Grants and Contributions

Pakistan is continuing its flood recovery efforts in response to the 2022 devastating floods that impacted the lives of over 33 million across the country.

The project aims to respond to critical challenges caused or exacerbated by the 2022 floods, while strengthening resilience to climate change and shocks for flood affected and at-risk communities. The project also aims to strengthen proactive mitigation and gender-responsive disaster preparedness and recovery, accelerate resilient access to and provision of essential basic services, and promote access to assets and strategies critical to the resumption and resilience of livelihoods, particularly for women and girls in flood affected communities.

The project is aligned with the Government of Pakistan’s, “Resilient Recovery, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Framework”.

This project aims to improve the economic resilience of Afghan women by facilitating employment and livelihoods opportunities in the health and early childhood development sectors. Project activities include: (1) providing vocational and work-readiness skills training targeting employment opportunities; (2) providing entrepreneurial skills training and resources for business start-up; and (3) raising awareness and knowledge among community members, especially men, on the importance of inclusive employment and women’s access to services.

This project aims to improve the equal enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) by women and adolescent girls in situations of poverty, marginalization and vulnerability. Project activities include: (1) developing a gender-sensitive social and behavioral change communication strategy with local implementing partners and women's rights organizations (WROs), for the adoption of healthy SRHR behaviors and practices; (2) providing technical assistance to local implementing partner civil society organizations (CSOs) and WROs for organizational capacity building and gender mainstreaming; (3) implementing local solutions to SRHR and nutrition challenges with women, adolescent girls, men and boys; (4) providing comprehensive, skills-based SRHR, wellness, health and development programs for adolescent girls, boys, parents and guardians of adolescents; (5) building the technical capacity of managers and civil servants in the management, analysis, use and contingency planning of sexual and reproductive health, nutrition and community and facility climate data; and (6) providing technical assistance to government officials, health facilities and community health representatives on inclusive governance in the field of sexual and reproductive health and nutrition.

With GAC’s support, Aga Khan Foundation Canada helps provide lifesaving humanitarian health, nutrition, and psychosocial support in Afghanistan.

Flood Emergency Response and Recovery in District Ghizer and Chitral, Pakistan

Supporting community-led, sustainable and inclusive economic development in GB and Chitral through Winter Sports 2022/23

This project aims to enhance the engagement of Canadians, especially youth (aged between 12 and 18), in Canada’s international development efforts towards the achievement of the SDGs and FIAP, with a focus on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

Project activities include: (1) Developing a knowledge platform; (2) Showcasing mobile exhibits; (3) Creating a mass media campaign; (4) Broadcasting documentary series.

The project aims to reach 1.3M youth, aged between 12-18, including girls, boys and gender minorities as well as hard-to-reach, indigenous and diaspora populations. IDEA also expects to reach 280,734 visible minority youth, 2,851 Indigenous youth, 2,782 diaspora youth.

Improving Adolescent, Maternal, New-born, Health and Nutrition Status through an integrated approach of behaviour change, capacity building and WASH in the District of Bahraich of Uttar Pradesh State, India.

The objective of the SDG Funding Program is to support sustainable development projects that:.• Support the development and utilization of effective approaches to address sustainable development and the social, economic and environmental issues and challenges;.• Develop, exchange and apply knowledge, tools and resources that address sustainable development needs of individuals, families and communities;.• Foster partnerships and networks to address sustainable development and the existing and emerging social, economic and environmental issues;.• Recognize and support the ability of organizations to identify and address sustainable development priorities; .• Recognize and promote engagement initiatives at the international, national, subnational, and/or local level that mobilize assets and develop capacities and resources for action; and/or.• Foster Indigenous traditional knowledge on sustainable development..

Preventing the spread of COVID-19 amongst the three vulnerable settlements at the peripheries of Chitral through creating awareness and improving access to water, for ensuring maintenance of hygiene practivces essential for combating the COVID outbreak.