Grants and Contributions

This project is valued at $9,999,999.75 to be implemented by the organization CANADEM. This initiative is part of Canada’s recently announced $60M commitment to support Haiti’s security (announced by MINA on September 23, 2025).

With the support of Global Affairs Canada (GAC), CANADEM responds to urgent requests for short-term technical assistance by providing rapid and qualified technical expertise on topics of international peace and security importance.

To address this challenge and to enhance the timeliness, reliability and effectiveness of international humanitarian responses to crisis, CANADEM maintains a roster of highly qualified disaster relief and humanitarian experts. These experts can be deployed for short-term missions in response to sudden onset emergencies at the request of United Nations humanitarian agencies.

With GAC’s support, CANADEM manages the deployment of Canadian and international humanitarian experts in response to sudden-onset crises abroad.

This project aims to strengthen democracy by increasing the public participation of citizens, including among women and the most marginalized and vulnerable, through supporting free and fair elections in host countries. The project will foster the participation of Canadians from diverse backgrounds to observe elections and participate in electoral reforms around the world. Project activities include: (1) outreach and maintenance of a Canadian electoral roster, including recruitment and selection of a qualified, diverse and gender-balanced group of observers, specifically among Indigenous Canadian societies and racialized communities; (2) training, briefing and debriefing of a diverse community of observers, with an emphasis on women, Indigenous Canadians and racialized societies; and (3) participation to international electoral observation discussions, workshops and activities.

This project contributes to the deployment of Canadian personnel to support the work of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine and Support Programme for Ukraine and the European Union's Mission in Armenia. This project supports the deployment of Canadian experts on the ground to play specific roles in these missions. Project activities include: (1) managing deployee recruitment and screening process; (2) providing gender-sensitive pre-deployment training; and (3) providing duty-of-care administration and support throughout the deployment period.

To address this challenge, and to enhance the timeliness, reliability and effectiveness of international humanitarian responses to crises, CANADEM maintains a roster of highly qualified disaster relief and humanitarian experts. These experts can be deployed for short term missions in response to sudden onset emergencies, at the request of United Nations humanitarian agencies.

With GAC's support, CANADEM is managing the deployment of humanitarian experts in response to sudden onset crises abroad.

This project utilizes a series of quantifiable and qualitative indicators to independently assess the post-election climate in Zimbabwe. More specifically, indicators evaluate whether Zimbabwe is beginning to foster civic spaces for citizens to exercise their political rights and/or supports gender equality and the empowerment of marginalized women and girls.

To address this challenge, and to enhance the timeliness, reliability and effectiveness of international humanitarian responses to crises, CANADEM maintains a roster of highly qualified Canadian disaster relief and humanitarian experts.