Grants and Contributions

P006570001: The objective of the Canada AfDB Climate Fund (CACF) is to enable climate change mitigation and adaptation projects with strong gender-responsive components in African developing countries. The CACF aims to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emission by scaling up renewable energy, supporting energy efficient projects, and developing green infrastructure and sustainable cities (e.g. waste management, urban transport, green infrastructure, digital solutions). The CACF also intends to support climate change adaptation and build climate resilience by helping to deliver climate-smart solutions for local economies, including clean energy (e.g. off-grid solar energy, clean cooking technology), climate-smart agriculture, and nature-based solutions (e.g. sustainable forestry). Gender equality, particularly the empowerment of women and girls, will be an objective across all concessional financing of the CACF, aiming at direct, measurable gender equality outcomes.

P006570002: The Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) will be part of the overall Canada-AfDBDevelopment Bank Climate Fund (CACF), which is aimed at enabling climate change mitigation and adaptation projects with strong gender-responsive components in African developing countries. The TAF will support projects in the CACF pipeline to address the increased technical complexity, coordination requirements and reporting obligations related to climate finance operations, as well as support project preparation activities that accelerate project development towards bankability. The TAF will provide grants to Eligible Projects under consideration or implementation that: (i) seek to address the specific costs and risks related to project preparation; (ii) increase the potential for achieving optimal results on key areas, such as gender and human rights, during project origination, implementation and supervision; and (iii) enhance knowledge management, monitoring, evaluation, and learning from CACF activities, not already covered by the Supervision fee in Section 2.4 Part I of the Arrangement. Proceeds from the TAF may also be used to contract consulting support for origination, program management, and monitoring and evaluation of Eligible Projects, as needed

The purpose of this CanExport Innovation grant agreement is to support organizations and to build on targeted relationships between Canadian companies/researchers and key organizations in other countries to allow them to proceed with formal discussions to initiate collaboration(s) on future international R&D initiatives that could lead to commercialization of Canadian technologies.

P010189001 & P010189002: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) primary mandate is to oversee the coordination of international humanitarian responses, in partnership with national and international actors, in order to achieve more coherent and effective humanitarian action. This grant represents Canada’s support to the UN Country-Based Pooled Funds, managed by OCHA, in Ethiopia, Iraq, Lebanon, Myanmar, Nigeria, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Yemen.

With the support of Canada and other donors, OCHA fulfils its mandate through activities that include: (1) strengthening humanitarian leadership; (2) establishing and overseeing coordination systems; (3) monitoring and reporting on humanitarian situations; (4) advocating on behalf of affected people; (5) supporting the assessment and prioritization of humanitarian needs and strategic planning; (6) promoting emergency preparedness; and (7) mobilizing funding for humanitarian assistance.

P010184001 & P010184002 : The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) primary mandate is to oversee the coordination of international humanitarian responses, in partnership with national and international actors, in order to achieve more coherent and effective humanitarian action. This grant represents Canada’s support to the UN Country-Based Pooled Funds, managed by OCHA with support from the Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (UNDP), in Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan.

With the support of Canada and other donors, OCHA fulfills its mandate by: (1) strengthening humanitarian leadership; (2) establishing and overseeing coordination systems; (3) monitoring and reporting on humanitarian situations; (4) advocating on behalf of affected people; (5) supporting the assessment and prioritization of humanitarian needs and strategic planning; (6) promoting emergency preparedness; and (7) mobilizing funding for humanitarian assistance.

P010077001 & P010077002: This project supports the Jordanian Ministry of Education (MoE) to ensure that all girls and boys (including refugee children, children with disabilities, and out-of-school children) have access to quality education in Jordan, regardless of their nationality. This education promotes life skills, improved learning outcomes, and work readiness. This project builds on the first phase of the Accelerating Access Initiative (AAI), which supported the MoE to provide formal education in Jordanian’s public schools to more than 140,000 Syrian refugee children. Under the second phase of the AAI, the MoE expand its outreach to provide formal and non-formal education opportunities to over 200,000 children, including Syrian and refugee children of other nationalities, children with disabilities, out-of-school children and other vulnerable Jordanian children. Project activities include: (1) covering tuition fees and textbooks for all refugee children in Jordan; (2) providing training to teachers and educators on inclusive and gender-sensitive education, child protection and blended learning approaches; (3) meeting the needs of the most vulnerable children, including children with disabilities, by equipping non-formal education centers and schools with furniture and equipment and (4) supporting community-based approaches aimed at increasing enrollment rates and preventing school drop-outs in vulnerable communities.

As with all pooled funded projects, Canada collaborate with other donors and the Government of Jordan to promote effective, transparent, and accountable country systems, increase donor coordination and harmonization and strengthen mutual accountability. This type of assistance fosters greater policy dialogue among donors, government, and partners, strengthening efforts for effective focussed aid, and long-term development results. This project is continuously monitored and evaluated in coordination with other donors.

This project aims to improve the economic well-being of poor rural women, particularly ethnic minorities in Vietnam by increasing women’s participation in paid economic activities. The project also aims to challenge discriminatory gender norms by addressing the root causes of the unequal distribution of care work placed on women in Vietnam. At the national level, this project aims to influence the provision of public services, infrastructure, childcare and social protection policies. This helps to reduce mobility barriers, reduce and redistribute the unpaid care work disproportionately shouldered by women and girls.
Advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment in Vietnam (AWEEV) targets a total of 4,885 participants (3,050 women and 1,835 men) in 15 communes of Ha Giang and Lai Chau provinces. This project is supporting 1,550 EM women, predominantly tea and ginger farmers, along with 150 women identified for women-led grassroots social enterprises (GSEs). Additionally, the project seeks to support 1,085 EM men to participate in activities such as agricultural training and gender-responsive dialogues. AWEEV indirectly benefits 12,000 household members of EM beneficiaries.
Project activities include: (1) providing technical assistance for gender-responsive and inclusive governance with duty bearers, particularly village chiefs and communal officers; (2) providing technical assistance on organizing production and sustainable, climate-smart agricultural practices to rural and ethnic minorities, particularly women; (3) organizing community events promoting gender equality; and (4) facilitating policy dialogues by studying the benefits of reducing unpaid care work to encourage government authorities to focus on investments in infrastructure.

Support for 2021 regional tourism growth plan

Expand building and acquire equipment to enhance efficiencies

Expand the CAN Health Network into Atlantic Canada to help companies scale and grow.

Engage expertise in CEO Advisory services and strategic planning for commercialization