Grants and Contributions

The DASCH Centre will include the construction of a new addition adjacent to the existing building at 1605 Buffalo Place, Winnipeg. This Project will result in a single, unified, purpose-built centre where support programs for people living with intellectual disabilities will be delivered. The new building will have architectural features to minimize challenges, promote health & well-being, encourage social inclusion and economic participation for people with intellectual disabilities. The center will greatly increase accessibility and promote social connections between the people DASCH serves, their families, staff and members of the greater Winnipeg community.

Maintain and build out capacities through the L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic and the Manitoba Legal Clinic for the Arts to deliver intellectual property law related information to clients.

This project is to develop a 15 tonne per day hydrogen liquefier facility in North Vancouver, BC, to provide low-carbon intensity liquid hydrogen for the BC transportation market as well as for industrial users.

Tourist attraction: The project aims to develop the tourist offer of a company specialized in elk farming.

Network structuring and innovation: The project aims to support the development of innovation skills among Quebec SMEs, as well as their networking activities, particularly with foreign companies, within the framework of a conference event.

Participant funding grant to participate in CER-led early engagement activities for the Sunrise Expansion Program

This project is part of Canada’s second phase of the Women’s Voice and Leadership Program, which supports local and regional women’s organisations and networks that are working to promote women’s rights, and advance women’s empowerment and gender equality in developing countries. This is done by supporting activities, building institutional capacity, and promoting network and alliance-building as women’s rights and feminist organizations are critical agents of change. The Program also responds to the globally recognized, significant gap in funding and support to women’s rights organizations and movements around the world. The project is implemented in Mozambique by the Centro de Aprendizagem e Capacitação da Sociedade Civil (CESC) [Learning and Capacity Building Centre for Civil Society], a Mozambican NGO. Approximately 44 women's rights organizations (WROs), selected amongst emergent/informal women’s groups, established WROs and WROs working with networks and movements are expected to be direct project beneficiaries in three geographic regions of the country.

This project aims to improved equality and the quality of life for women, children, youth, persons with disabilities, and other vulnerable people in 9 participating Indo-Pacific countries. This includes Fiji, Laos, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Vietnam. The project seeks to enhance effectiveness of performance audits by Indo-Pacific SAIs by increasing accountability and transparency in public services for vulnerable populations, especially women, children and youth. It also aims to increase gender responsiveness and inclusivity in the performance audit practices of these Indo-Pacific SAIs, primarily through delivery of the well-established Fellowship program to 16 Fellows (8 men and /8 women) for SAIs and training 578 performance auditors (306 men and 260 women). Audit topics are selected using a three-pronged approach that includes consulting with 16 CSOs and 9 media outlets with CSOs, considering gender, human rights, the environment, and impacts of climate change.
Project activities include: (1) providing professional development (courses, work experience, mentoring) on conducting performance audits consistent with international standards; (2) providing technical courses, mentoring, and support on each phase of a performance audit; (3) mentoring audit teams on developing audit report executive summaries, briefing notes, and formulating questions for oversight committee hearings; (4) providing capacity strengthening to supreme audit institution on civil society organizations engagement; and (5) developing and delivering training on audit planning (risk, scoping, knowledge of business) focusing on gender and human rights within audit topics.

This project aims to provide a stabilizing force in the Central America region (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador) by working on climate resilience, food security and nutrition. Severe droughts, erratic rainfall and rising temperatures threaten local smallholder producers. In addition, limited access to resources, financial services and market opportunities hinders the producers’ ability to harness the benefits of their work. This is even more problematic for women and the youth. With a deep understanding of the local context, the World Food Programme will work to address key factors of those problems, and by so doing, will effectively contribute to action areas 1 to 5 the Feminist International Assistance Policy.

This initiative will work to provide critical knowledge and data to the smallholder producers, to help them face climate uncertainty more effectively. This includes climate information services, equipping communities with rain gauges, agroclimatic sensors, and forecasting tools that allow smallholder producers to make adaptive decisions in real-time. It also includes the promotion, mainly through training and demonstration, of climate-smart agricultural practices, such as drought-resistant crops, soil conservation techniques and improved water resource management. Moreover, this project will work to bolster economic resilience and market access, particularly for the women and youth, notably through network-building and the introduction of innovative financial instruments like revolving microcredit funds or parametric microinsurance.

This project aims to support the Center for Global Development (CGD) in addressing global challenges, focusing on enhancing economic research and driving better policy and practice to reduce poverty in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Over the three-year duration, the project will focus on key areas such as global health systems, gender equality, development finance, and sustainable economic development. The initiative seeks to inform policy discussions and influence decision-making processes in international organizations and financial institutions, ultimately improving the lives of vulnerable populations, especially women and girls.