Canada’s Africa Initiatives

On March 6, 2025, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs; the Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Export Promotion, International Trade and Economic Development; and the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of International Development, launched Canada’s Africa Strategy: A Partnership for Shared Prosperity and Security – Canada`s first global strategy that will drive economic prosperity, security and fairness for both Canadians and Africans for years to come.

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• Peace and security
• Environment and climate action
• Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls
• Growth for everyone
• Human dignity
• Inclusive governance

Peace and security

Sudan

Project: Darfur Community Peacebuilding

Partner: Name withheld for safety reasons

Funding: $1,864,699

Canada is allocating an additional $1,864,699 in project funding for a total of $3,364,699 to continue strengthening the protection of civilians and reduce conflict-related violence experienced by civilians in Sudan, particularly women and girls.

Project: Safer Together: Community-Led Protection in North Darfur

Partner: Name withheld for safety reasons

Funding: $2,800,000 

This project seeks to strengthen efforts to protect Sudanese civilians at risk of conflict by:

• establishing and supporting community protection groups, including women’s protection teams and early-warning and early-response groups;
• strengthening the protection and peacebuilding capacity of existing and emerging local organizations, relevant entities and networks;
• carrying out community risk assessments, protective presence and patrols and accompaniment to protect at-risk communities in high-risk areas.

Project: Strengthening Human-Centred Initiatives and Engagement to Limit Damage to Civilians in Sudan

Partner: Name withheld for safety reasons

Funding: $3,500,000 

This project seeks to strengthen efforts to protect Sudanese civilians at risk of conflict by:

• strengthening the capacity of local civil society to provide community-based protection;
• promoting the prevention of civilian harm;
• advocating to influential international and regional actors for concrete action to prevent civilian harm.

Project: Hope: Her Voice, Her Peace

Partner: Name withheld for safety reasons

Funding: $1,500,000 

This project will strengthen efforts to protect Sudanese civilians at risk of conflict by:

• supporting women-led organizations through capacity building, emergency sub-grants and in-kind support;
• providing psychosocial, trauma-healing and trust-building support for women who are victims of direct violence and for women who advocate for peace and security, including survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, internally displaced women and girls, and front-line responders;
• advocating for women’s meaningful participation in political and policy processes, particularly in advancing the women, peace and security agenda.

Project: Women Peace and Humanitarian Fund: Sudan Appeal

Partner: United Nations Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund

Funding: $ 1,148,015

This project is protecting Sudanese civilians at risk from conflict and of conflict-related sexual violence by:

• supporting local and grassroots women’s organizations working to enhance the participation and leadership of women in humanitarian planning and response;
• enhancing the safety, security and mental health of women and girls;
• increasing the representation and leadership of women in formal and informal peace processes and in the implementation of peace agreements.

Project: Strengthening Opportunities for Sudanese Youth and Women to Contribute to Peace and Security Through a Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus

Partner: Name withheld for safety reasons

Funding: $ 2,000,000

This project will strengthen efforts to protect Sudanese civilians at risk from conflict by:

• supporting Sudanese community groups responding to the crisis in Sudan;
• improving the participation and leadership of women and youth in community-led conflict resolution;
• advocating against conflict-related sexual violence.

Project: Protecting Human Rights Defenders in Conflict-Affected Countries

Partner: Front Line Defenders

Funding: $ 1,037,028

This project is supporting human rights defenders at risk, including women human rights defenders, by delivering support to those facing increasing threats through protection grants and training to increase security. The project includes a significant portion of funding specifically for human rights defenders in Sudan.

Benin-Togo-Burkina Faso border region

Project: Support of Community-Based Protection Program to Improve Protection Outcomes for Civilians

Partner: Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC)

Funding: $2,000,000

This project aims to strengthen the protection of civilians in the border area of Benin, Togo and Burkina Faso, a region facing growing insecurity due to the expansion of non-state armed groups. The project will respond to the critical needs of vulnerable border communities by:

• establishing inclusive community-based protection groups;
• strengthening forums for dialogue between communities, civil authorities and security and defence forces;
• training security and defence forces in civilian protection; and
• advocating strategically with commune, departmental and national authorities.

Burkina Faso and Benin border region

Project: Localized early warning to build communal resilience and counter violent extremism in Burkina Faso and Benin

Partner: The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention

Funding: $ 2,000,000 

The project aims to increase stability in Coastal West Africa (CWA) to prevent the spread of violent extremism. Through the establishment of a localized early warning system (EWS), the project will support early response to conflict and potential extremist attacks in the border areas of Burkina Faso and Benin and promote community stability and human security.

Mali, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire border region

Project: Combatting the Spread of Insecurity and Violent Extremism in West Africa

Partner: Promediation

Funding: $ 1,385,736

This project seeks to contribute to reducing the spread of insecurity and violent extremism in the border areas shared by Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Mali, by establishing local conflict management mechanisms coordinated at the cross-border level. It will strengthen the dialogue and coordination capacities of border communities to promote social cohesion and reduce inequalities and frustrations by taking everyone’s interests into account, thus reducing the risk of intercommunity confrontations, a breeding ground for the expansion of armed groups.

Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana border region

Project: Leaders of Today, Not Tomorrow: Strengthening Transnational Youth Peace Leadership Along the Ivorian-Ghanaian Border

Partner: Conciliation Resources

Funding: $ 1,999,990

This project empowers diverse young women and men to be collaborative leaders driving peaceful change in the northern borderlands of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Unleashing the potential of young people to strengthen the nascent peacebuilding ecosystem in the region increases the prospects of sustained peace and security. Ensuring decision-making and peace processes are grounded in and responsive to the vulnerabilities and frustrations that drive youth recruitment strengthens youth resistance to being drawn into violence.

Ethiopia

Project: Advancing Conflict Sensitivity in Ethiopia

Partner: Mercy Corps

Funding: $ 1,002,915

This project supports the establishment of a conflict sensitivity hub in Ethiopia that seeks to strengthen the conflict-sensitivity capacity of local and international humanitarian, development and peace actors in Ethiopia.

Project: Promoting Intergroup Peace and Community-Based Trauma Healing in War-Affected Contexts in Ethiopia

Partner: Ethiopian Institute for Peace

Funding: $ 1,500,000

This project is strengthening social cohesion and peaceful coexistence among different ethnic groups in the Ethiopian regional states of Afar, Benishangul-Gumuz and Tigray.

Ethiopia and Africa Regional

Project: Dealing with the Past and Responding to Risks and Opportunities for Peace in Sub-Saharan Africa

Partner: Conciliation Resources

Funding: $ 2,000,000 

This project increases the effectiveness of peace, reconciliation, and dialogue processes in Ethiopia and Sub-Saharan Africa by providing adaptive and flexible support to a range of local organizations. It will support the Somali regional Truth and Reconciliation Commission to conduct public hearings, provide support to victims and survivors, and facilitate peace collaboration meetings with Tigrayan civil society.

Mozambique

Project: Children and Armed Conflict in Mozambique

Partner: UNICEF

Funding: $5,000,000

This project will support efforts to protect 12,000 children affected by armed conflict (CAAC) from recruitment, while reintegrating 900 children associated with arm forces and armed groups (CAAFAG) into their communities.  It will focus on building the capacity of support service providers and the resilience of communities most vulnerable to armed groups. The project will support vulnerable children and establish a centralized database to ensure appropriate, targeted support, provide trauma-informed care to affected children, support family reunification, and deliver child-friendly justice services.

Project: Support to the Mozambique National Peace Process (extension)

Partner: UNOPS

Funding: $500,000

This cost extension to Canada’s contribution to the Mozambique Peace Process Basket Fund will continue to:

• support the implementation of the Maputo Accord for Peace and National Reconciliation.
• disarm and demobilize ex-combatants and support the reintegration of ex-combatants and their family members into Mozambican society, including with livelihoods support.
• supported peace clubs and community activities towards long term and sustainable reconciliation and peace.

Environment and climate action

Multi-country

Project: The 12th replenishment of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol

Partner: Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol

Funding: $31,500,000

This contribution represents Canada’s assessed contribution to the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MLF). The Montreal Protocol is an effective instrument to achieve global climate mitigation.

This Fund provides support to developing countries to phase out the use and production of substances that break down the earth's protective ozone layer.

Project: Institutional Support to the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)

Partner: UNU-INWEH

Funding: $20,000,000

UNU-INWEH serves as a hub of world-class expertise that brings together researchers, educators, policymakers and industry representatives focused on addressing global water, environment, and sanitation issues.

Senegal, Mauritania and Gambia

Project: Top up to Ecosystem Solutions for Sustainable Adaptation

Partner: Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Iles

Funding: $1,500,000

This project aims to contribute to the climate change adaptation of communities living in or near three protected areas in Senegal, Mauritania and Gambia.

Cameroon

Project: Empowerment of Women and Girls Groups in Rural Cameroon

Partner: Afrique Future Canada

Funding: $2,000,000

This project aims to reduce poverty by strengthening the economic rights of women and young girls in Cameroon. This project will support efforts to strengthen technical capacities for environmentally friendly and health-friendly agricultural production and marketing targeted products. It will also strengthen the quality of commercial production for local and regional markets in the Nyong and Kellé departments. And it will strengthen the rights of women and girls from 26 groups within local support structures. The project will also include awareness-raising and training around women's and girls' rights.

Ghana

Project: Increasing Climate Resilience and Improving Farmers’ Livelihood in Ghana

Partner: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Funding: $1,500,000

This project will improve food security in Ghana, including by addressing the impact of annual droughts on crop and livestock production. It will also support the provision of early warning information on weather while promoting farming systems that are resilient to prolonged drought seasons.

Project: Climate Resilient Livelihoods for Women in Northern Ghana (CLIMB)

Partner: Opportunity International Canada

Funding: $12,700, 000

This project will increase the revenues of agricultural farmers, particularly women farmers, living in five climate-challenged regions of northern Ghana. It will support climate-resilient farming systems and provide concessional loans and financial services to 14,500 smallholder farmers, mostly women, 480 agribusiness traders, and 20 small and medium enterprises. These activities will add value to agricultural products in Ghana.

Senegal

Project: Professional Skills and Youth Employability in the Environment Sector

Partner: Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Iles

Funding: $25,000,000

This project aims to strengthen community resilience by integrating young people, particularly young women, into a sustainable economic system that promotes adaptation to climate change. It aims to meet the triple challenges of adapting Senegal's coastal populations to climate change, combating poverty in rural areas, and ensuring the socio-economic integration of young people.

Somalia

Project: Scaling Up Climate-Resilient Livelihoods in Somalia

Partner: FAO Somalia

Funding: $7,000,000

The Scaling Up Gender-Inclusive and Climate-Resilient Livelihoods Program in Somalia responds to Somalia's need for climate-adaptation support. As one of the root causes of the country's cyclical and prolonged humanitarian crises, climate change in Somalia requires an increased focus on inclusive and conflict-sensitive natural resource management, climate-related disaster risk planning, climate-resilient livelihoods and inclusive and gender-sensitive governance. This project aims to fund activities that meet these objectives, including layering humanitarian and development interventions to increase climate resilience of Somali agro-pastoralists and pastoralists. It will also support work to ensure gender-sensitive outcomes from the rehabilitation of irrigation and flood management infrastructure along of Somalia’s largest rivers. Project activities include:

• building government capacity;
• developing structures to enable community-led climate-related disaster risk planning and natural resource management;
• providing training and resources to diversify and strengthen climate-resilient livelihoods;
• enabling access to additional financial resources for marginalized groups;
• developing and implementing actionable gender analyses within a large-scale climate adaptation program;

South Sudan

Project: Expanding Agricultural Climate Resilience In South Sudan

Partner: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Funding: $10,000,000

Climate change is intensifying existing gender inequalities and vulnerabilities in South Sudan. This project aims to enhance capacities and promote technologies for the sustainable utilization of natural resources and nature-based enterprises, while also diversifying livelihoods and income generating sources for vulnerable populations. Project activities include:

• building the capacity of farmers by providing livelihood inputs, such as drought resistant crop variants;

• providing fishing equipment and gear to promote fisheries production among highly vulnerable households affected by floods;
• conduct training sessions on Good Agricultural Practices, climate-smart agriculture technologies, and natural resource management, ensuring the provision of appropriate inputs to raise awareness and facilitate the adoption of new technologies;
• enhance local and institutional capacities for anticipating and addressing disaster risks related to droughts and floods.

Sudan

Project: Enhancing Climate-Resilient Agriculture and Livelihoods for Women and Youth in Sudan (ECRAL)

Partner: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Funding: $9,500,000

The Enhancing Climate-Resilient Agriculture and Livelihoods for Women and Youth in Sudan project aims to improve food security for 49,500 people, particularly women and youth, in rural areas of Sudan. Project activities include:

• Providing training to develop capacities of local stakeholders and NGOs to plan, implement, and mobilize resources for integrated landscape management;
• Establishing and operating 160 farmer field and business schools to promote climate-resilient agricultural technologies and practices;
• Train women through 12 Women’s Empowerment Farm Business School to develop and manage at least 12 agri-food enterprises;
• Provide training and other supports to farmers in establishing and rehabilitating agricultural assets, including water and food storage systems;
• Providing training and other support to strengthen the capacities of relevant stakeholders for gender-responsive Climate-Smart Agriculture, landscape management, and sustainable agri-food value chains.

Tunisia

Project: Canada-Tunisia Partnership for Territorial Action on Climate Adaptation

Partner: Federations of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)

Funding: $11,500,000

The project seeks to support climate change adaptation with a focus on nature-based solutions and impacts on biodiversity. It aims to strengthen Tunisia's climate change adaptation by supporting and building climate-resilient, low-carbon municipalities.

Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls

Multi-country

Project: Extension of “Sector Hub to Prevent and Address Sexual Misconduct in the Delivery of International Assistance”

Partner: Cooperation Canada

Funding: $3,000,000 (costed extension)

The project aims to reduce the risk of sexual misconduct and to work towards the full realization of human rights for local populations, particularly women, girls and marginalized communities. The project enables the Sector Hub to support civil society organizations (CSOs) working in international development to meet their commitments related to the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (PSEAH) using an anti-racist, locally-lead and intersectional feminist approach. Project activities include:

• maintaining and expanding an e-platform for Canadian CSOs to share resources and experiences.
• delivering knowledge-sharing activities for staff of Canadian CSOs, including small to medium organization, on PSEAH and on anti-racist, locally led, intersectional approaches to international cooperation.
• developing support materials, toolkits and case studies on anti-racist, locally led and intersectional approaches relevant to PSEAH.
• maintaining and expanding a database of specialized services.
• convening communities of practice for staff of Canadian CSOs to enhance learning on PSEAH and anti-racist, locally led and intersectional approaches to international cooperation.

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Project: Renewed Women's Voice and Leadership – Democratic Republic of Congo

Partner: Carter Center

Funding: $15,400,000

This project supports local and regional women's organizations and networks to promote women's rights and advance women's empowerment and gender equality. It provides support to women's rights organizations and movements with a view to: enhancing the organizational capacity of local women's rights organizations and marginalized communities to advance gender equality; strengthening programming and advocacy efforts of women’s organizations, marginalized communities, and defenders of women’s rights; and bolstering the influence of women’s rights platforms, networks, and alliances at subnational, national, regional, and global levels to drive legal, political, and social transformations.

Ethiopia

Project: Renewed Women's Voice and Leadership – Ethiopia

Partner: CARE Canada

Funding: $11,700,000

This project will renew the flagship Women's Voice and Leadership program in Ethiopia, improving human rights for women and girls and promoting gender equality.

Morocco

Project: Enhanced Prevention and Intervention in cases of violence against women and girls in Morocco

Partner: UN Women

Funding: $4,000,000

This project aims to ensure that women survivors of violence have access to quality care services. It will also promote conditions for their economic empowerment with a particular focus on the Casablanca-Settat and Fès-Meknès regions.

Nigeria

Project: Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership – Nigeria

Partner: ActionAid Nigeria

Funding: $15,500,000

This project supports local and regional women's organizations and networks to promote women's rights and advance women's empowerment and gender equality.

Project: Financing Rural Women’s Climate Action in Nigeria

Partner: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ)

Funding: $5,000,000

This project aims to improve climate resilience and reduce poverty among rural women in Nigeria by funding initiatives that support their capacity to adapt to climate change. The project will leverage GIZ's expertise and work closely with local organizations and stakeholders to ensure sustainable, gender-inclusive climate action in targeted states.

Senegal

Project: Renewed Women's Voice and Leadership – Senegal

Partner: Oxfam Québec

Funding: $7,660,000

This project aims to support women's organizations and networks working to promote women's rights and gender equality in Senegal. Given the fundamental role that these organizations play as agents of change, this project aims to support their activities, strengthen their organizational capacities, and promote the creation of networks and alliances.

Growth for everyone

Multi-Country

Project: Support to the Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (IPPF)

Partner: African Development Bank (AfDB)

Funding: $20,000,000

This project will support efforts to foster inclusive economic growth in Africa, guided by the objectives of the African Union’s Africa Continental Free Trade Area, and aligned with the G7 Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment. This project will support African governments to design, develop and structure large scale infrastructure projects, with a focus on the energy, transport, water, and information communications and technology sectors. It will also provide some project preparation support to the Alliance for Green Infrastructure in Africa (AGIA) initiative.

Project: Trade for Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth

Partner: Trade Facilitation Office (TFO) Canada

Funding: $15,400,000 (also supporting work in other regions of the world)

This project will, inter alia, strengthen trade support institutions, thereby improving the enabling environment in 8 targeted countries in Africa and providing small and medium sized enterprises with improved trade and market intelligence, export-readiness support, business coaching, networking opportunities with buyers, and international market access

Nigeria

Project: Resilient and Inclusive Agri-food Systems Empowering Women and Youth (RISE)

Partner: Mennonite Economic Development Association of Canada (MEDA)

Funding: $19,200,000

This project aims to enhance the productivity and climate resilience of women smallholder farmers in key agriculture value chains in Nigeria and improve business performance of women and youth led SMEs.

Human dignity

Multi-country

Project: Humanitarian Sexual and Reproductive Health Assistance in sub-Saharan Africa

Partner: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Funding: $10,000,000

This project supports the delivery of lifesaving sexual and reproductive health services and protection to vulnerable populations in sub-Saharan Africa affected by humanitarian crisis.

Project: Global Emergency Health Response

Partner: Doctors Without Borders Canada

Funding: $50,000,000

This four-year project focuses on providing access to primary and secondary healthcare for people affected by humanitarian crises, including the provision of sexual and reproductive health services.

Project: Global Emergency Nutrition Security Program

Partner: Action Against Hunger Canada

Funding: $48,000,000

This project focuses on improving the nutritional status of vulnerable populations affected by humanitarian crises, through the delivery of emergency nutrition and complementary health and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services.

Project: ICRC Sexual Violence Global Response

Partner: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Funding: $7,500,000

This project supports the ICRC and Red Cross and Red Crescent movement’s response to sexual violence in countries affected by humanitarian crises, including the provision of clinical care, psychosocial support and material assistance to victims/survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.

Project: The Canadian Humanitarian Assistance Fund (CHAF)

Partner: Multiple (Humanitarian Coalition)

Funding: $20,000,000

The Canadian Humanitarian Assistance Fund (CHAF) supports timely and reliable humanitarian assistance to those affected by rapid-onset, small and medium scale disasters in developing countries.

Project: Long-Term Institutional Support

Partner: World Food Programme (WFP)

Funding: $100,000,000

This project supports the efforts of the World Food Programme to ensure that people are better able to meet urgent food and nutrition needs.

Project: One Health projects in Rwanda, Senegal, Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda, Burkina Faso and Kenya

Partner: University of Montreal in partnership with the University of Guelph, University of Saskatchewan, Veterinarians without Borders, and Alinea International

Funding: $20,000,000

This portfolio of four projects is supporting gender inclusive healthy community level behaviours and practices around safe human-animal-environment interactions, and the use of a One Health approach to prevent and mitigate the transmission of zoonotic diseases with significant local public health impact.

Project: Strengthening Health Systems for Integrated & Transformative Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Partner: Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights

Funding: $20,900,000

This project seeks to address supply gaps for age-appropriate sexual health and rights services, reinforces the demand side of service delivery, and strengthens enabling environments for the respect, protection and fulfillment of sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Project: Transforming Lives with Nutrition Action

Partner: Helen Keller International

Funding: $4,000,000

This project aims to improve nutrition outcomes for vulnerable mothers and children under 5 years of age in Cambodia, Kenya, and Senegal. It will support cost-effective, nutrition-specific interventions through the health system to reduce child deaths and disabilities, improve children's cognitive and physical development, and protect women’s health and well-being.

Côte d'Ivoire

Project: Building resilience in northeastern Côte d'Ivoire

Partner: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Funding: $3,500,000

The project aims to strengthen the resilience of health systems, communities and individuals in the Bounkani and Tchologo regions, by improving access to quality sexual and reproductive health services, as well as to gender- and conflict-sensitive professional training centers. On the one hand, the initiative works with health structures and various care providers to improve their capacity to deal with sexual and reproductive health and rights, as well as gender-based violence. On the other hand, it aims to increase employability and access to financial resources to foster the economic empowerment of young women and mothers.

Ethiopia

Project: Improving Access to Reproductive Health & Rights Information and Services project

Partner: Ipas

Funding: $15,000,000

This initiative aims to help protect and promote the human rights of vulnerable and marginalized groups, including a specific focus on survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, women with disabilities and female factory workers.

Ghana

Project: Ensuring Access to Family Planning Services

Partner: Marie Stopes International Reproductive Choices

Funding: $10,000,000

This project will build the capacity of 7,000 health professionals and support 100 healthcare facilities to deliver high-quality sexual and reproductive health services to low income and underserved women and girls, while ensuring a safe policy environment for access to professional services from accredited public and private service providers in rural communities across 14 regions of Ghana.

Project: Ghana Primary Health Care Investment Program

Partner: World Bank / IBRD Trust Fund

Funding: $15,000,000

This project will help to enhance the quality of primary health care services in Ghana. It will improve primary health care policies, financing, and national health insurance coverage, and will help to improve the utilization of primary health care services, particularly maternal and newborn care, family planning, and vaccination services.

Mozambique

Project: Combatting Absenteeism and Reducing Barriers to Education

Partner: $20,000,000

Funding: World Food Programme (WFP)

This project will:

• provide daily nutritious meals to approximately 53,800 students at 104 schools in 5 food insecure districts in Tete province of Mozambique;
• connect smallholder farmers as suppliers of fresh produce to the schools;
• support community gardens and provide nutritional education to parents and students linked to the school gardens;
• strengthen community engagement;
• establish support clubs for girls, and test locally sourced menstrual hygiene products for women and girls;

Project: Fixing the Foundations: Mozambique's Health Systems Strengthening

Partner: World Bank

Funding: $55,000,000

This project supports the World Bank and Mozambique’s Ministry of Health to improve healthcare for vulnerable populations, ensuring that more people receive timely, quality care. This co-funded program allows for the combining of resources to drive impact, namely improving maternal, adolescent and child health, and increasing access to life-saving care. The project will:

• strengthen district hospitals;
• expand access to essential medicines;
• train community health workers and enhance community health services;
• build digital supply chains;
• build climate-resilient health infrastructure for a stronger, sustainable health system for the future.

Morocco

Project: Promotion and protection of Moroccan girls' rights to sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and a life free from violence

Partner: UNFPA

Funding: $4,000,000

This project aims to strengthen girls’ sexual and reproductive health rights and to ensure a life free from violence, with a focus on the rural areas of the Souss-Massa and Oriental regions. It addresses women and young girls’ essential needs and is fully aligned with Morocco's health development objectives.

Nigeria

Project: Improving Health and Nutrition Status of Women, Adolescents and Children in Nigeria

Partner: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Funding: $15,000,000

This project aims to improve the health and nutrition status of women, adolescents and children in the Bauchi, Kaduna, and Kebbi states in Nigeria by improving coverage of: gender-responsive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH); and nutrition services. The expected results include:

• increased availability and accessibility of gender responsive SRHR, MNCH and nutrition services;
• increased family and community support for women and adolescents to fulfil their rights for gender responsive SRHR, MNCH and nutrition;
• improved capacity of the State, Local Government Authorities (LGA), and key stakeholders to promote and deliver gender responsive SRHR, MNCH and nutrition services for women, children and adolescents.

Project: EmpowerHer: Enhancing Women and Girls’ Sexual and Reproductive Health and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Nigeria

Partner: WaterAid Canada

Funding: $7,620,315

This project aims to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) through access to water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH) for women and adolescents in Bauchi State, Nigeria. The expected results are:

• improved ability of adolescents to access gender-responsive and climate-resilient WASH and menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) services for in-school and out-of-school girls and boys;
• strengthened gender-responsive and climate-resilient WASH services at schools and sexual reproductive health integration at healthcare facilities for women and girls;
• improved governance to ensure the provision of evidence-based, accountable, gender-responsive and inclusive WASH, MHH, and SRH services at local, state and national levels.

Senegal

Project: Support for the Prevention and Elimination of Gender-Based Violence

Partner: UN Women

Funding: $15,000,000

This project aims to strengthen women’s and girls' rights and promote their full participation in society. This project aims to support 100,000 women and girls with holistic care services in seven regions with a high prevalence of gender-based violence in Senegal. It also aims to increase women’s and girls’ resilience and strengthen their ability to claim their rights and improve their access to justice and to essential health care services.

Project: Integrated project to strengthen the reproductive health of women, youth and adolescents in Senegal

Partner: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Funding: $24,000,000

This project aims to reduce preventable maternal deaths and unmet reproductive health needs by improving the availability, acceptability and accessibility of youth-friendly quality health and reproductive services.

Sudan

Project: Sudan Crisis – Food assistance

Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB)

Funding: $4,000,000

This project aims to meet the immediate food needs of conflict-affected communities in Al Jazirah, North Kordofan, South Darfur and White Nile in Sudan, including through the provision of food assistance to vulnerable households.

South Sudan

Project: Strengthening Collective Action and Learning for Education

Partner: World University Service of Canada (WUSC)

Funding: $10,000,000

This project aims to:

• reduce barriers to equitable access to safe, quality and gender-transformative learning opportunities for adolescent girls, female youth, and other vulnerable groups;
• improve the provision of safe, quality gender-transformative learning opportunities for adolescent girls and female youths, and other vulnerable groups within the targeted counties.

Project: Education for All in South Sudan

Partner: United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

Funding: $25,000,000

This project will expand the scope of Canada's G7 Charlevoix investment to cover all ten states (seven originally) and to focus on addressing persistent barriers to quality education and retention for adolescent girls and children with disabilities, including in more insecure areas with high numbers of internally displaced and refugee populations.

Project: Health Sector Transformation in South Sudan

Partner: World Bank

Funding: $75,000,000

This project is part of a multi-donor trust fund to support the delivery of the Government of South Sudan’s basic package of health and nutrition services in all 10 states. It is the backbone of the healthcare system in South Sudan, delivering much needed supplies and services to improve health outcomes, especially for women and children. This basic health package includes services such as maternal and newborn child health care, immunization, treatment for infectious diseases, family planning, and support for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. The World Bank collaborates with the South Sudan Ministry of Health to co-finance this work and to build capacities.

Tanzania

Project: Strengthening Midwifery in Tanzania

Partner: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in partnership with the Canadian Association of Midwives and Amref

Funding: $11,750,000

This project aims to reduce maternal and newborn mortality and improve healthcare delivery by increasing the availability, skills, competence and empowerment of midwives to ensure that they are able to provide the full scope of midwifery care. The project will introduce and improve the midwifery training curricula and the learning environment for pre-service midwives, strengthen the skills of trainers, and support regular upgrading of clinical skills for in-service midwives.

Project: Keeping Girls in School by Improving Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Infrastructure and Decreasing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

Partner: HakiElimu

Funding: $4,500,000

This project seeks to enhance educational opportunities and increase girls’ retention in school in Tanzania. To prevent girls from missing school, the project will increase the availability of clean and safe sanitation facilities and menstrual hygiene products. The project will also promote safe learning environments to protect students from school-based sexual and gender-based violence.

Inclusive governance

Multi-Country

Project: Support for Accessible, Quality Information in the Sahel

Partner: Search for Common Ground

Funding: $4,800,000

This project aims to consolidate social cohesion in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger by addressing conflict triggers, including online information monitoring. It also aims to promote credible, factual and constructive information.

Tunisia

Project: Strengthening Independent Media for Inclusive Governance in Tunisia

Partner: Journalists for Human Rights (JHR)

Funding: $2,300,000

This project strengthens the role of national media in raising awareness about sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and combating gender-based violence (GBV). It promotes collaboration between social workers, community radio, and local leaders to fight social stigmas related to SRHR and GBV while influencing public policies for greater gender equality.

Somalia

Project: World Bank Somalia Multi-Partner Fund

Partner: World Bank Somalia Multi-Partner Fund

Funding: $5,000,000

The World Bank's Somalia Multi-Partner Fund (MPF) supports government-led state-building and urban development in Somalia. The Fund has an active portfolio of investment projects co-financed alongside International Development Association (IDA) funding by working with and through Somalia's country systems. The Fund provides analytical and advisory support, including through a dedicated women's empowerment platform.

South Africa

Project: Strengthening Ethics, Integrity and Green Governance in South Africa

Partner: Cowater International Inc.

Funding: $5,000,000

This project aims to support the South African government to improve accountability, efficiency, and transparency in public administration, and to promote inclusive and gender-responsive governance.

South Sudan

Project: South Sudan Electoral Support

Partner: United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

Funding: $1,300,000

This project aims to strengthen national institutions and processes in support of free, fair and peaceful elections in South Sudan. The expected outcomes for this project include strengthened electoral processes that establish legitimate representation and enhanced inclusive civic engagement, with a focus on women, youth and under-represented groups.

Project: Multi-donor Transition Trust Fund

Partner: World Bank

Funding: $1,500,000

This multi-donor project aims to improve inclusive, government-led service delivery that supports the recovery and consolidation of peace in South Sudan. The expected outcomes include strengthened institution building and governance at national, state, and local levels to enhance government accountability and build civilian confidence in the state, and the development of an improved enabling environment for strong, inclusive economic growth.