Grants and Contributions
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In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
$14,650,000.00
Feb 20, 2025
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Integrated Climate Adaptation Solutions for the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region I
7465832 P013610001
This Integrated Climate Adaptation Solutions for the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region (ICAS-HKH) project aims to increase resilience to climate change impacts and improve the livelihoods of rural women, Indigenous Peoples and local communities in Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. The revival of springs and improved management of springsheds - the areas of land that contribute groundwater to a spring - are vital to ensuring present and future water security in the Hindu Kush Himalaya, a region that faces significant challenges from climate change. Working primarily with women, ICAS-HKH aims to support communities, women’s and Indigenous Peoples’ groups and local institutions to design and implement gender-responsive interventions to improve springshed management, address water scarcity and provide renewable energy technology for irrigation systems. ICAS-HKH seeks to promote the development and implementation of gender-responsive policies, strategies and guidelines by local government institutions to enable the scaling up of the approach. It also aims to enhance the capacity of beneficiaries to access other sources of climate adaptation funding to sustain this approach in the long term. Project activities include: (1) promoting sustainable land management practices and installing renewable energy technology for irrigation such as solar panels and pumps; (2) building the capacity of policy and decision-makers to strengthen the enabling environment for scaling up the integrated climate adaptation approach beyond the pilot sites, including through policy recommendations, knowledge-sharing events, workshops and joint monitoring visits; and (3) identifying climate adaptation funding sources and building the capacity of women’s groups and Indigenous Peoples’ and local community networks to design climate adaptation projects, prepare investable proposals and access funding.