Grants and Contributions

The program Advancing Accessibility Standards Research (The Program) funds the project. The Program funds research projects. The projects try to find, take away and stop obstacles to accessibility. This research will help to guide accessibility standards in the future.

Deliver entrepreneurship and innovation programming to students, faculty and community.

Deliver entrepreneurship and innovation programming to students, faculty and community

Deliver entrepreneurship and innovation programming to students, faculty and community.

P007483001: The project aims to reduce maternal mortality and increase sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for women and adolescent girls between the ages of 14 and 49 in Somalia. More specifically, the project works to improve the availability and accessibility of professionally trained and certified midwives who are able to provide quality, rights-based SRHR services to these women and adolescent girls. The project also addresses underlying barriers to women's and adolescent girls’ demand for and use of midwifery services by increasing awareness at community level about midwifery and SRHR.
Project activities include: (1) strengthening the capacity of midwifery schools and providing them with essential equipment to train midwives from international standards; (2) updating the national midwifery curriculum to include modules and practice on family planning, women’s rights and SRHR, as well as female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C), child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) prevention; (3) upgrading the skills of midwifery tutors to improve the quality of training in alignment with the updated curriculum; (4) strengthening midwifery associations and traditional birth attendants in empowering women and adolescent girls and in providing rights-based SRHR information to communities, including FGM/C, CEFM, SGBV prevention and referral; and (5) providing training to girls’ and boys’ clubs in schools on SRHR in order to increase demand for services, and to identify and refer marginalized adolescent girls and girls to midwifery services.
The project expects that the skills of approximately 500 new midwives, 375 in-service midwives and 150 tutors across 15 midwifery schools are upgraded across the country and more than 288,000 pregnant women between the ages of 14 and 49 are reached. Indirectly, the midwives’ and the community outreach aim to benefit 5,761,080 people, including 806,550 adolescent girls and 1,920,359 men and boys.

P007483002: The project aims to reduce maternal mortality and increase sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for women and adolescent girls between the ages of 14 and 49 in Somalia. More specifically, the project works to improve the availability and accessibility of professionally trained and certified midwives who are able to provide quality, rights-based SRHR services to these women and adolescent girls. The project also addresses underlying barriers to women's and adolescent girls’ demand for and use of midwifery services by increasing awareness at community level about midwifery and SRHR.
Project activities include: (1) strengthening the capacity of midwifery schools and providing them with essential equipment to train midwives from international standards; (2) updating the national midwifery curriculum to include modules and practice on family planning, women’s rights and SRHR, as well as female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C), child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) prevention; (3) upgrading the skills of midwifery tutors to improve the quality of training in alignment with the updated curriculum; (4) strengthening midwifery associations and traditional birth attendants in empowering women and adolescent girls and in providing rights-based SRHR information to communities, including FGM/C, CEFM, SGBV prevention and referral; and (5) providing training to girls’ and boys’ clubs in schools on SRHR in order to increase demand for services, and to identify and refer marginalized adolescent girls and girls to midwifery services.
The project expects that the skills of approximately 500 new midwives, 375 in-service midwives and 150 tutors across 15 midwifery schools are upgraded across the country and more than 288,000 pregnant women between the ages of 14 and 49 are reached. Indirectly, the midwives’ and the community outreach aim to benefit 5,761,080 people, including 806,550 adolescent girls and 1,920,359 men and boys.

This project supports 1,300 placements and aims to improve the economic and social well-being of the poorest, most marginalized and vulnerable people, especially women and young women in support of the Sustainable Development Goals.

In addition to increasing Canadians' participation in international development and global gender equality issues, this project works to improve the performance of more than 100 partner organizations in developing countries, and their ability to address the gender challenges and relationships that hinder women and young women from reaching their full potential. The project also supports partners (women's chambers of commerce, groups of economic actors, etc.) and opinion leaders (journalists, religious leaders, actors, singer-songwriters, etc.) who influence social imaging with regards to the place of women in economic activities.

Project activities include: (1) providing training to volunteers on the economic empowerment of women and young women and their rights, while promoting the co-creation of innovative solutions adapted to local contexts and their diversities; (2) developing and implementing plans to improve the performance of local partners; (3) providing training to key market actors and civil society organizations to design and deliver sustainable products and services tailored to the needs of women and young women, as well as to participate in policy dialogue for the empowerment of women and young women; and (4) providing financial and technical support to innovative initiatives for women's and young women's economic empowerment and feminist entrepreneurship.

The project aims to enforce existing child rape laws, and increase safety from child rape for all girls in Kenya. The project supports the equality effect (e²) to create systemic change in Kenya, by ending impunity for child rape through its 160 Girls justice project. The project works to reduce gender-based violence, and ensure girls have access to justice so that they can live safe, healthy, and empowered lives, and contribute to local economies in meaningful ways.

Project activities include: (1) developing, delivering and incorporating police college training into police college curriculum to increase police ability to investigate cases consistent with human rights law and international best practices; (2) developing Justice Clubs to educate girls on rape, incorporating them into the Ministry of Education curriculum, and rolling them out across Kenya; and (3) supporting the implementation of a health impact and child rape incidence measurement methodology.

The project will equip and activate a network of more than 1,300 MPs worldwide to protect democracy and political inclusion, human rights, freedom of expression and association as well as the ability of civil society organizations to operate in a free, open, independent, and effective manner through collective and responsive calls to action by a community of parliamentarians, and increased ability of legislators to recognize and oppose initiatives which curtail civil and political rights.

Monitoring and data analysis for two Stream 2 priority species

Building a Canada-Wide Zero Plastic Waste Strategy for Agriculture