Grants and Contributions

This multi-year project seeks to conduct engagement activities that will aim to identify legislative programming and policy initiatives to support an Indigenous Justice Strategy.

The project aims to develop technology to support aging in place through an integrated decision support for health and safety. A new nutritional tracking system will be developed, which leverages machine learning and computer vision algorithms to specifically reduce frailty risk and age-related muscle loss (sarcopenia) in elderly people. In particular, sources of protein, vitamin D and calcium as well as estimated intake of these nutrients will be analyzed. To this end, an e-screening tool for self-management and risk assessment will be developed along with machine learning methods to estimate both food volume and intake. To evaluate this intelligent tracking system, a food intake dataset including food weights, volume, amount intake, and image sensor measurements will be created over the course of the project. The project is a foundational step toward a longer-term project to work with older adults to facilitate aging in place by assessing and monitoring their food intake with their doctor/dietitian.

The project aims to develop technology to support aging in place through an integrated decision support for health and safety. A new nutritional tracking system will be developed, which leverages machine learning and computer vision algorithms to specifically reduce frailty risk and age-related muscle loss (sarcopenia) in elderly people. In particular, sources of protein, vitamin D and calcium as well as estimated intake of these nutrients will be analyzed. To this end, an e-screening tool for self-management and risk assessment will be developed along with machine learning methods to estimate both food volume and intake. To evaluate this intelligent tracking system, a food intake dataset including food weights, volume, amount intake, and image sensor measurements will be created over the course of the project. The project is a foundational step toward a longer-term project to work with older adults to facilitate aging in place by assessing and monitoring their food intake with their doctor/dietitian.

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. It also targets directly 26,870 Rohingya refugees and indirectly benefits 210,000 Rohingya refugees through strengthening camp-based representative structures and skills building to help reduce vulnerabilities.

Canada’s Phase 2 support to the Livelihoods and Food Security Fund (LIFT) presents two overarching priorities for nutrition over the next three years (2022-2024) which impact on the crucial 1000 days from pregnancy up until the child's second birthday and beyond for populations across Myanmar, including those in Rakhine State. These are 1) safeguarding the nutrition status of Myanmar’s vulnerable populations, particularly women and children, from immediate threats that lead to undernutrition; and 2) protecting short- and medium-term food and nutrition security of vulnerable groups, including women, children, internally displaced people, ethnic minorities, migrant workers, and people living with disabilities in order to mitigate the crisis and prevent backsliding on decades’ worth of progress.

The project also extends its support to populations across Myanmar, including those in Rakhine State, by increasing economic opportunities, improving nutrition outcomes and empowering women and ethnic minorities.

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This project will support IFAD’s full environmental and climate mainstreaming agenda. Canada’s financial support to IFAD will substantiate IFAD 12th and 13th replenishment resources and be deployed via IFAD’s Performance-Based Allocation System, which includes climate dimensions as a way to direct allocation of resources to countries in highly vulnerable situations. It will contribute to increasing the programming and geographic flexibility of IFAD’s climate work to reach and benefit all Member States, while also being carefully targeted to reach the poorest and most vulnerable people in countries most affected by climate change.

IFAD provides grants and low-interest loans to developing countries to support programmes and projects that promote agricultural growth and inclusive rural transformation, with a focus on helping poor rural people improve their production and productivity, build their capacity, connect to markets and services so they can grow more, earn more, and become more resilient. It targets the extreme poor and food-insecure in rural areas, with special attention to women, youth and indigenous peoples as key beneficiaries, but also as full partners.

The project aims to comprehensively enhance Pakistani counter terrorism and criminal justice (CJ) institutions by strengthening the two core components in preventing and countering terrorism: (1) Investigation, prosecution, and adjudication of terrorism cases; and (2) Countering Financing of Terrorism.
o The former (#1) will strengthen the capacities and coordination mechanisms of federal and provincial counter terrorism and CJ institutions. It will elevate the capacity of responsible agencies, locally and in cooperation with other departments to respond to terrorist actions; conduct terrorist investigations; and to bring perpetrators to justice in accordance with the rule of law and with respect for human rights.
o The latter (#2) will strengthen Pakistan’s legal and institutional framework for countering of terrorist financing, by enhancing stakeholders’ knowledge on UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions, latest innovative trends in terrorist financing, as well as Mutual Legal Assistance request to coordinate with international governments in detecting and prosecuting illicit financial flows.

Enhance the conservation and recovery of species at risk by supporting Indigenous communities as they acquire, develop and apply the technical resources, skills and knowledge necessary to partner in Species at Risk Act (SARA) implementation