Grants and Contributions

This project is part of Canada’s Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) Program. It supports local and regional women’s rights organizations (WROs) and feminist networks working to promote the rights of women and girls and advance gender equality in developing countries. Understanding that WROs and their networks are critical change agents, the Program provides multi-year core funding and rapid responsive funding to strengthen institutional capacity and bolster feminist alliances. The Program continues to respond to the globally recognized and significant gap in funding and support for WROs and movements worldwide. It recognizes that those groups working at intersecting forms of discrimination and in crisis- and conflict-affected countries are funded even less. The Renewed WVL Program includes enhanced support for WROs and women human rights defenders working in crisis- and conflict-affected settings and a more intentional approach to reaching structurally excluded groups. This includes but is not limited to women and girls with disabilities, Indigenous women and girls and young feminists.

This project aims to improve food security and nutritional status of children up to 12 years and pregnant and breastfeeding women in 6 prioritized municipalities in Cuba. Project activities include: (1) facilitating opportunities for small farmers and cooperatives to access local markets and strengthen direct links with social protection programs for the sale of locally produced nutritious food; (2) strengthening local early warning system and integrated risk management plans to manage shocks and mitigate impacts with a age-sensitive and gender lens; (3) improving infrastructure of health, education and social protection institutions that are essential to guarantee optimal conditions for better nutrition and hygiene; and (4) improving local decision making related to food security and nutrition through multi-sectoral coordination and evidence generation considering child-sensitive and gender lens. The World Food Programme (WFP) in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) implements this project.

This project is part of Canada’s Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) Program. It supports local and regional women’s rights organizations (WROs), lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex plus (LBTQI+) groups and feminist networks working to promote the rights of women and girls and advance gender equality globally. It provides multi-year core funding and rapid responsive funding, strengthens institutional capacity and bolsters feminist movements, as WROs and feminist movements are critical change agents. The Program also responds to the globally recognized, significant gap in funding and support for WROs and feminist movements worldwide. This includes enhanced support for WROs, LBTQI+ organizations, and women human rights defenders (WHRDs) working in crisis- and conflict-affected settings and a more intentional approach to reaching structurally excluded groups. This includes but is not limited to LBTQI+ communities, women and girls with disabilities, Indigenous women and girls and young feminists.

This project aims to improve sustainable livelihoods and economic well-being of vulnerable groups in Indonesia, particularly women and people in disadvantaged areas. It aims to democratize impact investing by supporting Women Small and Medium Enterprises (WMSMEs) in Indonesia through capacity building and technical assistance. The project is expected to unlock private investment WMSMEs that will be ready to absorb new funding because of project activities. Project activities include: (1) conducting market study; (2) delivering capacity building program to WMSMEs; and (3) mobilizing ecosystem network.

This project supports implementing the recommendations in the National Roadmaps for Building Strong Procedural Mechanisms for Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA), building on progress from Phase I (P010782) It aims to improve how Kenya and Somalia address MLA and extradition requests and strengthen international judicial cooperation (IJC) for Kenya and Somalia mechanisms in partnership with their IJC institutions. The project seeks to continue support to Somalia in drafting its first IJC law and standardizing IJC processes by updating or developing MLA guidelines for foreign states. It will also expand to assess IJC needs and gaps assessments in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and South Sudan and engage them in a regional meeting to enhance judicial cooperation at the regional level. The ultimate goal is to make cross-border crime and terrorism investigations and prosecutions more effective.

This project aims to address complex issues related to illicit financial flows fueled by the rise in revenue associated with mineral-related organized crime in Nigeria. It seeks to reduce security threats in Nigeria stemming from money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) driven by revenue associated with mineral-related crime. Project activities include: (1) facilitating domestic cooperation with relevant authorities; (2) collecting data and developing roadmaps on the practices of criminal and armed groups operating in the mining sector; (3) organizing awareness-raising workshops on ML/TF risks; (4) developing national Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Terrorism Financing (CTF) risk-based supervisory roadmaps in collaboration with licensing authorities; (5) delivering training workshops for Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) analysts and others relevant agencies; (6) delivering training workshops on intelligence collection and analysis in the context of mineral-related crime and ML/TF; (7) delivering workshops on parallel financial investigations on mineral supply chains; (8) delivering specialized advanced workshops on identification of ML/TF techniques (trade-based money laundering, forensic accounting, etc.) for law enforcement, FIUs and prosecution authorities responsible for investigating and prosecuting mineral-related crimes; and (9) facilitating international and regional working groups for law enforcement, customs and intelligence agencies.

This project seeks to foster sustainable peace and resilience in the reintegration process of ex-associated to terrorists and violent extremism groups into host communities. This initiative aims to support stakeholders ongoing efforts by strengthening community cohesion, enhancing local governance and institutional capacities, while promoting gender equality and human rights, and encouraging regional cooperation with borders countries.

The project aims to build local capacity to prevent and respond to threats from terrorism and violent extremism in affected states.

This project aims to strengthen Morocco’s leadership role in regional stability and terrorism prevention, in compliance with human rights standards and gender-responsive approaches. The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) implements this project to the benefit of the Training Center for the Gendarmerie Royale’s tactical policing unit (Groupement de Sécurité et d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Royale (GSIGR)) located in Benslimane, Morocco. Project activities include: (1) constructing a covered simunition close-quarter battlefield (CQB) and a monitoring room supplied with information and communication technologies (ICT) equipment. This is to strengthen monitoring, data analysis, and real-time communication capacities; (2) building a Simulator Facility to house a firearms simulator for training purposes; (3) ensuring optimal and safe use of training facilities and equipment; (4) reinforcing the knowledge and training capacities of Gendarmerie Royale’s leadership; and (5) reinforcing integration and understanding of women’s empowerment in the security sector, rule of law, and human rights compliance.

The project aims at improving the resilience of agricultural livelihoods, particularly for women, by promoting the adoption of gender-responsive climate-smart agriculture practices. The project operates operate in 5 regions of northern Ghana where farming communities are highly vulnerable to droughts and other climate-related challenges. Project activities include: (1) providing training through tailor-made training programs on climate-resilient farming practices and resources to enhance women’s capacity to adapt to climate change and to address specific barriers such as limited access to land, technology, and financial services; (2) facilitating access to financial products such as low-interest loans, waived collateral, and flexible repayment terms. These financial products are tailored to 14,500 smallholder farmers for purchasing farming inputs and to 480 agribusiness traders for storage and trade as well as to 20 small and medium size enterprises to enhance value-added processing; and (3) delivering leade