Grants and Contributions

The project will improve seventeen and expand six community gardens in low-income neighbourhoods in Toronto.

This project will install planters and benches with planters within Mount Pleasant Village BIA catchment area in Toronto.

Cabin infrastructure improvements designed to extend business for all-season use.

Encourage Canadian fisheries and aquaculture industries to implement clean technologies and measures to reduce the potential negative environmental impacts of their activities.

This project aims to reduce coronavirus (COVID-19) related mortality and morbidity in marginalized rural communities, focusing on women, widows and girls in the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states in India. The project helps respond to the threat of COVID-19 by supporting and strengthening the capacity of the local health system, delivering essential health services and providing an awareness program. Project activities include: (1) creating a safer environment in rural schools through protective, monitoring and hygiene measures; (2) providing community level monitoring kits; (3) delivering various COVID-19 awareness messages; and (4) offering virtual counselling sessions for people affected by COVID-19 and post-COVID complications.

This project expects to cover 1,000 rural communities spread across the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

This project seeks to positively transform gender relations to improve the health of women and adolescent girls in Senegal, particularly their nutrition and reproductive health (RH). The project targets 200,000 pregnant/nursing women and 600,000 adolescent girls in the 5 regions most affected by gender inequalities and malnutrition, and worsened by the impact of the pandemic: Kaffrine, Kédougou, Kolda, Sédhiou and Tambacounda.

Project activities include the following: (1) offering professional development in the field of women’s nutrition; (2) developing a strategy to attract women and adolescent girls and build their capacity in positions of leadership, collective action and advocacy on health matters (nutrition and RH); (3) conducting communication and awareness raising activities to help women and girls better understand their rights and needs when it comes to nutrition, RH and gender equality; (4) providing entrepreneurship training to build women’s capacity to manage and ensure the sustainability of micro-, small and medium enterprises that promote nutrition; (5) providing technical assistance to institutionalize gender equality in 12 ministries that contribute to people’s good nutritional status, with the goal of improving service quality; and (6) supporting communities to ensure influential people are engaged in promoting the equitable sharing of power and responsibilities between women and men with regard to health (nutrition and RH).

The funds are used by Humanitarian Coalition members to deliver life-saving assistance to those most in need. Project activities include: (1) addressing food security and nutrition needs; (2) distributing shelter and hygiene materials and other non-food items; and (3) providing health, psychosocial support and protection services to affected communities.

DFATD’s International Scholarship Program wishes to support the recipient to enhance the international profile of Canada as a source of quality education and create interest abroad on Canada.

Promoting gender sensitivity in the media content and newsroom operations through capacity building of journalists in Nepal.

Empowering Municipal Elected Women Members for Inclusive Municipal Energy Plan through capacity building in Bagmati, Nepal.