Grants and Contributions

March 2021 - Lebanon is facing multiple compounding crises in 2021, including the COVID-19 pandemic, economic decline and political fragility, the impact of the August 2020 Beirut Port explosions, and the ongoing refugee crisis.

February 2021 - Prior to the outbreak of conflict in the Tigray region in late 2020, Ethiopia was already facing ongoing acute humanitarian need, arising from sporadic but widespread intercommunal conflict, regional drought and flooding, swarms of desert locusts, the economic pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of hosting nearly 800,000 refugees throughout the country.

These services enable SGBV survivors to obtain medical, psychosocial, legal and socio-economic integration care, so that they can regain their dignity as full participants in Congolese society in the critical context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, where SGBV is exacerbated.

This project aims to reach an estimated 40,000 women smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs in the poorest regions of northern Ghana, most at risk of COVID-19 pandemic-related rise in food insecurity.

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.

Refugees continue to face significant challenges, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and are highly reliant on international assistance to meet basic needs.

This 28-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. The Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority (SLFNHA) will achieve this by 1) increasing Indigenous women's leadership skills and opportunities, 2) building a supportive network of Indigenous women leaders, 3) creating a youth education program, and 4) providing an outlet for youth to share and discuss gender roles, gender-based violence, and promote healthy relationships.

This 27-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. Power to Girls Foundation will achieve this by (1) building and maintaining relationships with the school boards they will be collaborating with; (2) establishing a working group representing a diversity of perspectives/realities (geographic, socio-economic factors, etc.) to ensure project intersectionality and relevance across the schooling system ; (3) assessing the needs and gaps in the current education system to highlight the challenges of black and marginalized girls; (4) creating and testing a tailored program based on recommendations, (5) designing and sharing best practices that partners can leverage to address the systematic barriers of their students.

This 25-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. Women’s Shelters Canada will achieve this by working to reduce the level of technology-facilitated violence experienced by Canadian women and create a safer online environment for them.

The organization received supplemental funding during the Covid-19 pandemic for an anti-racism audit, as well as the shift to an electronic client management database for increased internal efficiency and analytics.