Grants and Contributions

Enhance human resource capacity within eastern PEI SMEs

Enhance human resource capacity within eastern PEI SMEs

Acquisition of equipment and expansion of facilities : The project aims to increase the production capacity of the company, which specializes in the manufacture of machined metal parts.

Acquisition of equipment : The project aims to improve productivity and increase the production capacity of a company specializing in metal processing.

Contribution as part of the Participant Funding Program to Eagle Lake First Nation to assist in preparing for and engaging in Indigenous consultation activities and public participation opportunities associated with the environmental assessment process for the Bending Lake Iron Project.

P007233001: The Défi éducation des filles au Mali (DÉFI) [Girls' Education Challenge in Mali], funded by Global Affairs Canada through a maximum contribution of $12,070,449 over 5 years, will be implemented in Mali by Agriteam Canada Consulting Ltd. and its principal Canadian partners Farm Radio International and Education International.

The project aims to reduce the prevalence of child early and forced marriage (CEFM) in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone. It works to reduce CEFM by enabling girls to decide their own futures and fulfill their equal human rights.

Project activities include: (1) establishing/refurbishing physical safe spaces in existing community structures and equipping them with age-appropriate materials; (2) identifying female and male gender equality (GE) community champions using a participatory approach; and (3) conducting dialogue workshops between trained Civil Society organizations (CSOs) and government officials to understand the issues and challenges in addressing CEFM.

It is expected the project reaches over 25,900 direct beneficiaries (11,400 girls, 6,700 boys, 3,800 women, 4,000 men) in the Western Area Rural and the Kailahun Districts of Sierra Leone, and the Cascades and Hauts-Bassins regions of Burkina Faso. Key groups include girls, boys, women, men, traditional and religious leaders, women- and girl-led community groups, Civil Society organizations, service providers, sub-national, national, and regional government stakeholders.

This project supports women in rural areas of Northern Ghana who encounter difficulties accessing specialized skills. The project works to train and empower young women to participate in non-traditional technical trades in economic activities. These activities include welding, electrical and electronic works, mechanical maintenance, agricultural mechanization, agro-processing, and auto mechanics. The project works mostly with technical and vocational education training (TVET) institutions in the Upper West, Upper East, and Northern Regions. It supports the creation of entrepreneur hubs within TVET institutions. Project activities include: (1) developing and delivering national communications campaigns advocating for women’s participation in non-traditional trades; (2) providing technical assistance to strengthen government oversight bodies’ outreach with TVET providers on gender equality issues and to build the capacity of TVET Gender Officers; (3) supporting partner TVET institutions to analyze barriers to

P006726001: The project addresses the barriers that prevent girls between the ages of 6 and 14 from attending and staying in school in targeted regions in Nigeria.

The project improves girls' access to education by: 1) engaging with decision-makers in households as well as community and religious leaders; and 2) providing conditional financial support through vouchers and cash transfers to vulnerable households to enrol 10,000 girls and keep them in school.

The project improves the quality of schools by: 1) recruiting and training 180 volunteer teachers, particularly women, within communities and transitioning them to the government payroll; 2) supporting 60 school improvement plans to make them more girl-friendly; and 3) training 600 teachers on gender-responsive teaching and classroom management.

The main beneficiaries are 24,042 girls aged 6-14, with a particular focus on internally displaced persons, out-of-school girls, and married adolescent girls. The project also benefits about 19 018 boys aged 6-14.

P006726002: This portion of the larger project works to respond to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, through supporting the targeted states in printing and distributing information, education, and communication materials on COVID-19 health precaution measures. The project aims to procure solar powered radios to support remote learning for children’s reading circles, which is predominantly comprised of girls. The project also works with state teachers to ensure that the radio-based lessons are being delivered in mathematics, English, and basic science.

The project aims to support the reintegration of child survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) into a safer school system in the conflict-affected and marginalized communities of North and South Kivu in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The project works to improve girls’ access to education and strengthening education systems to be gender-responsive. The project also works to provide immediate psychosocial, emotional and material support to reintegrate child survivors of SGBV into school. The project seeks to tackle harmful gender norms and gender inequality at the household, school and community level by promoting positive gender norms.
Project activities include: (1) providing social and emotional support, as well as materials and financial support to 900 SGBV survivors and other vulnerable girls and boys to pursue formal and non-formal education; (2) providing training to 780 education leaders or members of school governance structures (school management committees, parent and student associations) on positive gender norms, and the provision of an inclusive, safe, gender-responsive school environment; (3) improving the capacity of 1,445 teachers (of which 466 are women) to deliver protective, inclusive, gender-responsive instructions to girls, including survivors of SGBV.
The project aims to target some 30, 675 direct beneficiaries, including 14, 025 girls and 14, 025 boys between the ages of 6 and 16, and 720 girls and 180 boys survivors of SGBV. The project also aims to reach approximately 87, 600 indirect beneficiaries to receive key messages to raise awareness and strengthen attitudes towards girls’ education.