Grants and Contributions

1. To support the development of guidelines codes standards and regulations including research to inform their development.

Honoring First Nation Veterans through Powwow

This 25-month project aims to explore forensic DNA self-collection as an innovative solution to improve access to evidence collection after sexual assault in rural, remote, and underserved communities across Canada.

Aligned with Call to Justice 5.5 of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, the initiative will examine international innovations from Australia, the UK, and Kenya, as well as domestic practices involving ongoing self-collection methods. Stakeholder interviews across number of provinces and territories will gather insights from legal professionals, law enforcement, front-line organizations, First Nations leaders, and medical professionals. A survey targeting the general public, including survivors, will assess perceptions and feasibility of self-collection.

Key outputs include a draft forensic DNA self-collection protocol informed by literature, stakeholder feedback, and survey results. This protocol will be tested and refined through consultations and with healthcare providers.

The project will culminate in a public webinar to share findings and gather additional input, ensuring recommendations reflect diverse needs. The final report will synthesize findings, provide actionable recommendations, and contribute to advancing equitable and accessible evidence collection solutions for survivors of sexualized violence across Canada.

The supplemental funding will be used for in-person community engagement across the five identified regions of the project: Ontario, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Newfound and Labrador and Manitoba.

This project is part of Canada’s second phase of the 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. The project is implemented in Mozambique by the Centro de Aprendizagem e Capacitação da Sociedade Civil (CESC) [Learning and Capacity Building Centre for Civil Society], a Mozambican NGO. Approximately 44 women's rights organizations (WROs), selected amongst emergent/informal women’s groups, established WROs and WROs working with networks and movements are expected to be direct project beneficiaries in three geographic regions of the country.

This project aims to improved equality and the quality of life for women, children, youth, persons with disabilities, and other vulnerable people in 9 participating Indo-Pacific countries. This includes Fiji, Laos, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Vietnam. The project seeks to enhance effectiveness of performance audits by Indo-Pacific SAIs by increasing accountability and transparency in public services for vulnerable populations, especially women, children and youth. It also aims to increase gender responsiveness and inclusivity in the performance audit practices of these Indo-Pacific SAIs, primarily through delivery of the well-established Fellowship program to 16 Fellows (8 men and /8 women) for SAIs and training 578 performance auditors (306 men and 260 women). Audit topics are selected using a three-pronged approach that includes consulting with 16 CSOs and 9 media outlets with CSOs, considering gender, human rights, the environment, and impacts of climate change.
Project activities include: (1) providing professional development (courses, work experience, mentoring) on conducting performance audits consistent with international standards; (2) providing technical courses, mentoring, and support on each phase of a performance audit; (3) mentoring audit teams on developing audit report executive summaries, briefing notes, and formulating questions for oversight committee hearings; (4) providing capacity strengthening to supreme audit institution on civil society organizations engagement; and (5) developing and delivering training on audit planning (risk, scoping, knowledge of business) focusing on gender and human rights within audit topics.

This project aims to provide a stabilizing force in the Central America region (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador) by working on climate resilience, food security and nutrition. Severe droughts, erratic rainfall and rising temperatures threaten local smallholder producers. In addition, limited access to resources, financial services and market opportunities hinders the producers’ ability to harness the benefits of their work. This is even more problematic for women and the youth. With a deep understanding of the local context, the World Food Programme will work to address key factors of those problems, and by so doing, will effectively contribute to action areas 1 to 5 the Feminist International Assistance Policy.

This initiative will work to provide critical knowledge and data to the smallholder producers, to help them face climate uncertainty more effectively. This includes climate information services, equipping communities with rain gauges, agroclimatic sensors, and forecasting tools that allow smallholder producers to make adaptive decisions in real-time. It also includes the promotion, mainly through training and demonstration, of climate-smart agricultural practices, such as drought-resistant crops, soil conservation techniques and improved water resource management. Moreover, this project will work to bolster economic resilience and market access, particularly for the women and youth, notably through network-building and the introduction of innovative financial instruments like revolving microcredit funds or parametric microinsurance.

This project aims to support the Center for Global Development (CGD) in addressing global challenges, focusing on enhancing economic research and driving better policy and practice to reduce poverty in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Over the three-year duration, the project will focus on key areas such as global health systems, gender equality, development finance, and sustainable economic development. The initiative seeks to inform policy discussions and influence decision-making processes in international organizations and financial institutions, ultimately improving the lives of vulnerable populations, especially women and girls.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)’s "Scaling Up Gender-Inclusive and Climate-Resilient Livelihoods Program in Somalia" responds to Somalia's significant climate vulnerability and expressed need for greater climate-adaptation support. As one of the root causes of the country's cyclical and prolonged humanitarian crises, climate change in Somalia requires an increased focus on inclusive and conflict-sensitive natural resource management, climate-related disaster risk planning, climate-resilient livelihoods and inclusive and gender-sensitive governance. This project aims to fund activities that fulfill these objectives through 2 joint United Nations programmes. This includes one that seeks to layer humanitarian and development interventions to increase the climate resilience of Somali agro-pastoralists and pastoralists. Another one seeks to ensure gender-sensitive outcomes from the rehabilitation of significant irrigation and flood management infrastructure along of Somalia’s largest rivers. Project activities include: (1) building government capacity; (2) developing analysis and structures to enable community-led climate-related disaster risk planning and natural resource management; (3) providing training and resources to diversify and strengthen climate-resilient livelihoods; (4) enabling access to additional financial resources for marginalized groups; and (5) developing and implementing actionable gender analyses within a large-scale climate adaptation programme.

This project aims to enhance equal enjoyment of comprehensive SRHR by marginalized people including women and girls, in all their diversity, at the global and local levels. Project activities include: (1) training beneficiaries (adolescents and other marginalized people) to effectively advocate for SRHR legal changes and better implementation of legal services; (2) training community volunteers to increase community awareness about safe abortion and facilitate referrals; and (3) creating meaningful SRHR engagement opportunities for youth at key global events.

This project aims to prevent and counter revenues from drug trafficking to tackle terrorism and related conducts. The initiative seeks to enhance the capacities of finance-mandated criminal justice agencies in targeted countries in South Asia, providing knowledge and skills and fostering regional cooperation and coordination. Project activities include: (1) conducting country-focused analysis and research on Illicit Financial Flows (IFF) and their link to financing of terrorism for each recipient country; (2) hosting a regional roundtable for government stakeholders in the recipient countries to share the information collected in the analyses; (3) delivering 2 training sessions for each country for criminal justice practitioners on IFFs and the link to terrorism financing; and (4) organizing a regional workshop on sharing best practices and lessons learned in the application of knowledge and skills gained through national training sessions.