Grants and Contributions

This project will convene global experts to analyse the implications of and possible response to non-compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention, and to explore ways and means to address threats posed by repeated CW use in Syria and beyond.

This project aims to tackle rising hate speech and disinformation that is fueling ethnic and religious extremism, violence, and conflict in Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Building on Phase I of this project, which works to establish a cross-border cohort of journalists and activists to respond and report on peaceful pluralism issues, Phase II aims to solidify gains achieved, and further expand participant skills, collaboration, and networking in both countries. Project activities include: (1) furthering the skills of women that were trained on peaceful pluralism issues in Phase I, now as mentors; (2) providing training to a core cadre of women journalists and activists on digital safety and security to respond to contextual and gender challenges; (3) organizing cross-culture media exchanges and supporting technical story productions; (4) building the capacity of youth in peaceful pluralism, media, and civil society; and (5) expanding national and regional networks by providing an open space to discuss religious and ethnic diversity issues between media, women journalists, activists and other stakeholders.

This project will increase cyber resilience in the ASEAN countries through increasing understanding of the measures needed to fighting cybercrime as well as through building informal network between ASEAN stakeholders. The project will bring stakeholders from several ASEAN countries together to participate in bilateral simulations exercises held in the region. The project will culminate in a regional simulation, based on a bespoke toolkit, which will test the ability of several ASEAN countries to coordinate a regional response to a large-scale cyber incident and to cooperate amongst each other.

Project activities include: (1) providing grants to local women-led civil society organizations (CSOs) and capacity building to improve the implementation of their projects in fragile and conflict settings; and (2) supporting the development and dissemination of innovative tools and training, increasing the overall capacity of women-led CSOs to contribute toward mediation, peacebuilding, and support to ongoing peace processes.

Overall, Canada’s support to this project will contribute to increasing transparency and credibility of the electoral process, help to mitigate the risks of conflicts and political crises associated with elections, and ultimately contribute to building a stable democracy and enabling better development results.

This project aims to carry out long-term elections observation and inclusive constitutional reform activities in order to mitigate ethnic divide in politics, foster credible elections, and to reinstill confidence in Guyana’s democratic institutions.

This project works to achieve this through the deployment of long-term observers, key stakeholder meetings, constitutional reform workshops and public reporting.

Key stakeholders participating in this project include political party leaders, government officials, election management officials, the security sector, judicial sector, and religious and civil society leaders, including women.

Canada's Contribution to the IAEA Nuclear Security Fund to provide travel related support for participants to the 2020 International Conference on Nuclear Security (ICONS)

The project aims to increase the wellbeing and security of women, men, boys and girls by clearing explosive hazards in liberated areas of Iraq, as well as to increase the participation of women in mine action clearance. Project activities include: (1) conducting explosive hazards clearance operations in the Anbar Province of Iraq in order to release land for women, men, boys, and girls; and (2) actively promoting gender equality in mine action in Iraq in order to increase the participation of women.

The project also works to develop gender-sensitive, thoroughly researched, and pragmatic policy recommendations, and find new ways to promote those ideas with relevant decision-makers and key conflict actors, with a focus on taking action so that they can help bridge the gap between analysis and action.

This project aims to improve the effectiveness of United Nations (UN) operations to protect civilians, particularly women and girls, in fragile and conflict-affected states, by providing decision makers with evidence based knowledge on gender and peacekeeping. The project works to collect, analyse, and distill the contributions made by uniformed women in peacekeeping operations that have influenced peacekeeping mandate outcomes. The UN and Troop and Police Contributing Countries (TPCCs) aim to use this information to make improved gender equality informed decisions, with respect to increasing the number of women in peace operations, and creating a receptive environment for women in uniform. Project activities include: (1) conducting extensive and in-depth academic research to gather and analyse information on operational effectiveness; (2) organizing field visits and interviews with key stakeholders; and (3) providing advocacy and sensitisation activities.