Grants and Contributions

Develop and execute commercialization strategy for entry into animal feed sector

Host the 2023 Vince Ryan Memorial Hockey Tournament

This project aims to support vulnerable communities in the islands of Grenada, Saint Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines to increase water security through nature-friendly, community-driven rainwater-harvesting systems. Support targets vulnerable households and farmers in the communities, and promotes female leadership and support to women farmers.

Project activities include; (1) providing capacity building for integrated water resource management that considers climate change impacts, biodiversity and inclusivity; (2) designing a strategy for collecting and digitizing hydro-meteorological data to better inform adaptation planning and support climate finance applications; (3) providing, repairing or restoring equipment for rainwater capture and storage; and (4) promoting cross-country exchanges to facilitate the sharing of knowledge on best practices.

This project aims to increase the climate resilience of people and communities in Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Suriname through improved marine and coastal ecosystem management. The project will achieve this by transforming the management of coral reefs and coastal ecosystems to ensure that their biodiversity is protected and that the vital ecosystem services they provide, including protection of coastal communities and shorelines from erosion and impacts of tropical storms—are sustained.

Project activities include: (1) developing and implementing country-specific frameworks and action plans through participatory methods. Also supporting the development and application of policies for coral reef and coastal ecosystem protection and management; (2) undertaking scientific data collection and mapping of coral reef zones and coastal ecosystems for the development of platforms that will support decision-making for their conservation and protection; (3) supporting the implementation of sub-projects focused on the restoration, repopulation, rehabilitation and management of coral reefs and coastal ecosystems in Belize, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname; (4) providing training, capacity-building, and technical assistance for restoration, repopulation, rehabilitation and management of coral reefs and coastal ecosystems; and (5) collaborating, cooperating, and building partnerships with other regional and global initiatives, and research and learning institutions, to support better ecosystem protection and management regionally and globally.

This project will be implemented in Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname. It will involve the participation of national governments, the private sector, civil society and society at large. The targeted beneficiaries are coastal and fishing communities in the Caribbean, includes marine protection and management agencies, universities, government ministries responsible for fisheries, fisherfolk organizations, and civil society organizations involved in coastal and marine protection.

The project will aim to improve the living conditions and food security of 10,000 persons living in the dry corridor of El Salvador, by promoting the participation and empowerment of rural women and youth, with a focus on nutrition, climate change adaptation, and management of water-forest-soil resources.

This project will aim to strengthen food security and climate resilience, with a nutrition-sensitive approach that considers adaptation to climate change, good management and conservation of water-forest-soil resources; promote the participation and economic empowerment of rural women and youth and address inequality in access to safe and nutritious food for healthy diets; and implement mechanisms and drought contingency plans as well as anticipatory actions based on drought forecasts in selected municipalities of the Dry Corridor.

This project will seek to learn from and engage with the gendered space of insider mediation in nonviolent socio-political movements, to improve their effective contribution to conflict transformation. This will involve activities that will support: (1) understanding the diversity of constructive roles and approaches exhibited in nonviolent sociopolitical movements with both an insider mediation lens (which roles and approaches are mediative in nature and have direct or indirect impact on any existing formal/outsider mediation processes or transition processes?) and a gender lens (how are different mediative gender roles shaped and how might they differ?); (2) creating space for a small group of key movement actors – women and men – across contexts to share their experiences, approaches, tactics and strategies, and to network and give peer support; (3) offering needs-based capacity development support to these movement actors in conflict transformation approaches and methods, such as dialogue, negotiation, mediation, strategic networking and leadership, etc. to strengthen their insider mediation roles in multiple tracks; (4) creating space for engaging these movement actors, mediation actors and WPS actors for joint development of potential strategic collaboration modalities of gender-inclusive (insider) mediation approaches in contexts of movements; (5) creating space for on-site dialogue support (in selected contexts of these movement actors) among actors who are crucial to preserving the nonviolent and dialogic nature of transition processes, in order for them to sustain peaceful transition. This will be achieved through a baseline study, establishing a peer network, and offering dialogue support to women insider mediators.

This project seeks to create the enabling conditions to encourage target countries in Latin America (Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico) to adopt and invest in climate-relevant Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). Climate-relevant NBS are designed to address climate change and provide essential services, including carbon storage, ensuring food and water supplies, and buffering against the impacts of global warming. As governments have limited resources to invest in NBS and face increasing pressures related to climate change and ecosystem degradation, NBS offer cost-effective and resilient strategies to achieve their development priorities. This project seeks to integrate NBS with a gender-responsive approach to target Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) and infrastructure needs. It also seeks to create opportunities for private sector investment in NBS, which remains low in countries throughout the region. This is needed to bridge the funding gap and scale up NBS to achieve effective long-term outcomes.

Project activities include: (1) conducting biodiversity mainstreaming and natural capital accounting approaches training with policymakers; (2) conducting a policy assessment for NBS inclusion;(3) conducting a valuation assessment for climate and ecosystem services; (4) preparing business cases and natural resources valuation assessments for NBS implementation aligned with the national infrastructure sector and AFOLU priorities; (5) conducting training and capacity building on gender mainstreaming with national policymakers and relevant civil society stakeholders; and (6) conducting a gender-specific analysis of formal and customary practices for managing and conserving ecosystem services in target countries.

Contributes to the recovery of endangered, threatened, and other species of concern, by engaging Canadians in conservation actions to benefit wildlife and to protect aquatic species at risk.

Biomass contributions to achieving net-zero emissions

Increasing species at risk capacity and facilitating youth engagement within the Piikani Nation