Grants and Contributions

The overarching goal (purpose) is to support enhancements in marine safety and marine environmental protection in Canadian waters, while embracing the concepts of co-development and sustainable economic development.

The objectives of the MWSN are: .• Increasing Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) awareness of their rights through workshops/information sessions.and employers’ awareness of their obligations to TFWs;.• Providing resources and services to enable TFWs to exercise their rights (legal clinics,.translation services, assistance with filing complaints);.• Liaising between TFWs and other members of the MWSN to build a culture of trust.while offering information, services and support to TFWs; and.• Improving TFW’s experiences while working in Canada and providing them with a.trusted channel to bring forward any issues or allegations of wrongdoing or abuse..

The objective of this project aims to increase the number of meals that the applicant can provide by installing cook/hold ovens, a combi oven, a steam table, a Robo Coupe food processor, and reach-in refrigerators.

This project seeks to address COVID-19 challenges through a youth-centered and gender-responsive economic empowerment project. This project aims to increase economic empowerment to strengthen resilience for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) most affected by COVID-19 in targeted areas in Ghana and Senegal. The project’s locally-led approach harnesses proven resources from training, mentoring and curriculum programs in skills development and entrepreneurship through in-person and adapted digital models.
Project activities include: (1) sensitizing community members (men, women, boys and girls) on AGYW participation in entrepreneurship; (2) scaling-up economic activities in informal sector opportunities created by COVID-19; (3) providing (COVID-19)-adapted training to AGYW in entrepreneurship and sustainable livelihoods and support; (4) raising awareness on gender-based violence and support services provided during COVID-19; and (5) building network opportunities for AGYW entrepreneurs and investors.
The project aims to reach over 6,700 AGYW in Ghana, over 3,200 AGYW in Senegal and indirectly benefits approximately 50,000 (of which 50% women) in the targeted project areas.

This project seeks to make an effective contribution to sustainable peace by preventing and resolving conflicts that affect girls and women, mainly in Cameroon, but also on a smaller scale in the Central African Republic. The purpose of this project is to build the capacities of girls and women human rights advocates in their roles as effective leaders and actors in peace and security matters. These new capacities will ensure their effective participation in peacebuilding, national reconciliation and the search for solutions to ensure their protection.

Project activities include: (1) providing training on individual protection; (2) producing a manual on protecting girls and women; (3) arranging inter-community peace dialogues; (4) building capacity to engage communities in implementing peace and reconciliation mechanisms; and (5) raising state actors’ awareness of the peace and reconciliation process and setting up peace clubs.

This project will build capacity and knowledge among technology companies and systems-level actors to ensure technological innovation serves and protects users and helps mitigate the spread of mis- and disinformation. Policy-makers and government officials, international justice mechanisms, public defenders and judges will be engaged to develop and implement democratic, gender-sensitive and inclusive policy and programming. Focus will also be on enabling vulnerable communities to safely, ethically and effectively utilize video technology to create truthful narratives, participate in society and to inform public dialogue and decision-making on issues that affect them in their communities.

DFATD’s International Scholarship Program wishes to support the recipient to enhance the international profile of Canada as a source of quality education and create interest abroad on Canada.

DFATD’s International Scholarship Program wishes to support the recipient to enhance the international profile of Canada as a source of quality education and create interest abroad on Canada.

DFATD’s International Scholarship Program wishes to support the recipient to enhance the international profile of Canada as a source of quality education and create interest abroad on Canada.

DFATD’s International Scholarship Program wishes to support the recipient to enhance the international profile of Canada as a source of quality education and create interest abroad on Canada.