Grants and Contributions

Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture

The Habitat StewardshipProgram (HSP) contributes to the recovery of endangered, threatened, and other species of concern, by engaging Canadians in conservation actions to benefit wildlife to protect aquaticspecies at risk.

To support the participation of Indigenous peoples in activities relating to theconservation and protection of fish and fish habitat, including the development of theDepartment of Fisheries and Oceans' (DFO) policies, program elements and regulationsand the development of their technical capacity to support greater involvement in the conservation and protection of fish and fish habitat.

This project aims to improve access to sexual and reproductive health care for vulnerable and marginalized adolescent girls and young women in Bolivia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, Honduras, Jordan, Lebanon, and the occupied Palestinian territory. Project activities include: (1) educating and working with adolescent girls and young women on topics related to their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); (2) educating and working with adolescent boys and young men on issues such as gender equality, SRHR, and cultural practices related to masculinity, gender, and sexuality; (3) training health care workers to provide inclusive and accessible sexual and reproductive health services and practices, particularly to adolescent girls and young women; (4) providing better equipment to health facilities across the project countries, in order to improve their capacity to offer comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services; and (5) working with civil society organizations and rights’ groups to advocate for better SRHR related policy. The project works to benefit over 90,000 adolescent girls and young women across the project countries. This project works in partnership with Plan International Canada, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada(SOGC), and RNW Media, as well as numerous local women’s rights groups and youth organizations across the project countries.

March 2021 – A complex combination of vulnerability to armed conflict, inter-communal tension, protracted displacement, and food insecurity characterizes the humanitarian situation in Myanmar. An estimated one million crisis-affected people require humanitarian assistance this year, including more than 336,000 displaced people across the country. Humanitarian organizations operate in an increasingly complex environment, including as a result of the recent military coup.

With GAC’s support, HOPE International Development Agency and its local partner, Metta Development Foundation, support cash programming, health and nutrition, and access to gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health for internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in Kachin State, Myanmar. Project activities include: (1) distributing multi-purpose cash grants to former IDPs returning to their homes, including in support of supplementary feeding for children; (2) providing vocational and technical livelihood training to survivors of gender-based violence; and (3) facilitating comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) training for IDPs.

This project aims to reduce the number of child recruits and child soldiers in countries where the United Nations (UN) conduct peacekeeping operations. The Vancouver Principles on Peacekeeping and the Prevention of the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers are a set of policy commitments focused on protecting children and the prevention of enlistment and use of child soldiers by armed forces and non-state armed groups. This project streamlines the Vancouver Principles and their implementation into the existing UN policy, guidance and training frameworks for child protection in UN Peace Operations with the UN Department of Peace Operations. The UN ensures that the principles are harmonized, implemented and respected by civilian, military and police peacekeepers.

This project includes a gender review of materials for men and women peacekeepers and boys and girls as child soldiers. The two-year scalable activities include comprehensive consultation, material development and review, and extensive training.

Climate Change Expert Group

Brewer Trust Fund

The organization will design an elder abuse prevention and response roadmap with pathways for individuals, organizations, communities, and governments to work, independently and collectively toward the goal to reduce and prevent elder abuse and to better support victims of elder abuse. The project will involve multi sectoral partners and consultation with existing elder abuse networks at local and provincial/territorial levels. The roadmap will be disseminated in both official languages via a robust promotional and educational campaign.

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)