Grants and Contributions

Canada's Fisheries Fund will transform and drive innovation in the fish and seafood sector in Canada with a focus on developing the sector to better meet growing market demands for sustainably sourced, high-quality fish and seafood products.

The purpose of the Indigenous Habitat Participation Program and the Salish Sea Initiative, is to support the participation of Indigenous peoples in activities relating to the conservation and protection of fish and fish habitat, including the development of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ (DFO) policies, program elements and regulations and the development of their technical capacity to support greater involvement in the conservation and protection of fish and fish habitat.

This project aims to increase the economic independence of Venezuelan refugees and migrants, particularly women with professional qualifications in Peru's health sector. Project activities include: (1) facilitating the degree revalidation processes; (2) supporting skills upgrading of revalidated professionals by providing access to online education; (3) promoting certified Venezuelan professionals’ recruitment by employers in the health and other sectors; and (4) assisting professionals in gaining experience in the local job market by subsidized, short-term placements with local health facilities, health service providers, and other organizations in the public and private sectors.
The project targets at least 2,500 Venezuelan professionals (50% women) in the health sector including at least 600 professionals in other sectors. It aims to focus primarily on Lima, a concentrated area in Peru with 85% of the Venezuelan population, other regions with refugee and migrant populations, and where they are most needed.

Conflict-related Sexual and Gender Based Violence (GBV) linked to the conflict in Tigray has increased needs for support to survivors across Tigray, as well as the adjacent regions of Amhara and Afar. Gaps in services include women and girl’s safe spaces (WGSS) for increasing numbers of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Shire and Mekelle, and mobile medical teams offering reproductive health care, community outreach, and initial clinical response and referral for survivors of GBV.

This UNFPA project proposes to addresses gaps in response, assist in rebuilding government and local capacity for survivors of sexual violence, and increase GBV awareness and risk mitigation through protection measures. Essential Sexual Health and Reproductive services would reduce maternal morbidity and mortality, and serve as an entry point for GBV education and services.

The project would target locations in Tigray including Mekelle, Agidrat, Adwa, Axum, Shire, Maychew, Humera, Alemata, and areas in Afar and Amhara hosting IDPs as a result of the Tigray conflict.

The project aims to improve the health status of the Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar to reduce vulnerabilities in the refugee camps and increase the utilization of comprehensive healthcare services by targeted refugees. Health services in the Rohingya refugee camps are inadequate in addressing the health-related needs of the over 900,000 refugees. Only 17% of the 200 health facilities in the camps have 24/7 access, and only three health facilities have surgical facilities. Women and adolescent girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health services have also been affected by the COVID-19 lockdowns and reallocation of health care resources. These sexual and reproductive health gaps can result in avoidable maternal and infant mortality and long-term gynaecological health problems. There is a low level of understanding and awareness of sexual and reproductive health exacerbated by stigmatisation around family planning, contraception and menstrual hygiene management. This cultural issue limits women and girls’

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Exceptional points are branch point singularities of self-intersecting Riemann sheets, which can be observed in a non-Hermitian system with complex eigenvalues. In optics, there have been a diversity of intriguing effects based on exceptional points, e.g. loss induced transparency, lasing, and unidirectional reflection. When adiabatically changing the parameters of a system around an exceptional point in parametric space, the initial eigenstate will transfer to another while gaining a geometric phase. Recently, Berini’s group demonstrated mode transfer by dynamically encircling exceptional points in coupled dielectric waveguides at optical telecommunication wavelengths and have shown that encircling a moving exceptional point provides a new scheme to optimize performance, diminish length and insertion loss, while maintaining the topological properties of the operation. These concepts will be further explored in silicon photonics implementations, in particular subwavelength metamaterial waveguides as pioneered by the NRC silicon photonics group, as well as in metasurfaces and nanoplasmonic systems. The technology developed in the collaborative research project would constitute a substantial advance in the field and contribute to making Canada a global leader in emerging quantum photonics sensor technologies.

The Project will focus on the development of coherent quantum imaging techniques for mining applications. Based on nonlinear optical microscopies, the Project will address the shortcomings of current mineralogical sample characterization techniques. The techniques will also be applicable across a range of industrially relevant materials, particularly those that are susceptible to laser-induced damage, such as those containing significant amounts of carbon. To better understand where the advantages of quantum enhanced nonlinear optical microscopy will be of benefit to Canada, the University of Ottawa will work with the NRC-EME team to identify resource streams where improved rapid sample characterization would have the largest benefit. By targeting timely and consequential problems in mining, the Project will lead to the development of new tools for more efficient mining operations with reduced waste and improved yields in Canada

The Recipient will engage in meaningful two-way dialogue regarding economic participation in the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, to benefit their communities. The following activities will be undertaken: participation in bilateral and/or multilateral meetings organized by Finance Canada, through methods including virtual and teleconference capacity, in-person, or written submissions. Participation includes, but is not limited to: gathering and representing the views of the Participant’s community members, acquiring external expertise (e.g., legal, financial, economic), preparing verbal and/or written reports, committing staff hours, and travelling to meet with Finance Canada officials in support of the engagement process and the formation of well-informed views.

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)