Grants and Contributions

This project aims to increase the productivity and export readiness of women-led businesses from Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It does so to encourage these businesses to scale up, diversify, and compete regionally and internationally. The project aims to train and provide grants for women-led enterprises to adopt green business practices and technology. It also aims to empower entrepreneurs to identify the most promising markets, including Canada, acquire knowledge and skills to meet technical requirements and participate in trade missions to generate new business opportunities. Project activities include: (1) conducting capacity building activities for adopting green business practices and technology to women-led businesses; (2) providing data collection, mapping, and technical assistance to women-led businesses; and (3) providing grant funding for technology adoption by women-led businesses.

The project will facilitate the development of an innovation plan that will determine whether artificial intelligence can be integrated into the core activities of the firm.

The project will enable the implementation of an AI solution for identifying emotions and consumer behaviour.

Use of AI for the dynamic creation of procedure.

Expand an outdoor recreation destination into a four-season facility for sustainability

Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage - Local Arts and Heritage Festivals

Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage - Community Historical Anniversaries Programming

The Men From Weymouth Falls

October 2024 – Haiti and Colombia continue to experience deteriorating humanitarian conditions, with high levels of needs cutting across all regions and sectors. Estimates reveal that about 8.3 million people face humanitarian needs in Colombia in 2024 due to the impacts of ongoing conflict, displacement, food insecurity and climate-induced disasters. Haiti remains impacted by decades of political, social and economic challenges, exacerbated by natural disasters and gang violence. As a result, an estimated 5.5 million people need humanitarian assistance.

With GAC’s support, Canadian Lutheran World Relief supports access to gender-responsive protection and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) response services in crisis-affected communities, focusing on women and girls. It also aims to improve communities’ water, sanitation and hygiene services, and hygiene and sanitation practices. Project activities include: (1) establishing and supporting women and girls’ safe spaces; (2) developing community-level awareness-raising campaigns concerning women’s rights, SGBV reporting, and service referral mechanisms; and (3) rehabilitating water sources.

December 2024 – The humanitarian impact of the conflict in northern Ethiopia from 2020 to 2022, continues to be felt. The Tigray region suffered significant damage, with much of its healthcare and water infrastructure damaged or destroyed. Many people remain displaced from their homes and basic services remain limited for much of the population.

With GAC’s support, FH Canada helps provide a multi-sectoral humanitarian response to critical needs in Tigray. Project activities include: (1) restoring water points and sanitation facilities; (2) distributing non-food items or multi-purpose cash grants; and (3) providing protection services to mitigate the increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) for vulnerable women and girls.