Grants and Contributions

This project aims to improve access to sexual and reproductive health care for vulnerable and marginalized adolescent girls and young women in Bolivia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, Honduras, Jordan, Lebanon, and the occupied Palestinian territory. Project activities include: (1) educating and working with adolescent girls and young women on topics related to their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); (2) educating and working with adolescent boys and young men on issues such as gender equality, SRHR, and cultural practices related to masculinity, gender, and sexuality; (3) training health care workers to provide inclusive and accessible sexual and reproductive health services and practices, particularly to adolescent girls and young women; (4) providing better equipment to health facilities across the project countries, in order to improve their capacity to offer comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services; and (5) working with civil society organizations and rights’ groups to advocate for better SRHR related policy. The project works to benefit over 90,000 adolescent girls and young women across the project countries. This project works in partnership with Plan International Canada, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada(SOGC), and RNW Media, as well as numerous local women’s rights groups and youth organizations across the project countries.

With GAC’s support, HOPE International Development Agency and its local partner, Metta Development Foundation, support cash programming, health and nutrition, and access to gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health for internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in Kachin State, Myanmar.

This project aims to reduce the number of child recruits and child soldiers in countries where the United Nations (UN) conduct peacekeeping operations. The Vancouver Principles on Peacekeeping and the Prevention of the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers are a set of policy commitments focused on protecting children and the prevention of enlistment and use of child soldiers by armed forces and non-state armed groups. This project streamlines the Vancouver Principles and their implementation into the existing UN policy, guidance and training frameworks for child protection in UN Peace Operations with the UN Department of Peace Operations. The UN ensures that the principles are harmonized, implemented and respected by civilian, military and police peacekeepers.

This project includes a gender review of materials for men and women peacekeepers and boys and girls as child soldiers. The two-year scalable activities include comprehensive consultation, material development and review, and extensive training.

In
this project, we will use computer-assisted drug design programs and drug discovery experiments to understand how cannabinoids
from the Cannabis plant work at the molecular level.

Solid-state batteries (SSBs) are promising energy storage technology for clean transportation due to their intrinsic safety and high energy density. However, the performance of current SSBs is hindered by the poor solid-solid interface. To tackle this challenge, Dr. Jian Liu's Advanced Materials for Energy Storage Group at the University of British Columbia will develop and validate a new interface engineering approach to enable stable and low-resistance solid-solid interface for SSBs. The team will use an advanced plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition technique to fabricate a thin and ion-conducting coating layer to modify the solid-solid interface. This project will deliver a practical solution to advance SSB development and contribute to the transition to cleaner transportation in Canada and worldwide.

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Community Support, Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Initiatives Program

Advance medical device prototyping capacity in Western Canada

Support for Cerebra Health Inc to continue operations during the COVID-19 pandemic