Grants and Contributions

Payments to other international organizations

This project supports the production and public dissemination of two World Bank analytical products focused on Syria and the surrounding region. The first one is on the “push and pull” factors of population displacement in Syria and refugee returns to Syria, and the second, on the regional economic impacts of the Syrian crisis.

The project aims to increase the level of economic empowerment of women in two targeted rural areas of Tunisia by strengthening women's entrepreneurship. The project aims to improve the capacities and skills of women entrepreneurs in both regions, facilitate their access to financial services and increase their income.

The project activities include: (1) providing training and coaching to women entrepreneurs living in the two targeted rural regions to help them improve and formalize their businesses; and (2) identifying and coordinating the actions and programs of the various private and government actors to promote a more favourable environment for women entrepreneurs in the two targeted regions and at the national level.

The project aims to raise awareness of entrepreneurship among 1,000 women in both rural regions, support and train 250 women who wish to start a business, formally register 120 of these businesses, and train and support 50 women with business projects in the consolidation of these businesses.

The project aims to provide equitable sexual and reproductive health care and respond to gender-based violence (GBV) for people living in local communities of Cox’s Bazar impacted by the influx of over 740,000 Rohingya refugees since August 2017. Cox’s Bazar is one of Bangladesh’s poorest and most vulnerable districts, with poverty well above the country’s national average. The influx of Rohingya has increased economic tensions and competition for scarce resources, including jobs and income among the Rohingya and the existing Bangleshi communities where the refugees are camped, as well as having a serious impact on local infrastructure and services. This situation is particularly difficult for women and children who are the most vulnerable.
The project works to improve the accessibility to GBV and psychosocial services in public health facilities and women-friendly spaces for survivors of GBV. Project activities include: (1) increasing awareness and use of services by survivors through outreach activities; (2) building the self-reliance skills of 4,000 women with information on their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), functional numeracy and literacy skills, nutrition and core life skills; (3) engaging 30,000 community members through implementing, for the first time in Bangladesh, the SASA! (Start, Awareness, Support, Action) community mobilization strategy for raising awareness and preventing GBV; and (4) developing a community-based GBV response and prevention program, including engagement with men and boys for their role in protecting families and communities from GBV.
Benefiting over 500,000 women and girls, the project supports the Bangladeshi Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in: (1) strengthening public health facilities to provide high-quality midwifery and emergency obstetric care; (2) increasing the availability of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services, including family planning, contraception and treatment of STIs and HIV; and (3) developing training materials and providing training for health care providers on GBV response and treatment of survivors.

P006358001: The project aims to improve learning for pre-primary, primary-aged and out-of-school girls and boys in the Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh through gender equitable quality education. Cox’s Bazar is one of Bangladesh’s poorest and most vulnerable districts, with poverty well above the country’s national average. The influx of over 740,000 Rohingya refugees since August 2017 has increased economic tensions and competition for scarce resources, including for jobs and income, among the Rohingya and the local communities, as well as having a serious impact on local infrastructure and services. This situation is particularly difficult for women and children who are the most vulnerable.

The project aims to: (1) work to make schools safer for children, while improving gender sensitivity in teaching; (2) improve learning assessment practices; (3) strengthen school leadership while helping to make leaders more gender-sensitive; (4) provide a comprehensive gender-sensitive school effectiveness package; (5) contribute to gender-equitable quality education for 102,000 children (54,000 girls); and (6) build the capacity of teachers, school leaders and community members in the host communities of Cox’s Bazar.

Project activities include : (1) providing professional development packages for teachers covering topics such as lesson planning, class management, and age and gender-sensitive teaching practices; (2) providing learning supplies to 120,000 girls and boys in host communities; (3) developing and supporting the implementation of school-level improvement plans, including school grants, to make schools more friendly to girls and to children with disabilities; (4) supporting the development of disaster management plans and standard operating procedures in schools; (5) increasing the capacity of communities to support inclusive education through Parent Teachers Associations, with an emphasis on the importance of girls’ education; and (6) developing and implementing a gender-sensitive capacity building plan for district leaders and school leaders.

P006358002: This component of a larger project contributes additional funding to help to mitigate the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, as nationwide school closures have interrupted education for more than 39.9 million children in Bangladesh since March 16, 2020. This project aims to improve learning for pre-primary, primary-aged and out-of-school girls and boys in the Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh through gender-equitable quality education. The additional funds support the safe reopening of more than 657 primary schools and 800 Learning Centers (LC), allowing over 376,271 children (50% of which are girls) in Cox’s Bazar district, including 64,000 Rohingya refugee children and 312,271 Bangladeshi children from the host community to continue their education.
Activities for this component include: (1) undertaking schools and LCs’ rehabilitation and disinfection and restocking them of learning and sanitation supplies to ensure children’s return to safe and protective learning environments; (2) strengthening partners’ engagement to ensure children’s protection in their learning environments and access to psychosocial services through School and Learning Management Committee and other referral services; and (3) providing support to School and Learning Management Committee to ensure an adequate number of teachers are available, especially in the Rohingya refugee camps.

Global Affairs Canada’s International Scholarship Program supports the recipient to enhance the international profile of Canada as a source of quality education and create interest abroad on Canada.

Migratory Birds Harvest by Métis in British Columbia

Active Protection of Three Threatened Aerial Insectivorous Bird Species in the St. Lawrence Lowlands

Canada's contribution as a member of the Intergovernmental Science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

The purpose of this agreement is to deepen the efficacy, awareness and operations of extractive sector transparency on a global scale. The EITI lies at the heart of accountability, transparency, and good governance for resource rich countries that Canada strongly supports.