Grants and Contributions

The purpose of this agreement is to increase awareness, availability and use of lower carbon vehicles and fuels in Canada by supporting the installation of 63 electric vehicle chargers in Quebec.

This project aims to strengthen the capacity of Mexican authorities to control and monitor illicit substances, to detect and dismantle clandestine laboratories, and to better analyze, manage, and dispose of synthetic drugs and chemical precursors. Through such efforts, this project will help counter the production and flow of illicit substances, with a particular focus on synthetic drugs, to and through Mexico with the ultimate objective of enhancing regional safety and security.

To be implemented by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), this project will leverage relevant subject matter expertise to deliver training, equipment, and technical support to enhance Mexico’s capacity to counter the production and trafficking of synthetic drugs and increase relevant information sharing across the wider region.

Project activities will include: (1) Delivery of on-site training on safe handling, disposal, and analysis of synthetic drugs and precursor chemicals; (2) Facilitate and convene discussions with key authorities involved in dismantling synthetic drug laboratories and handling chemical precursors; and (3) Development of a curricula meant for sharing lessons learned and best practices based on current collaborative work and gender responsive mechanisms.

The project aims at improving the resilience of agricultural livelihoods, particularly for women, by promoting the adoption of gender-responsive climate-smart agriculture practices. The project will operate in five regions of northern Ghana where farming communities are highly vulnerable to droughts and other climate-related challenges. Project activities include: (1) tailored training programs on climate-resilient farming practices and resources to enhance women’s capacity to adapt to climate change and to address specific barriers such as limited access to land, technology, and financial services; (2) access to financial products such as low-interest loans, waived collateral, and flexible repayment terms tailored to 14,500 smallholders farmers for purchasing farming inputs and to 480 agribusiness traders for storage and trade as well as to 20 small and medium size enterprises to enhance value-added processing; and (3) leadership training to strengthen women’s ability to take an active role in community planning and decision-making processes related to agriculture and climate adaptation within their communities.

This project aims to improve biodiversity and key ecosystem health along Honduras’ Atlantic and Pacific coasts using nature-based solutions. It responds directly to Canada’s commitment to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to safeguard and restore biodiversity. The project focuses on people dependent on these ecosystems, particularly women, youth, and Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples, whose livelihoods remain threatened by climate change, habitat loss, and ecosystem degradation. Project activities include: (1) strengthening protected areas governance and management; (2) restoring ecosystems and recovering threatened species through nature-based solutions; (3) improving agroforestry, agriculture, ecotourism and cattle ranching sustainability through model nature-based solutions; (4) strengthening public sector biodiversity policy framework; and (5) enhancing women’s empowerment and Indigenous people’s rights.

The project aims to strengthen public service governance with a focus on ethics and human rights, transparency, accountability, civic engagement, and equitable participation, especially for women. Activities include: (1) Technical assistance to support the mainstreaming of gender equality in policymaking; (2) Organize workshops among the public and private sectors on leading practice in ethics and human rights; (3) Provide technical assistance to targeted civil society organizations in monitoring of the implementation of development policies; (4) Mentor select civil servants in community engagement and women’s empowerment.

The project aims to equip youth, especially women and people living with disabilities, with relevant skills to contribute to economic and social development in Mongolia. The project will address fundamental gaps in Mongolia’s current Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system. Activities include: (1) Deliver capacity building workshop for Ministry of Education staff on creating a national vocational qualification framework; (2) Conduct a stakeholder consultation with Ministry of Education and training institutions to understand the requirements of quality assurance systems; (3) Review and update the Mongolia gender equality strategy for technical and vocational training and education.

The Advancing Growth Innovation and Leadership for Enterprises (AGILE) aims to increase the resilience of Vietnams populations vulnerable to climate change. AGILE will drive ecosystem enhancements that lead to increased investment in and support for Vietnamese women-focused climate enterprises (CE). These CEs would then be able to grow, thrive and maximize their impact on vulnerable populations resilience to climate change by offering resilient employment opportunities and by delivering products and services that help individual consumers, businesses and other stakeholders adapt to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change. The project activities include: (1) Strengthening capacity of BK Holdings and other local enablers in providing business acceleration services for women-focused CEs; (2) Working with investors to deploy a challenge grant for the CEs that are ready to attract private capital. The grant would then help leveraging gender-responsive climate finance into these CEs; (3) Providing trainings and support services for WISE and other local women`s business support organizations to strengthen their capacity to translate between gender and finance to promote gender lens investing in Vietnam.

The project aims to improve the capacity of girls and boys with disabilities, community, state, and national level actors to increase access to quality secondary education and graduation levels. At the national level, cash transfers are provided to girls and boys with disabilities and catch-up classes to help them successfully (re)integrate and complete grades 7 to 12. Also, the project seeks to strengthen the education system at national and subnational level for better service provision, national budget allocation and accountability. It also informs, educates, and motivates community members (girls, boys, women and men, parents, teachers and community leaders) to promote quality education completion, with an emphasis for children with disabilities who face increased discrimination. Scalable geographic pilots are designed to improve life skills education for children with disabilities with tailored support to schools and teachers to address discrimination and meet their specific needs.

The Increasing Economic Opportunities for Youth in Uganda and Tanzania project aims to increase economic opportunities for youth (30 and under) in Uganda and Tanzania through financial inclusion and entrepreneurship. The project seeks to address the socio-economic inclusion of youth (30 years and under) and particularly marginalized and vulnerable young women, in Uganda and Tanzania, by enhancing the skills, financial inclusion, and employability of youth, ultimately contributing to economic growth and reducing poverty for themselves and their families. To achieve this, the project will employ an innovative two-pronged approach targeting youth that will couple vocational training and employment enhancement initiatives alongside financial literacy development. By offering vocational training, the project will offer skills development opportunities to youth that are relevant to the current and local job market, in each target country. Financial and non-financial products directly targeting the needs of youth, and marginalized and vulnerable young women in particular, will be developed to further enable them to apply the skills that they’ve gained and start a new business or expand pre-existing enterprises. Finally, to ensure gender-equal financial inclusion, all financial services and products offered through the project will be reviewed with a gender-lens to ensure equal access and benefits for young women.

This project aims to enhance the climate resilience of Indigenous Peoples in Colombia and Zambia using an Indigenous-to-Indigenous approach in collaboration with Métis in Canada. It seeks to reduce poverty by safeguarding the livelihoods and resources that Indigenous Peoples and their communities depend on.

The project fosters the co-creation of climate adaptation strategies that are culturally relevant, locally grounded, and deeply connected to the identities of the Nations and Peoples involved. It also aims to support gender equality and on-site learning in partnerships with Indigenous organizations in Canada, such as VIDEA and Indigenous Clean Energy. The project seeks to foster knowledge exchanges between Indigenous Peoples from Colombia, Zambia and the Métis Nation in Canada. This enables them to highlight community-based climate projects in sustainable resource management and renewable energy, emphasizing resilience strategies and the use of Indigenous knowledge. The project supports Canada’s commitment in implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Project activities include: (1) conducting 2-week knowledge exchanges between Indigenous participants in Colombia, Zambia, and across the Métis Nation, including workshops, site visits, and cultural activities; (2) designing exchanges to facilitate mutual understanding of climate resilience strategies, Indigenous knowledge, and sustainable practices, particularly through storytelling; (3) providing hands-on lessons on Indigenous approaches to land stewardship, sustainable resource management, and community-based climate adaptation; and (4) participating in the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Brazil to partake in important dialogues on climate adaptation.