Grants and Contributions

The project aims to assist the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in supporting community-driven recovery and rehabilitation efforts in rural and peri-urban locations. This includes up to 5 hromadas (communities), in Dnipropetrovska, Kharkivska, Sumska, and other Oblasts in Western and Central Ukraine. The project focuses on providing help to internally displaced persons who are seeking durable solutions. The project seeks to support the development and implementation of local recovery plans that align with the Government of Ukraine’s decentralization reform efforts and national recovery programs and policies led by the Ministry for Restoration. IOM aims to establish small grants and technical assistance mechanisms to empower civil society and community-based organizations to identify and implement community-level activities and local rehabilitation projects.

Project activities include: (1) empowering local ownership of the recovery process; and (2) addressing barriers to durable solutions and broader recovery efforts, including small-scale infrastructure rehabilitation, in selected locations. IOM aims to design, develop, and deliver targeted capacity-building activities and establish a community-of-practice coordination platform for sustainable collaboration and knowledge-sharing.

This project aims to strengthen the border management capacities of the Haitian Border Police (POLIFRONT), an arm of the Haitian National Police (HNP), to detect and deter illicit cross-border activities that serve to strengthen Haitian gangs operating throughout the country. Over 2 years, the project aims to equip POLIFRONT with the technical tools required to effectively carry out their mandate, provide them with technical training on equipment use and maintenance, and improve infrastructure at the border.

Through this project, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the Republic of Moldova aims to strengthen trust between law enforcement officials and communities. The project also seeks to enhance security and stability by improving refugee, migrant and host community safety. Project activities include: (1) delivering training for the Moldovan National Police (MNP) on community engagement; (2) providing technical assistance to the MNP, helping to maintain public order and respond to emergencies; (3) organizing MNP-community information exchange forums; (4) providing equipment to help the MNP in preventing and combatting cross-border crime; and (5) evaluating MNP capacity to perform risk analysis and intelligence-led policing.

July 2023 – On April 15, 2023, armed clashes broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, leading to mass displacement within and outside of Sudan, as well as significant protection violations and a lack of access to basic food, water, health, nutrition and other services for vulnerable people. The clashes have increased humanitarian needs within Sudan and its neighbouring countries, many of which had been experiencing protected crises prior to the outbreak of this conflict.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) provides humanitarian assistance to populations facing a heightened risk of vulnerability, including internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees, migrants and host communities. IOM provides assistance in multiple sectors, including protection, shelter, emergency non-food items, water, sanitation and hygiene services and camp coordination and management. With GAC's support, the IOM is responding to the needs of vulnerable people in South Sudan fleeing the conflict in Sudan.

Project activities include: (1) providing emergency shelter kits, non-food items and multi-purpose cash assistance; (2) coordinating camp management, site care and maintenance; (3) providing emergency water, sanitation and hygiene support; (4) providing logistics and transporting vulnerable people from remote border areas to points where they can access critical services; and (5) mainstreaming protection and gender mainstreaming across humanitarian response activities.

June 6, 2023 - Explosions at the Kakhovka dam destroyed the hydroelectric structure and caused large-scale flooding along the lower Dnipro River due to the water release from the Kakhovka reservoir. This has left 40,000 people affected by flooding requiring essential sanitation and hygiene services, and lack of access to water by 700,000 people dependent on the Kakhovka reservoir.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is responding to urgent humanitarian needs in flood-affected areas over the next six months. With GAC’s support, IOM provides targeted water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) , non-food items and shelter interventions to people affected by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, including those internally displaced by flooding. Project activities include: (1) providing emergency WASH support and services, including water trucking; (2) providing emergency shelter assistance; (3) distributing non-food relief items; and (4) supporting non-food items procurement for local partners through the scaling up of the Common Pipeline programme.

February 2023 - Years of active conflict and displacement inside Syria have resulted in severe protection risks, including widespread sexual and gender-based violence for millions of conflicted-affected people. Sexual exploitation and abuse of beneficiaries by humanitarian aid workers is a serious concern for the international humanitarian and development community and represents one of the most egregious failures of protection. The prevention of and response to sexual exploitation and abuse by aid workers on beneficiaries is a priority of the United Nations Secretary-General and the international community to ensure that assistance does not harm beneficiaries.

With GAC’s support, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is maintaining and expanding the systematic inter-agency approach between humanitarian organizations to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse of beneficiaries by aid workers within Syria. Project activities include: (1) strengthening codes of conduct of aid workers within humanitarian organizations; (2) developing and strengthening a community-based complaints mechanism for complainants or survivors sexually exploited or abused by aid workers; and (3) establishing and strengthening networks amongst humanitarian organizations inside Syria to manage the prevention of and response to sexual exploitation and abuse of beneficiaries by aid workers.

February 2023 - Before the Taliban takeover, the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan was already one of the worst in the world. Since the Taliban takeover, humanitarian needs continue to worsen, and the challenging operational context has been further complicated. In 2023, an estimated 28 million people will require humanitarian assistance due to conflict, chronic food insecurity, displacement, the coronavirus (COVID-19), broad economic crisis, and climatic events.

With GAC’s support, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is providing life-saving assistance and protection support to displaced populations, migrants and affected communities in Afghanistan. Project activities include: (1) providing emergency shelter and non-food item kits; (2) improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene services; and (3) providing health services, including mental health and psychosocial support.

This project aims to restore the human dignity of repatriated migrants and members of their communities by addressing their protection needs, including risks related to human trafficking, sexual exploitation and abuse. It aims to empower migrant women to exercise their rights and ensure equal socio-economic opportunities between men and women along the Haiti-Dominican Republic border and in the migrants' places of origin.

February 2023 – The humanitarian situation in Turkey deteriorated significantly following powerful earthquakes that struck south-east Turkey on February 6 and February 20. The earthquakes and aftershocks resulted in widespread damages and high casualties in both countries. The UN estimates that at least 9.1 million in Turkey have been affected by the earthquake, with the majority anticipated to need some form of humanitarian assistance in the coming months.

With GAC’s support, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) provides assistance to address growing humanitarian needs in Turkey. IOM is expanding ongoing operations, including a nationwide refugee response programme already active in affected areas, to meet the basic needs of earthquake-affected persons. This project supports IOM’s emergency response scale-up in providing emergency shelter assistance, non-food items and cash, and emergency mental health and psychosocial support.

Project activities include: (1) providing multi-purpose cash, vouchers and non-food items assistance to earthquake-affected women, men, girls and boys; (2) providing emergency shelter assistance to earthquake-affected women, men, girls and boys; and (3) providing mental health and psychosocial support to earthquake-affected women, men, girls and boys.

This small-scale human dignity project provides financial, health and educational support to a group of 43 vulnerable individuals in 8 families from Syria who are living in a refugee camp in Jordan. Livelihoods and volunteering opportunities, compared to other villages in the camp, are limited, and access to health care requires security permits.