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.
$24,000,000.00
Jun 3, 2024
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Integrated project to strengthen the reproductive health of women, youth and adolescents in Senegal
7459142 P012769001
This project aims to reduce preventable maternal deaths and unmet reproductive health needs by improving the availability, acceptability, and accessibility of youth-friendly quality health and reproductive services. It also seeks to empower women, youth, and adolescents in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) decision-making. The project targets 838,000 people, including vulnerable groups such as uneducated girls and people with disabilities. It focuses on regions with the lowest rates of contraceptive use in remote areas, including Kédougou, Kolda, Tambacounda, Sédhiou, Ziguinchor, and the health districts of Popenguine and the south of Dakar.
Project activities include: (1) providing comprehensive sexual education to youth and girls in schools and youth clubs; (2) supporting positive masculinity by scaling up the ‘husband schools’ strategy. This includes advocating for SRHR among 14,400 religious leaders and 2,300 cultural actors using a gender transformative approach. The approach seeks to actively examine, challenge, and transform the underlying causes of gender inequality rooted in inequitable social structures and institutions; (3) supplying mobile medical equipment to healthcare facilities to improve care accessibility; (4) conducting a study to obtain data on the behaviours of adolescents, youth, and women on reproductive health and family planning. This is to provide better services tailored to adolescents needs; (5) training healthcare staff in adapted and quality family planning services; and (6) developing and implementing an integrated communication strategy on reproductive health of the mother and child, gender-based violence, gender equality, and human rights.
The project draws from best practices and lessons learned from the " Improving the health and well-being of women and adolescents in Southern Senegal" project implemented with strong results by the United Nations Population Fund. This project supports Canada's commitment to global health and rights, particularly the gender-based violence neglected area of sexual and reproductive health and rights commitment.