Grants and Contributions

Financial support is provided based on the event's goal of enhancing the scholarly and scientific foundation of Canada, and the community’s collective capacity to contribute to a better world. It will increase the visibility for the NRC and its scholarly contributions and provide knowledge mobilization opportunities for early and mid-career researchers.

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.

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.

Enhance human resource capacity within eastern PEI SMEs

Enhance human resource capacity within eastern PEI SMEs

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.

This project represents Canada's continuing support for Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program (PSPN). Led by the Government of Ethiopia, with support from Canada and other partners, this initiative aims to enhance household and community resilience to shocks, such as droughts, and improve household food security, nutrition and economic well-being in Ethiopia's most vulnerable communities. To achieve these objectives, the project provides food insecure households with predictable food or cash transfers. In exchange for these transfers, beneficiaries participate in public works activities to build community assets and improve watershed management; a number of these activities build resilience to climate change. The most vulnerable beneficiaries (e.g. elderly people and pregnant and lactating mothers) receive transfers without contributing their labour for public works. The project reach is up to 10 million rural beneficiaries.

Project activities include: (1) providing cash and food transfers to food insecure households; (2) conducting livelihoods interventions (e.g. crop and livestock production, and off-farm income generating activities); (3) providing key health and nutrition services (e.g. behaviour change communication activities); (4) construction of community assets (e.g. land rehabilitation, health posts); and (5) offering capacity development activities.

Canada's support to this program is provided through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Bank.