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April 15, 2024 | Canada, Global Health, WASH & Sanitation, Nutritious Food Systems, Gender Equality, Education | Share this update
On April 15, 2024, Canadian Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen participated in the International Humanitarian Conference for Sudan and its Neighbours, where he announced CAD132million (US$96 million) in international assistance funding to Sudan and neighbouring Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, and South Sudan.
The announcement included nearly CAD101 million (US$73 million) in humanitarian assistance and nearly CAD32 million (US$23 million) in development assistance amid the ongoing armed conflict in Sudan. The funding is slated to provide crisis-affected people with emergency health services, food and nutrition assistance, protection services for gender-based violence survivors, and other assistance including shelter, water, and sanitation services. The development assistance will support critical programming in SRHR and education infrastructure.
April 11, 2024 | Canada, Agriculture, Gender Equality, Nutritious Food Systems, Global Health, Climate | Share this update
On April 11, 2024, Canada’s Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen announced CAD142 million (US$103 million) in funding for projects in the DRC and Benin to advance gender equality and women’s rights.
Six projects valued at a total of nearly CAD75 million (US$55 million) were announced for the DRC. The projects will improve access to health resources for women and girls, promote inclusive governance practices, improve women’s inclusion in public and democratic life, and help prevent and respond to SGBV. Funding also included humanitarian programming that will address critical needs arising from the conflict in eastern DRC.
Five projects valued at a total of CAD68 million (US$49 million) were announced for Benin. The initiatives are slated to increase women’s economic resilience, promote a greener economy and agricultural sector, address SGBV, and strengthen inclusive health systems.
March 20, 2024 | Canada, Gender Equality | Share this update
At the Summit for Democracy on March 20, 2024, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Canada announced CAD30 million (US$22 million) to protect and strengthen global democratic institutions and human rights.
The funding will support new projects, including:
March 19, 2024 | Canada, Nutritious Food Systems, Climate, Gender Equality, WASH & Sanitation | Share this update
On March 19, 2024, Canada’s Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen announced CAD15 million (US$11 million) in development assistance funding for three projects in Iraq to support resilient food systems, climate change action, and gender empowerment.
Funding announced included:
March 18, 2024 | Canada, Global Health, Education, Gender Equality, Family Planning | Share this update
On March 18, 2024, Canadian Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen announced CAD66 million (US$49 million) in funding for six international development projects to support sexual and reproductive health and rights, mental health, and education for women and girls in Mozambique.
Projects included:
March 11, 2024 | Canada, UK, Agriculture, Climate, Global Health, Gender Equality | Share this update
On March 11, 2024, the CLARE partnership between the UK and Canada’s IDRC launched 17 research projects designed to build climate resilience and reduce vulnerability in LICs and LMICs, valued at CAD180 million (US$133 million).
The research projects aim to support socially inclusive and sustainable action to build resilience to climate change and natural hazards in African partners and the Asia-Pacific region. Researchers in recipient countries are leading or co-leading the research, which will embed gender equality and inclusion principles and will address a wide range of climate change issues in the fields of agriculture, health, urban adaptation, water security, among others.
March 7, 2024 | Canada, Gender Equality | Share this update
On March 7, 2024, Canada is launching new research projects on care work, valued at CAD25 million (US$19 million).
The research aims to develop policy and program solutions with African partner countries to transform the care landscape and address the disproportionate responsibility for unpaid care work that falls on women and girls in the region.
Announced in July 2023, the IDRC’s Scaling Care Innovations in Africa initiative is a five-year partnership between Global Affairs Canada and IDRC. The initiative selected 17 locally-led research teams that will assess how to scale pilot-tested innovations addressing the unequal responsibility for unpaid care work that women and girls face. Seven projects will focus on policy-oriented solutions and 10 will research program-based solutions.
The projects operate in several countries, including Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Benin, Ghana, Ethiopia, Côte D'Ivoire, among others. The research projects were developed in line with the "triple R” framework, which calls for action to recognize, reduce, and redistribute unpaid care work.
February 28, 2024 | Canada, Gender Equality, Climate, Global Health, Education | Share this update
On February 28, 2024, Cooperation Canada launched their Global Landscape Analysis of the international cooperation sector, a report of IDRC's Futures Initiative, which encompasses extensive research to provide a comprehensive outlook of the trends, challenges, and emerging issues impacting international development cooperation for the coming decade.
The report focused on five issue areas that present pressing challenges to international development: political, environmental, social, economic, and technological. It examined geopolitical shifts impacting issues, including climate change, gender equality, education, healthcare, and civil liberties.
The report was intended to be the first step to achieving the project’s goal of defining three transformative scenarios for global development cooperation. The report recommended that CSOs adopt innovative strategies in the face of a volatile international development cooperation landscape, including:
February 27, 2024 | Canada, Gender Equality, Climate, Global Health, Nutritious Food Systems | Share this update
On February 27, 2024, at the 46th Regular Meeting of the Conference of CARICOM in Guyana, Canadian Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen announced a total of CAD169 million (US$124 million) to support initiatives in climate, health, gender equality, and more in multiple Caribbean countries.
Funding included:
February 22, 2024 | Canada, Education, Gender Equality, Climate, Nutritious Food Systems | Share this update
On February 22, 2024, Canadian Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen announced CAD95 million (US$70 million) in new development assistance for seven projects in Jordan.
The funding will include CAD72 million (US$53 million) for education projects and CAD23 million (US$17 million) for renewable energy and biodiversity projects.
The projects were listed as:
US$ amounts are cited directly from sources; in the absence of an official conversion, they are calculated using the previous week's average of the US Federal Reserve's daily exchange rates.
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