Grants and Contributions

With GAC’s support, World Vision Canada will 1) improve the use of immediate life-saving primary healthcare services for conflict-affected and displaced populations and vulnerable host communities, and 2) increase the immediate use of an enhanced protective environment and systems?

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.

This project aims to improve the economic empowerment of 25,200 marginalized youth, including 15,120 adolescent girls and young women, in Rwanda, Somalia and Tanzania by providing skills development and Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) through the Building leadership, Opportunities and options for marginalized women and girls (BLOOM) Africa initiative. BLOOM Africa is implemented through a multifaceted approach to address issues across individual, community, and systemic levels. At the individual level, the project supports empowering marginalized adolescent girls and young women to develop skills, advocate for their rights to skills development and access economic opportunities, overcome barriers and promote safe work environments. At the community level, the project promotes social and behavior change to support equitable community structures, challenge traditional gender norms, and address discriminatory practices and power imbalances. At the systemic level, it aims to create compreh

With GAC’s support, World Vision Canada aims to provide life-saving protection, shelter and WASH services to vulnerable refugees and host communities in Ouaddaï, Chad.

November 2024 – In Haiti, the deteriorating security situation further impacts the humanitarian crisis. Armed gangs now control over 80% of the Port-au-Prince Metropolitan Area. Approximately 5.5 million Haitians (almost half of the population) are affected, with over 700,000 internally displaced people (IDPs). The most urgent needs of affected households in the West Department include food, protection, shelter, non-food items, and medical assistance. IDPs in the area face increased risk of physical violence, including sexual violence, family separation, mental health, and inflicted distress.

With GAC’s support, World Vision helps reduce suffering, increase and maintain human dignity, and save lives in the Port-au-Prince Metropolitan Area (Carrefour Feuilles, Croix-des-Bouquets, Delmas, Petion Ville, and Tabarre) and La Gonave (Anse-à-Galet and Pointe-à-Raquette). The project focuses on IDPs and host communities experiencing humanitarian crises, especially women, girls and people with disabilities. Project activities include: (1) distributing multipurpose cash assistance; (2) providing health and nutrition services, including immunizations and treatments for severe and moderate acute malnutrition; (3) raising awareness through campaigns on preventing water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) related diseases; (4) managing cases; and (5) training child protection committees and community leaders to identify and respond to child protection, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), and sexual exploitation and abuse.

With GAC’s support, World Vision Canada helps provide lifesaving and gender-responsive health and protection assistance to vulnerable people in Afghanistan and Lebanon.

Through a project with the Canadian Red Cross Society (Canadian Relief Supplies) and needs that have been identified through the Humanitarian Coalition, World Vision Canada and its local partner in Rio Grande do Sul will distribute hygiene kits to help meet the basic needs of the most vulnerable people affected by the crisis in Brazil.

This project aims to enhance the gender-responsive resilience of farming households, especially women-headed, and their agri-food livelihoods to the impacts of climate change in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka. Project activities include: (1) developing gender-responsive and sustainable land use and watershed management plans; (2) disseminating findings from a gender and poverty related barriers study, at local and national levels; and (3) connecting vulnerable women and men to service providers, to access resources to develop sustainable agribusinesses.

The second phase of the Refugee Education Council (REC) will convene a group of 8-12 refugee and displaced youth affected by forced displacement from different parts of the world with a demonstrated history of advocacy work in gender-responsive education within their communities. The Council will provide strategic advice on solutions and approaches to the education for refugee, displaced and host community children and youth to key senior Global Affairs Canada officials, including Canada’s Minister of International Development; participate in key global education fora; and build cross-sectoral collaborations with refugee and displaced women and youth networks and civil society partners.

This project builds on the first phase of the REC (P-009877) which was launched in February 2021, and ended on December 31, 2023.

The project aims to improve nutrition, nutrition-related rights, and gender equality for the poorest and most marginalized, especially women, adolescent girls, and children in Bangladesh (Thakugaron district), Kenya (Elgeyo Marakwet County), Somalia (Baidoa district) and Tanzania (Meatu and Maswa districts of Simiyu Region). In all four countries, women, adolescent girls and children represent a disproportionate number impacted by malnutrition due to various biological and socio-cultural factors, including poverty, gender inequality, and community norms. The project will reach 3,878,013 individuals, of which 1,363,380 are direct, and 2,514,633 are indirect.

World Vision and its partners will implement integrated, multi-sectoral, evidence-based interventions to address gender inequalities and the key determinants of nutrition and sexual reproductive health in underserved rural areas at the household, community, and health systems levels. World Vision partners with Nutrition International, HarvestPlus, the Canadian Association for Global Health and McGill University to provide expertise in nutrition, food systems, health and program evaluation, and a range of local governmental and non-governmental stakeholders who also informed the design of the project.

Project activities include: (1) producing locally appropriate bio-fortified staple crops and food value chains scaled up and sustained through gender-equitable and responsive approaches; (2) supporting households, schools and health care facilities to increase gender-equitable access, sustainable, safe drinking water and improved sanitation facilities; (3) equipping health facilities with essential equipment and supplies for gender-equitable and responsive nutrition, health, and sexual and reproductive health and rights services; (4) equipping young women with the ability to promote decision-making, control household resources, and reduce sexual and gender-based violence; (5) facilitating the distribution of ready-to-use therapeutic food, Iron Folic Acid, and de-worming tablets through health facilities and mobile outreach; (6) promoting a comprehensive adolescent-responsive health and nutrition package, including education on anemia prevention for adolescent girls and boys; and (7) equipping key national and sub-national women’s and adolescent girls’ groups with leadership skills, including revenue generation to self-sustain engagement in health advocacy.