Grants and Contributions

This project aims to enhance the resilience of marginalized rural youth, especially young women, in five districts across the climate vulnerable East Nusa Tenggara and South Sulawesi provinces in Indonesia. It will directly benefit 4,000 youth aged 18-29 (70% women), including 160 youth farmers with disabilities (aged 18-35) and engage approximately 415 intermediaries including community leaders, local government stakeholders and local protection actors. Project activities include: (1) conducting gender-transformative life skills training with rural youth; (2) equipping young farmers with climate-smart agriculture technologies, entrepreneurial skills and small grants to implement innovative business ideas; (3) working with local government and youth farmers to advocate for inclusive policies for effective climate action.

This project is part of Canada’s Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) Program. It supports local and regional women’s rights organizations (WROs), lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex plus (LBTQI+) groups and feminist networks working to promote the rights of women and girls and advance gender equality globally. It provides multi-year core funding and rapid responsive funding, strengthens institutional capacity and bolsters feminist movements, as WROs and feminist movements are critical change agents. The Program continues to respond to the globally recognized and significant gap in funding and support for WROs and feminist movements worldwide. It includes enhanced support for WROs, LBTQI+ organizations, and women human rights defenders (WHRDs) working in crisis- and conflict-affected settings and a more intentional approach to reaching structurally excluded groups. This includes but is not limited to LBTQI+ communities, women and girls with disabilities, Indigenous women and girls and yo

This project aims to empower adolescent girls and young women in the Piura and Loreto regions of Peru to take control of their sexual and reproductive health, as well as support the achievement of their economic autonomy. Project activities include: (1) developing and implementing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights, economic rights and gender-based violence prevention training for in-school adolescents; (2) providing capacity building support for health services provider personnel on the delivery of culturally, gender- and age-responsive and inclusive services; and (3) providing technical assistance to municipal and regional public sector institutions to operationalize public policies that support adolescents’ and young people’s health and economic autonomy.

This project is part of Canada’s Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) Program. It supports local and regional women’s rights organizations (WROs) and feminist networks working to promote the rights of women and girls and advance gender equality in developing countries. Understanding that WROs and their networks are critical change agents, the Program provides multi-year core funding and rapid responsive funding to strengthen institutional capacity and bolster feminist alliances. The Program continues to respond to the globally recognized and significant gap in funding and support for WROs and movements worldwide. It recognizes that those groups working at intersecting forms of discrimination and in crisis- and conflict-affected countries are funded even less. The Renewed WVL Program includes enhanced support for WROs and women human rights defenders working in crisis- and conflict-affected settings and a more intentional approach to reaching structurally excluded groups. This includes but is not limited to women and girls with disabilities, Indigenous women and girls and young feminists.

With GAC’s support, Plan International Canada helps provide life-saving multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA), child protection support and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to vulnerable refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities in Ouaddaï in Chad, Upper Nile in South Sudan, and North Darfur and and North Kordofan in Sudan.

April 2024 – In 2024, about 300 million people worldwide will need humanitarian assistance and protection due to ongoing conflicts, natural disasters and disease outbreaks. In response to these needs, GAC’s humanitarian assistance provides predictable, multi-year, multi-country support to longstanding partners globally in lengthy humanitarian contexts.

With GAC’s support, this project provides life-saving assistance to over 85,000 beneficiaries, including refugees, internally displaced people, and vulnerable host communities in Cameroon, Haiti, Mali, and Niger. Project activities include: (1) training local service providers on key child protection topics; (2) establishing child protection services, such as safe spaces and child protection committees; (3) raising awareness on Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) prevention and response within communities; and (4) improving water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) access by improving WASH facilities and distributing essential WASH items to children, adolescents and their households.

This project contributes to the achievement of the Philippines’ Universal Health Care Law objectives aiming to ensure that all Filipinos have access to affordable and equitable health services. It helps to enhance the governance of the integrated health system at the local level and support health facilities and communities to increase the use of health services, particularly for vulnerable populations. This includes women, girls, and Indigenous Peoples in geographically isolated and disaster-prone provinces in the Philippines. Project activities include: (1) training local officials and health professionals on responsive leadership and participative governance; (2) providing technical assistance to develop local plans (e.g. human resources and supply chain management) and guidelines for the special health fund; (3) providing technical assistance to improve the health information management system for evidence-based planning and budgeting; (4) providing support to develop electronic medical record system; (5) training health service providers on basic health services, including nutrition and sexual and reproductive health; and (6) providing technical assistance to develop guidelines for client referral and health facility management. The project seeks to conduct health promotion campaigns and clinic-outreach activities in remote communities. It also aims to advocate for increased representation of vulnerable groups, particularly women, youth, and indigenous peoples in governance committees at the provincial level. The project is expected to benefit approximately 584,000 individuals.

This initiative aims to address gender inequalities, particularly around unpaid care work and barriers to the knowledge, skills and conditions necessary for women’s meaningful participation in the economy.

Project activities include: (1) training on SRHR and related topics to strengthen associated programming and initiatives; and (2) improving the SRHR capacity of relevant actors, communities, and institutions to create change through material or technical support. Plan International Canada implements this project in 52 communities across 8 municipalities in 4 departments in Bolivia.

The project implementation is a collaboration between Plan International Canada, Plan International Ecuador and Plan International Paraguay who will co-implement this project with Asociación de Trabajadoras Remuneradas del Hogar del Ecuador and Asociación Solidaridad y Acción in Ecuador and Coordinadora Nacional de Organizaciones de Mujeres Trabajadoras Rurales e Indígenas and Asociación Mil Solidarios in Paraguay.