Grants and Contributions

Strengthening the democratic participation of women in Kenya through training and experience sharing with elected women leaders for a group of women aspiring for elective leadership during Kenya’s next general election in 2022.

July 2019 – Humanitarian needs stemming from the crises in Syria and Iraq remain significant throughout the Middle East. Continued violence in Syria raises little prospects for the voluntary, safe, sustainable and dignified return of over 5.6 million refugees in the region. Internally displaced persons range in the millions in Syria and Iraq, and refugees facing protracted displacement in host countries continue to face acute humanitarian needs in Jordan and Lebanon.

With the support of GAC and other donors, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) provides assistance and protection to refugees, internally-displaced persons and other persons of concern in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

P006311001: The project aims to address barriers faced by women, adolescent girls and girls in achieving their optimal level of sexual and reproductive health, and asserting their sexual and reproductive rights in selected districts of Bangladesh, El Salvador, the Philippines and Sudan. The project works to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights through advocacy, as central to a human rights approach. Project activities include: (1) advocating to government at local, state or national levels, as well as to non-governmental decision-makers, in order for them to enact policy or legislative change and to implement these changes; (2) delivering sexual and reproductive health and rights services paired with advocacy; and (3) increasing awareness of sexual and reproductive health and rights, including the right to be free from sexual and gender-based violence, within communities, schools, and in public awareness campaigns to promote national dialogue on the barriers to those rights and the need for change.

The project targets an estimated 25,000 direct beneficiaries comprised of 19,234 women and 5,766 men.

P006311002: This project will enable Inter Pares to conduct activities to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 in El Salvador and Bangladesh over an 18-month period. The response focuses on strengthening Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) knowledge and advocacy, services and support. Local partners, Colectiva Feminista and Nijera Kori, will conduct online campaigns to raise awareness about the increased risk of sexual gender-based violence (SGBV), teenage pregnancies, and marital rape due to the conditions arising from the pandemic, and they will undertake research on the impact of COVID-19 on women, SRHR and the LGTBI+ population.

Project activities include:(1) strengthening youth group SRHR knowledge and advocacy through interactive activities, including artistic workshops that will allow them to recognize and defend their sexual and reproductive rights; (2) increasing phone support lines in two new regions in El Salvador to provide women and adolescents with SRHR/SGBV information and counselling; (3) establishing adolescent-friendly spaces in Nijera Kori sub-centres in Bangladesh to allow adolescents to learn and discuss SRHR/SGBV topics, show films, and learn about protecting themselves on social media – all while following COVID-19 health protocols; (4) undertaking an online campaign to raise awareness about the increased risk of SGBV and teenage pregnancies due to the conditions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic; and (5) completing research and a report on the issue of SGBV and marital rape in Bangladesh.

This project is to improve energy efficiency in Canada's commercial and institutional building sector.

Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage

Multiculturalism Branch

Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage

Equipment acquisition and leasehold improvements: The project involves the start-up of a company specialized in the design, manufacture and assembly of hydraulic manifolds.

A five-month (February-July 2020) Fellowship with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Defense College based in Rome, Italy to provide research support on defence and security issues related to NATO and Canada.

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.