At the 80th United Nations (UN) General Assembly, Prime Minister Carney announced new funding to drive progress on shared global priorities.
Supporting the restoration of peace and security in Palestine
Promoting Resilience, Opportunities and Sustainability through Partnerships for Empowerment
Partner: Cowater International
Funding: $15 million over five years
Location: West Bank
This project aims to strengthen economic resilience for low-income women and youth in the West Bank – strengthening their roles in agriculture and renewable energy through policy advocacy, entrepreneurship training, support for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), and leadership development for renewable energy engineers.
Reinforcing equal access to justice for all Palestinians (Sawasya III)
Partners: UN Development Programme, UN Women, UNICEF
Funding: $10 million over five years
Location: West Bank
This project aims to advance the promotion, respect for, and fulfilment of human rights and gender equality across the occupied Palestinian territory. Using a holistic approach, it seeks to put into practice international standards within judicial systems and procedures to tangibly support human rights – including through scaled-up professionalization, judicial integration, the use of e-justice solutions, quality legal education, as well as evidence-based advocacy.
Office of the Quartet Institutional Support
Partner: UN Office for Project Services
Funding: $4.5 million over three years
Location: West Bank
This funding will help the Office of the Quartet develop an interim and long-term strategy to maintain and build dialogue between the Palestinian Authority and the Government of Israel, to ultimately increase Palestinian economic and institutional development and empowerment. The project includes sector by sector outcomes, such as ensuring the Palestinian energy sector is affordable, secure, and sustainable; upgrading Palestinian mobile communications and backhaul networks; supporting the effective delivery of justice and security services based on democratic principles; and enhancing the fiscal and financial stability of the Palestinian Authority.
Supporting the Palestinian Authority to promote public sector efficiency, accountability, and transparency
Partner: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Funding: $3 million over three years
Location: West Bank
This project will support the Palestinian Authority and relevant administrative structures to improve government accountability and transparency, advance the efficiency of public service delivery, and strengthen women’s access to decision-making and information. It will also strengthen the Palestinian Authority’s capacity for transparent and participatory decision-making, and for the delivery of efficient, inclusive, and citizen-oriented public policies and services in the West Bank – strengthening capacity to one day provide the same in Gaza.
To support credible elections and inclusive governance in the West Bank, Canada will also provide up to $15 million for electoral assistance and a comprehensive democratization program.
Building resilience to climate change
Trade for Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth
Partner: Trade Facilitation Office Canada
Funding: $15 million over six years
Countries: Various
This project will work to increase the sustainable economic growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), especially those that are climate resilient. It will support improved economic growth for these SMEs, two thirds of which will be women-led or led by under-represented groups, and better equip them to withstand the impacts of climate change.
Nature-based solutions to climate change in Iraq
Partner: World Food Programme
Funding: $12 million over five years
Countries: Iraq
This project aims to reduce poverty and enhance food security for vulnerable communities in Iraq’s arid and semi-arid regions – with a focus on Anbar, Najaf, Ninewa, Muthanna, and Sulaymaniyah governorates – through sustainable land and resource management.
Sahel Integrated Resilience Programme
Partner: World Food Programme
Funding: $10 million over four years
Countries: Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania
This project strengthens food systems and helps communities in Africa’s Sahel region tackle climate change, food insecurity, and socio-economic challenges. Focusing on the most climate-vulnerable areas, it aims to restore degraded land, boost agropastoral productivity, connect farmers to markets, combat malnutrition, and promote climate-resilient crops and local food systems.
Protecting marine biodiversity in Aqaba, Jordan
Partner: UN Development Program
Funding: Top up of $7 million over two years
Countries: Jordan
The project aims to conserve and restore marine and terrestrial biodiversity in the Gulf of Aqaba and its surrounding coastal area, while fostering economic opportunities through eco-tourism initiatives. It will focus on removing solid waste from protected areas and enhancing the resilience of marine and land ecosystems in the region against the threat of climate change and human activity. This new funding builds on Canada’s initial investment of $5 million in support of this initiative.
Climate Finance Access Network
Partner: Rocky Mountain Institute
Funding: Top up of $1.25 million over one year
Countries: Jamaica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Bahamas, and others through regional entities
This project helps Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific and Caribbean develop lasting capacity to access climate finance by hiring, training, and placing climate finance advisors in national government departments and regional entities. These advisors support the development of complex project proposals to increase success rates and bring more climate finance to the region. Building on a previously allocated $5.25 million, this new funding will help extend the contracts of advisors already deployed and support the expansion of their training curriculum.
Supporting peace, security, and democracy
Strengthening press freedom for climate and environmental journalists in sub-Saharan Africa
Partner: International Press Institute
Funding: $1.58 million over three years
Countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda
This project helps monitor and collect data on press freedom violations, supports at-risk journalists in sub-Saharan Africa, and supports the creation of advocacy materials to raise awareness to threats on press freedom and journalist safety. It advocates for public and private actors to fulfil commitments to protect press freedom rights and aims to establish a multi-stakeholder network to co-ordinate actions against attacks targeting environmental journalists, including information manipulation.
Election Integrity Task Force
Partner: Global Media Registry
Funding: $1.5 million over two years
Countries: Various
This project aims to increase voter resilience to foreign manipulation and information interference. Co-ordinating with journalists, content creators, civil society, the public sector, international partners, and election observers, it will support the development of context-specific interventions, offer tailored and gender-responsive training workshops, and provide technical support. The project will also establish a monitoring and early warning team to detect, analyze, and disseminate information on interference patterns and relevant narratives, and develop counter-strategies.
Combatting information manipulation targeting women candidates during electoral processes in Latin America
Partner: Fundación Multitudes
Funding: $769,455 over two years
Countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay
This project seeks to enhance the resilience of political actors in Latin America against online election-related gender-based violence and disinformation. It will monitor and document the impact of information manipulation on women participating in electoral processes through national-level surveys and statistical analysis, conduct training and workshops to equip women candidates and activists with strategies to identify and combat gendered information manipulation, and launch awareness and advocacy campaigns to educate the public and policymakers on its effects on women’s political participation.
African Union Champion for Peace Agenda
Partner: UN Development Programme Angola
Funding: $250,000 over one year
Countries: Angola
This project will support the African Union Champion for Peace and Reconciliation, a position currently held by the President of Angola, João Lourenço. Assisting the African Union’s engagement in peace mediation across the continent, it aims to establish a Centre of Excellence for Peace and Reconciliation and build capacity in the Angolan Ministry of External Relations to support conflict resolution.
Promoting human rights and economic empowerment
UNICEF Multi-Country Nutrition
Partner: UNICEF
Funding: $78 million over two years
Countries: Various
This funding is allocated to the Programme Window of the Child Nutrition Fund to help treat children suffering from acute malnutrition, as well as pregnant and lactating women. Support provided by Canada will target the provision of ready-to-use therapeutic food to treat severe malnutrition, while also covering complementary activities essential to effective nutrition programming in emergencies, such as support for breastfeeding, the provision of complementary foods, micronutrient supplementation, and weight gain monitoring.
Amplifying the voices of women and girls
Partner: Journalists for Human Rights
Funding: $16 million over four years
Countries: Morocco, Tunisia, Mali, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Kenya, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, Philippines
This project aims to strengthen women’s participation in governance and democracy by enhancing media coverage, including digital and traditional media, as well as countering misinformation and shifting the public discourse on human rights.
Jordan Health Fund for Refugees II
Partner: Government of Jordan
Funding: Top up of $10 million over three years
Countries: Jordan
This project aims to improve the delivery of and access to primary and secondary health services for refugees and vulnerable people in Jordan, including access to facilities, medicines, and supplies. It will also contribute to strengthening the Jordanian public health system through investments in the infrastructure of health facilities. This could include the construction, rehabilitation, and expansion of hospitals in areas with higher refugee populations and the procurement of much needed equipment and supplies. This new funding is in addition to the $16.3 million Canada initially committed to this program.
SMEs Promote Resilience, Inclusion and Innovation Transformation
Partner: Cowater International
Funding: $10 million over six years
Countries: Vietnam
This project aims to promote clean, inclusive economic growth in the agriculture sector in Northern, mountainous areas where communities face increasing climate challenges. Supporting micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises, cooperatives and producer groups, particularly those led by and benefiting ethnic minority communities, especially women, this project seeks to strengthen women’s active participation and leadership in sustainable agriculture through training, technical assistance, and renewable energy solutions pilots.
Deciding my Future: Adolescents and Youth for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Economic Autonomy
Partner: Plan International Canada
Funding: $9.1 million over six years
Countries: Peru
This project will benefit over 20,000 adolescents and young people, helping girls and young women realize their sexual and reproductive health and rights, as well as their economic autonomy, in Piura and Loreto, Peru. While helping to support youth’s agency in making sexual and reproductive health decisions and pursuing economic opportunities, this project also seeks to improve critical services and increase the responsiveness of institutional actors in improving outcomes for these young people.
Supporting Girls to be Safe to Learn, Phase II
Partner: UNICEF
Funding: $9 million over four years
Countries: Various
This project aims to reduce children’s exposure to gender-based violence in and around schools while expanding access to safe, quality learning through strengthened education and child protection systems. It will build the knowledge and capacity of learners and school stakeholders to recognize and respond to violence, promote positive, gender-equitable norms to prevent harassment, and ensure education and child-protection systems are more gender-responsive.
Nourishing Futures – Empowering women through a holistic approach to maternal and girls’ nutrition in Egypt
Partner: UNICEF
Funding: $7 million over five years
Countries: Egypt
The project aims to support the Government of Egypt’s National Food and Nutrition Strategy 2023-2030 to promote maternal and child nutrition. It seeks to strengthen nutrition and health interventions within the health care sector; improve nutrition habits, attitudes, and behaviours through community engagement; and expand access to healthy and affordable diets for vulnerable populations, specifically for women and girls.
Innovative Leadership for Equitable and Accessible Democracy (i-LEAD)
Partner: Catalyste+
Funding: $5.75 million over three years
Countries: Mongolia, Philippines, Vietnam
This project supports improving equality and human rights in these countries, particularly for women and marginalized populations. It will work to make national and local government services more inclusive, transparent, accountable, and gender-responsive, while enhancing civic participation and the inclusion of women and marginalized people in government initiatives and decision-making processes.
Strengthening civil society in Nepal and the Philippines
Partner: Centre for International Studies and Cooperation
Funding: $5.75 million over three years
Countries: Nepal, Philippines
This project seeks to improve equitable participation and representation of women and marginalized groups in the democratic space. It will work to increase access to and opportunities for civic engagement to defend human rights and democratic participation, while improving government-citizen collaboration to promote gender-transformative and inclusive public services.
Enhancing protection, regularization, and socio-economic integration of migrants and refugees in Latin America
Partner: International Organization for Migration
Funding: $5 million over three years
Countries: Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru
This project supports Venezuelan refugees and migrants in accessing legal status, protection, and economic integration opportunities in Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Peru, as well as programming in other regions, while building the capacity of host countries and communities to facilitate migrants’ and refugees’ integration and enhance social cohesion.
Women’s economic empowerment in Egypt
Partner: UN Women
Funding: Top up of $1 million over two years
Countries: Egypt
This project aims to support women’s economic empowerment in Egypt, where women’s unemployment is more than three times that of men. It will help create jobs by improving the business-enabling environment and promoting a culture of entrepreneurship for Egyptian women in high-growth sectors such as agribusiness and information and communication technologies. This new funding is in addition to the $8.9 million Canada initially committed to this program.
Comprehensive support package for refugee women and girls
Partner: UN Refugee Agency
Funding: $1 million over one year
Countries: Egypt
This project aims to enhance the welfare and protection of refugees and host community populations – particularly vulnerable women and girls. It seeks to improve access to protection services and gender-responsive assistance, particularly for women and girl refugees, and enhance their socio-economic inclusion and resilience through employment and entrepreneurship training.
Opportunities for Women in Agriculture Project
Partner: Alinea International
Funding: Top up of $415,000 over one year
Countries: Egypt
This project aims to enhance women’s economic well-being in the agribusiness sector in two governorates of Upper Egypt. It focuses on advancing women’s economic empowerment by establishing women-led agribusinesses and partnerships with private-sector companies. This new funding is in addition to the $4.3 million Canada initially committed to this program.