Grants and Contributions

The project aims to enhance the well-being of marginalized women and girls in the Afar and Harari regions of Ethiopia. Project activities include: (1) providing training to community leaders and members, including marginalized women and girls, on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), including issues related to gender-based violence (GBV) and harmful traditional practices (child, early, and forced marriage and female genital mutilation); (2) providing training and technical assistance to local health service providers and facilities, including community-based health extension workers and birth attendants, on improving sexual and reproductive health service delivery and on preventing, responding to, and reporting on GBV; (3) creating income generating opportunities for women and youth through training in vocational, financial literacy and business skills, and facilitating their access to markets; and (4) sensitizing community leaders on the barrier to and benefits of women and youth entrepreneurship. The project works with 3,190 pastoralist women and girls, 3,000 disabled women and girls, and mothers of disabled persons, 5,000 men and boys, and 3,190 community leaders and health service personnel.

Funding will support research on how China, Russia, North Korea and Iran are integrating their space and cyberspace efforts militarily. Whether patterns of past cyber-attacks could be indicative of what future hostile state operations in space could look like will also be assessed.

Funding will support a workshop in Iqaluit to explore the security, safety and environmental risks associated with the disused rocket stages and satellites re-entering the atmosphere over Canada’s Arctic, and how Canada and DND/CAF could respond

Funding will support an annual conference that encourages exchanges between universities, military and members of civil society on issues related to national security. This year’s theme is “Cold or Hot, is war profitable in the future?”

Funding will support the development of training on shared and inclusive leadership for the CAF, which can also be used for training allied forces. The training will be supported by a website with resources for continuous learning.

Funding will support a workshop on how to best recruit, develop, support, and retain CAF members. It will focus on the ability of the CAF to meet its personnel requirements based on the establishment of an organizational culture of inclusiveness and cohesion. The event will result in a policy brief and the publication of an article in an academic journal.

Funding will support research on the demographic and intellectual diversity of Canada’s security studies, in order to identify whether a lack of diversity in this field has implications on CAF recruitment, including by acting as a deterrent for potential women and minority recruits. The research will include analysis of academic staffing and syllabi and symposium on diversity

Funding will support a conference on the link between climate change and issues related to security and defence. During the conference, participants will identify and debate the security and defence challenges directly related to climate change.

Funding will support research on CAF recruitment activities targeted at women, including national advertisement campaigns, and official communications. The research will investigate whether past and current public relations strategies are effective in the recruitment of women, and in positioning the CAF as an employer of choice for women.

Funding will support a workshop co-hosted by the University of Toronto and the Canadian Forces College, showcasing the work of 20 women graduate students from across Canada. The workshop will be organized around four key themes: 1) New and Emerging Security Threats; 2) Complex Conflict and War; 3) Gender and Security; and 4) Security, Justice, and Law.