Grants and Contributions

Payments for development assistance to Canadian non-government organizations

Payments to other international organizations

This project is part of Canada’s Women’s Voice and Leadership Program, which supports local and regional women’s organisations and networks that are working to promote women’s rights, and advance women’s empowerment and gender equality in developing countries. This is done by supporting their activities, building their institutional capacity, and promoting network and alliance-building as women’s rights and feminist organizations are critical agents of change. The Program also responds to the globally recognized, significant gap in funding and support to women’s rights organizations and movements around the world.

This project is implemented by Oxfam-Québec in rural conflict-affected regions of Colombia. It aims to strengthen the capacity of local women’s rights organizations and at least one network that work to defend the rights of women and girls and to promote gender equality.

This project aims to support a range of countries experiencing fragility, conflict, and violence to improve the quality and gender-responsiveness of their education systems and better address the health-related barriers that impede girls’ and adolescent girls’ access to quality education and learning, including for those with disabilities. This project is implemented by the World Bank in collaboration with the Global Financing Facility (GFF). The GFF is a multi-donor financing platform that provides country-led, sustainable financing for health, nutrition and education.

Addressing education and learning challenges in countries facing fragility, conflict, and violence requires building on the inherent linkages between education and health. Access to school, quality instruction and learning materials are necessary but insufficient to achieve good learning outcomes. Children and adolescents need to be healthy to take full advantage of the education opportunities provided, and education is a key determinant of health outcomes. As a result of poor health, children miss an estimated 500 million days of school in low- and lower-middle income countries each year.

This project supports GFF countries affected by fragility, conflict, and violence to improve education outcomes for girls and adolescent girls by:

1. Reducing health-related barriers that impede access for girls to education: Efforts to reduce barriers focus on scaling up the delivery of health programs in schools that target girls and adolescent girls with a package of health and nutrition services that have been demonstrated to reduce health-related barriers to education and improve enrollment, attendance and retention. Health interventions include for example, school-based malaria prevention, feeding/micronutrient supplementation, vaccinations, deworming, vision screening, and comprehensive sexuality education. These efforts can improve child and adult survival, reduce early and mistimed pregnancy, reduce childhood stunting, improve access to quality and equitable primary and secondary education, and strengthen the foundational skills necessary to enter and adapt to an evolving workforce.

2. Investing in coordinated, innovative, quality gender-responsive education systems: Countries benefiting from this project who commit to allocating a portion of their World Bank financing (loans from the International Development Association (IDA)) to education priorities in their county unlock GFF Trust Fund resources at a set ratio of 5 to 1. For example, $50 million of IDA loans allocated to education unlocks $10 million from the GFF Trust Fund. This financing from IDA and GFF is used to support various initiatives, for example: efforts to expand access to free or low-cost education opportunities for girls and adolescent girls; re-entry and technical and vocational training for young mothers; efforts to combat child marriage; gender-sensitive teacher training; conditional cash transfers to boost school attendance rates amongst girls; menstrual hygiene management; and investments in systems to support improved technical efficiency and quality in the educational system including efforts to strengthen administrative data systems and performance management practices, and other efforts to improve school accountability to learners and communities.

P007430001: March 2019 - Yemen is currently the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with 24.1 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, including 14.3 million that require immediate life-saving assistance. The conflict and collapsing economy has pushed nearly 10 million people to the brink of famine, and a total of 4.3 million people have been displaced over the last four years. Yemen is also facing one of the worst cholera epidemics in recorded history, as well as a diphtheria outbreak, the scale of which is compounded by the dire state of water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure and health services. Nearly half of health facilities have been destroyed or are only partially functioning, stocks of medical supplies are low, and many health professionals are working for free or receiving substantially reduced wages. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the lack of access to essential services and face an increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence due to the crisis.

With GAC’s support, Action Against Hunger is providing emergency food, livelihoods, water, sanitation and hygiene to up to 71,000 conflict-affected people in the Lahj and Abyan governorates in the south of Yemen. This project aims to reduce the risk of cholera, and the use of negative coping mechanisms within the targeted communities, paying particular attention to the needs of women and girls. Project activities include: (1) providing cash assistance; (2) promoting hygiene (including menstrual hygiene); and (3) rehabilitating water and sanitation facilities.

P007430002: March 2019 - Yemen is currently the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with 24.1 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, including 14.3 million that require immediate life-saving assistance. The conflict and collapsing economy has pushed nearly 10 million people to the brink of famine, and a total of 4.3 million people have been displaced over the last four years. Yemen is also facing one of the worst cholera epidemics in recorded history, as well as a diphtheria outbreak, the scale of which is compounded by the dire state of water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure and health services. Nearly half of health facilities have been destroyed or are only partially functioning, stocks of medical supplies are low, and many health professionals are working for free or receiving substantially reduced wages. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the lack of access to essential services and face an increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence due to the crisis.

With GAC’s support, Action Against Hunger is providing emergency food, livelihoods, water, sanitation and hygiene to up to 71,000 conflict-affected people in the Lahj and Abyan governorates in the south of Yemen. This project aims to reduce the risk of cholera, and the use of negative coping mechanisms within the targeted communities, paying particular attention to the needs of women and girls. Project activities include: (1) providing cash assistance; (2) promoting hygiene (including menstrual hygiene); and (3) rehabilitating water and sanitation facilities.

P007627001: The purpose of this Going Global Innovation (GGI) grant agreement is to support organizations and to build on targeted relationships between Canadian companies/researchers and key organizations in other countries to allow them to proceed with formal discussions to initiate collaboration(s) on future international R&D initiatives that could lead to commercialization of Canadian technologies.

P007627002: The purpose of this Going Global Innovation (GGI) grant agreement is to support organizations and to build on targeted relationships between Canadian companies/researchers and key organizations in other countries to allow them to proceed with formal discussions to initiate collaboration(s) on future international R&D initiatives that could lead to commercialization of Canadian technologies.

This project is part of Canada’s Women’s Voice and Leadership Program, which supports local and regional women’s organisations and networks that are working to promote women’s rights, and advance women’s empowerment and gender equality in developing countries. This is done by supporting activities, building institutional capacity, and promoting network and alliance-building as women’s rights and feminist organizations are critical agents of change. The Program also responds to the globally recognized, significant gap in funding and support to women’s rights organizations and movements around the world.

This project is being implemented by the Equality Fund (formerly MATCH International Centre) in partnership with the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Twenty to thirty selected grantee organisations from eligible countries in the Caribbean region benefit from multi-year funding to support core programming, as well as responsive short-term funding for new ideas, innovations and emerging opportunities.

January 2019 – Following the outbreak of violence in Northern Rakhine State in August 2017, more than 735,000 Rohingya crossed from Myanmar into Bangladesh over a period of several months.These refugees joined some 200,000 to 300,000 Rohingya already in Bangladesh following earlier waves of displacement. The speed and scale of the influx has resulted in significant humanitarian needs

With GAC’s support, BRAC is helping to respond to the immediate health needs in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Project activities include: (1) upgrading and improving the health facility structures to ensure a safe space for quality health care services; (2) providing essential primary health care services as per minimum standards, including sexual and reproductive health and mental health; and (3) improving Rohingya refugees’ knowledge and access to healthcare through increased engagement in the community.

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)