Grants and Contributions

Adopt clean low-emissions boiler technologies to enhance environmental sustainability

Deliver the Atlantic BIOCON 2024 Conference

Strengthen the resiliency of the PEI potato sector through biosecurity practices

Purchase specialized zero-carbon air curtain burner equipment and technology

Engage consultant to implement process improvements by leveraging automation

Implement the recommendations of a strategic tourism review

Adopt clean low-emissions boiler technologies to enhance environmental sustainability

This project aims to improve maternal and newborn health among remote and marginalized populations in Tanzania by providing access to synchronous mobile ultrasound technology. Project activities include: (1) training front-line health workers to effectively use remote ultrasound technology and identify high-risk cases for referral; (2) training front-line health workers to increase awareness of ultrasound benefits and safety through counselling and routine services; (3) promoting antenatal care services in target communities and countering socio-cultural and gender beliefs preventing care seeking; (4) training and mentoring health managers to plan, monitor, manage and evaluate gender-responsive antenatal care and sexual and reproductive health service delivery; and (5) collecting data on remote antenatal care activities to contribute to evidence-based policy improvements.

Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief implements this project, in collaboration with local partners. This includes Upendo na Matumaini (UMATU), Tanzania’s ministry of health, regional and district medical offices and the Association of Gynecologists and Obstetricians of Tanzania.

The purpose of this CanExport Associations contribution agreement is to support organizations and ultimately aims to increase the competitiveness of Canadian companies, in the international marketplace, on a sectoral basis, thereby contributing to Canadian prosperity and the growth of the Canadian economy. This financial support enables the recipient to undertake new or expanded international business development promotion activities, in a given sector, for the benefit of its entire industry (member and non-member firms).

This project aims to reduce preventable maternal deaths and unmet reproductive health needs by improving the availability, acceptability, and accessibility of youth-friendly quality health and reproductive services. It also seeks to empower women, youth, and adolescents in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) decision-making. The project targets 838,000 people, including vulnerable groups such as uneducated girls and people with disabilities. It focuses on regions with the lowest rates of contraceptive use in remote areas, including Kédougou, Kolda, Tambacounda, Sédhiou, Ziguinchor, and the health districts of Popenguine and the south of Dakar.

Project activities include: (1) providing comprehensive sexual education to youth and girls in schools and youth clubs; (2) supporting positive masculinity by scaling up the ‘husband schools’ strategy. This includes advocating for SRHR among 14,400 religious leaders and 2,300 cultural actors using a gender transformative approach. The approach seeks to actively examine, challenge, and transform the underlying causes of gender inequality rooted in inequitable social structures and institutions; (3) supplying mobile medical equipment to healthcare facilities to improve care accessibility; (4) conducting a study to obtain data on the behaviours of adolescents, youth, and women on reproductive health and family planning. This is to provide better services tailored to adolescents needs; (5) training healthcare staff in adapted and quality family planning services; and (6) developing and implementing an integrated communication strategy on reproductive health of the mother and child, gender-based violence, gender equality, and human rights.

The project draws from best practices and lessons learned from the " Improving the health and well-being of women and adolescents in Southern Senegal" project implemented with strong results by the United Nations Population Fund. This project supports Canada's commitment to global health and rights, particularly the gender-based violence neglected area of sexual and reproductive health and rights commitment.