Manitoba Council on International Cooperation

International Projects

Theme Fund

The Theme Fund encourages MCIC member agencies to take a broader view of development projects by responding to current issues of international concern. MCIC’s Theme Fund for the fiscal years 2010-11 and 2011-12 will focus on “Capacity Building with our Southern Partners”. This is an opportunity for MCIC Member Agencies to work with their overseas partner organizations and communities to develop their expertise and to increase their capability in delivering their projects and programs, or in managing, documenting and reporting their efforts. Capacity building can include areas such as financial management, gender sensitivity, environmental impact and capital expenditures.

  • Amadar Chilemayen

    People to People | Country: Bangladesh | Amount: $5,000 | Funded in 2010/2011

    The Amadar Chilemayen project supports literacy work in the slums of Bangladesh by educating mothers who commit to teaching at least five neighbourhood children. This project addresses the challenge of access to basic education, including daycare, and empowers mothers by training them to produce their own multimedia materials.

  • Building Local Capacity – Rights-based Approach

    Save the Children - Canada | Country: Burkina Faso, Kenya | Amount: $15,000 | Funded in 2010/2011

    SCC is Building Local Capacity – Rights-based Approach in two African countries to implement sustainable human development, using a child rights-based approach and Results-Based Management (RBM). SCC will bring in facilitators to train their workers in an intercultural and multi-stakeholder context.

  • Building Local Capacity in Economic Development

    Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) | Country: Peru | Amount: $10,000 | Funded in 2010/2011

    MEDA is Building Local Capacity in Economic Development in its Peru office to aid its transformation into an independent and financially self-sustaining local NGO that will operate as an effective local actor for economic development.

  • Building Local Capacity in Participatory Project Design & Implementation

    Christian Reformed World Relief Committee | Country: Tanzania | Amount: $17,718 | Funded in 2010/2011

    Building Local Capacity in Participatory Project Design & Implementation is the intent of CRWRC’s project in Tanzania. Rural communities will be transformed due to enhanced ability to identify, design and implement effective development projects, overcoming poverty and dependency, and improving the livelihoods of over 60,000 targeted community members.

  • Building the Capacity of IDE Vietnam

    IDE Canada | Country: | Amount: $15,000 | Funded in 2010/2011

    This project is Building the Capacity of IDE Vietnam, upgrading the country team’s ability to better help poor rural households increase their incomes in a changing and challenging context. Identified capacity gaps will lead to training events for staff on appropriate subjects.

  • Capacity Building to Improve Food Security & Develop Sustainable Livelihoods

    Crossroads International | Country: Niger | Amount: $15,228 | Funded in 2010/2011

    CCI, in its Capacity Building to Improve Food Security & Develop Sustainable Livelihoods project, is partnering in Niger with Potal Women’s Cooperative. Women producers and artisans will acquire relevant skills and knowledge to improve food security by increasing yields from a communal dry-season irrigated market garden and develop livelihoods by establishing a formal collective enterprise producing artisanal wares.

  • Capacity Building with Zambian Partners

    United Church of Canada | Country: Zambia | Amount: $10,000 | Funded in 2010/2011

    UCC is Capacity Building with Zambian Partners by providing a management course for administrators and program managers of local organizations involved in development work. Areas of focus include organizational management, environmental assessment, gender, strategic planning, human resource management, monitoring and evaluation.

  • Crossing the Digital Divide

    Marquis Project | Country: Tanzania | Amount: $11,000 | Funded in 2010/2011

    This project is Crossing the Digital Divide, delivering Information Communication Technology (ICT) workshops focusing on climate change and gender issues. Participatory practices will be used in agricultural extension programs to connect ICT data with indigenous knowledge related to changes in the crop/weather calendar in four rural Tanzanian communities.

  • From The Soil & Seeds Up!

    USC - Canada | Country: Nepal | Amount: $10,000 | Funded in 2010/2011

    From The Soil & Seeds Up! increases the capacity of Nepali NGOs in governance and baseline data collection. USC will work with over 50 local NGOs and cooperatives on governance issues. There will also be training and mobilization to collect multifaceted and multi-stakeholder baseline data on agri-biodiversity, climate change, rural economics and gender equality.

  • In Support of a More Literate Environment

    CODE | Country: Ethiopia | Amount: $10,000 | Funded in 2010/2011

    CODE is working In Support of a More Literate Environment, providing children’s learning materials, strengthening resource and education networks, implementing librarianship training to 20 reading room attendants, and offering teacher training to 54 other attendants. 33,000 children in 33 districts will benefit from this project.