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.
$16,200,000.00
Oct 25, 2023
Not-for-profit organization or charity
International committee of the Red Cross – Institutional support 2023 to 2026
7454138 P012937001
This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). ICRC uses these funds, and other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate. The ICRC’s mandate is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. They achieve this through programming in protection, assistance, preventive action, and cooperation with national societies.
Project activities include: (1) continuing to protect people affected by armed conflict, including addressing needs arising from sexual and gender-based violence; (2) providing food and non-food items, water and basic health services; (3) promoting international humanitarian law; (4) cooperating and providing capacity building with national societies of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to lead an inclusive movement response in armed conflict; and (5) improving the treatment, living conditions and livelihood opportunities of detained persons.
The ICRC’s activities specific to gender equality and gender-based violence include: (1) providing psychological and social support to victims of sexual violence; (2) increasing women’s economic security as heads of households, for example by providing cash grants to start a business or assistance to access government benefits; and (3) including women and girls in all phases of the humanitarian response cycle.