Targeted Engagement Grants 2018-2019

SUMMARY OF FUNDED APPLICATIONS – FISCAL YEAR 2018-19 – ROUND ONE (June 2018)

Balsillie School of International Affairs

Canada’s Role in Contributing to Addressing MENA Challenges

Spring 2019

Waterloo, Ontario

Funding: $36,150.00

This Workshop will evaluate Canada’s role in MENA. Specifically it will address the potential role of the Canadian Armed Forces in providing humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, peacekeeping, training, special-forces, post-conflict reconstruction, and combat operations in MENA. It will examine opportunities where Canadian Armed Forces can help support, engage, enhance interoperability, and train NATO Partner countries in the MENA. Finally it will Provide policy recommendations on how Canada’s Defense team can help counter MENA’s proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, spread of terror networks, and assist regional partners achieve mutual strategic goals.

Canadian Global Affairs Institute

CGAI’s Fifth Annual Defence Procurement Conference

October 3, 2018

Ottawa, Ontario

Funding: $24,446.00

This one day conference will reflect upon and examine how Canada can better balance the CAF level of ambition under Strong, Secure, Engaged (SSE) and the available resources in relation to defence acquisitions processes. The conference will also examine how the CAF and DND can fulfil the procurement ambitions outlined in SSE.

Canadian Global Affairs Institute

One Year of Strong, Secure Engaged: A Status Report

June 7, 2018

Ottawa, Ontario

Funding: $23,950.00

This one-day conference will reflect upon and provide a status report on Canada’s defence policy, Strong, Secure, Engaged. The conference will discuss ways DND and the CAF can expand the defence workforce, diversify it and change the employment model for reserve employment. Finally, the conference will look at the progress on adapting the policy changes for new capabilities in Strong, Secure, Engaged, along with the evolution of North American defence.

Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI), University of Victoria

Threats to Regional and Global Stability: Southeast Asia in Global Context

October 2018 & March 2019

Victoria, British Columbia

Funding: $26,108.00

This project will investigate two significant, inter-related sources of regional and global instability emanating from Southeast Asia and to consider possible responses, including responses by Canadian. Specifically, the project will address the rising threat of ethno-religious nationalism.

Centre for International and Defence Policy

The Gender Perspective in Policy and Operations: Explaining the Implementation Gap

November 16, 2018

Kingston, Ontario

Funding: $38,333.00

This project will examine why and how organizations and states integrate gender guidelines into their practices, with a focus on the Canadian Armed Forces and other NATO militaries. It will examine the implementation of gender guidelines, covering both diversity targets and the incorporation of gender perspectives in policies, operational planning and missions.

Centre for International and Defence Policy

The Gender Dimension of Veteran Transition: Workshop and Mentorship Program

September 2018

Kingston, Ontario

Funding: $12,085.00

This workshop will evaluate the ways in which to respond to the emerging and immediate needs of service providers for veterans. Namely, how can veteran service providers mainstream gender into their services to account for the unique needs of women veterans?

China Institute, University of Alberta

6th East Asia Maritime Security Forum; Cooperation and Engagement in the Asia Pacific and the Arctic Region

November 21-23, 2018

Haikou, Hainan Province, P.R China

Funding: $35,000

This three day forum will focus on regional maritime cooperation in Asia Pacific and the Arctic. It will also look at Arctic regional cooperation and sovereignty from the Canadian perspective.

Conference of Defence Associations Institute

2019 Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence

February 22-23, 2018

Ottawa, Ontario

Funding: $20,555.00

This two day conference will examine Strong Secure, Engaged. It will evaluate Force development, emerging technologies, international defence relationships and diversity and well-being. It will also evaluate the initial progress in establishing the implementation framework necessary to meet the increasingly demanding expectations laid out in SSE.

Kule Institute for Advanced Studies

Russian Policy and the War in Ukraine's Donbas: Options for the Future and Canadian Responses

September 2018(Date TBD)

Edmonton, Alberta

Funding: $27,542.00

This conference will examine Russia’s policy in Ukraine’s Donbas region, as well as the events that precipitated the uprising in the Donbas. It will look at Russian policy, military operations, and the supply of military equipment and weapons.

Trent University

Measuring the Success of the Canadian Rangers: Using Statistical Methods, Gender Based Analysis Plus and Stakeholder Dialogue to Discern Culturally Relevant and Appropriate Metrics

June 2018-March 2019

Yellowknife Northwest Territories; Ottawa, Ontario

Funding: $24,265.00

This project intends to work with 1st Canadian Ranger Patrol Group to develop more formal, substantive measures to evaluate the contributions, successes, and shortcomings of the Canadian Rangers as a component of the CAF Reserves within a Northern Canadian context. It will also study the roles, experiences and contributions of Women in the Canadian Rangers using the 1st Canadian Ranger Patrol Group as a case study.

Veteran Friendly Transition Program, Women in Technology Scholarship Board of Trustees, Calian Ltd.

Identifying the Barriers Facing Serving and Veteran Women in Cyber Technology

September-December 2018

Kingston Ontario; Esquimalt, British Columbia; Halifax, Nova Scotia

Funding Requested: $18,300.00

The project will take the form of a four-month coordinated research and information sharing initiative that will engage women who are presently serving and veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces to identify the real and perceived barriers to female participation in the cyber and network security industries.

Women in International Security- Canada

Gender & Security from the Bottom, Up

May 2-4, 2018

Edmonton, Alberta

Funding: $18,000

This three-day workshop will on focus (in)security as it is experienced by individuals and groups, in local contexts, and is compounded by considerations of gender, race, class, ethnicity, Indigeneity and sexuality. The workshop will also examine gender integration and monitoring in the Canadian Armed Forces. The goal of the workshop is to foreground everyday experiences of insecurity, with a particular focus on gender and other intersecting identities.