Grants and Contributions

Working Capital : In the context of the crisis caused by the pandemic at COVID-19, the project aims to ensure the continuity of activities of a company that specializes in tourist accommodation.

Working Capital: In the context of the crisis caused by the pandemic at COVID-19, the project aims to ensure the continuity of activities of a company that specializes in film and video production.

In the context of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the project aims to ensure the continuity of operations of a company that specializes in bulk trucking.

The project aims to promote peace and stability in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) while promoting learning continuity during COVID-19. Aligned with the Government of the Philippines’ pandemic response and peacebuilding objectives, the project will implement a civic and peace education program that teaches social cohesion and inclusion through a multi-platform delivery of the curriculum.

Project activities will include using cartoons and interactive discussions to teach 9 to 11 year olds life skills and civic values. Animated episodes and lesson plans will be translated into local dialects and formatted for both in-class and distance learning. Social messages on gender equality, and non-violence, among others, will be conveyed through comic books and posters, customized radio theatre, and TV broadcast. Additionally, teachers and parents/caregivers will be trained on pedagogies that promote peace, human rights, and gender equality.

The project will benefit 50,000 children, including 30,000 girls, in 100 schools in the BARMM. It will also reach 1,500 teachers (1,000 women) and 5,000 parents/caregivers (3,000 women) through training.

This project is Canada’s contribution to the Multi-Partner Trust Fund for Reconciliation, Stabilization, Resilience (RSRTF) in South Sudan. The RSRTF ensures conflict drivers are addressed through highly contextualized, conflict-sensitive, integrated, multi-year resilience and stabilization programming in volatile areas of the country. The RSRTF aims to foster and incentivize consortium programming across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus to deliver area-based programing rooted in locally-led analysis and program design. Peace and Stabilization Operations Program funding supports new area-based programming between 2021 and 2023, including support to existing area-based programs in Unity, Warrap, Western Bahr El Ghazal, Jonglei states and the Greater Pibor Administrative Area. Canada’s contribution supports a small grant window to provide flexible funding for short-term projects to respond to emerging windows of opportunities that promote peacebuilding, stabilization and resilience efforts that may fall outside the planned area-based programs.

This project aims to support the Colombian Truth Commission’s mandate in Canada and recognize the impact of armed conflict on survivors and the families of survivors forced to flee Colombia. Project activities include: (1) facilitating social dialogue activities in Canada among the people and organizations delivering the Truth Commission in Canada, survivors in exile, including women and girls of different ethnicities, and other actors; (2) documenting the Truth Commission process in Canada; (3) documenting the transition towards the peaceful co-existence and recovery of Colombian survivors in exile in Canada; and (4) developing and distributing educational and communications material on the Truth Commission, in Canada and Colombia.

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein plays a critical role in initiating the infection process. There is evidence that in addition to the recognition of its receptor binding domain (RBD) by human ACE2 receptor, interactions of the N-terminal domain (NTD) with the sialic acid-based glycan receptors lining the respiratory tract are important to trigger its binding to ACE2, but structural determinants of this recognition remain elusive. As the atomic details of these interactions could be exploited to design and optimize therapeutic candidates, the Recipient will determine a series of crystal structures of spike domains complexed with various ACE2-derived peptides and glycan carbohydrates. Structural data generated will provide a solid basis for further engineering of both peptides and glycans with incremental improvements of binding and neutralization properties to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, paving the way for development of therapeutic candidates that can address not only the current pandemic but also future challenges.

Support provided for PAGSE's recurring Bacon and Eggheads, a series that brings together Parliamentarians and scientists. Support was also provided for their quartlerly SciEng Pages online scientific issues.

This project is mostly related to increased knowledge and collaboration with stakeholders and/or international organizations.

This project is mainly related to increasing knowledge and collaboration with stakeholders and / or international organizations.