Grants and Contributions

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. The Vancouver Aboriginal Community Policing Centre Society (VACPC) will achieve this by facilitating an alliance of Indigenous, immigrant and refugee women who experience similar barriers and marginalization and incorporating insights from their respective lived experiences for the expansion of online trauma-informed decolonization training modules.

The additional funding will allow the undertaking of a second round of Gender Inclusive Leadership pilot training with the larger industry employers that were not able to participate during the first round because of restrictions surrounding COVID-19.

The additional funding will be used to support additional capacity building activities to address organizational assessment, strategic and change management planning, and fund development capacity needs that have arisen due to COVID-19.

Further additional funding will be used to strengthen human resources management capacity through business process mapping, and the development and implementation of a human resources information system, enhanced performance management system, and operational efficiency improvement strategies.

The supplementary funding granted under amendment 2 will be used to increase the number of hours allocated to the project to ensure it can move forward in light of COVID-19.

The 12-month extension and supplementary funding granted under amendment 3 will enable the organization to continue work already underway on building organizational capacity by addressing the following three areas: human resources management, board governance, and information management.

Funding will support research and development to identify solutions to National Defence’s Moral Trauma on the Frontline – See, Prevent and Treat Challenge. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) in collaboration with Canada’s defence, security and public safety communities are looking for state-of-the-art research on “moral injury” and cutting edge prevention models and treatment strategies, in support of DND/CAF personnel, healthcare workers and First Responders at the front lines of the current pandemic, in order to provide for the long-term mental health of these populations.

Project activities include: (1) providing primary health care, including 32,500 outpatient consultations and vaccinating 30,000 children; (2) providing sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including 5,500 postnatal consultations and 2,600 assisted deliveries; and (3) providing secondary healthcare services, including 4,000 inpatient admissions and treating 900 malnutrition cases with therapeutic feeding.

Project activities include: (1) increasing the capacity of One Health actors to improve local cross-sectoral coordination, referral and reporting of zoonoses; (2) increasing access to needed resources for zoonoses control, including vaccines, testing supplies and treatments; (3) strategic recruitment of women to fill gaps in human and health personnel; (4) development of climate-resilient water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure for prevention and control of zoonoses; (5) strengthening the capacity of communities, especially women and girls, to prevent and respond to zoonoses; and (6) undertaking research to strengthen the evidence base for, and integration of, effective gender-responsive One-Health approaches in marginalized communities.

The objective of this project is to establish a market for higher protein Canadian feed barley into China.

Accelerate the availability and use of high-quality and real-time evidence and/or solutions to support Canada’s ongoing response to the pandemic in order to better prevent, detect, treat and manage COVID-19; AND
b. Generate evidence related to one or more marginalized population(s), including for instance: Black and other communities marginalized by race; First Nations, Inuit, Métis and Urban Indigenous Peoples; communities historically excluded from research; those experiencing health inequity; persons with disabilities and individuals across diverse health status (e.g. high risk populations, individuals with comorbid conditions); those experiencing gendered impacts of the pandemic; and those in life stages that have been underrepresented in research (e.g. pregnant people, children, older adults).

Accelerate the availability and use of high-quality and real-time evidence and/or solutions to support Canada’s ongoing response to the pandemic in order to better prevent, detect, treat and manage COVID-19; AND
b. Generate evidence related to one or more marginalized population(s), including for instance: Black and other communities marginalized by race; First Nations, Inuit, Métis and Urban Indigenous Peoples; communities historically excluded from research; those experiencing health inequity; persons with disabilities and individuals across diverse health status (e.g. high risk populations, individuals with comorbid conditions); those experiencing gendered impacts of the pandemic; and those in life stages that have been underrepresented in research (e.g. pregnant people, children, older adults).