Grants and Contributions

The project aims to promote gender equality and the economic empowerment of market vendors, with specific attention to the needs and aspirations of women market vendors. It is designed to ensure that selected marketplaces in rural and urban areas in Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Samoa are safe, inclusive and non-discriminatory environments.

This grant represents Canada support to the Junior Professional Officer (JPO) program which support staffing of up to twenty JPO positions with young Canadian professionals in seven United Nations organizations (UNDP, UNFPA, WHO, UN Women, UNICEF, WFP and UNHCR.)

UN agencies will coordinate recruitment and assignment of up to 20 young Canadians to JPO positions within their organizations, with the following focuses:
UNDP emphasises on poverty eradication and serves as an integrator and operational backbone for the UN development system et the country level.

This project aims to strengthen national safety and gender-responsive recovery in Ukraine through increased and sustained employment of women in the demining sector and emergency services. Project activities include: (1) supporting women’s empowerment and confidence to enter sectors traditionally dominated by men through innovative mental health interventions; (2) transforming gender stereotypes and societal barriers to women’s participation in demining and emergency services through strategic dissemination of research, targeted media campaigns, and comprehensive mentorship programs; and (3) equipping women with the necessary technical skills and certifications for roles in demining and emergency services through structured training programs and facilitated access to employment.

This project ultimately aims to ensure high-quality, coordinated, and accessible multisectoral services for survivors of violence, as well as for women and girls at risk, enabling them to live a life free of violence in the regions of Casablanca-Settat and Fès-Meknès.

The project activities include: 1) Support for the strengthening of services for women victims of violence (continuing capacity building for institutional actors, particularly in the areas of positive masculinities and attitudes favorable to combating gender-based discrimination); 2) Support for civil society in assisting survivors of violence towards their empowerment and economic rehabilitation; and 3) Establishment of a pilot one-stop center to capitalize on existing survivor support infrastructure and strong commitment from all institutional partners.

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). Canada’s core funding is used to support UN Women’s triple mandate of support for gender equality norms and standards; UN System coordination and operational work. Canada's support to UN Women helps to advance Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy as well as Canada’s international efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Working for the empowerment and rights of women and girls globally, UN Women’s main roles are: to support inter-governmental bodies, such as the Commission on the Status of Women, in their formulation of policies, global standards and norms; to assist Member States in implementing these standards through its operational work by providing technical and financial support to countries that request it and to forge effective partnerships with civil society; and to lead and coordinate the UN system’s work on gender equality, as well as promote accountability, through regular monitoring of system-wide progress.

This project aims to strengthen women’s and girl’s rights and promote their full participation in developing society. It also seeks to contribute to reducing gender-based violence and gender inequality. The project aims to support 100,000 women and girls with holistic care services in seven regions with a high prevalence of gender-based violence in Senegal. These regions include Dakar, Kédougou, Kolda, Matam, Sédhiou, Tambacounda, and Ziguinchor. The project also aims to increase women’s and girls’ resilience and strengthen their ability to claim their rights, improve their access to justice and essential care services.

Project activities include: (1) implementing national and local institutional plans to prevent and respond to violence and harmful practices; (2) empowering victims and survivors of violence to demand and benefit from quality, available, and known essential services; (3) increasing availability, access, and use of holistic and integrated multi-sectoral essential gender-based violence services; (4) addressing inequitable social norms, attitudes, and behaviours at community and individual levels; and (5) supporting women's rights groups, social movements, and civil society organizations to effectively influence and advance the needs of women and girls.

This project, implemented by UN Women, UNFPA, and UNICEF, contributes to Canada's 10-year global health commitment.

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to UN Women - the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. UN Women uses these funds, along with other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate.
UN Women’s triple mandate, along with its global network and deep policy and programming expertise, continues to endow the Entity with a unique capacity to: (i) support Member States to strengthen global norms and standards for gender equality and women’s empowerment, and mainstream gender perspectives in other thematic areas; (ii) promote coordination and coherence across the UN system to enhance accountability and results for gender equality and women’s empowerment; and (iii) undertake operational activities to support Member States, upon their request, in translating global norms and standards into legislation, policies and strategies at the regional and country levels. This allows UN-Women to link global, national and local actors to create an enabling environment for the achievement of gender equality and women’s empowerment worldwide.

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and United Nations Women (UN Women) jointly implement this project.

The project helps promote social cohesion in Jordan through conflict prevention and resolution, thereby reducing social tensions and radicalization and promoting stability. As both agents of change and victims of conflict, women play a critical role in addressing its root causes. Canada supported the 2018-22 Jordan National Action Plan (JONAP) for Women, Peace and Security, which increased women’s representation in the security sectors and access to services for survivors of gender-based violence (GBV). This second phase for JONAP (2022-2025) addresses remaining barriers to women’s participation across the security, military, diplomatic and justice sectors and empowers grassroots women’s organizations to effectively respond to crises and GBV.