Grants and Contributions

This project aims to improve the climate resilience of communities in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Project activities include: (1) providing liquified petroleum gas (LPG) cooking fuel and pressure cookers to Rohingya refugee families; significantly reduce firewood. This contributes to improved heath, safer living conditions and environmental recovery through reforestation; (2) helping avert deforestation in and around the refugee camps by ensuring a continued supply of LPG, which reduces the negative environmental impacts of relying on firewood, including loss of biodiversity, soil loss and decreased water quality; and (3) reducing the need for women, girls and boys to collect firewood in remote or unsafe spaces, protecting them from the risk of assault or abduction.

SAFE Haiti aims to prevent the recruitment and use of children by armed groups in Haiti through integrated interventions focused on child protection, social inclusion, and economic empowerment. The project adopts a transformative gender approach, recognizing that girls and boys are exposed to different recruitment risks, requiring tailored prevention and response strategies.

SAFE Haiti provides at-risk children and other vulnerable children with access to essential services, education, health care, nutrition, and psychosocial support in safe and protective environments. Services are designed with gender-sensitive approaches that address the specific needs of girls and boys through case management and referrals to other services, such as reproductive health services for girls and positive masculinity programs for boys.

Canada's assessed contribution to United Nations Office at Geneva

This project aims to enhance the capacity of national and sub-national governments to integrate wildfire risk management as a standardized component of regional, national, and local disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies. The project seeks to bolster country resilience to wildfires across Latin America and the Caribbean by supporting evidence-based decision-making for wildfire risk reduction, strengthening technical capacity for improved governance to reduce wildfire risk, and integrating sustainable wildfire management practices into national and local planning through multi-stakeholder collaboration and public-private partnerships. The intervention aligns with the principles of the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction, to which Canada is a signatory.

This three-year (2026-29) UNODC implemented project aims to disrupt illicit financial flows that enable the production and trafficking of synthetic drugs, including illicit fentanyl, and their precursor chemicals, reducing threats to global health, safety, and security. It will strengthen international cooperation and national capacities to identify, intercept, and prevent money laundering linked to synthetic drugs, while promoting chemical diversion prevention practices and information-sharing between public and private sector actors. Key activities include: (1) specialized training for financial investigative units (FIU), law enforcement, and criminal justice officials to enhance identification and interdiction of illicit financial flows tied to synthetic drug production and trafficking; (2) three meetings of the Financial Institutions Against Drugs (FIAD) network to foster increased public/private cooperation (3) developing Chemical Diversion Prevention (CDP) scoring to support regulation, investment decisions, and compliance among chemical industry partners.

This initiative aims to strengthen maritime security and disrupt criminal networks operating along key maritime mobility corridors in the North Caribbean, with a focus on Haiti. The project will enhance regional cooperation among countries including Haiti, Jamaica, The Bahamas, and the Dominican Republic. It addresses the growing threat of transnational organized crime, particularly drug and arms trafficking, by improving intelligence sharing, operational coordination, and law enforcement capabilities. Activities include joint training, strategic threat mapping, and cooperative investigations to dismantle criminal business models fueling violence and instability in the region.

This project will reinforce the universalization and effective implementation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) in Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Project activities will include: (1) targeted outreach to promote universalization of the BTWC in Africa; (2) legal and regulatory assistance to States Parties; (3) training and capacity building to support the submission of Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs); and (4); outreach and training to support national coordination and implementation of the BTWC.

This project funds new United Nations Junior Professional Officers (JPO) positions under the ITU.

The overarching objective of the work supported by the UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Torture is to assist victims of torture and their families to rebuild their lives through the award of grants through a variety of channels, including: civil society organizations, associations of victims, private and public hospitals, legal clinics, public interest law firms, and community organizations.

This project will support co-development, consensus building, and meaningful consultation on housing priorities and modular housing solutions, with a central focus on advancing Indigenous procurement priorities.