Grants and Contributions

The objective of this project is to provide a youth with some work experience in the agriculture and agri-food sector.

March 2021 - An estimated 13.4 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection across Sudan as a result of armed conflict, food insecurity, malnutrition, economic decline and disease. Up to 2.5 million people are internally displaced within the country. Instability around Sudan’s borders has also led to more than 1.1 million people seeking refuge in Sudan, including asylum seekers from Central African Republic, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Syria.

With GAC’s support, CARE Canada is providing emergency water, sanitation, hygiene, nutrition and health assistance for up to 144,173 conflict-affected people in Sudan’s East and South Darfur states. Project activities include: (1) providing sexual, reproductive and maternal health services to out-of-camp refugee, internally displaced and host communities; (2)
maintaining water supply infrastructure in three refugee camps; (3) supporting the operation and maintenance of Outpatient Therapeutic Program and Target Supplementary Feeding Program sites, improving nutrition outcomes for children and pregnant and lactating women; and (4) providing immunization services for children under the age of five.

February 2021 - Nearly twelve years of conflict between Islamist insurgents and government forces in northeastern Nigeria have left the region facing a desperate humanitarian crisis, characterized by mass population displacement and severe human rights abuses, including abductions, killings, and sexual violence. Destruction of infrastructure has left most of the population without access to safe water, sanitation, or healthcare and widespread food insecurity, exacerbated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, has left the region on the brink of famine. Across the three conflict-affected states of Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe, an estimated 8.9 million people will need humanitarian assistance in 2021.

With GAC’s support, CARE is improving access to healthcare, particularly sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services, and protection for conflict-affected internally displaced persons and host communities in Nigeria’s Borno state. Project activities include: (1) providing training and support for local health facilities, with a focus on SRHR; (2) providing case-management and other services to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) or those at risk; and (3) engagement with community stakeholders to improve understanding of and response to protection risks.

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. Together, these crises have led to widespread food insecurity, high levels of acute malnutrition, and significant population displacement. Although ongoing fighting and other access restrictions have hindered full needs assessments in Tigray, an estimated 29 million people in Ethiopia are likely to require humanitarian assistance in 2021.

With GAC’s support, Save the Children is preventing and treating acute malnutrition, improving access to healthcare, and increasing the availability of safe water and sanitation amongst drought- and conflict-affected internally displaced persons (IDP) and host communities in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. Project activities include: (1) providing training and support for local health facilities; (2) identifying and treating acute malnutrition; and (3) rehabilitating or constructing water points and sanitation facilities at health centres and in IDP settlements.

February 2021 - Nearly twelve years of conflict between Islamist insurgents and government forces in northeastern Nigeria have left the region facing a desperate humanitarian crisis, characterized by mass population displacement and severe human rights abuses, including abductions, killings, and sexual violence. Destruction of infrastructure has left most of the population without access to safe water, sanitation, or healthcare and widespread food insecurity, exacerbated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, has left the region on the brink of famine. Across the three conflict-affected states of Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe, an estimated 8.9 million people will need humanitarian assistance in 2021.

With GAC’s support, IRC is improving access to healthcare, including therapeutic treatment for acute malnutrition, and safe water and sanitation amongst conflict-affected internally displaced persons and host communities in Nigeria’s Borno state. Project activities include: (1) providing training and support for local health facilities; (2) identifying and treating acute malnutrition; and, (3) rehabilitation or establishment of water points and sanitation facilities in targeted communities.

March 2021 - More than 5.4 million people have fled Venezuela since 2015. Many now live in Colombia; however, others remain in transit to countries like Peru or Ecuador. In Colombia, the refugee and migrant crisis continues to drive significant humanitarian needs, as the country remains afflicted by violence and insecurity in some regions. Populations with acute humanitarian needs, including refugees and migrants have also been impacted significantly by the pandemic.

With GAC’s support, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and Profamilia work to improve access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and respond to sexual and gender-based violence in communities affected by the refugee and migrant crisis. Project activities include: (1) using Mobile Brigades to deliver comprehensive SRH services; (2) providing dignity kits to migrants with an emphasis on women and girls; and (3) delivering messages on gender-based violence and availability of support for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.
The expected outcomes for this project include: 1) improved coverage of lifesaving SRH services for the Venezuelan migrant population and host communities; and 2) improved access to quality gender-based violence prevention and mitigation services for migrant and vulnerable populations.

March 2021 — Chad is facing interconnected humanitarian crises in a context of chronic poverty and limited development. The security situation in neighbouring countries is still contributing to the sporadic movement of people to Chad, particularly to the southern part of the country for people coming from the Central African Republic, to the eastern part of the country for people coming from Sudan, and internal displacements in Lac province in the western part of the country. In this context, it is estimated that close to 6.1 million people will need emergency humanitarian assistance in 2022. Moreover, malnutrition continues to grow as a result of the harmful effects of the COVID 19 pandemic, which is contributing to a worsening of the malnutrition situation and is leading to health problems.

With GAC’s support, Oxfam-Québec is meeting the urgent needs of approximately 57,317 people who are affected by conflict in Lac province. Project activities include: (1) building 8 sources of water and 280 family latrines, which will benefit 36,000 people; (2) building 8 additional care rooms, including 2 that are geared toward consultations for women; (3) distributing 1,543 sanitary and 1,600 female dignity kits; (4) distributing 1,500 child care and hygiene kits to malnourished mother and child pairs; (5) implementing a referral system that will reach 65% of male and female survivors of gender based violence in order to guide them to appropriate services; and (6) organizing 10 education sessions on health rights, particularly relating to sexual and reproductive health.

February 2021 - Despite progress towards sustainable political stability, the impact of more than three decades of insecurity, exacerbated by frequently recurring drought, increasing seasonal flooding, an ongoing historic infestation of desert locusts, and the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, has left much of the population without access to basic services and ever more vulnerable to the next shock. Internal displacement remains at record levels, with an estimated 2.6 million internally displaced people (IDPs) living in more than 2,400 sites across the country, and severe food insecurity is projected to increase in 2021, as a La Niña weather event is expected to bring renewed drought conditions early in the year. Altogether, an estimated 5.9 million people in Somalia will require humanitarian assistance in 2021.

With GAC’s support, CARE is improving access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services and helping households meet essential needs amongst internally displaced persons, returnees, and host communities in Somalia’s drought- and conflict-affected Lower Juba region. Project activities include: (1) rehabilitating water points and distributing water and sanitation related non-food items in IDP communities; and (2) providing unconditional cash grants to vulnerable IDP, returnee, and host community households.

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. With the Syria crisis in its tenth year, Lebanon continues to host over an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees, the highest per capita concentration of refugees worldwide. As the protection environment continues to devolve and needs outpace available international assistance, over 70% of Syrian refugees in Lebanon live below the poverty line.

With GAC’s support, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) provides protection services to refugees and vulnerable Lebanese. Project activities include: (1) providing sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) case management and focused psychosocial support services; (2) providing cash grants for especially vulnerable cases; (3) training women community leadership groups; and (4) conduction engagement sessions with men and boys on SGBV and harmful social norms.

March 2021 - With the Syria crisis in its tenth year, Jordan continues to host an estimated 1.2 million Syrian refugees in camps and host communities, of which over 660,000 registered. Other affected populations include 58,000 Iraqis, including a small number of unregistered refugees and those from Yemen. Crisis-affected populations require continued assistance to address essential humanitarian and protection needs.

With GAC’s support, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) provides protection services and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) support to refugees and vulnerable Jordanians. Project activities include: (1) providing sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) case management and focused psychosocial support services; (2) providing cash grants for especially vulnerable cases; (3) providing training to women community leadership groups; (4) conducting engagement sessions with men and boys on SGBV and harmful social norms; and (5) developing technical support plans with and for identified local actors.