International Development Grant
Comité de Solidarité Trois-Rivières - International Internships 2013-2014
Project Number: CA-3-S065700001
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $274,500.00
Start Date: February 27, 2013
End Date: March 31, 2014
Duration: 1.1 years
Project Description
This project is part of CIDA's International Youth Internship Program (IYIP) funded by the Government of Canada's Youth Employment Strategy (YES). The IYIP contributes to the YES by providing a large spectrum of Canadian graduates with valuable international development work experience abroad.
Expected Results
The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: i) increased awareness to female and male Canadian youth of the equal possibility of working internationally; ii) enhanced equal employability of female and male IYIP interns in Canada and in the field of international development; iii) improved capacity of female and male IYIP interns to contribute to international development in a gender sensitive way.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2014) include: coordinating eighteen internships in three countries. The students assisted local partners with activities to strengthen their management capacity (in Nicaragua) community organization for advocacy (in Nicaragua and Bolivia) and sustainable planning (in Haiti). The interns acquired new skills and abilities that will increase their employability such as: the production of a business plan management and accounting animation techniques the development of a curriculum and knowledge transfer techniques.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
Comité de Solidarité Trois-Rivières
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
YFMInternaAssistPartnershp&Programing Br
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Donor country personnel
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP