Local Action Fund: Supporting Local Civil Society

The project aims to promote peace and stability in conflict-affected states.

Partner: Uncoded

Sectors: Sectors not specified (100%)

UPA DI - Program 2008-2012 - Haiti

This project represents additional support provided by the Union des producteurs agricoles Développement international (UPA DI) Program for activities in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. The overal…

Partner: UPA DI - Union des producteurs agricoles - développement international

Sectors: Agricultural services (70%), Agricultural co-operatives (30%)

Peacebuilding and Reconciliation - I

This project provides an enhanced level of support for the negotiation and implementation of peace initiatives in the Sudan conflict. It also aims to reinforce the agreements reached between the key …

Partner: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme

Sectors: Democratic participation and civil society (25%), Human rights (25%), Participation in internationa…

Protecting Adolescent Health and Rights in Nigeria and Senegal

The project supports adolescents particularly girls aged 13-18 in 71 communities in Nigeria and Senegal where teenagers are exposed to high levels of risk to their health. The project is designed t…

Partner: World Renew

Sectors: Basic life skills for youth and adults (30%), Health education (70%)

Greening the Global Financial System

This project aims to ensure private finance accounts for the risks and opportunities of climate change emphasizing the poorest and most vulnerable needs and priorities. Project activities include: …

Partner: OSG - Office of the SecretaryGeneral

Sectors: Financial policy and administrative management (50%), Environmental policy and administrative manag…

No to Gender-Based Violence in Sri Lanka

This project aims to combat sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and promote gender equality in the Batticaloa Hambantota and Kilinochchi districts of Sri Lanka. This project works to strengthen …

Partner: Developing World Connections Society

Sectors: Women's rights organisations and movements and government institutions (25%), Ending violence agai…

Scaling Up Maternal and Child Health in Guatemala- COVID-19 Response

The project aims to reduce maternal and child mortality by strengthening essential maternal newbord and child health (MNCH) services in the Guatemala. Project activities include: (1) providing train…

Partner: TULA FOUNDATION

Sectors: Health policy and administrative management (20%), Medical services (10%), Health statistics and da…

Uganda – Access to Water and Protection for South Sudanese Refugees– World Vision 2017

March 2017 – Uganda hosts the largest number of refugees in Africa approaching one million with nearly one half of this total having arrived from South Sudan since July 2016. Overall South Sudanes…

Partner: World Vision Canada

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Ukraine Crisis - Protection and Emergency Relief - ADRA Canada 2014

March 2015 – In eastern Ukraine approximately 5.2 million people have been affected by the conflict either through the breakdown of law and order disintegration of families and communities or the…

Partner: ADRA - Adventist Development and Relief Agency Canada

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines - Shelter Assistance - Handicap International Canada 2014

March 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 over 6…

Partner: Humanity & Inclusion Canada

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Coordination of Country-Level Humanitarian Responses - OCHA 2014

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in partnership with national and international actors oversees the coordination of international humanitarian responses…

Partner: OCHA - United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Sectors: Relief co-ordination, protection and support services (100%)

Emergency Rehabilitation Services in Yemen - Handicap International 2014

February 2014 – Yemen has been experiencing civil unrest and political turmoil since 2011. Conventional weapons and other explosive remnants of war continue to harm people. According to the United Na…

Partner: Humanity & Inclusion Canada

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Syria Crisis - Assistance to Help People Survive the Winter in Southwestern Syria - 2013

November 2013 - The humanitarian situation in Syria has rapidly deteriorated over the past year as a result of the civil war in the country. The United Nations estimates more than 110 000 people have…

Partner: Uncoded

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Supporting Civil Society in Rapid Response to Conflict

This project aims to de-escalate violent conflict reduce the vulnerability of civilians and support peacebuilding efforts in emerging conflicts Crisis Action. Project activities include: (1) devel…

Partner: Crisis Action INC

Sectors: Democratic participation and civil society (50%), Civilian peace-building conflict prevention and …

Making Peace Operations More Effective

This project aims to contribute to reductions in violence and insecurity caused by weapons ammunition and other items diverted or lost from peacekeeping operations and then misused. The proliferatio…

Partner: Fondation pour l’Institut de HautesEtudes Internationaleset du Développe

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

Monitoring and Evaluation of Debt Conversion for Education

This project provides monitoring and evaluation services and technical assistance to help Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments manage the proceeds of the Pakistan-Canada Debt-for-Education C…

Partner: Uncoded

Sectors: Primary education (100%)

Support to the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) - 2014-2015

This contribution represents Canada’s institutional support to the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) which is part of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group. The IIC is a developm…

Partner: IIC – Inter-American Investment Corporation

Sectors: Education/training in banking and financial services (1%), Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)…

Preserving Hope and Building Community Capacity

The project aims to help community-based and civil society organizations to strengthen the response of vulnerable communities to Zimbabwe's social and economic challenges. Project activities include …

Partner: Oxfam Canada

Sectors: Democratic participation and civil society (100%)

Gender and Conflict-Sensitive Approaches to Peacebuilding in Ethiopia

This project aims to increase peace security and stability in Ethiopia. Project activities include: (1) working with local leaders – including women – from formal and informal institutions to stre…

Partner: Mercy Corps

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

Support to Syrian Women's Rights Organizations

This project aims to respond to the needs and priorities of local grassroots women’s rights organizations (WROs) inside Syria by improving their capacity to promote women’s rights and advance women’…

Partner: Uncoded

Sectors: Women's rights organisations and movements and government institutions (100%)

Measuring the Effectiveness of UN Peacebuilding Responses in Darfur

The project supports gender-sensitive endline data collection to produce new evidence on the effectiveness of peacebuilding initiatives including reaching women and vulnerable groups. The project fo…

Partner: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)

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

Syria Crisis - Health Care and Relief Items in Syria -Humanitarian Response 2014

June 2014 - The humanitarian situation in Syria continues to deteriorate as a result of the civil war in the country. The United Nations estimates that more than 160 000 people have been killed with…

Partner: Uncoded

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Support to the AIDS Fund

The goal of this project is to promote safer sex among those people who are most at risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in Cameroon most notably truck drivers sex trade workers and those l…

Partner: High Commission of Canada to Cameroon

Sectors: STD control including HIV/AIDS (100%)

Countering North Korean cyber security threats

This project seeks to address major cyber security threats posed by North Korea that aim to gain material and financial resources for its weapons of mass destruction programs.

Partner: United States Department of State

Sectors: Cyber security (100%)

Enhancing the Effectiveness of the United Nations Security Council

This project seeks to support the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Report in enhancing the effectiveness transparency and accountability of the UNSC. Project activities include: (1) delivering…

Partner: Security Council Report Inc.

Sectors: Justice law and order policy planning and administration (100%)

Support to the Tanzania Education Network

This project provides core funding support to the Tanzania Education Network / Mtandao wa Elimu Tanzania (TEN/MET) for the implementation of its Strategic Plan 2007-2010. This Plan includes activitie…

Partner: TEN/MET - Tanzania Education Network / Mtandao wa Elimu Tanzania

Sectors: Education policy and administrative management (60%), Public sector policy and administrative manag…

Empowering Women and Girls in Ethiopia

The project aims to enhance the well-being of marginalized women and girls in the Afar and Harari regions of Ethiopia. Project activities include: (1) providing training to community leaders and memb…

Partner: ETHIOPIAID

Sectors: Basic life skills for youth and adults (6%), Vocational training (8%), Basic health infrastructure …

Accessible and effective antenatal and sexual health care for rural women and girls in Tanzania

This project aims to improve maternal and newborn health among remote and marginalized populations in Tanzania by providing access to synchronous mobile ultrasound technology. Project activities incl…

Partner: CPAR - Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief

Sectors: Sectors not specified (100%)

Afghanistan - Emergency Health Assistance - International Medical Corps 2021

February 2021 - High levels of humanitarian need in Afghanistan fueled by the ongoing intra-Afghan conflict natural disasters the uncertain political landscape and displacement dynamics. In 2021 …

Partner: International Medical Corps UK

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Afghanistan - Emergency Health - International Medical Corps 2020

March 2020 - High levels of humanitarian need in Afghanistan are fueled by the ongoing intra-Afghan conflict natural disasters the uncertain political landscape and displacement dynamics. In 2020 …

Partner: International Medical Corps UK

Sectors: Basic Health Care in Emergencies (100%)

Bangladesh - Humanitarian Response to the Rohingya Crisis - Danish Refugee Council 2021

March 2021 – Following the outbreak of violence in Northern Rakhine State in August 2017 more than 700 000 Rohingya people crossed from Myanmar into Bangladesh over a period of several months. Curre…

Partner: Danish Refugee Council

Sectors: Relief co-ordination, protection and support services (100%)

Burkina Faso - Protection and SRHR Support - CARE 2021-2022

March 2021 - An estimated 3.5 million people are in need of humanitarian and protection assistance in Burkina Faso. The upsurge in violence over the last two years has forced more than one million pe…

Partner: CARE Canada

Sectors: Basic Health Care in Emergencies (57%), Relief co-ordination, protection and support services (43%)

Rohingya Crisis - Myanmar Humanitarian Fund - OCHA 2020

March 2020 – The humanitarian situation in Myanmar is characterized by a complex combination of vulnerability to armed conflict inter-communal tension protracted displacement and food insecurity. …

Partner: OCHA - United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (45%), Basic Health Care in Emergencies (25%), Education in…

Supporting the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine

The project supports the work of the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine. The SMM is a multinational unarmed civilian mission present on t…

Partner: Uncoded

Sectors: Human rights (50%), Civilian peace-building conflict prevention and resolution (50%)

Capacity Development Support for Integrated Mine Action in Eastern Ukraine

The project aims to support the Government of Ukraine in establishing a comprehensive well coordinated and gender-sensitive mine action response. The project also works to provide strategic capaci…

Partner: Uncoded

Sectors: Removal of land mines and explosive remnants of war (100%)

DRC - Emergency Assistance - Save the Children 2020-2021

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: Save the Children Canada

Sectors: Basic Health Care in Emergencies (36.14%), Relief co-ordination, protection and support services (6…

DRC - Emergency Assistance - People in Need 2020

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

Partner: People in Need

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (72%), Basic Health Care in Emergencies (28%)

Ethiopia Drought and Food Security Crisis – Concern Worldwide 2016

December 2015 - As a result of a particularly strong El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean Ethiopia is facing its worst food security crisis in thirty years. Failed rains in many areas of southern and …

Partner: Concern Worldwide

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

DRC - Emergency Assistance - World Vision 2018

February 2018 – The humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has deteriorated at an alarming rate since 2016. A surge in violent conflict and inter-communal tensions erupted i…

Partner: World Vision Canada

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (66%), Relief co-ordination, protection and support service…

Central African Republic - Emergency Assistance - Concern Worldwide 2017

Since internal conflict erupted in March 2013 the humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) deteriorated rapidly as inter-communal violence spun out of control and led to thousan…

Partner: Concern Worldwide

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Sri Lanka - UNHCR Appeal 2010

The decades-long conflict between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and Sri Lankan government forces ended in May 2009. Approximately 300 000 civilians were displaced in the final stages of…

Partner: UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Democratic Republic of the Congo - ICRC Appeal 2010

The United Nations report that there are still close to 4 million forcibly displaced persons in the Great Lakes region due to conflicts including more than 800 000 refugees and close to 3 million in…

Partner: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Appeals via the Canadian Red Cr…

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Central African Republic - Emergency Nutrition and Protection - Action Against Hunger 2016

March 2016 - Following a coup d’état in March 2013 the humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) deteriorated rapidly as inter-communal violence spun out of control and led to th…

Partner: Action Against Hunger (ACF) - France

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Iraq Crisis - Supporting Camp Construction for Displaced Persons in Dohuk - 2014

September 2014 - The humanitarian situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate. The recent surge in violence between armed groups and government forces has already displaced an estimated 1.7 million pe…

Partner: Uncoded

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Inclusion Data Generation and Policy Change

This project supports the World Bank in enhancing the realization of human rights and economic empowerment of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) people worldwide. With…

Partner: IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank

Sectors: Human rights (100%)

Reconstruction of Water Sanitation and Hygiene Services

On April 25 2015 a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal and was followed by a series of large aftershocks. The earthquakes resulted in over 8 700 deaths and 22 000 injuries 2.8 million displaced …

Partner: Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology

Sectors: Education and training in water supply and sanitation (100%)

Meeting Critical Health Care and Nutritional Needs in Kenya

This project aims to contribute to a reduction in maternal newborn and child morbidity and mortality by using an integrated approach to address the health service and nutritional needs of vulnerable…

Partner: University of Manitoba

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

Iraq Crisis - Deployment of Emergency Relief Items - Canadian Red Cross 2014

September 2014 - The humanitarian situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate. The recent surge in violence between armed groups and government forces has already displaced an estimated 1.7 million pe…

Partner: Canadian Red Cross

Sectors: Material relief assistance and services (100%)

Support for the Universalization of International Legal Frameworks related to Nuclear Security II

This project supports strengthening the Global Fight against nuclear and radiological terrorism through raising awareness and promoting ratification and implementation of International Legal Framewor…

Partner: UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Sectors: Disarmament of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) (100%)

Elections Support and Democratic Development

The goal of this project is to strengthen the democratic system in Guyana. The project aims to support the holding of free and fair elections that are in accordance with Guyanese laws and internation…

Partner: Uncoded

Sectors: Elections (100%)