Grants and Contributions

The project aims to rehabilitate Jamaica's critical forest ecosystems and rural resource–based livelihoods following the devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa. The project’s purpose is to strengthen the resilience of Jamaica’s forest ecosystems, institutions, and forest-dependent communities, particularly women, youth, and marginalized groups, through targeted ecological restoration, institutional capacity strengthening, and rural livelihood recovery support. Project activities include rapid damage assessments, rehabilitation of forest nurseries to drive seedling production, restoration of degraded forest areas using climate-resilient approaches, strengthening climate and gender-responsive monitoring systems, and provision of recovery grants to re-establish community livelihoods.

The Caribbean Community Resilience Fund (CCRF) is a blended finance initiative that will offer flexible funding, including loans and investments, to support Caribbean businesses and climate-resilient infrastructure projects get the financing they need to grow. The Fund will prioritize projects across key sectors, including energy, transport, information technology, financial services, blue economy, and agriculture. The Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) will work alongside the fund to strengthen businesses and bring more investment into the region. Support to the TAF will provide expert advice, training, and project preparation services to help businesses strengthen operations, scale sustainably, and reduce investment risks. This blended approach aims to unlock growth in these critical sectors by balancing risk and returns, while building long-term resilience across the region.

Caribbean leaders have regularly underscored the importance of private sector growth and diversification to meet the region's aspirations for job creation and global competitiveness. Compete Caribbean+ responds to this priority with a program focussed on enhancing gender-responsive and climate-resilient growth by improving the business enabling environment and supporting firms’ innovate. The initiative builds on data and best practices from its experience over two phases since 2010, with a shift towards opportunity in the green and blue economy.
Project activities include: (1) improving competitiveness, climate action, and inclusiveness of Caribbean private sector; (2) enhancing government capabilities to support climate-smart and gender-responsive businesses; and (3) promoting research and development for climate innovation in the public and private sectors.
The project targets all Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries, while Canada focuses on funding the official development assistance (ODA) - eligible countries of CARICOM: Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

This project seeks to enhance the socio-economic inclusion and integration of migrants, refugees and returned emigrants. This includes women and children in selected host countries of Latin America and the Caribbean who participate in the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity (APEP). The project works via 2 complementary components: (1) technical assistance to host governments in designing and implementing strategies in response to the refugee and migrant crises; and (2) collaboration with the private sector in promoting access to economic opportunities for migrants and host community members. This includes women, Indigenous Peoples, and persons with disabilities. Project activities include: (1) strengthening the capacity of host country governments to provide regularization, documentation, and protection services to refugees and migrants; (2) providing access to basic services and social protections, including housing and social infrastructure, for refugees and migrants; (3) improving access to health, quality education, and skills development for refugees and migrants; and (4) improving economic opportunities for refugees and migrants, including access to employment, financial services and capital. The Grant Facility on Migration of the Inter-American Development Bank implements this project. To date, over 1.8 million refugees and migrants and their host communities have benefitted from the Facility's operations and technical cooperation. Canada's support via this project seeks to reach 71,604 additional direct beneficiaries.

This project contributes to Canada’s $120 million loan for the Government of Ecuador. It supports the country’s Clean Energy Transition and Promotion of Private Investment in the energy sector. It does so through building workforce capacity, promoting universal access to clean energy, and addressing gender and accessibility issues in the energy sector. Project activities include: (1) providing tools and training to develop an orderly, fair, and inclusive energy transition process; (2) increasing access to electricity service in remote and Indigenous communities; and (3) reducing discrimination based on gender and disability in the electricity sector.

This project aims implement the Accelerator Fund by enhancing the bankability of projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly in nature-based solutions and climate change adaptation.

Project activities include: (1) funding feasibility and technical studies on new technologies; (2) developing climate action plans with private sector companies; (3) identifying trends that they can use to replicate and scale successful initiatives; (4) increasing awareness and developing action plans for gender equality and diversity; (5) supporting financial institutions in implementing recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures and the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures; and (6) documenting case studies and sharing lessons learned with interested stakeholders.

The project promotes the growth and resilience of women-led or owned small and medium enterprises (WSMEs) in various member countries of the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity (APEP), particularly Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, and Peru. It improves their business performance, their capacity to participate in value chains, and their ability to scale-up their businesses. It provides women entrepreneurs, especially those from vulnerable populations, with access to a six-month virtual accelerator training program, to build their capacity in financial literacy and in accessing finance opportunities. It also supports in connecting women entrepreneurs to value chains and to networking opportunities to grow their businesses effectively. The Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity seeks to harness the economic potential of the Americas and drive regional competitiveness. In complement to initiatives supported by the United States and Uruguay, Canada’s contribution via the ACWE project bolsters startups in APEP countries, leveraging innovation and entrepreneurship as powerful tools to create lasting prosperity. Project activities include delivery of eight training modules, each made up of workshops and webinars with live mentoring and networking sessions; including: (1) innovation and Growth; (2) strategy and strategic planning; (3) digital business; (4) successful sales plan; (5) marketing; (6) growth and financing; (7) family business management; and (8) founder to chief executive officer. Training is complemented by roundtable discussions and linkages with technical specialists, financial institutions, buyers, and business experts. The program will conclude with women participants developing a Growth Plan for their business. The Inter-American Development Bank implements the project in collaboration with Thunderbird School of Global Management.

The project will directly benefit 450 women entrepreneurs, as well as 3,690 indirect beneficiaries across the 6 countries

This project supports the sovereign loan to the Government of Guyana. It aims to strengthen institutional capacity for improving social service delivery, focusing on increasing access to women, people with disabilities, senior citizens, and indigenous peoples. Project activities include: (1) building capacity for project planning, monitoring and evaluation and administration of human resources; (2) improving capacity for the operation and maintenance of information portals; (3) providing vulnerable groups with skills training, labour market information and related services to build their capacity for employment and self-employment; and (4) strengthening electronic payment systems to access old age pensions easily.

This project aims to use private sector investments in climate change mitigation and adaptation across Latin America and the Caribbean while promoting gender-responsive, sustainable economic development. The project offers lower-cost and longer-term loans for innovative private-sector projects that need concessional financing to be viable.

Project activities include: (1) investing in climate-smart agriculture practices. This includes drought-resistant seed varieties, irrigation infrastructure, and sustainable land use practices that aim to increase productivity, enhance resilience, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; (2) scaling up low carbon and climate resilient technologies such as energy storage, wastewater management, and charging infrastructure; (3) restoring sand beaches, dunes, mangroves, and coral reefs to increase coastal resilience and protect the most vulnerable communities from the impacts of climate change; and (4) developing carbon markets in Latin America and the Caribbean by advising and financing borrowing member countries, developing carbon credit methodologies, and increasing transparency in market conditions.

This project seeks to create the enabling conditions to encourage target countries in Latin America (Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico) to adopt and invest in climate-relevant Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). Climate-relevant NBS are designed to address climate change and provide essential services, including carbon storage, ensuring food and water supplies, and buffering against the impacts of global warming. As governments have limited resources to invest in NBS and face increasing pressures related to climate change and ecosystem degradation, NBS offer cost-effective and resilient strategies to achieve their development priorities. This project seeks to integrate NBS with a gender-responsive approach to target Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) and infrastructure needs. It also seeks to create opportunities for private sector investment in NBS, which remains low in countries throughout the region. This is needed to bridge the funding gap and scale up NBS to achieve effective long-term outcomes.

Project activities include: (1) conducting biodiversity mainstreaming and natural capital accounting approaches training with policymakers; (2) conducting a policy assessment for NBS inclusion;(3) conducting a valuation assessment for climate and ecosystem services; (4) preparing business cases and natural resources valuation assessments for NBS implementation aligned with the national infrastructure sector and AFOLU priorities; (5) conducting training and capacity building on gender mainstreaming with national policymakers and relevant civil society stakeholders; and (6) conducting a gender-specific analysis of formal and customary practices for managing and conserving ecosystem services in target countries.