Grants and Contributions

This project seeks to enhance the equal enjoyment of the rights of adolescent girls and women (AGW) to be free from gender-based violence (GBV). This includes child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) in Cambodia, Kenya and the Philippines. Project activities include: (1) providing family planning competency-based training to healthcare workers; (2) strengthening capacity of health center staff, private providers and hospital staff in psycho-social counseling, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender-based violence (GBV); (3) facilitating community actions that address community-specific SRHR needs and causes of GBV; and (4) providing data-driven advocacy training to improve the use of data as evidence to support resilient solutions to adolescent girls and women’s SRHR and GBV needs.

November 2024 – The 2024 Humanitarian Needs Response Plan reports that 6.5 million people across Ukraine require support within the protection cluster and its sub-clusters. The ongoing trauma, increased levels of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), and limited access to mental health services worsen the situation. The protection cluster identified psychosocial support as a key objective, with about 500,000 people across Ukraine requiring individual or group mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) services. To date, 270,000 people have been reached, showing the urgent need for more partners to address this gap. The Winter Response Plan (WRP) states that nearly 4 million internally displaced persons in Ukraine have significant humanitarian needs, including 85,000 individuals currently living in shelters.

With Global Affairs Canada’s support, ADRA provides mental health, winterization and protection assistance to affected persons with intersecting vulnerabilities in the 5 most-affected oblasts of U

Sudan is facing one of the world’s most severe and complex humanitarian crises, driven by armed conflict, mass displacement, economic collapse, weakened state institutions, recurring disease outbreaks, escalating natural disasters and climate shocks. The ongoing conflict has had enormous impacts in the region and has resulted in the largest internally displaced population globally and the collapse of livelihoods, markets, and services across the country. More than half the population are in need of humanitarian assistance.

With GAC’s support, ADRA Canada aims to address the life-saving protection and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) needs of conflict-affected internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities in El-Gezira, North Darfur and White Nile, with a particular focus on women and girls. Project activities include: (1) providing age-appropriate, gender-responsive and inclusive protection services, referrals and case management support; (2) raising awareness among community members, including men and boys, on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) and prevention of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV); (3) providing multi-purpose cash assistance to vulnerable households; (4) rehabilitating gender-responsive and inclusive water systems, latrines and handwashing facilities; and (5) sensitizing community members on safe and environmentally-friendly hygiene practices.

This initiative was planned by Canadian Foodgrains Bank members (Adventist Development and Relief Agency Canada, Canadian Lutheran World Relief, Mennonite Central Committee Canada, Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, Tearfund Canada, United Church of Canada, Canadian Baptist Ministries, Emergency Relief and Development Association, and World Renew Canada) and will be implemented with local partners.

This project aims to increase the enjoyment of health-related rights for the most vulnerable children, adolescent girls, and women in Cambodia, Kenya, the Philippines, and Uganda. Project activities include: (1) providing training on sexual and reproductive health and rights, water, sanitation and hygiene, climate resilience, and life skills to adolescent girls, young women, boys and young men; (2) providing training and support to health care staff, community health volunteers and other duty-bearers on women centered, safe, inclusive care and counselling; (3) training health care providers to provide comprehensive, gender-sensitive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services; (4) providing training on nutrition for caregivers of children under the age of five years old, pregnant and lactating mothers and their partners through kitchen gardening; (5) equipping health centres to provide SRH care, from family planning consultations to supporting victims of sexual and gender-based violence in all four countries. The project expects to directly benefit over 120,000 girls, women, boys and men across all project countries. This project works in partnership with its Canadian partners Salanga and Sick Kids, and through its implementing partners ADRA Cambodia, Kenya, Philippines and Uganda.

March 2021 - An estimated 13.4 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection across Sudan as a result of armed conflict, food insecurity, malnutrition, economic decline and disease. Up to 2.5 million people are internally displaced within the country. Instability around Sudan’s borders has also led to more than 1.1 million people to seek refuge in Sudan, including asylum seekers from Central African Republic, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Syria.

With GAC’s support, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Canada is providing emergency water, sanitation, hygiene and protection assistance for up to 94,185 conflict-affected people in Sudan’s Blue Nile state. Project activities include: (1) rehabilitating and maintaining 20 water systems; (2) constructing gender-sensitive latrines and handwashing facilities in 15 schools, health centers and public spaces such as markets; (3) providing gender sensitive and culturally appropriate hygiene items for internally displaced people, returnee and host community households; (4) providing psychosocial support through mobile clinics; and (5) conducting community mobilization/sensitization on protection issues such as gender equality.

P007252001: This project aims to contribute to improving equitable education for vulnerable girls and women in targeted areas in Myanmar, Niger, and Sudan. It seeks to increase community-led actions in breaking barriers to gender-equal education while improving the availability of inclusive education systems. The project also increases access to learning opportunities for livelihood and life skills.
Project activities include: (1) delivering women leaders leadership training to promote integrating women’s education, leadership, and participation in community decision-making and peace processes; (2) establishing the Innovative Teachers Establishing Education Services program to provide localized community-based, inclusive, gender and climate-responsive education to out-of-school girls; (3) developing localized curriculum for livelihoods and life skills training on Early Childhood Care and Development for out-of-school girls and women; (4) providing small grants for community groups to support community-led gender-transformative action that addresses barriers to women’s and girls’ education; and (5) supporting peer networks managed by grassroots women organizations. These networks are safe spaces for confidential services in sexual and reproductive health and rights, sexual and gender-based violence, child, early, and forced marriage, and women trafficking and drug use.

P007252002: These activities will provide assistance to crisis-affected people, mitigate protection risks and respond to protection needs through humanitarian action in support of two of the main COVID-19 related strategies in the Sudan Humanitarian Plan for 2021.
COVID-related activities include: A) Provide support to Kerenik isolation centre and health units in the targeted villages; B) Conduct gender-responsive awareness campaigns about Covid-19 prevention measures; C) Build capacity of local community groups and leaders and health workers on Covid-19 preventive measures; D) Provide cash transfers to vulnerable households for basic needs and education; E) Strengthen community protection structures on protection and gender-sensitive approaches and referral pathways; F) Support community protection structures to strengthen monitoring and support for household most vulnerable to COVID-19.

P009005001: March 2020 - Yemen is currently the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with 24 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. The conflict and collapsing economy has pushed nearly 10 million people to the brink of famine, and over 3.6 million people have been displaced since the beginning of the crisis in 2015. Basic service provision is collapsing, including critical water, sanitation, hygiene and health services, increasing the risk of disease outbreaks such as cholera, dengue fever and diphtheria. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the lack of access to essential services and face an increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence due to the crisis.

With GAC’s multi-year support, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Canada is providing emergency health and nutrition support to up to 135,000 of the most vulnerable conflict-affected people, particularly women, in the Marib and Sana’a governorates of Yemen. Project activities include: (1) providing health facilities with essential medication and medical supplies; (2) providing health services, including emergency obstetric and newborn care, family planning, and vaccination for children; (3) ensuring access to medical services and psychosocial support for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence; and (4) screening and providing treatment for acute malnutrition, particularly among children and pregnant and lactating women.

P009005003: March 2020 - Yemen is currently the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with 24 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. The conflict and collapsing economy has pushed nearly 10 million people to the brink of famine, and over 3.6 million people have been displaced since the beginning of the crisis in 2015. Basic service provision is collapsing, including critical water, sanitation, hygiene and health services, increasing the risk of disease outbreaks such as cholera, dengue fever and diphtheria. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the lack of access to essential services and face an increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence due to the crisis.

With GAC’s multi-year support, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Canada is providing emergency health and nutrition support to up to 135,000 of the most vulnerable conflict-affected people, particularly women, in the Marib and Sana’a governorates of Yemen. Project activities include: (1) providing health facilities with essential medication and medical supplies; (2) providing health services, including emergency obstetric and newborn care, family planning, and vaccination for children; (3) ensuring access to medical services and psychosocial support for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence; and (4) screening and providing treatment for acute malnutrition, particularly among children and pregnant and lactating women.

March 2019 - An estimated 7.1 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection across Sudan as a result of armed conflict, food insecurity, malnutrition, economic decline and disease. Approximately 2 million people are internally displaced within the country. Instability around Sudan’s borders has also led to thousands seeking asylum and refuge in Sudan. The number of South Sudanese refugees in Sudan is over 844,000, making Sudan the largest host of South Sudanese. Refugees, asylum seekers and migrants from Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Syria are also present, bringing the total number of refugees to 1.2 million. An estimated 5.7 million people are currently severely food insecure, with malnutrition rates over emergency thresholds.

With GAC’s support, ADRA Canada is providing emergency water, sanitation, hygiene and protection assistance for up to 112,907 conflict-affected people in Sudan’s Blue Nile state. Project activities include: (1) rehabilitating 18 hand pumps and 7 water systems in 8 settlements; (2) constructing gender-sensitive latrines and handwashing facilities in 6 schools and 6 health centers; (3) providing latrine slabs to 1,000 households; and (4) training 240 women and men community leaders in mediation, gender equality, and sexual and reproductive health and rights issues.

January 2019 – Following the outbreak of violence in Northern Rakhine State in August 2017, more than 735,000 Rohingya crossed from Myanmar into Bangladesh over a period of several months. These refugees joined some 200,000 to 300,000 Rohingya already in Bangladesh following earlier waves of displacement. The speed and scale of the influx has resulted in significant humanitarian needs.

With GAC’s support, ADRA is helping to respond to the immediate needs of existing and newly arrived Rohingya refugees in Jamtoli Camp, Cox’s Bazar, in Bangladesh, including the specific needs of women and children. Project activities include: (1) providing environmentally friendly, age- and gender�sensitive water, sanitation and hygiene promotion; (2) implementing environment-friendly hygienic waste management measures, such as provision of bins and drainage repair; (3) providing gender, age and culturally appropriate hygiene kits, as well as dignity kits for women and girls; (4) providing gender, age and culturally appropriate counselling, and information on health and family planning services; (5) establishing two child-friendly spaces for children and youth, and two women and girls’ safe spaces with protection services; and (6) providing training to Men’s Watch Groups on issues such as gender equality, women’s empowerment, women’s rights, and sexual and gender-based violence.