Grants and Contributions

The objective of the EAF is to support community based projects across Canada that improve accessibility, remove barriers, and enable Canadians with disabilities to participate in and contribute to their community.

The objective of the EAF is to support community based projects across Canada that improve accessibility, remove barriers, and enable Canadians with disabilities to participate in and contribute to their community.

The objective of the EAF is to support community based projects across Canada that improve accessibility, remove barriers, and enable Canadians with disabilities to participate in and contribute to their community.

Regenerative Forest Stewardship Research Project

To encourage scientific research and related scientific activities (e.g. data collection, integration, monitoring, and communication, including communication via conferences and symposia) and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the areas of: (a) Fisheries and Aquaculture Science; (b) Ecosystem Science; (c) Oceanography and Modelling; and (d) Freshwater Science.

[February 2025] The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations’ frontline agency in the fight against hunger. It responds to emergencies, saves lives by quickly getting food assistance (cash or in-kind) to vulnerable food insecure populations and helps prevent hunger. As the global lead agency for logistics and emergency telecommunications, WFP plays a major role in providing common services for the humanitarian community. It transports humanitarian workers, carries light cargo for humanitarian agencies and carries out emergency medical and security evacuations. This project operates in multi-countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Central America, Colombia, El Salvador, Global, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Ukraine?and Venezuela.

With the support of Global Affairs Canada (GAC), WFP provides targeted food assistance to vulnerable populations to reduce acute malnutrition and food insecurity and protect livelihoods. Project activities include: (1) distributing food and cash-based transfer; (2) providing supplementary feeding for children under the age of 5 years, as well as pregnant and lactating women; and (3) providing logistical support and enabling access to the most remote and challenging locations.

This project is part of Canada’s Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) program, launched in 2017 for a five-year period (2018–2023) and renewed in April 2023 for another five years (2023–2028). It supports local and regional women's organizations and networks working to promote women’s rights, empower women, and achieve gender equality in developing countries. Recognizing that women’s rights organizations (WROs) and women human rights defenders are essential agents of change, the program aims to support their activities, strengthen their institutional capacities, and foster the creation of networks and alliances.

The renewed WVL program continues to address a globally recognized lack of funding and support, while bolstering WROs and women’s rights movements worldwide. It acknowledges that groups working on intersecting forms of discrimination and in crisis and conflict settings are even more underfunded.

The project, implemented by Oxfam Quebec, a Canadian non-governmental organization, will contribute to improving the rights of women and girls in all their diversity and advancing gender equality in Senegal. This ultimate goal will be achieved through three pillars of intervention: (1) Strengthening the organizational sustainability of WROs so they can fulfill their mandates related to gender equality; (2) Enhancing the programming and advocacy efforts of WROs and activists to advance gender equality and empower women and girls; (3) Increasing the number and quality of platforms, networks, and alliances for women’s rights advocacy to influence political, legal, and social changes.

The VLFR - Senegal project will directly benefit a total of 56 WROs (including at least 13 networks and collectives and 8 informal/emerging organizations) and at least 20 women human rights defenders (WHRDs). While the project has a national scope, the programmatic and advocacy actions of supported WROs will primarily, though not exclusively, focus on the following regions: Saint-Louis, Matam, Ziguinchor, Kédougou, Diourbel, Thiès, Kaolack, Fatick, and Dakar. An initial estimate places the project’s reach at approximately 32,000 people, of whom 24,000 are women and girls (40% young women and girls aged 15–24). It will target structurally excluded groups, including survivors of gender-based violence (GBV), women with disabilities, women living with HIV, sex workers, rural women, women affected by climate change, and those involved in natural resource exploitation.

To achieve the desired results, the project will implement the four mechanisms of the WVL program: (1) Multi-year core funding for organizational and programmatic capacity building; (2) Rapid and responsive funding; (3) Strengthening the organizational capacities of WROs; and (4) Movement strengthening.

This project aims to enable adolescent girls to experience healthier, safer, and more empowered life transition into adulthood by 2030. Project activities include: (1) building the capacity of adolescent girls to exercise their rights and demand services related to their sexual and reproductive health; (2) engaging men, boys, and communities to support gender equality and the rights of adolescent girls; (3) ensuring the availability of commodities and supplies in local health facilities; (4) building the capacity of service providers at multiple levels to ensure availability of quality services related to gender-based prevention and response, social protection, and social justice; (5) addressing policy implementation, regulatory and accountability bottlenecks; (6) strengthening the capacity of institutions and regulatory bodies to coordinate and standardize delivery of quality services; and (7) encouraging meaningful participation of young people to demand accountability. The project targets 400,000 married and unmarried adolescent girls as direct beneficiaries, with special attention given to migrant girls and girls with disabilities. It is implemented in the Volta, Ashanti, Eastern and Northern regions of Ghana.

[February 2025] The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations’ frontline agency in the fight against hunger. It responds to emergencies, saves lives by quickly getting food assistance (cash or in-kind) to vulnerable food insecure populations and helps prevent hunger. As the global lead agency for logistics and emergency telecommunications, WFP plays a major role in providing common services for the humanitarian community. It transports humanitarian workers, carries light cargo for humanitarian agencies and carries out emergency medical and security evacuations. This project operates in Sub-Saharan Africa, including in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda..

With the support of Global Affairs Canada (GAC), WFP provides targeted food assistance to vulnerable populations to reduce acute malnutrition and food insecurity and protect livelihoods. Project activities include: (1)

[February 2025] The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations’ frontline agency in the fight against hunger. It responds to emergencies, saves lives by quickly getting food assistance (cash or in-kind) to vulnerable food insecure populations and helps prevent hunger. As the global lead agency for logistics and emergency telecommunications, WFP plays a major role in providing common services for the humanitarian community. It transports humanitarian workers, carries light cargo for humanitarian agencies and carries out emergency medical and security evacuations. This project operates in the Middle East, including in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Syria regional and Yemen.

With the support of Global Affairs Canada (GAC), WFP provides targeted food assistance to vulnerable populations to reduce acute malnutrition and food insecurity and protect livelihoods. Project activities include: (1) distributing food and cash-based transfer; (2) providing supplementary feeding for children under the age of 5 years, as we