Grants and Contributions

This project aims to enhance the campus community’s understanding of and response to Red Flag laws in the context of gender-based violence. It will target key members of the campus community who are most likely to encounter disclosures of gender-based violence.

The project empowers at-risk individuals and communities through trauma-informed education and outreach on Red Flag laws to improve safety and access to legal protections.

The focus will be on ensuring that survivors of gender-based violence, individuals accessing mental health or well-being services, and those in Indigenous, rural, and marginalized communities can understand, access, and confidently use these legal protections.

With GAC’s support, the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations – International (UOSSM) will aim to increase access to primary healthcare services through mobile clinics and strengthened referral networks, increase screening and treatment of moderate and severe acute malnutrition among children under five, and increase access to mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), including for survivors of Gender Based Violence (GBV).

Project activities include: (1) receiving and registering new arrivals; (2) providing protection services; (3) providing shelter, and other essential non-food items; (4) providing adequate water, sanitation and health services, including in reproductive health; (5) providing camp coordination and site management services; (6) providing protection, including against sexual and gender-based violence, child protection and working with governments to register asylum seekers and refugees, and help issue identity documents; and (6) expanding opportunities for durable solutions for people of concern.

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement relies on national societies such as the Canadian Red Cross to maintain personnel resources available for additional capacity and surge support to its humanitarian response operations worldwide. Canada maintains a robust humanitarian toolkit that enables rapid responses to crisis including through supporting the deployment of humanitarian experts.

With GAC’s support, the Canadian Red Cross is deploying technical personnel to respond to humanitarian emergency operations of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Project activities include: (1) supporting the deployment of humanitarian experts; and (2) providing pre- and post- deployment services and training.

This project aims to strengthen gender-responsive mine action efforts in emergency and long-term recovery activities for crisis-affected women and girls in Myanmar.

Project activities include: (1) analyzing trends in humanitarian conditions using Multi-Sectoral Needs Analysis data; (2) conducting comprehensive primary research; (3) developing Application Protocol Interfaces to improve integration of REACH’s analytical products; and (4) analysing gender-based humanitarian needs.

Project activities include: (1) providing emergency health services especially for conflict-related injuries; (2) providing primary healthcare services including sexual and reproductive healthcare and mental health, maternal nutrition, and mental health and psychosocial support; (3) providing gender-based violence (GBV) medical and counselling services; and (4) distributing hygiene and dignity kits to displaced women and adolescent girls.

Project activities include: (1) organizing 3 regional parliamentary cluster meetings In Africa, Indo-Pacific (Pacific Islands) and the Caribbean to promote regional nuclear and radiological security; (2) providing outreach and ongoing engagement with participants; and (3) exploring the gender differentiated impact of nuclear and radiological weapons and material on women.