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.

  • Institutional Capacity Building & Strengthening

    Canada World Youth/Jeunesse Canada Monde | Country: Nicaragua | Amount: $11,000 | Funded in 2010/2011

    This Institutional Capacity Building & Strengthening project provides FUNARTE with the opportunity to continue developing their internal capacity to deliver programming with children and youth and integrate gender equity analysis within their internal management and external activities. Through improved management policies and procedures, FUNARTE will be able to ensure that resources are employed in the most strategic and efficient manner.

  • Sharing Southern Solutions

    HOPE International Development Agency | Country: Ethiopia, Philippines | Amount: $16,995 | Funded in 2010/2011

    Sharing Southern Solutions builds the capacity of two local organizations in Ethiopia and Philippines by facilitating exchange visits for personnel to learn best practices from organizations with similar programming. Local development workers will gain and apply strategic knowledge and skills that contribute to effective implementation of water supplies.

  • Voices from the Edge

    Canadian Multicultural Disability Centre | Country: Zimbabwe | Amount: $5,595 | Funded in 2010/2011

    Voices from the Edge will enhance the capacity of rural teachers to coordinate alternatives and ancillary services for students with special needs. This pilot project will focus on a new universal access school and will assist students with disabilities and those from disadvantaged communities.

  • Adaptive Measures to Integrated Resource Management

    Marquis Project | Country: Tanzania | Amount: $20,000 | Funded in 2008/2009

    TSAEE implements strategies in tree resource management with women and youth groups in practices which alleviate the impacts of climate change in rural Tanzanian agriculture. This is done by integrating woodlot development (agro-forestry), domestic fuel efficiency (cookstoves), and micro-enterprise development (tree seedling production and cookstove construction) in selected communities of Kwimba and Tabora Regions, Tanzania.

  • Cassava Flour Value Chains

    Engineers Without Borders | Country: Malawi | Amount: $10,085 | Funded in 2008/2009

    EWB is working with IITA to develop a sustainable cassava flour value chain which will create opportunities for smallholder farmers in rural Malawi to grow and sell cassava in order to improve their livelihoods.

  • Community Awareness and Responsiveness

    Canada World Youth/Jeunesse Canada Monde | Country: Kenya | Amount: $10,622 | Funded in 2008/2009

    The project is aimed at creating awareness on climate change, its impact and how the community can adapt to it using simple community driven adaptation measures. It also seeks to research adaptive measures being practiced elsewhere and replicate them in the local community.

  • Dry Forest Recuperation in the Tumbes National Mangrove Sanctuary

    Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) | Country: Peru | Amount: $25,000 | Funded in 2008/2009

    This objective of this project is to conduct reforestation in the Buffer Zone of the Tumbes National Mangrove Sanctuary and to ensure maintenance of existing vegetation cover by negotiating an agreement with land owners.

  • Primary School Rainwater Harvesting

    Canadian Physicians for Aid & Relief | Country: Tanzania | Amount: $18,482 | Funded in 2008/2009

    The Primary School Rainwater Harvesting program works with school communities to secure continual access to safe water in a context of East African climate change effects. The installation of rainwater harvesting tanks harnesses the predicted increases in precipitation to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change in that region.

  • Water Use Master Plans

    IDE Canada | Country: Nepal | Amount: $20,000 | Funded in 2008/2009

    In collaboration with the Government of Nepal, the Finnish Development Agency, Helvetas and Winrock, IDE brought its expertise in water-efficient technologies to the development of integrated Water Use Master Plans that mitigate the impact of climate change on water access and address deforestation as one of the key local contributors to climate change.