Grants and Contributions

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to develop and evaluate an overall approach and strategy specifically responding to the needs of communities in their efforts to combat violence and system discrimination, using methods and principles from the Blackfoot Nation’s Hierarchy of Needs, founded on self-actualization.

The project aims to provide equitable sexual and reproductive health care and respond to gender-based violence (GBV) for people living in local communities of Cox’s Bazar impacted by the influx of over 740,000 Rohingya refugees since August 2017.

P006358001: The project aims to improve learning for pre-primary, primary-aged and out-of-school girls and boys in the Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh through gender equitable quality education. Cox’s Bazar is one of Bangladesh’s poorest and most vulnerable districts, with poverty well above the country’s national average.

Project activities are: (1) providing livelihood skills training for an estimated 1,000 women and 2,000 young men; (2) providing cash-for-work for an estimated 3,000 people to carry out quick impact community development projects, such as repairing infrastructure, rehabilitating public spaces and installing solar lighting to improve safety; (3) establishing a multi-purpose women’s centre for skills training for women and adolescent girls in the camps where Rohingya people have settled; (4) providing information on sexual and gender-based violence, and sexual and reproductive health and rights, human trafficking and child marriage to reach an estimated 6,000 women per year; (5) providing skills training for approximately 360 women per year; and (6) establishing a Local Volunteer Mediators Network. Setting up this Network comprises training local officials, traditional leaders, women’s groups and media on mediation and dispute resolution; and holding workshops on the prevention of violent extremism, and on peacebuilding from a gender perspective.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to work with PREVNet, a national research network, to develop best practices for using video counselling to increase access to trauma-informed support services for youth, Indigenous, rural, and ethno-cultural women survivors of sexual violence.

UNFPA focuses on three main areas: reproductive health and rights, gender equality, and population and development strategies.

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to UN Women - the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. UN Women uses these funds, along with other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate.

P002679001: This project is part of Canada’s Women’s Voice and Leadership Program, which supports local and regional women’s organisations and networks that are working to promote women’s rights, and advance women’s empowerment and gender equality in developing countries. This is done by supporting their activities, building their institutional capacity, and promoting network and alliance-building as women’s rights and feminist organizations are critical agents of change.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to test the promising practice “Reclaiming our Voices”, an annual land-based cultural healing gathering, in order to address issues related to the lack of access to culturally appropriate services and resources for First Nations survivors of gender based violence.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to test and evaluate a trauma-informed and survivor-centred third party-reporting platform, which expands on an RCMP pilot in BC and Yukon.