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.
$2,000,000.00
Sep 17, 2024
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Empowerment of Women and Girls Groups in Rural Cameroon
7461093 P010932001
This project aims to reduce poverty by strengthening economic rights of women and young girls in Cameroon. It is part of the 2021-2026 Five-Year Plan developed by the local partner Afrique Future Cameroun, which emphasizes rights and income-generating activities. This will allow women to provide answers to the real needs of their living environment.
The activities of this project include: 1) supporting the five-year plan through a component focused on the financial autonomy of women and young girls. This autonomy must be achieved through individual and collective production, the development of markets for commercialization and a rights based component. These concern, in particular, their rights to physical health, land rights and the right to literacy and numeracy; 2) reach directly, 565 women and young girls, 100 leaders among men and young men and about twenty men who are traditional authorities. It also intends to reach 30 men and 20 women representatives of state structures and indirectly family members and populations of 19 localities of at least 3,000 people.