Grants and Contributions

March 2021 – Following the outbreak of violence in Northern Rakhine State in August 2017, more than 700,000 Rohingya people crossed from Myanmar into Bangladesh over a period of several months. Currently, an estimated 855,000 Rohingya refugees live in 34 highly congested settlements in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The speed and scale of the influx resulted in significant humanitarian needs.

With GAC’s support, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) provides comprehensive protection programming for children at heightened risk of trafficking and abuse, focusing on prevention and response through a community-based approach. Project activities include: (1) providing gender-sensitive case management support for child survivors and children and adolescents at risk of protection violations; (2) providing family tracing and reunification support to unaccompanied and separated children; (3) supporting caregivers of vulnerable and at-risk children and adolescents with individualized protection support and multi-purpose cash assistance; and (4) providing training to local agencies and community volunteers on identification, referral and response for child protection cases.

P010168001: January 2021 – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) provides international protection and assistance to the world’s refugees, stateless persons, asylum seekers, and in some instances, internally displaced persons, including in response to the secondary impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The UNHCR searches for lasting solutions to their situations.

With the support of GAC and other donors, this project provides assistance and protection to refugees, internally displaced persons and other persons of concern in five regions and twenty-three specific countries across the world.

Project activities include: (1) providing shelter, clothing and other essential non-food items; (2) providing adequate water, sanitation and health services, including in reproductive health; (3) providing opportunities for education and livelihoods support; (4) providing protection, including against sexual and gender-based violence, child protection and working with governments to register asylum seekers and refugees, and help issue identity documents; (5) working with governments to support refugee self-reliance and forge peaceful relations between refugees and local citizens; and (6) expanding opportunities for durable solutions for people of concern.

P010168002: January 2021 – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) provides international protection and assistance to the world’s refugees, stateless persons, asylum seekers, and in some instances, internally displaced persons, including in response to the secondary impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The UNHCR searches for lasting solutions to their situations.

With the support of GAC and other donors, this project provides assistance and protection to refugees, internally displaced persons and other persons of concern in five regions and twenty-three specific countries across the world. Project activities include: (1) providing shelter, clothing and other essential non-food items; (2) providing adequate water, sanitation and health services, including in reproductive health; (3) providing opportunities for education and livelihoods support; (4) providing protection, including against sexual and gender-based violence, child protection and working with governments to register asylum seekers and refugees, and help issue identity documents; (5) working with governments to support refugee self-reliance and forge peaceful relations between refugees and local citizens; and (6) expanding opportunities for durable solutions for people of concern.

The International Committee of the Red Cross’ (ICRC) primary mission is to help protect people’s lives and dignity affected by conflict and other violent situations. The ICRC assists and prevents further suffering by promoting and strengthening international humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles.

With GAC’s support and other donors, the ICRC’s humanitarian operations aim to provide protection, emergency relief, and other essential services to people affected by armed conflict and other violent situations, and promote respect for international humanitarian law. This project supports the ICRC’s activities in key humanitarian contexts.

The funding also supports a special initiative to strengthen ICRC's response to sexual violence to improve service delivery, prevent sexual violence, and improve its staff's capacity to respond. This grant supports a pilot initiative launched by the ICRC and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to strengthen the capacity of Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies, especially those in contexts with heightened humanitarian needs risks.

Project activities include: (1) providing medical care, access to water and sanitation facilities, food assistance and livelihoods support; (2) providing Red Cross/Red Crescent National Societies with technical expertise to strengthen their capacity in areas such as promoting international humanitarian law, restoring family links, and delivering relief in situations of armed conflict and violence; and (3) ensuring that international humanitarian law is respected in the treatment of detainees, and civilians not taking part in hostilities.

This grant represents Canada’s institutional support to the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). The GPE uses these funds, along with other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate.

The GPE is the main multilateral funding mechanism focused on basic education in developing countries. It aims to mobilize global and national efforts to contribute to the achievement of equitable, quality education and learning for all, through inclusive partnership, with a focus on effective and efficient education systems and increased financing. The GPE’s strategic goals include: improved and more equitable learning outcomes; increased equity, gender equality and inclusion; and effective and efficient education systems. It provides a platform for coordination among bilateral donors, developing countries, multilateral institutions and civil society organizations. The GPE also fosters mutual accountability, shares knowledge about best practices and encourages transparency at all levels.

Some program activities include: (1) providing country-level funding to increase children’s access to education; (2) supporting education sector plans that focus on increasing the quality of teaching and the number of qualified teachers; (3) providing appropriate reading materials to children; and (4) assessing the volume of financing to education at the global and country levels.

This project represents an additional loan of $190 million to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for climate-smart agriculture in developing countries. This contribution supports IFAD’s full environmental and climate mainstreaming agenda whose overarching goal is to strengthen the environmental sustainability and climate resilience of rural people to overcome poverty and achieve food security. The purposes of this loan are: (1) to support IFAD’s provision of loans to eligible Member States in line with IFAD’s commitment to ensure that its Programme of Loans and Grants is climate-focused; and (2) to support gender mainstreaming and gender-transformative projects.
Project activities include: (1) expanding IFAD’s support to smallholder farmers, particularly women; and (2) promoting farming practices adapted to climate change and adoption of technologies and practices which help reduce the carbon footprint from agricultural systems. This project enables poor populations to adapt to the effects of climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

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

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

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