributions

Community Facility: The purpose of this project is to construct an outdoor pavilion for cultural purposes that will enhance the outdoor spaces of the municipality of Cookshire-Eaton to help the community recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Given this context, the development of OSIRIS-3 - building strongly from the original instrument design approach - is particularly relevant.

This project will take an important and early step to continue the OSIRIS data record into the future by developing a 6U CubeSat sized OSIRIS (OSIRIS-3) optical spectrometer and demonstrating the fidelity of this prototype with a test flight on a stratospheric balloon.

The proposed development of the OSIRIS-3 CubeSat prototype is a critical step to an inexpensive and proven way to continue to monitor O3, NO2 and aerosol for Canadian applications. Indeed, with projected increases in forest fires due to climate change, and
interest in the potential for “climate geo-engineering” with intentional stratospheric
aerosol creation to curb greenhouse gas warming, a sustainable and low-cost OSIRS CubeSat
instrument will be highly relevant to Canadian needs to monitor and understand these critical
changes.

Verdier Beach Restoration Program

Contributes to the recovery of endangered, threatened, and other species of concern, by engaging Canadians in conservation actions to benefit wildlife and to protect aquatic species at risk.

Contributes to the recovery of endangered, threatened, and other species of concern, by engaging Canadians in conservation actions to benefit wildlife and to protect aquatic species at risk.

To facilitate the sale or transfer of surplus lighthouses to non-profit organizations and municipalities and continue to provide a service to Canadians.

Grant to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to support the Nuclear Energy Agency Features Events and Processes database

This project aims to strengthen the economic power of vulnerable young men and women through more adapted vocational training programs and support for socio-professional integration in a context of post-Covid economic recovery.
The project will work to: (i) improve the quality of training offered in training centres, and, (ii) improve the quality of services for the socio-professional integration of young men and women, in sectors considered economically promising and in response to needs of the economic recovery and diversification in Benin.
This initiative will help to reduce the multiple barriers that youth, particularly women and girls, face before, during and after their vocational training which reduce their employment opportunities. The project will facilitate their integration into the labour market, particularly in non-traditional and green jobs.
Project activities include: (1) identification of promising jobs, training programs to be reviewed or developed and skills to be sought according to the needs of the labour market; (2) review or development and implementation, in collaboration with employers, of training programs; (3) technical and financial support for those involved in professional integration, to employers and for the creation of green businesses; (4) provision of scholarships, learning kits and adequate facilities to learners.

This grant represents Canada’s support to the Junior Professional Officers (JPO) Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). It is part of a larger contribution to the UN JPO Programme, which supports staffing of up to 15 JPO positions with young Canadian professionals in seven United Nations organizations (UNDP, UNFPA, WHO, UN Women, UNICEF, WFP and UNHCR).

UNHCR uses these funds to recruit and assign up to two young Canadians to JPO positions, allowing them to gain field-based professional experience in international development and help support the organization’s mandate towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

UNHCR’s mandate is to lead and coordinate international action to protect refugees. Its work is crucial to global efforts to assist and find solutions for refugees and other forcibly displaced persons worldwide.

This project aims to strengthen local organizations in both refugee and host communities to respond to locally-identified development priorities in Cox’ s Bazar district (CXB). Project activities include: (1) establishing a nexus hub to map and coordinate the intersection of humanitarian, stabilization and development efforts; (2) implementing 108 small-scale infrastructure projects in 18 selected unions; (3) establishing seed funds for the creation of pooled financial resources to support local organizations and small-scale entrepreneurship; (4) strengthening coordination mechanisms for development-driven interventions in local communities. This involves assisting 10 participating local organizations in building key transferable skills; (5) improving camp-based community representative structures linked to the larger humanitarian service delivery and to community-based protection; and (6) recruiting and training identified Rohingya researchers in data collection, analysis and reporting. The project targets 5,300 direct beneficiaries from host communities through infrastructure employment and livelihood diversification and indirectly benefits up to 1,818,222 host community members through expected economic spinoffs.