Grants and Contributions

The objectives of the Program are: • promoting volunteerism among seniors; • engaging seniors in the community through mentoring of others; • expanding awareness of elder abuse, including financial abuse; • supporting social participation and inclusion of seniors; and • providing capital assistance for new and existing community projects and/or programs for seniors.

The objectives of the Program are: • promoting volunteerism among seniors; • engaging seniors in the community through mentoring of others; • expanding awareness of elder abuse, including financial abuse; • supporting social participation and inclusion of seniors; and • providing capital assistance for new and existing community projects and/or programs for seniors.

The objectives of the Program are: • promoting volunteerism among seniors; • engaging seniors in the community through mentoring of others; • expanding awareness of elder abuse, including financial abuse; • supporting social participation and inclusion of seniors; and • providing capital assistance for new and existing community projects and/or programs for seniors.

This project will support victims of sexual assault and intimate partner violence by providing tailored, culturally sensitive, and trauma informed legal advice and representation. The Lethbridge Legal Guidance Society will conduct intake and initial assessments to determine the type of legal assistance required for each client. Furthermore, clients will be referred to victim services and other community agencies for other support services such as counselling.

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.

February 2021 - The rapid spread of COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed healthcare systems, disrupted economies and altered livelihoods in many parts of the world. People living in crisis-affected settings, often in over-crowded areas, are at greater risk of contracting COVID-19. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides medical humanitarian operations to vulnerable populations at risk of contracting and spreading the virus in countries affected by war, armed conflict and other situations of violence.

With GAC’s support, MSF aims to minimize the consequences of the pandemic on affected populations through activities that include: (1) providing direct patient care to those affected by COVID-19; (2) increasing access to primary and secondary medical care in places where gaps exist in local health systems as a result of COVID-19; and (3) increasing awareness in affected communities about the virus and prevention measures.