Grants and Contributions

Applications must ensure relevance to all of the following objectives:
• Establish central coordination and collaboration activities with existing clinical trials groups/networks to increase the availability of high-quality and real-time evidence and build capacity to support Canada’s rapid response to the global pandemic and health emergencies in order to better prevent, detect, treat and/or manage COVID-19;
• Establish a transparent, inclusive, multi-jurisdictional recruitment and membership process that describes benefits for and requirements and expectations of members;
• Collaborate across member networks to establish resource and data sharing policies, increase efficiencies in research and related processes (including, but not limited to ethics review; contracts; common protocols; developing applications for trial funding; consistent and valid patient-oriented outcomes), reduce duplication, and maximize research impact for COVID-19;
• Create data sharing agreements to ensure follow-up of patients through existing administrative data platforms within Canada;
• Adopt a nimble and adaptive strategy for engaging stakeholders in research prioritization and oversight while shifting studies as needed, based on new knowledge and changing COVID-19 landscape;
• Provide evidence to inform clinical and health system management and public health response, and/or decision-making and planning within and across jurisdictions in Canada and internationally; and
• Enhance local, national and/or international clinical trial collaborative efforts by aligning clinical trials networks with other COVID-19 research investments to prevent and/or mitigate the rapid spread of COVID-19 and related negative consequences.

May 2018 - Yemen is currently the world’s largest humanitarian crisis according to the United Nations, with 22.2 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, including 11.3 million that require immediate life-saving assistance.

May 2018 - Yemen is currently the world’s largest humanitarian crisis according to the United Nations, with 22.2 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, including 11.3 million that require immediate life-saving assistance.

The outcomes and benefits of creating this walking trail fully align with the objective of the Active Transport Fund and the National Active Transport Strategy. Through our partnership with Leader and District Tourism, Leader and District Chamber of Commerce, and the R.M. of Happyland we will be able to provide added safety, accessibility, increased tourism, and business growth, all while providing residents with an option for active transportation.

Project activities include: (1) providing emergency shelter kits, non-food items and multi-purpose cash; (2) coordinating camp management for internally displaced people in UN bases; (3) deploying mobile teams to remote locations where affected populations lack water, sanitation and hygiene services; (4) providing emergency water, sanitation and hygiene; (5) supporting humanitarian organizations by establishing lightweight camps in deep field locations and heavy base camps and national NGO support centres and providing common transport services of cargo for humanitarian organizations; (6) data collection including mapping of vulnerable populations at points of entry and at the district and community level for enhanced targeting and delivery of assistance; and (7) protection and gender mainstreaming across activities with provision for extremely vulnerable individuals including unaccompanied migrant children and single females.

.; and (8) supporting the coordination and governance of the food security sector and the transfer of skills to local actors at the national and decentralized levels.

The direct beneficiaries are over 138,000 persons, including 60% of women, from the regions of Kayes, Gao, Mopti and Timbuktu.

Project activities include: (1) providing training and technical support for the destruction and disabling of weapons and ammunition; (2) increasing waste management of ammunition remnants; (3) providing technical support for the marking of weapons; (4) conducting a feasibility study on weapons tracing; (5) mitigating threats of explosive ordnance through education; (5) integrating gender considerations in arms management; (6) advocating for a national policy on the management of seized weapons; and (7) identifying alternate sources of income for artisanal weapons producers.

Project activities include the following: (1) developing training curriculums on analyzing gender equity and equality as part of public performance management and crisis management; (2) implementing solutions to incorporate gender equity and equality into public institutions’ performance management processes, including in times of crisis; (3) setting up a networking and coordination platform for gender units in Senegalese ministries; (4) supporting the information systems of the Agence nationale de la statistique et de la démographie (Senegal’s national statistics and demography agency) and its partners to improve the use of sex-disaggregated data that make it possible to measure gendered impacts in times of crisis and develop strategic solutions; (5) setting up a networking platform for women leaders in Senegal’s public institutions; and (6) educating parliamentarians and public institution executives on gender equity and equality.

The project also targets more than 900 intermediaries, including actors and stakeholders at different scales, representatives of local village leadership, national women’s organizations, and business owners or leaders, policymakers and investors.

The project is implemented by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).