Grants and Contributions:
The expected outcomes of this project is to enhance St. John Ambulance's ability to respond to requests for assistance, enhance their capacity to respond to communities with unique needs of marginalized populations, and increase the speed of deploying their resources and personnel to emergencies across Canada. Other outcomes include strengthening their recruitment and retention of volunteers, building relations with marginalized and Indigenous communities to enhance community resilience and use a whole of community approach to develop, maintain, and improve preparedness, response and recovery for all-hazards risks.
The purpose of this amendment is to increase the agreement value from $14,848,923.84 to $15,006,109.12. This amendment will advance St. John Ambulance's preparedness pilot that will support increased readiness and a greater range of civilian response capabilities to support activities during the 2024 season.
The Supporting a Humanitarian Workforce to Respond to COVID-19 and Other Large-Scale Emergencies Program (“the Program”) is a contribution program that will provide funding to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) so that they may build capacity and deploy to respond to COVID-19 and other large-scale emergencies.