Grants and Contributions

With GAC’s support, Oxfam-Québec will 1) increase equitable access to safe, appropriate, and gender-responsive WASH services and supplies for IDPs, and 2) reduce protection risk rates among conflict-affected people.

Through the application of national and local priorities, the CSJ program seeks to provide youth, particularly those who face barriers to employment with access to work opportunities. Funded employers must demonstrate that they are providing quality work experiences for youth that provide opportunities to develop and improve their skills.

Le projet Voix et Leadership des Femmes en Amérique centrale (VLFR-AC) contribuera à une meilleure jouissance des droits des femmes dans toute leur diversité et fera progresser l'égalité de genre (EG) dans les quatre pays ciblés par le VLF. Le projet VLFR-AC se concentrera sur le soutien et le renforcement des organisations de défense des droits des femmes, des organisations de femmes autochtones, des organisations de femmes en situation de handicap et des organisations féministes (ODDF+),

This project is part of Canada’s Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) program, launched in 2017 for a five-year period (2018–2023) and renewed in April 2023 for another five years (2023–2028). It supports local and regional women's organizations and networks working to promote women’s rights, empower women, and achieve gender equality in developing countries. Recognizing that women’s rights organizations (WROs) and women human rights defenders are essential agents of change, the program aims to support their activities, strengthen their institutional capacities, and foster the creation of networks and alliances.

The renewed WVL program continues to address a globally recognized lack of funding and support, while bolstering WROs and women’s rights movements worldwide. It acknowledges that groups working on intersecting forms of discrimination and in crisis and conflict settings are even more underfunded.

The project, implemented by Oxfam Quebec, a Canadian non-governmental organization, will contribute to improving the rights of women and girls in all their diversity and advancing gender equality in Senegal. This ultimate goal will be achieved through three pillars of intervention: (1) Strengthening the organizational sustainability of WROs so they can fulfill their mandates related to gender equality; (2) Enhancing the programming and advocacy efforts of WROs and activists to advance gender equality and empower women and girls; (3) Increasing the number and quality of platforms, networks, and alliances for women’s rights advocacy to influence political, legal, and social changes.

The VLFR - Senegal project will directly benefit a total of 56 WROs (including at least 13 networks and collectives and 8 informal/emerging organizations) and at least 20 women human rights defenders (WHRDs). While the project has a national scope, the programmatic and advocacy actions of supported WROs will primarily, though not exclusively, focus on the following regions: Saint-Louis, Matam, Ziguinchor, Kédougou, Diourbel, Thiès, Kaolack, Fatick, and Dakar. An initial estimate places the project’s reach at approximately 32,000 people, of whom 24,000 are women and girls (40% young women and girls aged 15–24). It will target structurally excluded groups, including survivors of gender-based violence (GBV), women with disabilities, women living with HIV, sex workers, rural women, women affected by climate change, and those involved in natural resource exploitation.

To achieve the desired results, the project will implement the four mechanisms of the WVL program: (1) Multi-year core funding for organizational and programmatic capacity building; (2) Rapid and responsive funding; (3) Strengthening the organizational capacities of WROs; and (4) Movement strengthening.

This project aims to contribute to a more equal enjoyment of health and health-related rights for women, adolescent girls and other marginalized groups in the provinces of Kinshasa and Equateur in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Lac and Bar El Gazal in Chad. Project activities include: (1) establishing comprehensive sexuality education programs for adolescents in school and community settings; (2) training and accompanying healthcare practitioners in inclusive health practices that respect the dignity and needs of women, adolescent girls and marginalized groups; (3) supporting local initiatives to promote peace, social cohesion and issues related to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in collaboration with community and religious leaders; (4) rehabilitating and equipping healthcare facilities in a sustainable manner, including biomedical waste management, to offer safe services that meet the needs of women, adolescent girls and marginalized groups; and (5) conducting campaigns on the

With GAC’s support, Oxfam-Québec is providing water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and protection assistance to vulnerable internally displaced persons, returnees and host communities in Iraq.

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P009567001 & P009567002 & P009567003: This project is part of Canada’s Women’s Voice and Leadership Program, which supports local and regional women’s organisations and networks that are working to promote women’s rights, and advance women’s empowerment and gender equality in developing countries. This is done by supporting activities, building institutional capacity, and promoting network and alliance-building as women’s rights and feminist organizations are critical agents of change. The Program also responds to the globally recognized, significant gap in funding and support to women’s rights organizations and movements around the world. This project strengthens the capacity of women's rights organizations in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq to further empower women and girls in the region, through advocacy and the delivery of quality services to women and girls, particularly those in vulnerable situations.

The Humanitarian Coalition is made up of nine Canadian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that include: Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Canadian Lutheran World Relief, CARE Canada, Islamic Relief Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Québec, Plan International Canada, Save the Children Canada and World Vision Canada.

With GAC’s support, Oxfam-Québec is meeting the urgent needs of approximately 57,317 people who are affected by conflict in Lac province.