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Restoring access to education in Pakistan
This project aims to improve education outcomes for flood-affected populations in Pakistan particularly for girls by restoring education services that the country’s 2022 floods disrupted. It seeks …
Partner: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
Sectors: Disaster Risk Reduction (5%), Lower secondary education (35%), Primary education (60%)
$10,000,000.00
Biodiversity and livelihood opportunities for ethnic minority women
The project focuses on conducting research and delivering capacity-building programmes to ethnic minority women and communities to support their adoption of nature-based solutions (NBS) to enhance bi…
Partner: SOCODEVI - Canadian Cooperation Society for International Development
Sectors: Informal/semi-formal financial intermediaries (5%), Agricultural co-operatives (5%), Forestry polic…
$10,000,000.00
Prevention mitigation and resolution of armed conflict through dialogue
This project aims to reduce violence and contribute to inclusive and sustained peace by mediating facilitating and supporting dialogue among various conflict parties through the Centre for Humanitar…
Partner: HD Centre - Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Sectors: Democratic participation and civil society (100%)
$10,000,000.00
Advancing growth innovation and leadership for enterprises
The "Advancing Growth Innovation and Leadership for Enterprises" project implemented by the World university service of Canada aims to increase the resilience of Vietnam’s populations vulnerable to c…
Partner: WUSC - World University Service of Canada
Sectors: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) development (20%), Women's rights organisations and moveme…
$10,000,000.00
Disaster response emergency fund - Canadian Red Cross 2025 to 2026
This project supports the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) in collaboration with the Canadian Red Cross (CRC). The DREF is a g…
Partner: Canadian Red Cross
Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)
$10,000,000.00
Explosive hazard clearance in liberated areas of Iraq
This project aims to enable stabilization efforts in liberated areas of Iraq by clearing explosive hazards and developing local capacity to do the same. Project activities include: (1) conducting sur…
Partner: United States Department of State
Sectors: Removal of land mines and explosive remnants of war (100%)
$10,000,000.00
Global Plastic Action Partnership- International Biodiversity- program 2024 to 2026
This project aims to enhance biodiversity and improve livelihoods through tackling plastic pollution in biodiversity hotspots. The project seeks to build upon existing multi-stakeholder efforts to en…
Partner: World Economic Forum
Sectors: Waste management/disposal (10%), Environmental education/training (10%), Biosphere protection (20%)…
$10,000,000.00
Emergency disaster assistance fund - Canadian Red Cross 2025 to 2027
This project aims to support a Canadian Red Cross draw-down fund. This fund seeks to allow Canada to rapidly respond to International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) emergen…
Partner: Canadian Red Cross
Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)
$10,000,000.00
Skills and Livelihoods for Rohingya
This project aims to address the livelihood challenges of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh by building their transferable vocational skills. Project activities include: (1) training 3 300 Rohingya ref…
Partner: UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Sectors: Education/training in banking and financial services (10%), Primary education equivalent for adults…
$10,000,000.00
The Sahel Integrated Resilience Programme (SIRP)
This project aims to builds resilient food systems and empowers communities in Burkina Faso Chad Mali Mauritania and Niger. The United Nations World Food Program implements this project to addres…
Partner: WFP - World Food Programme
Sectors: Environmental education/training (25%), Disaster Risk Reduction (10%), Household food security prog…
$10,000,000.00
Strengthening Collective Action and Learning for Education
This project aims to enhance the empowerment of adolescent girls and female youth pursuing education in South Sudan by targeting both supply and demand side barriers that prevent them from attending …
Partner: WUSC - World University Service of Canada
Sectors: Education policy and administrative management (25%), Teacher training (25%), Educational research …
$10,000,000.00
Community resilience through locally led inclusive adaptation
This project supports climate-vulnerable and marginalized communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh to develop local solutions that build their resilience to the impacts of climate chan…
Partner: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
Sectors: Environmental policy and administrative management (35%), Rural development (25%), Bio-diversity (1…
$10,000,000.00
Fortifying institutional resilience against biological threats
This project aims to improve capacity of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) to anticipate respond to and recover from biological emergencies (including bio-crime and bio-terrorism even…
Partner: World Organization for Animal Health
Sectors: Disarmament of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) (100%)
$10,000,000.00
Aceli Africa - technical assistance
This project aims to increase the flow of capital to high-impact agricultural small- and medium-sized enterprises (agri-SMEs).This project complements the financial incentives provide through Aceli’s…
Partner: Aceli Africa Inc.
Sectors: Agricultural financial services (100%)
$10,000,000.00
Building gender-sensitive sustainable national humanitarian mine action capacity in Ukraine
The project aims to address the widespread contamination of landmines and other explosive remnants of war in liberated areas of Donetsk Kharkiv Kherson and Mykolaiv regions of Ukraine. The project …
Partner: Mines Advisory Group
Sectors: Removal of land mines and explosive remnants of war (100%)
$10,000,000.00
Technical cooperation fund for the Canadian climate resilience accelerator
This project aims implement the Accelerator Fund by enhancing the bankability of projects in Latin America and the Caribbean particularly in nature-based solutions and climate change adaptation. Pr…
Partner: IDB - Inter-American Development Bank
Sectors: Education/training in banking and financial services (100%)
$10,000,000.00
Canadian Climate and Nature Fund for the Private Sector in Asia - Technical Assistance
This Technical Assistance facility supports the Canadian Climate and Nature Fund for the Private Sector in Asia (CANPA). CANPA is a partnership between the Government of Canada and the Asian Developm…
Partner: ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (AsDB)
Sectors: Business support services and institutions (20%), Agricultural policy and administrative management…
$10,000,000.00
Sexual and reproductive health and rights and a life free of violence in Bolivia
This project aims to increase the enjoyment of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) especially for indigenous women and adolescent girls experiencing violence poverty mar…
Partner: UNITED NATIONSDIVISION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OFWOMEN
Sectors: Population policy and administrative management (50%), Family planning (25%), Ending violence again…
$10,000,000.00
Reconstruction and localization efforts in hromadas – program 2024 to 2029
The project aims to assist the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in supporting community-driven recovery and rehabilitation efforts in rural and peri-urban locations. This includes up to…
Partner: IOM – International Organization for Migration
Sectors: Education facilities and training (8%), Basic health infrastructure (8%), Sanitation - large system…
$10,000,000.00
Reinforcing essential mental health services in Ukraine
This project aims to reduce suffering and improve the mental health and psychosocial well-being of conflict-affected Ukrainians and strengthen the systems and delivery of mental health and psychosoc…
Partner: WHO - World Health Organization
Sectors: Health policy and administrative management (13%), Health personnel development (16%), Promotion of…
$10,000,000.00
Resilient women in the Middle Atlas
This project aims to support the operationalization of the axes of the Forest Strategy 2030 to prevent overexploitation and lack of valuation of the forest sector in Morocco. The project’s contributi…
Partner: SOCODEVI - Canadian Cooperation Society for International Development
Sectors: Forestry policy and administrative management (35%), Forestry development (35%), Forestry education…
$10,000,000.00
Egypt green skills for the climate-smart agribusiness network
This project aims to improve the employability of young women and men in the agribusiness sector by increasing their capacity to gain industry-relevant and climate-smart skills in three governorates …
Partner: Colleges and Institutes Canada
Sectors: Education policy and administrative management (40%), Teacher training (20%), Higher education (20%…
$10,000,000.00
United Nations Multi-Partner Trust Fund for Kenya
The United Nations Multi-Partner Trust Fund in Kenya supports Kenya’s national priorities by using the combined and unique experience of various UN agencies to target vulnerable communities in Kenya.…
Partner: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
Sectors: Human rights (25%), Ending violence against women and girls (25%), Multisector aid (50%)
$10,000,000.00
Supporting rural communities affected by mines and explosive remnants of war
This project aims to restore critical agricultural livelihoods for small-scale farmers and rural households that have decreased or halted production due to the presence of land mines and other explo…
Partner: FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Sectors: Removal of land mines and explosive remnants of war (15%), Agricultural land resources (40%), Agric…
$10,000,000.00
Africa fertilizer financing mechanism
This project aims to increase smallholder farmers’ sustainable agricultural productivity and incomes including women and youth in Africa. It seeks this through the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechan…
Partner: African Development Bank Group
Sectors: Agricultural policy and administrative management (15%), Agricultural extension (38%), Agricultural…
$10,000,000.00
Invest in Childcare
The project aims to address inequalities and poverty quality childcare and the unequal distribution of care work to empower women. Addressing paid and unpaid care work is a key priority for the Gove…
Partner: IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank
Sectors: Public sector policy and administrative management (10%), Public finance management (5%), Domestic …
$10,000,000.00
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Promote Resilience Inclusion and Innovative Transformation
This project seeks to enhance the socioeconomic wellbeing of ethnic minority women-focused small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through clean growth in the agriculture sector of Yen Bai province…
Partner: Cowater International Inc.
Sectors: Energy education/training (10%), Agricultural development (50%), Agricultural inputs (10%), Agricul…
$10,000,000.00
Protection and Assistance to Vulnerable Haitian Women and Children Migrants
This project aims to restore the human dignity of repatriated migrants and members of their communities by addressing their protection needs including risks related to human trafficking sexual expl…
Partner: IOM – International Organization for Migration
Sectors: Vocational training (25%), Basic health care (15%), Legal and judicial development (15%), Human rig…
$10,000,000.00
COVAX vaccine delivery and dose sharing mechanism
This project aims to strengthen COVID-19 response and recovery by reducing COVID-19 related mortality and morbidity particularly amongst vulnerable and priority-use populations in the Gavi Advance M…
Partner: Gavi The Vaccine Alliance
Sectors: COVID-19 control (100%)
$10,000,000.00
The Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) - Program 2023 to 2026
The Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) supports countries to develop evidence-based Biodiversity Finance Plans (BFPs). The initiative allows countries to increase resources for biodiversity re…
Partner: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
Sectors: Environmental policy and administrative management (40%), Bio-diversity (60%)
$10,000,000.00
Adaptation Fund - Institutional Support 2023
This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the Adaptation Fund. The Adaptation Fund uses these funds along with other donors’ funding to achieve its mandate. It is not consid…
Partner: The Adaptation Fund
Sectors: Agricultural alternative development (25%), Environmental policy and administrative management (20%…
$10,000,000.00
Advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights
This project aims to enhance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender equality for women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa and other priority countries. Project activities include: (…
Partner: MARIE STOPES INTERNATIONAL LTD.
Sectors: Population policy and administrative management (50%), Reproductive health care (25%), Family plann…
$10,000,000.00
Enhancing climate resilient agriculture in Southern Iraq
This project aims to enhance the climate-resilience of vulnerable agriculture households in the Southern Iraqi Governorates of Babil Missan Muthanna Najaf Al Qadisiyah Thi-Qar and Wasit. Project…
Partner: FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Sectors: Education and training in water supply and sanitation (15%), Agricultural inputs (15%), Food crop p…
$10,000,000.00
Better Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All in Indonesia - Phase II
This project builds on the experiences and results achieved through the first phase of the BERANI project (P-003038-001). It focuses on improving women and girls’ access to quality sexual and reprodu…
Partner: UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund
Sectors: Population policy and administrative management (60%), Reproductive health care (7%), Family planni…
$10,000,000.00
United Nations Trust Fund to end violence against women
This project supports the United Nations Trust Fund (UNTF) to end violence against women. The UNTF is a global multilateral grant-making mechanism that supports innovative evidence-based civil soc…
Partner: UN Women
Sectors: Ending violence against women and girls (100%)
$10,000,000.00
Strengthening Investments in Gender Responsive Climate Adaptation
The strengthening Investments in Gender Responsive Climate Adaptation (SIGRA) initiative seeks to advance climate action food security and inclusive governance in Ghana. This project aims to improv…
Partner: Cowater International Inc.
Sectors: Public finance management (20%), Decentralisation and support to subnational government (33%), Wome…
$10,000,000.00
Scaling up Investments in Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience
This project supports the Government of Bangladesh’s efforts to integrate climate change adaptation in large infrastructure projects and urban plans to make them more resilient and integrate nature-b…
Partner: Stichting The Global Center on Adap
Sectors: Environmental policy and administrative management (15%), Bio-diversity (40%), Environmental educat…
$10,000,000.00
Gender Equitable Nutrition in Tanzania and Uganda
This project seeks to improve nutrition for the poorest and most marginalized especially women adolescent girls and children in Bahi and Itigi Districts in Tanzania and Moroto Nakapiripirit and N…
Partner: Action Against Hunger
Sectors: Basic nutrition (100%)
$10,000,000.00
Promoting Climate Smart Agriculture and Agricultural Biodiversity in Upper and Lower Egypt
This project seeks to promote gender equality and the economic empowerment of rural women and men by increasing the adaptive capacities of poor and vulnerable rural populations to climate change inc…
Partner: FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Sectors: Employment policy and administrative management (5%), Agricultural development (10%), Agricultural …
$10,000,000.00
Recovery of the National Police Academy
The purpose of this project is to support Haitian National Police Academy (NPA) and the Haitian National Police (HNP) in protecting the Haitian population to improve public security in Haiti. The ini…
Partner: Cowater International Inc.
Sectors: Health education (5%), Basic drinking water supply (5%), Police (55%), Women's rights organisations…
$10,000,000.00
World Food Programme – Global South Grain Initiative
December 2022 - Food insecurity hit record levels in 2022 due to increasing conflict climate change COVID-19 disruptions and inflation. Russia’s invasion compounded pre-existing issues further d…
Partner: WFP - World Food Programme
Sectors: Emergency food aid (100%)
$10,000,000.00
Accelerating the Elimination of Gender-Based Violence Against Girls and Adolescents in Benin
This initiative contributes to ending harmful practices and violence against girls and adolescents including child marriage in Benin. To achieve this UNICEF works to equip girls and women better t…
Partner: UNICEF
Sectors: Population policy and administrative management (5%), Ending violence against women and girls (95%)
$10,000,000.00
Gender Responsive Planning & Budgeting in Indonesia
This project aims to achieve gender-responsive public financial management that meets the different needs of women and men. The gender gap in Indonesia is significant despite its remarkable economic…
Partner: World Bank
Sectors: Public finance management (20%), Budget planning (20%), Tax policy and administration support (10%)…
$10,000,000.00
Oceans for Prosperity – Indonesia
This project aims to support the Government of Indonesia in building healthier more productive and more resilient coral reefs and their associated ecosystems (seagrass meadows mangroves) and expan…
Partner: IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank
Sectors: Fishing policy and administrative management (25%), Fishery development (20%), Fishery education/tr…
$10,000,000.00
Women and Children from Artisanal Mining Communities
This project aims to improve the economic empowerment and well-being of women and children in artisanal mining communities in the Keniéba circle in Mali. Project activities include: 1) creating and s…
Partner: Cowater International Inc.
Sectors: Basic life skills for youth (15%), Women's rights organisations and movements and government insti…
$10,000,000.00
Thanaka: Girls' Power in Myanmar
This project aims to improve the realization of diverse adolescent girls’ and young women’s (AGYW) rights to safe inclusive economic opportunities and sexual and reproductive health and rights. It i…
Partner: International Rescue Committee
Sectors: Reproductive health care (25%), Family planning (25%), Ending violence against women and girls (50%)
$10,000,000.00
Sustainable development objectives: local implementation by and for local stakeholders
This project aims to strengthen local organizations to respond to locally-identified development priorities in Cox’s Bazar district (CXB). Project activities include: (1) implementing 108 small-scale…
Partner: IOM – International Organization for Migration
Sectors: Vocational training (55%), Civilian peace-building conflict prevention and resolution (45%)
$10,000,000.00
Generating Revenues for Nutrition Ghana
This project aims to improve the nutritional and financial security of women youth and young children in six selected districts in northern Ghana. The project seeks to achieve this by supporting ben…
Partner: Centro Internacional de la Papa
Sectors: Basic nutrition (50%), Agricultural development (50%)
$10,000,000.00
Build Back Equal
This project aims to advance economic and social equality for women and girls in Dominica Grenada Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The initiative supports these four Eastern Caribbea…
Partner: UN Women
Sectors: Population policy and administrative management (5%), Family planning (5%), Women's rights organisa…
$10,000,000.00
Supporting the Socio-Economic Integration of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in the Americas
This project aims to enhance the integration of Venezuelan refugees migrants and returnees with a particular focus on women and children into the societies and economies of their host communities …
Partner: IDB - Inter-American Development Bank
Sectors: Facilitation of orderly safe regular and responsible migration and mobility (100%)