Grants and Contributions

This project is part of Canada’s 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 their activities, building their 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’s ultimate outcome is to increase the enjoyment of human rights by women and girls in all their diversity and the advancement of gender equality in Tanzania. The project will directly benefit around 20 women’s networks, 30 WROs, 20 YFOs, and 10 LBTQI+ organizations (exact number TBD by the feminist grant-making committees after reviewing applications), 3,000 women, 2,000 young women, and 16 non-binary people. Indirectly, it will reach more than 40,000 individuals through programming, advocacy, and networks, not only in urban settings, but also in rural, undeserved, and Indigenous communities.

This project aims to enhance sustainability of biodiversity and enhance local livelihoods, particularly for women, in the Wechiau Community Hippo Sanctuary and Avu Lagoon Community Protected Area. It supports these communities by managing natural resources, conserving biodiversity, and providing critical ecosystem services. The project seeks to focus on protecting endangered species by increasing the participation of women, youth and marginalized groups in decision making forums such as the Community Resource Management Area. It also aims to provide support to women to develop diverse skills in sectors such as ecotourism, shea production and wildlife protection. Project activities include: (1) providing technical assistance to co-create, use, and disseminate knowledge for biodiversity conservation to non-governmental organizations, academic, and community groups, fostering inclusive and locally informed conservation efforts; (2) supplying and managing enterprises established through agribusiness and ecotourism; (3) establishing and strengthening market-ready and business-capable community cooperatives to operate ecotourism, plastic waste management, and agribusiness enterprises in a sustainable and inclusive manner; (4) developing feasibility and pilot programs to access species reintroduction, breeding, and conservation translocation strategies; and (5) providing technical assistance to community members, including women and youth, to protect land from destructive use and restore degraded areas.

This project aims to enhance the safety, resilience and socio-economic recovery of conflict-affected communities in Ukraine through effective mine action and reduced explosive ordnance threats. Project activities include: (1) establishing a mechanism to strengthen non-technical survey data management; (2) training non-technical survey officers in best practices and methodologies for conducting gender-sensitive surveys; (3) procuring equipment for the national police explosive ordnance unit; (4) providing small grants for gender-sensitive community-driven mine action projects; and (5) promoting coordination and international mine action standards in Ukraine.

This project aims to promote peace and stability in conflict-affected states.

This project aims to promote peace and stability in conflict-affected states.

This project aims to increase stability in Coastal West Africa to prevent spreading violent extremism. The project supports early response to conflict and potential extremist attacks in the border areas of Burkina Faso and Benin by establishing a localized early warning system. It also seeks to promote community stability and human security. Project activities include: (1) improved access to early warning information for residents of the project areas, particularly for women, youth, and marginalized groups; (2) increased stakeholder capacity to prevent and mitigate violence, including violent extremism; and (3) increased community capacity to identify and address security threats, including enhancing situational awareness and timely decision-making to avoid danger during active crises in the project areas.

The proposed grant will allow the ACS to carry out the activities required for its operations as outlined in the ACS work plan approved by Arctic Council Ministers, and as overseen by SAOs and Permanent Participant Heads of Delegation, including but not limited to:

This project aims to enhance the well-being of unpaid caregivers and care receivers, particularly women and people with disabilities in selected municipalities in Havana and Pinar del Río, Cuba. Humanity and Inclusion seeks to partner with Cuban organizations to transform how care work is seen and provided, especially for the benefit of women caregivers and care receivers with disabilities. This aligns with the changes being implemented in Cuba around care work for life and Canada´s feminist approach to unpaid and paid care work. Project activities include: (1) supporting collection and analysis of data on care, gender and disability by reference centers in both provinces; (2) providing technical assistance, equipment and materials to local care system institutions and civil society organizations; (3) reviewing and transforming local development strategies from a care, gender and disability approach; (4) implementing community awareness programs on equal sharing of care, including innovative initiatives with

This project supports the South African government to improve accountability, efficiency and transparency in the public administration to promote inclusive and gender-responsive governance. Project activities include: (1) developing and implementing comprehensive strategies to prevent and address all forms of harassment; (2) enhancing anti-corruption and discipline management systems; and (3) implementing robust lifestyle audits and optimizing procurement policies to promote sustainability and accountability within the climate and energy sectors in South Africa.

The project aims to reach 12,000 public servants within 49 national departments, 114 provincial departments, 8 cities, and 205 local municipalities.

This project aims to contribute to the United Nations (UN) capacity to address and mitigate misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and hate speech in peace operations. Project activities include: (1) delivering training-of-trainers courses to troop and police instructors from contributing countries and field missions; (2) supporting the UN Department of peace operations team in developing and delivering training, and supporting field personnel responsible for information operations in field missions; (3) developing and training on new tools to address and mitigate misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, and hate speech in UN peace operations; and (4) strengthening strategic and digital communications to support UN peace operations.