Grants and Contributions

Recent shifts to global and local marketplaces as a result of COVID 19, combined with expanding operations, are requiring to reassess business processes internally and how to communicate with our customers and sales leads.

Compared to a standard full-text search, such a system provides highly relevant results to clinical or research queries (i.e. COVID long-term impacts, such as reduced lung function, memory loss, and neurological disorders, which require correlating multiple data sources to identify).

This project will support the CWCC in hosting the 25th and 26th CWC conferences to increase public awareness ofand invovement in the CWC. Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the first CSP-25 event planned for late November/December 2020 will most likely be virtual and the second CSP-26 could possibly take place in The Hague in 2021.

August 2020 - In response to new and exacerbated humanitarian needs in Lebanon following the August 4, 2020 explosions at the Port of Beirut, the United Nations launched a flash appeal to respond to the needs of 300,000 people in Lebanon affected by the explosions until November 2020. The appeal outlines a coordinated humanitarian response to the most immediate and lifesaving needs, including provision of essential health care, food, water, hygiene, shelter and protection to people affected by the explosions.

With GAC’s support, UNICEF is responding to the critical needs of children and families affected by the disaster through a broad spectrum of humanitarian assistance activities.

Project activities include: (1) providing water and hygiene items to families in temporary shelters; (2) providing immediate water, sanitation and hygiene services to temporary and field hospitals, and emergency repair of plumbing systems in damaged hospitals; (3) providing health facilities with personal protective equipment (PPE) and infection prevention and control (IPC) materials, vaccine commodities and acute medicine cold chain support, health emergency kits, obstetric, newborn and midwifery kits and nutrition supplies; (4) providing child friendly spaces in affected areas and relocation sites; and (5) providing mental health and psychosocial support services to children and caregivers.

Through SI2 Impact investing will play a critical role in responding to intractable challenges, from social, environmental and economic well-being for all citizens to the impacts of COVID-19.

The geographic scope of this project will focus on rural departments and vulnerable communities in Colombia.

Additional supplemental funding will be used to continue to developing research and expanding outreach to create stronger networks to advocate for women economic security in the “care sector” revealed by COVID-19.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU) will achieve this by developing a feminist economic recovery plan for all women business owners (WBOs) in Nova Scotia, including under-represented groups.

This 31-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. NorPen Status of Women Council will help women in rural Newfoundland overcome barriers related to post-secondary education and employment.

This 31-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Women’s Network PEI will achieve this by enhancing collaboration across women’s and feminist organizations in Prince Edward Island on issues related to gender equality.