Grants and Contributions

July 2025 – Since the start of 2024, Bangladesh faces a new influx of Rohingya refugees fleeing conflict and persecution in Myanmar. It is estimated that approximately 200,000 new Rohingya refugees arrived in the camps in Cox’s Bazar and are requiring lifesaving humanitarian assistance.

With GAC’s support, UNHCR helps enhance the protection environment for newly arrived Rohingya refugees by delivering safe and dignified reception and registration services, strengthening camp coordination and site management, and expanding multi-sectoral humanitarian assistance. Project activities include: (1) receiving and registering new arrivals; (2) providing protection services; (3) providing shelter, and other essential non-food items; (4) providing adequate water, sanitation and health services, including in reproductive health; (5) providing camp coordination and site management services; (6) providing protection, including against sexual and gender-based violence, child protection and working with governments to register asylum seekers and refugees, and help issue identity documents; and (6) expanding opportunities for durable solutions for people of concern.

The Caribbean regional logistics hub and centre for excellence serves as a central location to strengthen the region’s ability to efficiently respond to humanitarian emergencies. The Hub, co-led by the World Food Programme, supports the prepositioning and deploying emergency relief supplies, including food and basic items, and logistics capabilities and expertise in the Caribbean for emergency responses. With Global Affairs Canada's support, the WFP supports emergency preparedness and relief operations in the Caribbean. The project aims to enable timely and efficient emergency responses from WFP and for other humanitarian partners. Project activities include: (1) pre-positioning, procuring, distributing and transporting essential food and non-food items for crisis-affected people in official development assistance-eligible countries in the Caribbean; and (2) providing logistics equipment and technical assistance to impacted countries and humanitarian partners.

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement relies on national societies such as the Canadian Red Cross to maintain personnel resources available for additional capacity and surge support to its humanitarian response operations worldwide. Canada maintains a robust humanitarian toolkit that enables rapid responses to crisis including through supporting the deployment of humanitarian experts.

With GAC’s support, the Canadian Red Cross is deploying technical personnel to respond to humanitarian emergency operations of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Project activities include: (1) supporting the deployment of humanitarian experts; and (2) providing pre- and post- deployment services and training.

This grant represents Canada's long-term institutional support to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). OCHA uses these funds and other donors' funding to achieve its mandate. OCHA's primary mandate is to coordinate international humanitarian responses in partnership with national and international actors to achieve more coherent and effective humanitarian action.

Project activities include: (1) coordinating the global emergency response; (2) raising awareness of forgotten crises, promoting respect for international humanitarian law, bringing the voices of affected people to the forefront and helping people access assistance; (3) mobilizing and engaging the full range of financing instruments, mechanisms and partners to meet growing needs; (4) developing policy to improve humanitarian action and decision-making; and (5) providing information management services to the humanitarian community to inform rapid, effective and principled responses.

April 2025 – In complex emergencies, humanitarian actors, including donors, face significant challenges in gathering data from multiple sources and using it effectively in a coordinated, timely and comprehensive fashion. Needs assessments rely heavily on the analysis conducted by partners such as IMPACT Initiatives. Further, the rapid expansion of data availability and use has created challenges for the humanitarian community in assessing which data points are meaningful, useful and relevant.

IMPACT Initiatives is the largest independent data provider in contexts of crisis. The organization’s REACH program strengthens evidence-based decision-making by humanitarian actors through efficient data collection, management and analysis in contexts of crisis. This leads to improved planning and prioritization of aid and improves the overall humanitarian response in reaching those with the greatest needs.

With GAC’s support, this project aims to bolster the availability and quality of multi-sectoral data and its analysis. Project activities include: (1) analyzing trends in humanitarian conditions using Multi-Sectoral Needs Analysis data; (2) conducting comprehensive primary research; (3) developing Application Protocol Interfaces to improve integration of REACH’s analytical products; and (4) analysing gender-based humanitarian needs.

This project aims to strengthen community resilience by integrating young people, particularly young women, into a sustainable, inclusive economic system that promotes adaptation to climate change.

Project activities include: (1) establishing a system to finance technical and vocational training; (2) providing technical and vocational training for vulnerable young people, particularly women, in high-potential sectors of the blue and green circular economy; (3) building the capacity of young women and men in ecosystem management, biodiversity conservation, and restoration; (4) implementing nature-based solutions and sustainable practices for biodiversity conservation and restoration, led by young women; (5) creating a support unit to facilitate the professional integration of graduates in sectors related to the blue and green circular economy; and (6) establishing a sustainable entrepreneurial financing system for graduates.

The project seeks to strengthen the skills and resources of 46,061 people in 2 coastal regions of Senegal (the Saloum Delta and the River Delta), distributed across the following age groups: 34,066 young people aged 15 to 34 (50.5% women and 49.5% men) and 11,994 women over 35. Indirect beneficiaries total an estimate 48,061 people (50.5% women).

June 2025 – Latest reporting from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs indicates that 92% of housing units (436,000) in Gaza are destroyed (160,000) or damaged (276,000). This resulted in 1.1 million people in need of emergency shelter and household items. Individuals and families are currently housed primarily in schools, other public buildings, and makeshift camps severely overcrowded. Most shelters are made from inadequate materials, leading to poor air circulation and vulnerability to weather-related issues, which in turn pose significant health risks. Displaced families, especially those headed by women, frequently shared shelter space with multiple households, further compounding issues related to privacy, overcrowding, and safety.

With GACs support, MAAN helps address the immediate shelter and protection needs of displaced families in Gaza primarily targeting women, children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Project activities include: (1) establishing and training Community Relief Committees to enhance local shelter response and coordination; (2) distributing non-food items (NFIs) and shelter kits to displaced individuals, ensuring access to essential household and personal items while addressing sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)-related needs; (3) supporting emergency shelter adaptation through cash assistance and technical guidance. This enables displaced families to repair and secure their shelters; and (4) implementing SGBV awareness and risk education sessions to enhance conflict-affected communities' knowledge of protection risks, safety threats, and available support.

This grant represents Canada's support to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Junior Professional Officer (JPO) Program. It is part of a larger contribution to the Junior Professional Officer (JPO) Program, which supports the filling of up to 20 positions by young Canadian professionals.
UNICEF uses these funds to coordinate the recruitment and appointment of up to two Canadian professionals, allowing them to gain professional experience in international development. Participants will also help the organizations fulfill their respective mandates and achieve sustainable development goals.

UNICEF advocates for the protection of children's rights. Guided by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF supports the rights of children to help fulfill their basic rights and expand opportunities so they can reach their full potential, including in emergency situations. UNICEF also works to protect children from violence and abuse

April 2025 – In Gaza, the shelter conditions for displaced populations are critically inadequate. Satellite imaging shows that 69% of total structures have been damaged or destroyed, with the governorates of North Gaza and Rafah (located in southern Gaza) having experienced the highest rise in damage (UNOSAT, Dec 2024). Across Gaza, individuals and families are currently housed primarily in schools, other public buildings, and makeshift camps, which are now severely overcrowded and operating beyond their intended capacities. Most shelters are made from inadequate materials, leading to poor air circulation and vulnerability to weather-related issues, which in turn pose significant health risks. Moreover, the overall transparency of shelter materials further compromises privacy and safety.

With DFATD`s support, CARE will save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity through Shelter interventions for vulnerable/crisis-affected people in Gaza, in particular women and girls.
Project activities include: (1) distributing shelter non-food item (SNFI) kits to vulnerable IDP and returnee households, particularly women and girls.; (2) providing cash-for-shelter to vulnerable IDP and returnee households, particularly women and girls.

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the Kimberley Process (KP) Secretariat. The KP Secretariat uses these funds and other donors’ funding to achieve its mandate, which is to break the link between rough diamonds and conflict. The KP is an international multi-stakeholder certification scheme that prevents the flow of “conflict diamonds” and helps protect the legitimate trade of rough diamonds. It is mandated by the United Nations and endorsed by multiple United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and United Nations Security Council resolutions. The KP contributes to ending diamond-fuelled armed conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in its early years. Canada, a founding member, played a key role in establishing the KP. Canada’s contribution helps the Secretariat enhance the KP’s work in a professional and dedicated administrative capacity.