Grants and Contributions
About this information
In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
$50,000,000.00
Mar 25, 2024
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Doctors of the World - Global – Programmatic Emergency Health Response – 2024-2027
7457524 P012695001
June 2023 - In 2023, approximately 332 million people across the world are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection in part due to ongoing conflicts, natural disasters, and disease outbreaks. In response to the unprecedented level of humanitarian needs, GAC’s humanitarian assistance is providing predictable, multi-year, multi-country support to longstanding partners in protracted humanitarian contexts globally.
With GAC’s support, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is providing assistance to address the urgent needs of up to 5,544,000 beneficiaries from 2024 to 2027. This project focuses on providing access to primary and secondary healthcare, including the provision of sexual and reproductive health services in countries where MSF are operating, specifically in approximately six countries affected by conflict, situations of violence and other emergencies each year. Country-level interventions will be implemented through a global program that will allow for a greater overall coherence and visibility of sectoral results achieved. Countries of implementation will be selected on a yearly basis and in consultation with GAC, with priority given to extreme health crisis in countries experiencing protracted conflict such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At least half of the budget will be directed towards humanitarian crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. To ensure that MSF is able to act quickly and effectively respond when humanitarian emergencies occur, MSF will dedicate funding to responding to unforeseen crises in any country in which MSF operates and for which MSF is capable of accepting institutional funding. The release of funding to emergency operations will be done in consultation with GAC, recognizing the need for a balance between a timely response and accountability of funding and decision-making.
Project activities include: (1) providing at least 4,000,000 primary healthcare consultations to vulnerable populations; (2) providing approximately 765,000 patients with sexual and reproductive healthcare services; (3) providing disease case management in areas of response; (4) providing malnutrition screening and therapeutic feeding care to children under the age of five; and (5) distributing non-food item kits including bed nets, and sanitation supplies, specifically targeting pregnant and lactating women, and children under the age of five.