Grants and Contributions

This grant will support IOM to strengthen Nigeria’s migration and border management capacity, including its entry and exit controls, known as the Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS), with a particular focus on the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) in Abuja, through the provision of technical assistance and equipment.

Advances in space-based instruments for planetary observation involve significant costs. Fortunately, suborbital balloon flights enable the development and testing of instrumentation in space-like conditions at a fraction of the cost of full-fledged orbiting space instruments.

Building on previous work, this project aims to demonstrate and evaluate the performance of adaptive optics systems in space-like conditions. Test will done on a high-resolution deformable mirror within a closed-loop adaptive optics system and a camera with passive thermal control in the stratosphere. Furthermore, data on atmospheric turbulence will be gathered in full night and at sunrise at a height of 36 to 40 km.

HiCIBaS-II is a great opportunity to maintain Canadian world-leadership in this area, while advancing knowledge and training the next generation of highly qualified personnel that the industry requires.

This project seeks to support ALNAP’s overall core work plan for 2019-2021 and contribute to the promotion of lessons learned and the dissemination of best practices across the humanitarian sector. This project also aims to support ALNAP’s systematic effort to monitor and hold the international humanitarian system accountable for fulfilling its mandate of saving lives, alleviating suffering, and maintaining human dignity.

ALNAP is a global humanitarian network organization that has been the leading voice for the more rigorous application of learning and evaluation processes across the humanitarian sector. Its aim is to provide the humanitarian sector with a forum to address issues of learning and accountability; produce research on shared challenges facing the sector; and improve the performance of the international humanitarian system through evidence and research-based practices.

Project activities include: (1) improving the quality and accessibility of humanitarian evidence; (2) monitoring the performance of the international humanitarian system, including through the publication of the State of the Humanitarian System Report; (3) addressing key evidential and thematic gaps in humanitarian performance; and (4) supporting system-wide learning by convening workshops, meetings, online events, and digital communication platforms.

March 2020 - Severe food shortages and record hyperinflation have put buying food and medicine out of reach for many Venezuelans and has heavily impacted their ability to meet basic needs. Over 4 million people have fled Venezuela and are now seeking protection in neighbouring countries such as Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. As the situation continues to deteriorate in Venezuela, vulnerable and crisis-affected populations are in need of critical assistance including basic health support, food security and nutrition, protection, and water and sanitation assistance.

With GAC’s support, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is working in several eligible countries in the Americas to help support the response to the Venezuela refugee and migrant situation in the region.

Project activities include: (1) providing emergency shelter kits, non-food items and multi-purpose cash; (2) coordinating camp management for internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in United Nations bases; (3) deploying mobile teams to remote locations where affected populations lack water, sanitation and hygiene services; (4) providing emergency water, sanitation and hygiene; (5) supporting humanitarian organizations by establishing lightweight camps in deep field locations, heavy base camps and national NGO support centres, and by providing cargo transport services; (6) data collection that includes mapping of vulnerable populations at points of entry, and at the district and community levels for enhanced targeting and delivery of assistance; and (7) protection and gender mainstreaming across humanitarian response activities for extremely vulnerable individuals, including unaccompanied migrant children, and single women and adolescent girls.

The purpose of this Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP) contribution agreement is to support organizations and to identify specific projects or partnerships between the Recipient and international partners in CIIP target countries that could lead to industrial research and development cooperation with potential for commercialization.

Precise discovery on the causal associations between phenotype (such as human complex diseases) and underlining genetic variations is one of the fundamental questions in life sciences, and has an essential role in translational medicine. To date, many studies have been conducted to infer disease-relevant genes/biomarkers, but only a limited number of signals have been experimentally confirmed to be causative. The cell heterogeneity of the complex tissues is a major known factor contributing to this limitation. In this project, we aim to precisely identify genetic-phenotype associations in a cell-subtype specific manner by combining massively parallel single-cell-based CRISPR knockdown or knockout screening and advanced AI technologies, such as deep generative models. In particular, activities will focus on applying and developing AI methods to mine the real information behind the massive single cell data and infer the precise genetic-phenotype signals. Research will also make use of AI technologies to design gene and cell therapeutic interventions to target the identified signals.

Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture

Support aboriginal communities in becoming successful participants in commercial fisheries and aquaculture

The Habitat StewardshipProgram (HSP) contributes to the recovery of endangered, threatened, and other species of concern, by engaging Canadians in conservation actions to benefit wildlife to protect aquaticspecies at risk.

To carry out the Government of Canada’s 2018 Nature Legacy for Canada, which includes supporting and leveraging efforts to protect and recover aquatic species at risk; and building Indigenous capacity.