Grants and Contributions

April 2025 - The population in Gaza continues to grapple with severe shortages of food, healthcare, medical supplies, clean water, and fuel. The United Nations estimates that the entire population of Gaza, over 2 million people, require emergency assistance. Since hostilities resumed in Gaza, civilian casualties have surged, with many being forcibly displaced.

With GAC’s support, Humanity and Inclusion, aims to address the urgent health and protection needs of over 5,700 crisis affected households in Gaza. Project activities include: (1) provision of emergency rehabilitation, assistive devices, prosthetics and orthoses, and psychosocial support services; and (2) facilitating an inclusive humanitarian response through mapping disability-focused organizations, training stakeholders, establishing and disseminating guidelines, and strengthening referral mechanisms for vulnerable individuals.

This project aims to enhance the well-being of unpaid caregivers and care receivers, particularly women and people with disabilities in selected municipalities in Havana and Pinar del Río, Cuba. Humanity and Inclusion seeks to partner with Cuban organizations to transform how care work is seen and provided, especially for the benefit of women caregivers and care receivers with disabilities. This aligns with the changes being implemented in Cuba around care work for life and Canada´s feminist approach to unpaid and paid care work. Project activities include: (1) supporting collection and analysis of data on care, gender and disability by reference centers in both provinces; (2) providing technical assistance, equipment and materials to local care system institutions and civil society organizations; (3) reviewing and transforming local development strategies from a care, gender and disability approach; (4) implementing community awareness programs on equal sharing of care, including innovative initiatives with

October 2024 – Myanmar is experiencing a humanitarian crisis driven by armed conflict, economic hardship, protracted displacement and vulnerability to climate shocks. An estimated 18.6 million people require humanitarian assistance in 2024. Humanitarian organizations are operating in an increasingly complex environment, with humanitarian access becoming an ever-greater challenge due to rising insecurity and restrictions.

With GAC’s support, Humanity and Inclusion Canada improves access to health and protection services in Myanmar. Project activities include: (1) providing rehabilitation, mental health and psychosocial services; (2) providing cash assistance; (3) providing protection awareness sessions and services; and (4) raising awareness of the risks associated with explosive ordnance.

April 2024 – An estimated 300 million people worldwide need humanitarian assistance and protection due to ongoing conflicts, natural disasters and disease outbreaks. In response to humanitarian needs, Global Affairs Canada’s (GAC) humanitarian assistance provides predictable, multi-year, and multi-country support to longstanding partners in protracted humanitarian contexts globally.

With GAC’s support, Humanity and Inclusion aims to provide assistance to address the urgent needs of 63,037 beneficiaries in Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. This project focuses on providing health and protection services to vulnerable populations. This includes persons with disabilities, injuries, and those with signs of psychological distress. Project activities include: (1) providing physical and functional rehabilitation services, including providing assistive devices to people with disabilities and their caregivers; (2) providing mental health and psychosocial services; and (3) supporting basic needs of vulnerable populations.

March 2020 – Following the outbreak of violence in Northern Rakhine State in August 2017, more than 700,000 Rohingya people crossed from Myanmar into Bangladesh over a period of several months. Currently, there are approximately 855,000 Rohingya refugees living in 34 highly congested settlements in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The speed and scale of the influx has resulted in significant humanitarian needs.

With GAC’s support, Humanity & Inclusion (HI) is helping to respond to the immediate needs of refugees in Cox’s Bazar, focusing particularly on vulnerable households and persons with disabilities. Project activities include: (1) providing protection assistance through case management for individuals with specific needs; (2) extending psychosocial support for those affected by trauma; and (3) providing training to community health workers and community leaders on key sexual and reproductive health issues within the community.

January 2020 – In 2020, there are an estimated 4.1 million Iraqis in need of humanitarian assistance, of which 1.77 million are in acute need. Out of the 6 million displaced people during the conflict against Daesh, more than 1.4 million people remain internally displaced. Those directly affected by the conflict against Daesh, particularly those who were displaced and whose lives and livelihoods were uprooted and destroyed, continue to require humanitarian assistance to meet their basic needs.

With GAC’s support, Humanity and Inclusion (HI) is providing specialized and comprehensive health and protection services for vulnerable Iraqis living with physical, functional and psychological challenges. Project activities include: (1) providing physical and functional rehabilitation services, including the provision of assistive devices, to people with disabilities and their caregivers; (2) providing psychosocial support services to address conflict-related trauma and psychological distress; (3) providing skills training, equipment and resources to local health service providers; (4) conducting direct risk education activities on the threat posed by explosive ordnance, including improvised explosive devices (IEDs); and (5) improving the accessibility of local services and structures.

This project aims to improve sexual and reproductive health, and promote and protect the related rights of women and girls, including those living with disabilities, in Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and Togo.

Project activities include: (1) increasing the capacity of communities to promote gender-friendly behaviour and social norms related to the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and adolescent girls; (2) training health personnel on SRHR services for women and adolescent girls, including long-term contraceptive methods; and (3) increasing the capacity of civil society and elected local government officials to advocate on SRHR services for women and adolescent girls.

The project aims to raise awareness on SRHR services amongst 15,000 women, girls, men, boys and community leaders. The project also provides comprehensive sexuality and SRHR education program for 12,000 girls, boys and adolescents, and trains 116 community mobilizers.

The project aims to promote the protection, safety, empowerment and dignity of vulnerable Indigenous communities, especially women, in 9 municipalities of the Departments of Nariño and Antioquia in Colombia. These municipalities have been the most affected by the armed conflict, and present high rates of poverty, presence of illicit economies and institutional weakness. The project supports the priorities outlined in the sections of the Colombian Peace Agreement that grant official status to Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities.

Project activities include: (1) providing training and working group sessions to improve Indigenous community protection mechanisms, which include the active participation of Indigenous women; (2) providing training and working group sessions to increase knowledge on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) within communities, and work to prevent and respond to SGBV; (3) organizing activities to strengthen the knowledge of state institutions, particularly the Ombudsman Office, on Indigenous rights, with a focus on the rights of Indigenous women, including survivors of the conflict, and disabled people; (4) supporting local and national advocacy for gender-responsive protection mechanisms, in line with the Colombian government’s commitments in the Ethnic Chapter; and (5) strengthening the capacity of Indigenous women to participate in decision-making spaces.

July 2018 - Palestinians face a long-term humanitarian crisis, with approximately 1 in 2 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza requiring some form of humanitarian assistance. The impacts on vulnerable Palestinians include limited access to safe water and sanitation, persistent food and income insecurity, and the risk of sexual and gender-based violence.

With GAC’s support, Humanity and Inclusion is helping to address urgent post-operative and rehabilitation care needs in Gaza’s five governorates by providing outreach and center-based multi-disciplinary rehabilitation services for vulnerable Palestinians. These services include wound care, first rehabilitation responses, as well as individualized and collective psychosocial support to persons with injuries and their caretakers. The project also entails the procurement and provision of requisite assistive devices for persons with injuries and the capacity building of outreach teams on trauma management, amputation rehabilitation, burn and wound management and rehabilitation, and psychological first aid, so that they can provide standardized lifesaving care. The project collaborates with various actors and clusters to ensure an inclusive and coordinated response that takes cognizance of the needs of persons with disabilities.

Project activities include: (1) providing multidisciplinary nursing care, rehabilitation and psychosocial services to persons with injuries and caretakers; (2) procuring and distributing specific assistive devices to beneficiaries; (3) referring persons with injuries to service providers to address other specific needs; (4) providing training for caretakers on basic home-based rehabilitation and follow up exercises; and (5) providing training for caregiver facilitators on the provision of peer to peer psychosocial support conducted.