Canada’s support to help prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence in humanitarian crises

Backgrounder

Canada’s announcement of over $18 million in funding to trusted humanitarian partners will help meet the needs of women and girls affected by humanitarian crises.

United Nations Population Fund

  • $6.9 million in funding to meet the needs of vulnerable women and girls in sexual and reproductive health and for preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence in Bangladesh, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Libya and Yemen.
  • $1 million in funding to meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of vulnerable women and girls in Africa and for preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence.

International Committee of the Red Cross

  • $3 million in funding to support work to prevent and reduce sexual violence in armed conflicts.

International Rescue Committee

  • $1 million in funding to support protection activities for people at risk, including survivors of gender-based violence, and to provide unconditional cash transfers and create village savings and loan associations to allow vulnerable women and girls to control resources and property in the Far North region of Cameroon.
  • $845,000 in funding to improve access to emergency health services and increase safety and protection of conflict-affected women and girls in territories of Beni and Lubero in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Plan Canada

  • $900,000 in funding to provide health education and distribute dignity kits, to establish safe spaces for survivors of gender-based violence and those at risk and to provide training and mentoring in income-generating activities for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and individuals at risk in Nigeria’s Borno state.

CANADEM

  • $625,000 in funding for the deployment of humanitarian experts in response to sudden-onset crises abroad.

Women’s Refugee Commission

  • $404,093 in funding to advance gender equality in humanitarian response programming, convene thought leaders and experts to capture cutting-edge thinking and learning, and document good practices on successfully integrating gender equality throughout project cycles.
  • $1,032,202 in funding for research to shape the next phase of the Call to Action on Protection from Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies initiative and develop a comprehensive strategy on its implementation at the country level; and for research on how conflict and displacement impact the practice of child marriage, as well as piloting family strengthening and violence prevention with sibling interventions.

HOPE International Development Agency

  • $370,000 in funding to increase access to gender-responsive humanitarian assistance and enhance the use of sexual and reproductive health and protection services for internally displaced people in Kachin, Myanmar.

CARE Canada

  • $210,000 in funding to address the critical food security, water and sanitation, and protection needs, including through the establishment of women and child-friendly spaces, of people displaced by conflict in the remote Liben zone of Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State.
  • $750,000 in funding to help provide emergency sexual and reproductive health services through mobile clinics and training for health-care service providers on sexual and reproductive health services in Nigeria’s Borno state.

Save the Children Canada

  • $180,000 in funding to address the critical needs of people displaced by the conflicts in the Dawa zone of Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State and Gedeo zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ region. This includes increasing the availability, access and use of emergency services to address sexual and reproductive health needs and sexual and gender-based violence.

World Vision Canada

  • $245,000 in funding to address the urgent needs of returnees and internally displaced people in Baidoa, Somalia, focusing on improving access to emergency reproductive health and nutrition services, water, sanitation and hygiene services and increasing safety and protection of internally displaced people and returnees, including those affected by gender-based violence, through engagement with case workers and community members.
  • $60,000 in funding to provide emergency water, sanitation, hygiene, nutrition and protection case management, risk mitigation and awareness raising on gender-based violence services for conflict-affected people in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state.

Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development

  • $39,000 in funding to improve nutrition, sanitation and hygiene and to provide protection services for victims of sexual and gender-based violence to conflict-affected people in the Mopti region of Mali.

Doctors Without Borders

  • $132,000 in funding to increase access to basic health care and mental health care in Colombia.
  • $330,000 in funding to provide emergency health services for up to 167,000 conflict-affected people in the Upper Nile and Jonglei states in South Sudan.
  • $750,000 in funding to support sexual and reproductive health services, including psychosocial and mental health support for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence at the Gambella Hospital in Ethiopia.

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