Global Challenge on Food Security and Agriculture and Grow Asia

This grant represents Canada’s institutional support to the World Economic Forum (WEF). The WEF uses these funds along with other donors’ funding to achieve its mandate. WEF's Global Challenge on F…

Partner: World Economic Forum

Sectors: Business support services and institutions (50%), Agricultural policy and administrative management…

Support to the Immediate Response Account - World Food Programme 2015

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations’ frontline agency in the fight against hunger. It responds to emergencies saves lives by getting food to the hungry quickly and works to help pr…

Partner: WFP - World Food Programme

Sectors: Emergency food aid (100%)

Support to Partnerships for Community Development

This project aims to help strengthen communities in under-served areas by improving education vocational training and health care and by developing local businesses. Project activities include: (1)…

Partner: The Rotary Foundation (Canada)

Sectors: Education facilities and training (10%), Teacher training (10%), Primary education (10%), Basic lif…

Support to the Immediate Response Account - World Food Programme 2014

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations’ frontline agency in the fight against hunger. It responds to emergencies saves lives by getting food to the hungry quickly and works to help pr…

Partner: WFP - World Food Programme

Sectors: Emergency food aid (100%)

Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines - Emergency Assistance - IFRC 2014

February 2014 - On November 8 2013 Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) made landfall in the Philippines a densely populated country of 92 million people. The category five typhoon killed ove…

Partner: International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) App…

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Support to Agricultural Capacity Strengthening

The project aims to enhance food security or access to safe sufficient and nutritious food for approximately 259 000 people in the Casamance Fatick Kaolack Kaffrine Tamba Kédougou Louga and …

Partner: WFP - World Food Programme

Sectors: Agricultural development (20%), Agricultural land resources (40%), Agricultural water resources (20…

Support to Agricultural Research in West and Central Africa - I

This project aims to support the institutional capacity building and research activities of the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (WECARD). The goal of this s…

Partner: IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank

Sectors: Agricultural research (100%)

Support to Initial Primary Teacher Education - Phase II

The goal of the project is to support the Government of Malawi in improving the quality and relevance of basic education in Malawi. The project aims to increase the capacity of teachers to apply new …

Partner: GIZ - German Society for International Cooperation

Sectors: Teacher training (100%)

Inclusive Health Services in Tanzania

The project supports the implementation of the Strategic Plan of Comprehensive Community-Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) a Tanzanian non-governmental organization and one of the only provid…

Partner: Comprehensive Community-Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania

Sectors: Medical services (30%), Basic health infrastructure (50%), Reproductive health care (20%)

Poverty Reduction Support Credit 9-10 Vietnam

The Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC) program is a World Bank-led multi-donor initiative that aims to enhance equitable economic growth in Vietnam through reforms that promote transparent and a…

Partner: IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank

Sectors: Multisector aid (100%)

Deepening Democracy and Election Support

The project aims to strengthen electoral reform processes improve the functioning of key electoral and democratic institutions and foster active citizenship and stronger democratic accountability i…

Partner: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme

Sectors: Public sector policy and administrative management (30%), Elections (70%)

Kiwa Initiative – nature-based solutions for climate resilience

The Pacific Island Countries are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change due to their proximity to the ocean and their reliance on it for resources and transportation. The well-being and l…

Partner: Agence Française de Développement

Sectors: Environmental education/training (30%), Disaster Risk Reduction (30%), Bio-diversity (40%)

Sexual and reproductive health and rights research and capacity Building

This project aims to improve the health and lives of women adolescents and girls by supporting peer reviewed and evidence-based research on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Project…

Partner: Guttmacher Institute Inc.

Sectors: Population policy and administrative management (100%)

Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines - Livelihoods in Agriculture and Livestock - FAO 2014

February 2014 - On November 8 2013 Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) made landfall in the Philippines a densely populated country of 92 million people. The category five typhoon killed ove…

Partner: FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Crisis in Ethiopia - humanitarian response – CARE Canada 2024 to 2026

December 2024 – The humanitarian impact of the conflict in northern Ethiopia from 2020 to 2022 continues to be felt. The Tigray region suffered significant damage with much of its healthcare and wat…

Partner: CARE Canada

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (58%), Basic Health Care in Emergencies (42%)

Women’s agribusiness for food security

The project aims to improve food security by increasing income for households working in agriculture in Sudan with a particular focus on women and youth. Project activities include: (1) developing a…

Partner: UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organization

Sectors: Agricultural services (30%), Agricultural financial services (10%), Agricultural co-operatives (10%…

UNFPA – Humanitarian thematic fund 2024 to 2025

The Humanitarian Thematic Fund (HTF) is a global pooled fund managed by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to support a timely response to unforeseen or emerging crises and to underfunded em…

Partner: UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund

Sectors: Reproductive health care (66.7%), STD control including HIV/AIDS (16.65%), Ending violence against …

Women's Spaces: Implementing Equal Rights to Land Housing and Livelihoods

This project aims to enhance women’s equitable rights to and control over land housing and livelihoods in urban environments in Angola Kenya South Africa and Uganda. Land and housing issues lie at…

Partner: Rooftops Canada

Sectors: Decentralisation and support to subnational government (10%), Legal and judicial development (15%),…

International Development Education and Awareness

This project aims to enhance the engagement of Canadians especially youth (12-18 years old) in Canada’s international development efforts towards the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable D…

Partner: Aga Khan Foundation Canada

Sectors: Promotion of development awareness (100%)

Empowering Women and Girls in the Commonwealth

This project supports the realization of a life of dignity for women and girls from disadvantaged communities in Bangladesh Malawi Mozambique Pakistan and Sri Lanka by adopting a holistic approac…

Partner: Commonwealth of Learning

Sectors: Education facilities and training (5%), Primary education (5%), Basic life skills for youth and adu…

Integrating Gender Equality in the UNCCD

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The UNCCD uses these funds and other donors’ funding to deliver its …

Partner: UNCCD - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

Sectors: Agricultural land resources (40%), Agricultural education/training (10%), Environmental policy and …

Brighter Outcomes Ethiopia: Strengthening CSOs for Displaced Children's Education

This project aims to enhance equitable and inclusive learning outcomes for refugees internally displaced people (IDP) and host community children particularly girls and adolescent girls in Oromia (…

Partner: Save the Children Canada

Sectors: Education policy and administrative management (50%), Education facilities and training (5%), Gener…

Addressing COVID-related Under Nutrition

This project aims to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable and hard-to-reach people especially women newborns children and adolescent girls belonging to host communities in the Cox's Baz…

Partner: Micronutrient Initiative

Sectors: Basic nutrition (80%), Reproductive health care (20%)

Microfinance Data Processing Centres in Senegal

This project is designed to provide Senegal with modern affordable and computerized services for microfinance institution members. Development International Desjardins (DID) aims to establish one co…

Partner: DID - Développement international Desjardins

Sectors: Formal sector financial intermediaries (85%), Education/training in banking and financial services …

Addressing gang-related sexual and gender-based violence in Haiti

This project aims to support the Haitian National Police in tackling sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) caused by gang violence in Haiti. This is done through a survivor-centered and gender-resp…

Partner: OHCHR - United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Sectors: Civilian peace-building conflict prevention and resolution (100%)

Sustainable Economic Growth for Women and Men Affected by Typhoon

Typhoon Haiyan (also known as Yolanda) struck the Philippines on November 8 2013 and was one of the worst storms in recorded history. Almost 15 million people were impacted and over 6 000 died. An …

Partner: CECI - Centre for International Studies and Cooperation

Sectors: Agricultural development (10%), Fishery development (10%), Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)…

Radioactive Source Security in Latin American and the Caribbean

This project provides the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with funding to remove 32 high activity disused sealed radioactive sources (DSRS) in six countries in Latin America and the Caribbe…

Partner: International Atomic Energy AgencyNuclear Security Fund

Sectors: Sectors not specified (100%)

Lhaissa: Advancing Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality in Childcare Work

The project supports the empowerment of women paid childcare workers in Mozambique’s early childhood development sector. Project activities include: (1) developing and training paid childcare workers…

Partner: Save the Children Canada

Sectors: Early childhood education (5%), Women's rights organisations and movements and government institut…

TRASOL: Care Workers in Solidarity and Organized in Coops for our Rights

This project aims to provide a concrete innovative and transformative solution to the multidimensional marginalization experienced by women and girls involved in domestic work in Guatemala and Hondu…

Partner: SOCODEVI - Canadian Cooperation Society for International Development

Sectors: Women's rights organisations and movements and government institutions (65%), Labour Rights (35%)

Time to CARE - Honduras

The project aims to improve the human dignity of women particularly Indigenous and rural women domestic care workers in Honduras. Project activities include: (1) training paid domestic workers on li…

Partner: CARE Canada

Sectors: Women's rights organisations and movements and government institutions (65%), Labour Rights (35%)

Action for paid Childcare sector Transformation

This project aims to enhance the economic empowerment of women paid childcare providers in Kenya and Malawi. Project activities include: (1) supporting women's paid childcare groups and collectives t…

Partner: WUSC - World University Service of Canada

Sectors: Early childhood education (5%), Women's rights organisations and movements and government institut…

Strengthening Organization Agency & Rights of Women ECD Workers

This project aims to increase the realization of social and labour rights of women paid care workers specifically women early childhood development workers in Ecuador and Paraguay. Project activitie…

Partner: Plan International Canada

Sectors: Early childhood education (5%), Women's rights organisations and movements and government institut…

Care Connect: Action for care workers

This project aims to enhance empowerment socioeconomic well-being and enjoyment of rights for women and girls working in domestic care in Indonesia and the Philippines. Project activities include: (…

Partner: Oxfam Canada

Sectors: Women's rights organisations and movements and government institutions (60%), Labour Rights (40%)

Transforming Girls’ Education in Sierra Leone

The project aims to improve learning outcomes for vulnerable pre-teen and teenage girls in upper primary grades in Sierra Leone. The project works to dismantle barriers to education for girls at the …

Partner: CODE

Sectors: Education policy and administrative management (20%), Teacher training (20%), Educational research …

Women’s Economic Advancement for Collective Transformation (WeACT)

This project aims to address the gender-specific barriers for women including young women working in agriculture and in the informal economy of the shea and cocoa sectors in the Upper West Upper E…

Partner: Oxfam QC

Sectors: Legal and judicial development (10%), Women's rights organisations and movements and government in…

Global Plastic Action Partnership

The project aims to contribute to the diversion of plastic pollution in rivers deltas and oceans at global and national levels using a circular economy approach (a regenerative approach to productio…

Partner: World Economic Forum

Sectors: Waste management/disposal (50%), Environmental policy and administrative management (50%)

Ukraine Presidential and Parliamentary Elections Observation Missions - 2014

The project supports the deployment of Canadian elections observers to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) multilateral observation missions to the Ukraine 2014 Presidentia…

Partner: CANADEM

Sectors: Elections (100%)

Support for Women Rice Parboilers in Burkina Faso

This project aims to improve the living conditions of women in the Hauts-Bassins Cascades and Boucle du Mouhoun regions in Burkina Faso by supporting professional rice parboilers’ organizations (ric…

Partner: CECI - Centre for International Studies and Cooperation

Sectors: Vocational training (30%), Agricultural education/training (20%), Small and medium-sized enterprise…

Democratic Republic of the Congo - Humanitarian Pooled Fund - OCHA 2020

February 2020 - The crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is characterized by inter-ethnic conflict and widespread human rights abuses including sexual violence. In 2020 15.6 million…

Partner: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Support for Child Health Days/Weeks - Vitamin A

This project aims to reduce child death rates and strengthen health systems through support for the implementation of child health days and weeks. Child health days and weeks involve community-based …

Partner: UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund

Sectors: Basic health care (50%), Basic nutrition (50%)

Technical Assistance

This project provides technical assistance monitoring and evaluation services and communications services in the following sectors: governance health private sector development and education. CID…

Partner: Uncoded

Sectors: Education policy and administrative management (10%), Teacher training (10%), Primary education (10…

Disability inclusion and care work

Through this project Global Affairs Canada intends to expand the United Nations partnership on the rights of persons with disabilities (UNPRPD) joint program to 5 additional countries through a gran…

Partner: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme

Sectors: Social protection and welfare services policy planning and administration (50%), Social services (…

Young Competent Madagascans at Work

The project aims to increase the employability of and facilitate entry into the labour market of young women and men in Antananarivo Ambositra and Antsiranana. The project includes vocational tech…

Partner: Université du Québec à Trois Rivières

Sectors: Education policy and administrative management (25%), Education facilities and training (5%), Basic…

Typhoon Haiyan Reconstruction Assistance

Typhoon Haiyan (also known as Yolanda) struck the Philippines on November 8 2013 and was one of the worst storms in recorded history. Almost 15 million people were impacted and over 6 000 died. An …

Partner: CARE Canada

Sectors: Agricultural development (25%), Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) development (25%), Reconst…

Education for Employment in Tunisia

The project aims to increase the economic power of young adults particularly women living in the most disadvantaged regions of Tunisia. The project activities include: 1) support the Higher Institut…

Partner: Colleges and Institutes Canada

Sectors: Teacher training (40%), Advanced technical and managerial training (40%), Small and medium-sized en…

Assisting Vulnerable Children and Women in Haiti's Border Areas

This project aims to prevent human trafficking and protect vulnerable Haitian migrants especially children and women. Haiti is a major source of migrants and every year thousands of Haitians seek be…

Partner: IOM – International Organization for Migration

Sectors: Basic life skills for youth and adults (20%), Basic health care (10%), Human rights (35%), Social/w…

Assessed Contribution - Commonwealth Secretariat - 2020 to 2021

This assessed contribution represents Canada’s long-term support to the Commonwealth Secretariat. The Commonwealth Secretariat uses these funds and other members’ funding to achieve its mandate. The…

Partner: Commonwealth Secretariat

Sectors: Sectors not specified (100%)

Strengthening the Durum Wheat Milling and Pulse Crops Industry

This project aims to promote equitable economic opportunities for women and men in the durum wheat and pulse crops milling industries in Morocco. The project seeks to provide technical assistance to …

Partner: Canadian International Grains Institute

Sectors: Vocational training (50%), Agro-industries (50%)

Zanzibar Women Leadership in Adaptation (ZanzAdapt)

This project aims to enhance climate resilience and promote sustainable development in Zanzibar’s unique ecosystems through a nature-based approach. It does so by working closely with local communiti…

Partner: Community Forests International

Sectors: Biosphere protection (90%), Bio-diversity (10%)

Strengthening National Statistical Systems in Developing Countries

The project addresses two major gaps in national statistical systems: (1) the necessity to enhance the managerial skills of senior statisticians and (2) the need to develop a pool of qualified stati…

Partner: Statistics Canada

Sectors: Statistical capacity building (100%)