Grants and Contributions

Mi’kmaw Legal Support Network: Court worker mental Health and Wellness Training project will bring together 25 court service team members, including Elders and knowledge keepers for a 3-day mental health first aid training and cultural activity. The training will increase awareness, confidence and capacity of staff involved with supporting ICW clients and families involved in the court process.

British Columbia Trilateral Framework Agreement on Nature Conservation Implementation

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). Canada’s core funding is used to support UN Women’s triple mandate of support for gender equality norms and standards; UN System coordination and operational work. Canada's support to UN Women helps to advance Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy as well as Canada’s international efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Working for the empowerment and rights of women and girls globally, UN Women’s main roles are: to support inter-governmental bodies, such as the Commission on the Status of Women, in their formulation of policies, global standards and norms; to assist Member States in implementing these standards through its operational work by providing technical and financial support to countries that request it and to forge effective partnerships with civil society; and to lead and coordinate the UN system’s work on gender equality, as well as promote accountability, through regular monitoring of system-wide progress.

The project will help lower rates of adolescent pregnancy, and allow girls and young women in Belize and Suriname to realize their sexual and reproductive health and rights. The project will have positive impacts on adolescents and young people across both countries, but will focus on indigenous and tribal adolescent girls and young women in select regions of Belize and Suriname. The project will do this by making clinics more adolescent-friendly and culturally appropriate; increasing access to contraceptives; implementing an out-of-school comprehensive sexuality education curriculum to reach indigenous and tribal adolescents in their communities; creating and using culturally appropriate educational materials; and gathering and using data to help policymakers make informed decisions about advancing adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights, particularly for indigenous and tribal groups.

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

This grant represents Canada’s institutional support to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF uses these funds and other donors’ funding to achieve its mandate. Guided by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF supports the rights of children to help meet their basic needs and expand opportunities for children to reach their full potential. UNICEF seeks to improve the social and economic conditions of children by ensuring that they have access to health care, clean water, food, and education. UNICEF also works to ensure that children are protected from violence and abuse and receive relief in disasters.

Canada's support to UNICEF helps to advance Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy. This policy seeks to help the poorest and most vulnerable, support fragile states and underpin Canada’s international efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

This project aims to improve comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for marginalized women, children and adolescents in Bangladesh, Nepal and Vietnam. Project activities include: (1) developing a toolkit to guide provision of gender-responsiveness, cultural sensitivity and adolescent friendly health and nutrition services; (2) organizing exchange visits for health workers to experience and learn from skilled and qualified SRH providers; (3) training community groups on SGBV, its impact on physical and psychological health, and prevention; and (4) engaging with government bodies to adapt existing policies or promote policy changes (as needed) and allocate sufficient resources for resilient health systems that can met the SRHR needs of rights-holders. In Bangladesh the project is implemented in the urban slums and underserved areas of Chattogram City Corporation and is expected to reach a total of 662,040 beneficiaries. In Nepal, the project is implemented in 12 municipalities covering 4 districts in Karnali province: Jajarkot, Rukum, Dailekh, and Salyan. The project directly benefits 11,700 children with improved nutrition, 82,080 women of reproductive age with improved comprehensive SRH services and 7,860 mother’s group members and their male partners with improved knowledge on SRHR and nutrition. In Vietnam, the proposed project is implemented in 15 communes in Son La province (6 communes in Thuan Chau district, five communes in Yen Chau communes and four communes in Son La city). It benefits 5,200 children under 5, improve knowledge and skills on child health and nutrition for 10,000 local people, and build capacity for 150 health workers and 80 teachers on CSE and communication skills.

The initiative aims to provide better protection for children living in vulnerable situations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), by involving the government, communities, families and the children themselves, particularly girls and children of diverse gender identities. The project aims to improve the protection and well-being of vulnerable children, particularly girls, in three DRC cities: Kinshasa, Lubumbashi and Bunia. To achieve this result, the initiative relies on three key areas: strengthening the capacities of public institutions, involving grassroots communities and improving inclusive and sustainable access to services for vulnerable children.

The purpose of this agreement is to assist Curve Lake First Nation in working with CNSC staff to assess potential impacts on Rights from Ontario Power Generation’s licence to construct application for the Darlington New Nuclear Project as well as participating in the 2-part Commission hearing

The project will broaden the reach of legal education and information materials to non-English speaking tenants and those facing legal and systemic barriers to housing stability as a result of gender-based violence. Resources will be translated into multiple languages to support tenants to understand their rights and help them feel empowered to advocate for themselves.