Grants and Contributions

Request financial support for various Communications activities and related programs 19-20

The project seeks to improve the economic well-being and reduce the vulnerability of approximately 4,200 rural households in five communes of Haiti’s Grand'Anse department. Women’s economic empowerment and their enhanced access to decision-making bodies are central to the project, as are the needs and aspirations of young people. Through its strategy to promote good agricultural practices and make them more accessible, the project is working to sustainably increase value added and promote climate change adaptation and resilience in the cacao, yam, cassava and gardening value chains, as well as to strengthen four farmers’ organizations. By using the value chains approach and facilitating inclusive markets, the project helps to match supply to demand in the input, research, financial services and agricultural product markets, while fostering dialogue among the actors involved. Project activities include: (1) optimizing the Creole garden, an agroforestry production system; (2) improving technical proficiency and agricultural productivity; (3) setting up or strengthening farmers’ organizations in order to help actively develop sectors; and (4) securing improved access to better adapted financial products and services.

The project promotes women and girls as agents of change to enhance their own well-being and the well-being of their communities, with a view to abandon harmful practices such as child, early and forced marriage, and female genital mutilation in four regions of Senegal (Tambacounda, Kolda, Kédougou and Sédhiou). This is achieved through the Community Empowerment Program (CEP), which focuses on gender equality and human rights, and offers classes on Peace and Security. Project activities include: (1) providing training to facilitators and supervisors on how to run classes and non-formal education programs in communities; (2) providing training to women and girls on human rights, democracy and good governance, health and hygiene, as well as literacy and numeracy, peaceful conflict mediation, and women’s leadership and participation; (3) providing training to local governing bodies on their roles and responsibilities, human rights and gender-sensitive budgeting; (4) conducting sharing and training seminars on gender-related issues with religious and local leaders; (5) holding inter-village meetings on topics such as human rights, harmful practices, and gender equality; (6) conducting social mobilization campaigns in communities, in addition to youth forums, on human rights and gender equality issues; (7) broadcasting radio programs on human rights and gender equality issues; (8) establishing Community Management Committees and Peace Committees, and training them on their roles and responsibilities, human rights, child protection, peaceful conflict mediation, project management and leading social mobilization to promote gender equality; (9) sharing project results with communities, local governing bodies and departmental committees on child protection throughout the project cycle; and (10) providing funds for income-generating activities for women. The project directly benefits 6,300 women and girls, and 2,700 men and boys, through CEP classes, as well as 6,300 women and girls, and 2,700 men and boys through classes on Peace and Security. The project indirectly affects the lives of more than 50,000 women. By the end of this project, 200 communities are expected to have publicly committed to abandon harmful practices, and safeguard the rights of women and girls.

January 2018 – Palestinians face a long-term humanitarian crisis, with approximately 1 in 2 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza requiring some form of humanitarian assistance. The impacts on vulnerable Palestinians include limited access to safe water and sanitation, persistent food and income insecurity, and the risk of sexual and gender-based violence.

With GAC’s support, the Aisha Association for Woman and Child Protection (AISHA) is helping to alleviate suffering, protect and maintain human dignity, and save lives for vulnerable women-headed households between the ages of 18 and 59, in the poorest localities in the North and Gaza governorates of Gaza. Project activities include: (1) providing training to trainers on case management approach for two groups of gender-based violence (GBV) service providers and local women community-based organizations; (2) providing structured psychosocial group counseling, legal group counseling/awareness, awareness raising and sensitization support, and dignity kits to vulnerable women-headed households (WHH); (3) providing case management to vulnerable WHHs, including individual psychosocial counseling, psycho-therapy and medication, individual legal counseling, legal representation, economic empowerment, reproductive health, social services and referral services to other service providers; (4) providing temporary shelter assistance to evicted families of targeted WHHs or at risk of eviction due to deteriorated socioeconomic situation; and (5) raising awareness among men from the families of vulnerable WHHs on gender, women’s rights, early marriage and GBV risks.

January 2019 - Palestinians face a long-term humanitarian crisis, with approximately 1 in 2 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza requiring some form of humanitarian assistance. The impacts on vulnerable Palestinians include limited access to safe water and sanitation, persistent food and income insecurity, and the risk of sexual and gender-based violence.

With GAC’s support, the World Food Programme (WFP) helps enhance individual and household access to adequate and nutritious food in the West Bank and Gaza. Project activities include: (1) distributing in-kind food assistance to food-insecure households, including women-headed households; (2) providing electronic vouchers to food-insecure households in urban areas, which supports the local economy and has a positive impact on household food consumption, dietary diversity, and autonomy to make food choices; and (3) offering nutrition awareness sessions to empower women and improve nutritional health and knowledge.

January 2019 - Palestinians face a long-term humanitarian crisis, with approximately 1 in 2 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza requiring some form of humanitarian assistance. The impacts on vulnerable Palestinians include limited access to safe water and sanitation, persistent food and income insecurity, and the risk of sexual and gender-based violence.

With GAC’s support, the MA’AN Development Centre (MA’AN) is helping to improve the resilience and food security of agricultural households in the West Bank, including agriculture-dependent women-headed households. This project is also helping to increase safe, equitable and sustainable access to water for drinking, cooking, personal and domestic hygiene, and to improve access to adequate sanitation in Gaza. Project activities include: (1) rehabilitating under-cultivated or damaged land, including constructing retaining walls and protection fences, providing seedlings and grains, and rehabilitating farm water harvesting cisterns; (2) conducting training workshops on crop management and livestock feeding and disease control to build technical capacities of vulnerable agricultural households to manage natural and manmade shocks to their livelihoods; (3) rehabilitating eight kilometers of agricultural roads to expand access to shrinking agricultural lands; (4) rehabilitating community water wells to increase rainwater harvesting for agricultural uses; (5) installing renewable energy/solar systems in public desalination plants and providing spare parts and supplies to support their operation; and (6) providing case management and referral services for vulnerable women who are survivors or are at risk of gender-based violence.

January 2019 - Palestinians face a long-term humanitarian crisis, with approximately 1 in 2 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza requiring some form of humanitarian assistance. The impacts on vulnerable Palestinians include limited access to safe water and sanitation, persistent food and income insecurity, and the risk of sexual and gender-based violence.

With GAC’s support, Development and Peace is helping to increase the resilience of acutely vulnerable families living in substandard housing in Gaza. This project is built on the premise that acutely vulnerable families living in adequate, safe shelters that meet the needs of women, girls, the elderly, and people with disabilities, reduces their vulnerability. Project activities include: (1) providing training to women and men social work and engineer interns in job-related technical skills and soft-skills, protection, and gender-based violence awareness; (2) developing rehabilitation plans that reflect the needs and preferences of all household members, especially women and girls, and incorporate relevant environmentally friendly technologies; (3) ensuring beneficiaries and contractors receive timely payment of relevant rehabilitation tranches; (4) confirming households receive appropriate support throughout the rehabilitation process; and (5) ensuring Gazan households receive timely and appropriate non-food items e-vouchers.

Payments to United Nations and related organizations

Payments for development assistance to Canadian non-government organizations

This project aims to improve the capabilities of state security and law enforcement agencies in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, for planning and carrying out intelligence operations to prevent attempts to traffic nuclear or radiological materials. Project activities include: (1) assessing capabilities, needs and gaps in each country; (2) developing a train-the-trainer cadre of national trainers; (3) facilitating the delivery of nationally-tailored training in each country, delivered by national experts, and with a strong focus on intelligence operations, and how to strike balance between regional information sharing and the protection of sensitive information; (4) organizing and facilitating peer-to-peer workshops to exchange best practices and lessons learned from actual radiological/nuclear trafficking cases; and (5) organizing and delivering a regional tabletop exercise focusing on a scenario involving the trafficking of radioactive material through multiple countries.