Grants and Contributions

In 2021, at least 4 million people in Cameroon would require humanitarian assistance to meet their basic survival and protection needs exacerbated by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic negative impact.
With GAC's support, Plan Canada is addressing the urgent child protection and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) needs of 20,380 internally displaced people and other conflict-affected people in the North West and South West regions. Project activities include: (1) establishing equipped safe Child and Adolescent-Friendly Spaces with gender-responsive and accessible improved latrines, handwashing facilities and water supply; (2) providing comprehensive age- and gender-responsive and inclusive case management support services; (3) delivering family tracing and reunification support to unaccompanied and separated children; (4) distributing in-kind safety kits to at-risk adolescent girls, young women and SGBV survivors; and (5) conducting community awareness campaigns on COVID-19 prevention, hygiene promotion and menstrual hygiene management.

This Project supports UNICEF’s multi-sectoral response plan to the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Mali. The plan seeks to limit COVID-19 related mortality and consequences on protection, health and education for the most vulnerable children.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. The Cooperation Council of Ontario (CCO) will achieve this by examining the experiences of women social entrepreneurs when it comes to accessing funding for their projects and focusing on a key concern, such as why women/binary people have difficulty accessing funding. For those who manage to secure funding for their social entrepreneurship projects, the challenges they face in securing it will need to be identified as well as how the COVID-19 pandemic affects women's ability to secure funding for their social entrepreneurship projects in a chaotic environment.

This 18-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. This will be achieved by creating safe spaces to empower 30 racialized women and girls in Toronto east impacted by COVID-19 to become feminist leaders; raising public awareness on the impact of misogyny and gender stereotypes on women’s rights through forum meetings with participants, community leaders and policy makers, a media and social media campaign; and by holding organized dialogues with local MPs, MPPs, City Councillors, and School Trustees.

Conduct a domestic marketing campaign to support the recovery of the visitor economy and attract more Canadians to visit the Northwest Territories.

Although the JVP can be visually identified, its identification remains a challenge.

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted more than ever the importance of effective home monitoring solutions for patients with chronic diseases such as congestive heart failure.

This project will encompass the research and development of additional functionality to the SpryMobile Mobile Field Service platform to address new safety requirements for Field Technicians working within the COVID-19 pandemic. These enhancements will be sold to existing SpryMobile customers, and will also serve as a product differentiator when selling SpryMobile to new utility customers.

In addition, it will offer a therapeutic yoga program to family members to address caregiver burnout and to support overall well-being, as well as to staff members, who are reporting greater levels of stress and burnout from being on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The supplemental funding will be used to review the organization’s fundraising strategy considering emergencies and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; and to develop new social programs in line with clients’ needs.

Due to school closures and changes in health and safety standards related to the COVID-19 health crisis, the organization will have to adjust its response to child care and transportation issues in its region.