Grants and Contributions

Contribution to assist Algonquins of Ontario in participating in the environmental assessment and future Commission hearing process for the Nuclear Power Demonstration Closure Project.

Protection of key overwintering sites of endangered Piping Plover and other shorebirds in the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands

This project addresses gaps in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and girls in Haiti. More particularly, this project strengthens and scales up previous work on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), and gender equality in the eleven clinical sites of the Lower Artibonite and Central Plateau. Project activities include: (1) addressing the most urgent clinical needs of survivors of SGBV; (2) ensuring that those in positions of authority at the health, judicial and community levels are educated and engaged in the reduction, mitigation and prevention of SGBV through surveillance committees, created to support survivors and promoting survivors’ rights; and (3) engaging girls, women, boys and men in an educational and empowering approach towards gender issues that aims to increase the resiliency of women and girls, and change social norms around SGBV.

This project aims to increase the empowerment of girls, adolescent girls and women through education, including those who are refugees, displaced, returning to their countries of origin and persons with disabilities in the Great Lakes region. The project is a regional response to the educational needs of girls, adolescent girls and women. The project identified twenty-four primary and secondary schools in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda to benefit from its activities, with a total of 34,827 students between the ages of 5 and 18 (50% of whom are girls and 80% of whom are refugees/displaced persons). The project anticipates helping 22,172 girls enrolled in these schools (between the ages of 5 and 18, and of whom 73% are refugees or displaced persons) to experience an improvement in their education. 1,280 out-of-school girls and women will benefit from informal vocational training and support to develop income-generating activities and 6,300 women to strengthen their commitment to girls' education. This totals 22,314 empowered girls, adolescent girls and women as direct beneficiaries of the project. Project activities include: (1) conducting a participatory, holistic and gender-sensitive study on the individual status of girls and adolescent girls, including refugees, displaced persons, returnees and persons living with disabilities (RDRD), and the obstacles and specific demands related to their education; (2) developing, with the education staff, teaching and learning materials that are inclusive, gender-sensitive and adapted to the realities of the most vulnerable girls and adolescents, including RDRD; and (3) strengthening coordination mechanisms among local, national and regional actors involved in women's education to increase their participation and the consideration of their voices.

Through contribution agreements, the CFLI provides financial assistance to cover all or part of the costs of relatively modest projects conceived, designed and implemented mainly by local authorities, institutions or organizations. The program aims to assist in the advocacy of Canada’s values and interests, and to strengthen Canada’s bilateral relations with foreign countries and their civil societies. The CFLI also seeks to provide humanitarian assistance in the immediate aftermath of natural disasters and emergencies.

Strengthening Women Social-economic Empowerment in Libya for housewives and other interested women

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.

Development of Official Language Communities Program

Multiculturalism Branch

Canada Book Fund