Grants and Contributions

Membership to IPA allows Canada to participate in international endeavours and promotes the exchange and dissemination of knowledge in the most advanced areas of scientific and industrial research.

The project focuses on under-served regions and groups not yet supported by Canada or other donors. This includes programming in conflict-affected Tigray to respond to high rates of conflict-related sexual violence during the 2021-22 conflict and support for women factory workers, women with disabilities, and survivors in under-served regions (Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz regional states, Oromia and Tigray). The project seeks to increase access to safe abortion for women and girls. This includes abortion and post-abortion care and improved agency for their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) decision-making options.

Project activities include: (1) protecting and promoting women and girls’ rights to bodily autonomy, particularly those especially vulnerable; (2) training civil society organizations to provide community based SRHR services; and (3) providing technical assistance to public health professionals to improve the quality and sustainability of SRHR services and information.

Marine bird monitoring for Gitdisdzu Lugyeks (Kitasu Bay) IPA

Membership to IPA allows Canada to participate in international endeavours and promotes the exchange and dissemination of knowledge in the most advanced areas of scientific and industrial research.

Enhancing women’s political participation by addressing structural and legal obstacles that hinder their participation in politics and decision-making Meru County.

This project aims to increase sexual and reproductive autonomy among women and girls in Bolivia, Indonesia and Nigeria by empowering them to decide on their sexual and reproductive health and increasing access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRHR) services. Project activities include: (1) providing comprehensive sexuality education to youth, including accurate reproductive health information; (2) training health care workers to deliver gender- and trauma-informed compassionate care to all women and girls, especially survivors of violence; (3) fostering community-led action against sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), which includes training community and humanitarian aid workers on SGBV, power inequities and trauma-informed care; (4) implementing a sexual and reproductive health and abortion self-care model with community leaders in new intervention sites; and (5) reaching women and youth via digital tools with information on SRHR and sexual violence prevention.

Over 60,000 women and girls will be directly reached through engagement, knowledge building and expanded sexual and reproductive health services, including safe abortion and post-abortion care. Also, the project expects to reach 500,000 women and girls through digital platforms and communications campaigns.

The project aims to increase women’s and girls’ bodily autonomy by expanding access to information and services related to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and to safe abortion care. Ipas DRC will work with government and community partners in the provinces of Nord-Kivu, Sud-Kivu, Haut Katanga, Tanganyika and Kinshasa to translate the enabling legal and policy framework into improved access to quality abortion care.

Membership to IPA allows Canada to participate in international endeavours and promotes the exchange and dissemination of knowledge in the most advanced areas of scientific and industrial research.

This project aims to ensure that vulnerable women and girls in Mozambique can make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) free from discrimination, coercion and violence. It also aims to ensure that these women and girls have access to the full range of SRH services, especially safe and legal abortion. Project activities include: (1) establishing two training centres in existing hospitals and training 475 health workers. This includes training 325 health providers on comprehensive abortion care and integrating gender-based violence services; and training 25 pharmacists on medical abortion. It also includes training 125 professionals at integrated care centres, where women and girls can seek legal redress and psychosocial support after experiencing violence; (2) conducting community education, outreach and mass media campaigns that will reach up to 7 million people, with information on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender-based violence; and (3) conducting advocacy campaigns to shift harmful norms and stigma related to SRHR through about 9,000 community outreach activities.

ZIM CXE-IPA-I4 project with German partner aoloa-Engineering GmbH to design and develop an innovative new intelligent condition monitoring system for industrial equipment that incorporates conversational intelligent agents and machine learning.