Contribution: Contributions-Multilateral Programming
Equality Fund
$10,000,000.00
First Response Fund - Global 2025
EF 2025-26 · 2025-11-06
Résumé
The First Response Fund (FRF) is a global humanitarian pooled fund that resources grassroots, local, life-saving humanitarian responses led by women-led and women’s rights organizations (WLO/WROs). The FRF leverages the global network of over 50 national, regional and multiregional Women’s and Feminist Funds (W/FF) to support WROs/WLOs to provide fast and effective humanitarian services in ODA-eligible countries, including to communities that may not be reached otherwise. The FRF supports WROs/WLOs to provide humanitarian response services in their communities, with a focus on humanitarian aid to high-need groups who often face barriers to access, including refugees and internally displaced people, women with disabilities, gender expansive and transgender people, Indigenous and Black women, rural women, and those at the intersection of many of these identities.
This project represents Canada’s support to the First Response Fund. Specific funding amounts, and targeted countries, will be identified based on humanitarian need, coordinated humanitarian response plans, and FRF members’ delivery capacity, as per the FRF’s Operational Manual. The use of Canada’s financial contributions will be limited to prioritized geographical areas in UN Humanitarian Appeals and/or UNCHR Refugee Response Plans.
Ministère
Programme
Contributions-Multilateral Programming
Bénéficiaire
Emplacement
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada
Type de bénéficiaire
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Type
Contribution
Source
Proactive Disclosure - Grants and Contributions
Tel que publié
Agreement End Date
2027-09-30
Agreement Number
7471510 P015011001
Agreement Start Date
2025-11-06
Agreement Title
First Response Fund - Global 2025
Agreement Title (French)
Fonds de première intervention – Global 2025
Agreement Type
Contribution
Agreement Value
$10,000,000.00
Amendment Number
0
Description
The First Response Fund (FRF) is a global humanitarian pooled fund that resources grassroots, local, life-saving humanitarian responses led by women-led and women’s rights organizations (WLO/WROs). The FRF leverages the global network of over 50 national, regional and multiregional Women’s and Feminist Funds (W/FF) to support WROs/WLOs to provide fast and effective humanitarian services in ODA-eligible countries, including to communities that may not be reached otherwise. The FRF supports WROs/WLOs to provide humanitarian response services in their communities, with a focus on humanitarian aid to high-need groups who often face barriers to access, including refugees and internally displaced people, women with disabilities, gender expansive and transgender people, Indigenous and Black women, rural women, and those at the intersection of many of these identities.
This project represents Canada’s support to the First Response Fund. Specific funding amounts, and targeted countries, will be identified based on humanitarian need, coordinated humanitarian response plans, and FRF members’ delivery capacity, as per the FRF’s Operational Manual. The use of Canada’s financial contributions will be limited to prioritized geographical areas in UN Humanitarian Appeals and/or UNCHR Refugee Response Plans.
Description (French)
Le Fonds de première intervention (FRF) est un fonds humanitaire mondial commun qui finance des interventions humanitaires locales, menées par des organisations dirigées par des femmes et des organisations de défense des droits des femmes (WLO/WRO). Le FRF s'appuie sur un réseau mondial de plus de 50 fonds nationaux, régionaux et multirégionaux pour les femmes et les féministes (F/FF) afin d'aider les WRO/WLO à fournir des services humanitaires rapides et efficaces dans les pays éligibles à l'aide publique au développement (APD), y compris aux communautés qui ne pourraient autrement être atteintes. Le FRF aide les WRO/WLO à fournir des services d'intervention humanitaire dans leurs communautés, en mettant l'accent sur l'aide humanitaire aux groupes très démunis qui sont souvent confrontés à des obstacles pour y accéder, notamment les réfugiés et les personnes déplacées à l'intérieur de leur propre pays, les femmes en situation de handicap, les personnes transgenres et de genre expansif, les femmes autochtones et noires, les femmes rurales et celles qui se trouvent à l'intersection de plusieurs de ces identités.
Avec le soutien du Canada et d'autres donateurs, le FRF aide les WRO/WLO à sauver des vies, à soulager les souffrances et à préserver la dignité humaine pendant et après les catastrophes naturelles et les crises d'origine humaine. Les activités du projet comprennent : (1) la fourniture d'une protection et d'une assistance vitales tenant compte des questions de genre, telles que la nourriture, l'eau, l'assainissement, l'hygiène, les abris, les articles non alimentaires, les services de santé, le soutien psychosocial et la prévention/réponse à la violence fondée sur le genre, par l'intermédiaire des WRO/WLO ; et (2) le renforcement de la participation et de l'inclusion des WLO/WRO dans les mécanismes du système humanitaire, tels que ceux destinés à l'évaluation des besoins, à la coordination et à la mise en œuvre des interventions.
Expected Results
With the support of Canada and other donors, the FRF supports WROs/WLOs to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity during and in the aftermath of natural disasters and human-generated crises. Project activities include: (1) provision of gender-responsive life-saving protection and assistance such as food, water, sanitation, hygiene, shelter, non food items, health services, psychosocial support and prevention/response to gender-based violence, via WROs/WLOs; and (2) strengthening WLO/WRO participation and inclusion in humanitarian system mechanisms, such as those for needs assessments, coordination and response delivery.
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) Provision of timely, appropriate, and gender-responsive critical assistance in crisis contexts; and (2) Local WROs/WLOs are better able to deliver effective, context specific, humanitarian services.
Expected Results (French)
Les résultats attendus pour ce projet sont les suivants : (1) Fourniture d'une aide cruciale, opportune, appropriée et sensible au genre dans les situations de crise ; et (2) Les organisations locales de défense des droits des femmes (WRO) et des droits des filles (WLO) sont mieux à même de fournir des services humanitaires efficaces et adaptés au contexte.
Organization Code
dfatd-maecd
Organization
Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada
Program Name
Contributions-Multilateral Programming
Program Name (French)
Contribution Programmation multilatéral
Program Purpose
The main purpose on the International Development Assistance Program is to reduce poverty for those living in countries where Global Affairs Canada engages in international development.
Program Purpose (French)
L’objectif princial du programme d’aide au développement international du Ministère est de réduire la pauvreté pour les populations qui vivent dans les pays où Affaires mondiales Canada se livre au développement international.
Recipient City
OTTAWA
Recipient Country
CA
Recipient Legal Name
Equality Fund
Recipient Province or Territory
ON
Recipient Type
N
Reference Number
064-2025-2026-Q3-0048