Grants and Contributions

With GAC’s support, Oxfam is rehabilitating and upgrading critical water, sanitation, and hygiene systems and services for South Sudanese refugees living in Ethiopia’s Gambella region. Project activities include: (1) rehabilitating existing water supply systems; (2) constructing latrines and waste disposal facilities; and, (3) conducting community campaigns promoting knowledge of sanitation and hygiene.

March 2021 - The ongoing economic crisis in Venezuela has resulted in severe food and fuel shortages, record hyperinflation, and the collapse of the health care system. Therefore, essential goods, such as food and medicine, are out of reach for more than seven million people. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation has deteriorated due to closed borders, weakened economic activity, and increased demands on the already struggling health system. Vulnerable and crisis-affected populations require life-saving assistance, including primary healthcare, water, sanitation services, hygiene kits, and food and nutrition assistance as the situation continues to deteriorate in Venezuela.

With GAC’s support, the World Food Programme provides emergency food assistance to Venezuelans facing acute vulnerabilities and supports common logistical services that benefit the entire humanitarian community.

This grant represents Canada’s support to Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) via the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The UNDP and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) provide secretariat support to the Global Partnership through the Joint Support Team, which helps implement the Global Partnership's Programme of Work. The Global Partnership is an inclusive global platform, created in 2011, that contributes to the achievement of sustainable development by promoting effective development cooperation. Since 2017, Canada has been a Steering Committee Member of the Global Partnership and represents a constituency that includes Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

It transports passengers undertaking humanitarian work, carries light cargo for humanitarian agencies, and carries out emergency medical and security evacuations. This project operates in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Madagascar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

With GAC’s support in humanitarian emergencies, WFP focuses on providing targeted food assistance to reduce acute malnutrition and food insecurity, and protect livelihoods. Project activities include: (1) distributing food; and (2) providing supplementary feeding for children under the age of 5 years, as well as pregnant and lactating women.

With the support of GAC and other donors, the project aims to provide assistance and protection to refugees, internally displaced persons and other persons of concern in Afghanistan and neighboring countries. Project activities include: (1) providing shelter, clothing and other essential non-food items; (2) providing adequate water, sanitation and health services, including in reproductive health; (3) providing opportunities for education and livelihoods support; (4) providing protection, including against sexual and gender-based violence, child protection and working with governments to register asylum seekers and refugees, and help issue identity documents; (5) working with governments to support refugee self-reliance and forge peaceful relations between refugees and local citizens; and (6) expanding opportunities for durable solutions for people of concern.

This project strengthens nuclear security in Latin America and internationally by increasing the professionalism and competencies of women and men nuclear security personnel. Project activities include: (1) supporting scholarship opportunities to the World Institute for Nuclear Security Academy; (2) improving gender parity in nuclear security through the development of a self assessment tool and international reporting framework for industry use; and (3) reducing the risk posed by transport security and cybersecurity vulnerabilities by expanding the availability of training tools and professional development opportunities in Latin America.

This project seeks to advance the women, peace, and security agenda in peacebuilding and governance in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). The project also aims to prevent insecurity and violence in conflict-affected communities by empowering women and addressing gender inequality, including discriminatory gender norms, that are barriers to inclusive, sustainable peace by supporting the implementation of the Bangsamoro Regional Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security. Project activities include: (1) supporting the development of the Regional Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security for 2023-2028; (2) training local officials on conflict mediation and dialogue; (3) integrating women mediators into regional and provincial early warning and response systems; (4) providing cash and in-kind support to women’s collectives for livelihood support; and (5) developing gender and conflict research and conducting knowledge-sharing sessions for key stakeholders. The project expects to benefit

With GAC’s support, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is working to save lives and help reduce the suffering of people affected by the typhoon. Project activities include: (1) provision of emergency shelter materials such as shelter kits, tarpaulins and essential household items; (2) provision of complementary technical assistance to support safe housing repair; and (3) allocation of conditional cash and voucher assistance to displaced families.

With GAC’s support, Development and Peace and its local partner, Caritas Bangladesh, provide safe shelters and secure settlements to Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, using a community-based approach. Project activities include: (1) providing training on shelter construction, maintenance and upgrade to refugee households; (2) distributing construction materials and providing technical assistance; (3) facilitating community groups to develop site improvement action plans; and (4) undertaking site improvement works.

With GAC’S support, the CFE helps WHO react early to prevent escalation of health emergencies. Project activities include: (1) deploying experts to assess outbreak threat; (2) delivering essential medicines, supplies and equipment; (3) training health personnel; and (4) strengthening health sector coordination and health information systems.