Grants and Contributions

This project seeks to reduce the threat to global populations of a nuclear and radiological security event. It focuses on promoting the ratification and implementation of the 3 key legal conventions that govern nuclear security. Project activities include: (1) organizing 3 regional parliamentary cluster meetings In Africa, Indo-Pacific (Pacific Islands) and the Caribbean to promote regional nuclear and radiological security; (2) providing outreach and ongoing engagement with participants; and (3) exploring the gender differentiated impact of nuclear and radiological weapons and material on women.

This project seeks to reduce the threat to global populations of a nuclear and radiological security event. This is done by promoting the ratification and implementation of the three key legal conventions that govern nuclear security. Project activities include: (1) the organization of ten parliamentary sessions to promote nuclear and radiological security in Cameroon, Gambia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe; (2) providing outreach and ongoing communications with participants; and (3) distributing a background briefing paper on the impact of nuclear and radiological weapons and materials on women...

This project aims to enhance the universalization and implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) by strengthening parliamentary action on legislation, oversight and awareness-raising. This is achieved through direct engagement with parliamentarians by the Parliamentary Forum on Small Arms and Light Weapons to support the shaping of national legislative policies related to national obligations under the ATT. This project also provides policy tools to contribute to parliamentarians’ individual capacity, parliaments’ capacity, and a space for parliamentarians to meet and join forces with other stakeholders. Project activities include: (1) conducting three regional seminars in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East on universalization and implementation of the ATT; (2) conducting one international seminar on specific policy recommendations for action on the ATT; (3) delivering seminars and outreach activities on raising awareness and knowledge of gender equality perspectives and linkages between the ATT and the Women Peace and Security (WPS) agenda; and (4) conducting an international side event at the Conference of States Parties to the ATT on the role of parliaments and parliamentarians, particularly female parliamentarians, in advancing and advocating for the universalization and implementation of the ATT and its links to the WPS agenda.

The project will equip and activate a network of more than 1,300 MPs worldwide to protect democracy and political inclusion, human rights, freedom of expression and association as well as the ability of civil society organizations to operate in a free, open, independent, and effective manner through collective and responsive calls to action by a community of parliamentarians, and increased ability of legislators to recognize and oppose initiatives which curtail civil and political rights.

This Project advances the universalization and implementation of the 1972 BTWC, which Canada has strongly supported for decades; and advances the implementation of UNSCR 1540, which Canada has strongly supported since its initiation in 2004. This project demonstrates Canada’s commitment to fulfilling G7 and G20 obligations to “expand Canadian diplomacy and leadership on global issues” (as per the PM’s Mandate Letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs); and directly complement IGA’s chairmanship of the Global Partnership (GP)’s Biological Security Working Group (BSWG) and the GP’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Working Group (CBRNWG), serving as tangible and dynamic examples of Canada’s contribution to the G7 and GP Presidencies in 2018.