Grants and Contributions

January 2020 – In 2020, there are an estimated 4.1 million Iraqis in need of humanitarian assistance, of which 1.77 million are in acute need. Out of the 6 million displaced people during the conflict against Daesh, more than 1.4 million remain internally displaced. Those directly affected by the conflict against Daesh, particularly those who were displaced and whose lives and livelihoods were uprooted and destroyed, continue to require humanitarian assistance to meet their basic needs.

With GAC’s support, CARE is improving access to essential water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), protection, and sexual and reproductive health services for up to 60,000 conflict-affected internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in camps, as well as returnees in Ninewa governorate. Project activities include: (1) repairing, rehabilitating and maintaining water and sanitation infrastructure in IDP camps and conflict-affected communities; (2) supporting the delivery of lifesaving sexual and reproductive health services; (3) providing protection response services, including case management, for women, girls, boys and men; and (4) distributing cash transfers to vulnerable returnees in response to urgent protection needs.

January 2020 – In 2020, there are an estimated 4.1 million Iraqis in need of humanitarian assistance, of which 1.77 million are in acute need. Out of the 6 million people displaced during the conflict against Daesh, more than 1.4 million people remain internally displaced. Those directly affected by the conflict against Daesh, particularly those who were displaced and whose lives and livelihoods were uprooted and destroyed, continue to require humanitarian assistance to meet their basic needs.

With GAC’s support, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is implementing a cross-sectoral shelter and housing, land and property (HLP) intervention that aims to contribute to addressing critical shelter vulnerabilities, targeting up to 11,000 conflict- and displacement-affected individuals, experiencing the most acute vulnerabilities, particularly women-headed households. Project activities include: (1) repairing or rehabilitating critical war-damaged shelters; (2) providing legal assistance with accessing civil documentation and HLP rights; and (3) repairing and rehabilitating basic community infrastructure in areas severely affected by the conflict.

The project aims to improve the resilience of rural communities to climate change, especially for women, in the Kedougou region of Senegal. Project activities include: (1) providing training to 340 farmers from 17 villages on improving planting techniques and gender; (2) providing them with fonio (a type of cereal) seeds and agricultural inputs, including innovative soil nutrient field test kits; (3) training women-led cooperatives on how to create and market biomass briquettes (for fuel), and use grain/cereal husking machines; (4) training community members on forest product harvesting and bush fire prevention; (5) seeding 18,000 indigenous plants; and (6) promoting agroforestry and the use of an indigenous tree species to enhance forest carbon sinks.

The project is implemented by the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada in partnership with Instituto Jane Goodall, the Réserve Naturelle Communautaire de Dindéfélo [Dindéfélo Community Natural Reserve] and the Association Nébéday.

This project aims to enhance equitable development and empowerment for women, girls, adolescents, their families and communities in select areas of Asia with high levels of poverty, human resource deficits, inadequate health and early childhood education systems, and entrenched gender inequalities. This project works to advance gender equality and widen opportunities for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in Asia, focusing on the empowerment of women, girls, and adolescents as the key to addressing the root causes of gender inequality and global poverty. The project responds to the interconnected challenges experienced by women, girls, and their communities through four complementary components: foundations for health, foundations for children, advancing gender equality through civil society, and advancing Canadian champions for development. Project activities include: (1) providing training on management and delivery of gender and adolescent friendly health services, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health; (2) extending sexual and reproductive health services to communities through teleconsultations and e-health; (3) empowering community health workers to screen the nutritional status of children under five years old; (4) developing curricula and resources for early childhood development, for life skills training materials for adolescents and for the identification and response to gender-based violence; and (5) leadership training for young women.

This project aims to reach approximately 1.1 million people in Central Asia

The purpose of this Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP) contribution agreement is to support organizations and to identify specific projects or partnerships between the Recipient and international partners in CIIP target countries that could lead to industrial research and development cooperation with potential for commercialization.

This project aims to provide 50,000 identity documents to children, women and men who are affected by the crisis in Burkina Faso, particularly internally displaced people and the communities that welcome them. This project expects to provide 50,000 people to access basic services (health and education systems, and civil rights).

This project aims to increase the safety and security of actors and organizations working to uphold human rights. Project activities include: (1) providing technical digital security support, training, and advice to human rights defenders (HRDs), women human rights defenders (WHRDs), and at-risk actors; (2) publishing data, blog posts, reports, and other documentation identifying digital threats to HRDs, WHRDs, and at-risk actors; and (3) convening HRDs, WHRDs, and at-risk actors with digital security practitioners, technologists, policymakers, and business leaders.

This project aims to improve the educational systems at the pre-primary and primary level and to strengthen women’s empowerment and gender equality in Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda. The project is comprised of three components: foundations for learning; advancing gender equality through civil society; and advancing Canadian champions for development. Through these components, the project aims to enhance equitable development and empowerment for women, girls, adolescents, their families and communities in the target countries. Project activities include: (1) developing gender-responsive pedagogical approaches for teaching and school leadership; (2) training educators and education professionals; (3) collaborating with governments to equip education and early childhood development centres with appropriate curricula, protocols, resources and tools; (4) working with parents, communities and civil society organizations to respond to the challenges facing girls and women in education and civic spaces that often exclude them from participation and decision-making; and (5) engaging Canadians and deploying Canadian specialists to support human resource capacity building in key local partner organizations.
The project aims to directly benefit 1.8 million people across the five countries of implementation, including 923,000 students and 930,000 teachers, school leaders, parents, government official and civil society organization members.

January 2020 - With the Syria crisis in its ninth year, Jordan continues to host up to 1.3 million Syrian refugees in camps and host communities, of whom over 650,000 are registered. Additional populations of concern include 58,000 Iraqis, as well as a small number of unregistered refugees, including those from Yemen. Crisis-affected populations require continued assistance to address basic humanitarian and protection needs.

With GAC’s support, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is providing protection services and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) support to refugees and vulnerable Jordanians. Project activities include: (1) providing sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) case management and focused psychosocial support services; (2) providing cash grants for especially vulnerable cases; (3) providing training to women community leadership groups; (4) conducting engagement sessions with men and boys on SGBV and harmful social norms; and (5) developing technical support plans with and for identified local actors.

Working with Women in Kaloagi Locality