Grants and Contributions

P002913001: The project aims to empower adolescent girls in Ghana, including those most-vulnerable, through the provision, and access to, gender-responsive comprehensive sexuality education and youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services, including family planning and contraception.

Through their work on a range of diverse projects, they focus on issues of environmental sustainability, gender equality and improving Indigenous livelihoods.

Development of a Patient-Reported Outcome Instrument for Gender Confirming Treatments: The TRANS-Q

P001983001: The project aims to offer greater availability and use of primary health care services, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH), such as maternal and newborn care, of women and girls in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The project also contributes to strengthening management of health centres and access to SRH services by women and girls, including family planning, contraceptive methods and post-abortion care. Project activities include: (1) providing ongoing training to health care providers, taking into account the specific needs of women and girls; (2) purchasing medical and non-medical equipment; (3) strengthening the system for procuring medicines; and (4) supporting health care personnel in order to increase their capacity to promote best practices and raise community awareness in order to promote the health and rights of women and girls.

P001983002: This project offers greater availability and use of primary health care services, including the sexual and reproductive health of women and girls, such as maternal and newborn care, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The project's component provides additional funding to help with the coronavirus (COVID-19) response, without compromising the achievement of the original project results. The project aims to reach 1.9 million people living in seven health zones in the province of Kinshasa, including 984,404 women, 405,343 of whom are of child bearing age, 482,551 adolescents and 386,041 children under the age of five.

Project activities include: (1) adopting a comprehensive and multi sectoral approach by involving the health, justice, police, education and social protection sectors in order to intervene in terms of the prevention of violence, protection, addressing violence against women and bringing the guilty parties to justice; (2) offering additional support to women’s groups and local movements that defend the rights of women; (3) involving men in awareness and advocacy efforts in support of gender equality; and (4) providing technical assistance and strengthening the capacity of Morocco’s government institutions in addressing violence against women.

Project activities include: (1) providing emergency shelter kits, non-food items and multi-purpose cash; (2) coordinating camp management for internally displaced people in UN bases; (3) deploying mobile teams to remote locations where affected populations lack water, sanitation and hygiene services; (4) providing emergency water, sanitation and hygiene; (5) supporting humanitarian organizations by establishing lightweight camps in deep field locations and heavy base camps and national NGO support centres and providing common transport services of cargo for humanitarian organizations; (6) data collection including mapping of vulnerable populations at points of entry and at the district and community level for enhanced targeting and delivery of assistance; and (7) protection and gender mainstreaming across activities with provision for extremely vulnerable individuals including unaccompanied migrant children and single females.