The HALO Trust: federal grants and contributions: 10 agreements; $38.9M value; 1 departments; 5 programs.
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The project aims to promote peace and stability in conflict-affected states.
The project aims to safeguard the lives and livelihoods of Ukrainians, including women and internally-displaced persons, by addressing the threat of explosive ordnance, present across vast areas of the country. Project activities include: (1) conducting non-technical survey and subsequent manual clearance in targeted communities; (2) providing capacity building to key national stakeholders; and (3) establishing a Gender and Diversity Working Group to promote gender-transformative mine action in Ukraine.
This project aims to increase access to resettlement, livelihood opportunities, and enhance stability and security in mine-cleared areas of Northern Sri Lanka for war-affected women, men, girls and boys. Project activities include: (1) clearing landmines and other explosive remnants of war and releasing land back to land owners and internally displaced people; (2) delivering targeted and mainstreamed capacity-building trainings for women and men HALO staff to increase their opportunities for post-mine action employment; and (3) increasing awareness among women and men HALO staff of the impor
This project aims to support Halo Trust to address the urgent humanitarian need for clearing explosive remnants of war (ERW) on the Armenia-controlled territory of Nagorno Karabakh following the renewed violence in late 2020. This project is part of a larger response by Canada to the mine action needs in the region. It complements another project in Nagorno Karabakh, supported by Canada and carried-out by a different partner in the Azerbaijan-controlled territory of Nagorno Karabakh. Project activities include: (1) explosive contamination surveys; (2) humanitarian clearance of unexploded ordna
This project aims to clear approximately 359,000 square meters of landmine-affected areas in northern Sri-Lanka, in order to allow resettlement and increased security of vulnerable and displaced populations. Project activities include: 1) clearing landmines from residential areas; 2) repairing infrastructure, such as a water reservoirs and irrigation systems; 3) gender-sensitive employment practices used by the project partner, HALO Trust, including promoting women to supervisory positions in an equitable manner. Approximately 13,900 people (of which 52% are women and girls) are expected to
This project aims to remove about 10,000 anti-personnel mines in the Northern Province, Sri Lanka. Some 300,000 people were displaced as a result of the 25-year civil war that ended in May 2009. Although most people have returned to their home areas in the North and East of the country, about 43,000 people are still displaced. One of the reasons people are not able to return home is that there are still large numbers of landmines and other unexploded ordnance (such as bullets and improvised explosive devices) in some areas of the Northern Province. These landmines and other unexploded ordnance
This project aims to reduce the threat posed by explosive remnants of war and improve the livelihoods of vulnerable populations in Cambodia. Project activities include: (1) surveying potential contaminated areas and conducting mine clearance operations; (2) delivering explosive ordnance risk education to impacted populations; (3) providing environmental awareness and agricultural development training to enhance the economic autonomy of women who both head households and own agricultural land; and (4) organizing and hosting an exhibition in Siem Reap on the margins of the 5th Review Conference
This project aims to help address the significant gender imbalance in the field of weapons and ammunition management (WAM) by providing technical training to women. This training will allow them to take on technical positions in this male-dominated sector and deliver technical trainings on weapons and ammunition management to security institutions in host countries. It also aims to support the universalization and implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty, in particular, the obligation of States Parties to implement national control systems and prevent diversion of weapons and ammunition. Projec
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.