Grants and Contributions

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.

This project aims to provide critical support to United Nations (UN) peace operations and help enhance the UN’s peace and security architecture. Project activities include: (1) providing support for the enhancement of the performance of Troop and Police Contributing Countries (T/PCCs) to UN peace operations; (2) improving data driven decision-making, and collection and analysis of data on performance at the mission and TCC levels; (3) providing specialized training on child protection, conflict-related sexual violence, explosive ordinance, joint operation centre functions, and engagement of women in peace operations; and (4) capacity support for the Extra-Budgetary funds/projects and implementation of the Action for Peacekeeping initiative.

Payments to other international organizations

Contribution as part of the Participant Funding Program to Ecology Action Centre to assist in preparing for and engaging in Indigenous consultation activities and public participation opportunities associated with the environmental assessment process for the Regional Assessment of Offshore Oil and Gas Exploratory Drilling East of Newfoundland and Labrador Project.