Grants and Contributions

This project seeks to increase the adoption of gender-smart approaches in the Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) sector. The Project plays a role in the InsuResilience Global Partnership and the Global Shield Against Climate Risks. These work to increase the financial protection of vulnerable people to minimize and address losses and damages associated with the impacts of climate change. Project activities include: (1) collecting and generating knowledge and evidence on emerging strategies and good practices for gender-smart approaches in the CDRFI sector; (2) providing guidance notes, toolkits, training and advisory services to policymakers and practitioners aiming to implement gender-smart solutions; (3) providing capacity-building opportunities on good practices in gender equality, including scholarships and leadership training for women; and (4) establishing a collaborative network platform where users can share evidence of their gender-smart solutions. The platform also provides an expert directory that links policymakers and practitioners with expertise in climate change and gender approaches to enhance the development of CDRFI solutions.

This project supports the World Health Organization in improving equitable health and well-being, especially those experiencing marginalization and vulnerable populations, in at least eight countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Project activities include: (1) designing and implementing innovative models of care for equitable access; and (2) providing technical assistance to implement guidance, tools and training on key areas of primary healthcare system governance, such as strengthening health workforce capacity.

This project builds on Canada’s funding to the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) during COVID-19. The initial project aims at accelerate the roll-out of safe, affordable, and effective COVID-19 diagnostics in Low- and Lower-Middle Income Countries. This project supports FIND in using testing technologies developed during COVID-19 to expand the range of diseases detected with a single test. This includes other respiratory diseases, sexually transmitted infections, and Human papillomavirus (HPV)-based screening for cervical cancer. The project aims to increase testing for the most marginalized, including women, children, and vulnerable groups.
Project activities include: (1) supporting the development of more straightforward sample collection methods, including self-sampling; and (2) conducting in-country customer preference surveys and barrier-to-access surveys to guide the final development and introduction of tests.

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.

The project aims to contribute to increased circumpolar and Indigenous knowledge sharing in the North, by Northern Canadians by increasing opportunities for Northern Canadians, including Indigenous peoples, to participate in UArctic north2north Mobility Program; strengthening relationships between UArctic member institutions and Canadian territorial post-secondary institutions; increasing opportunities for a Northern Canadian post-secondary Indigenous leader to contribute to UArctic initiatives; and strengthening capacity to align Indigenous Knowledge across the circumpolar north. To do so, the project implements the north2north Mobility Program, hosts a Vice President Indigenous position held by a senior Indigenous leader from Northern Canada, and creates tools to increase the visibility and accessibility of Indigenous content and knowledge within the UArctic network.

The project aims to strengthen the evidence base on how women and girls experience poverty differently than men and boys by conducting a gender-based analysis of the data underpinning the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The MPI is a measure of acute multidimensional poverty developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and included as part of the United Nations Human Development Report since 2010.

Project activities include: (1) conducting a gender-based analysis of the MPI indicators where the data permits, specifically, adult nutrition, years of schooling, and child school attendance; (2) publishing data tables and methodological notes from this analysis to equip researchers and national offices of statistics to replicate this methodology in their local contexts; and (3) developing communications materials, including country-specific briefs and presentations, to discuss the findings with national policymakers.

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the Center for Global Development (CGD). CGD uses these funds, along with other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate.

CGD’s mandate is to reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative research that drives better policy and practice by the world’s top decision-makers. The project provides institutional support to advance the Center for Global Development’s research activities related to the three following thematic: COVID-19 response and recovery, health systems strengthening, and sustainable development finance to help bridge the evidence gaps for effective international assistance policies and programming. CGD applies a cross-cutting gender lens to these three streams of work to generate evidence on women and girls’ experiences and inform effective public policy and program development to ensure that they are not left behind. This project supports CGD to produce the Commitment to Development Index, CGD’s flagship index ranking donor countries according to the impact of their policies on low-income countries.

Project activities include: (1) generating and disseminating research across the priority thematic areas to increase the availability of evidence as a global public good and inform development assistance policies and programs; and (2) producing and publishing policy-oriented knowledge products and holding dissemination events with global stakeholders.

The project aims to improve the resilience of women, men, girls and boys to climate change-related food insecurity, especially addressing its gendered impacts. It seeks to: (i) increase the practice of gender-responsive climate-smart agriculture, thus increasing peoples’ access to diverse foods; and (ii) increase women’s participation in decision-making at the local level. The project supports vulnerable women-headed households who are reliant on subsistence farming.

Project activities include: (1) promoting gender-responsive climate-smart agriculture technologies, the use of drought-resistant varieties of beans and maize, community seed banks, and community garden planting to help increase women’s incomes; (2) providing training on entrepreneurship and financial management, market links, gender equality, women’s rights and leadership to women’s groups; and (3) conducting gender sensitization sessions for women and men leaders, youth, and male family members to increase community support for women to participate in decision-making.

The project aims to directly impact 3,345 direct beneficiaries (of which 1,750 women and girls) and 6,500 indirect beneficiaries for a total of nearly 10,000 people reached.

The project is implemented by Casa-Pueblito with partners including Gloria Quintanilla Women’s Cooperative, UCA Tierra y Agua, Community of Jiñocua, and Hogar Luceros del Amanecer.

January 2021 - The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is a defining global health crisis of modern times, with over 2,000,000 recorded deaths worldwide. In countries that are already experiencing humanitarian crises and have highly vulnerable populations, COVID-19 has placed even more pressure on essential services, infrastructure, and systems and resulted in adverse effects on the provision of and use of health and protection services by women and girls. Country-level interventions will be implemented through a global program that will allow for a greater overall coherence and visibility of sectoral results achieved.

With GAC’s support, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is providing protection and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) support to refugees and vulnerable people in six countries, including Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Sudan. Project activities include: (1) providing COVID-19 safe SRHR services; (2) providing COVID-19 safe sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) case management and services; (3) providing cash grants for especially vulnerable persons; (4) training care providers on women’s empowerment topics; (4) empowering women and girls to contribute to COVID-19 impacted SGBV and SRHR services; (5) increasing the number of women-led organisations implementing SRHR and women’s empowerment programming; and (6) improving overall coherence and visibility of comprehensive results achieved through the global program.

January 2021 - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is mandated by the United Nations General-Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF works in developing countries through its development and humanitarian assistance programming to fulfill its mandate, including promoting the equal rights of girls’ and women’s, equal rights and support their full participation in the political, social, and economic development of their communities.

With Global Affairs Canada’s support, in humanitarian emergencies, UNICEF provides life-saving health and nutrition interventions for children, pregnant and lactating women to support the treatment, growth and development of healthy children. Project activities include: (1) providing ready-to-use therapeutic food to treat severe acute malnutrition and child wasting; and (2) providing community-based health care services to identify and treat malnutrition.