Canada is committed to providing Canadians with opportunities to gain valuable international experience and make a difference in the lives of those most in need.
In support of this commitment, the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, today announced the outcome of the call for proposals for the 2015-2017 International Youth Internship Program (IYIP) and the International Aboriginal Youth Internships (IAYI) initiative, as well as the 2015-2020 Volunteer Cooperation Program (VCP).
Under IYIP and IAYI, 27 Canadian organizations have been selected to work with developing country partners to provide up to 759 Canadian youth with internships in 50 developing countries.
Canada is contributing $11.9 million over two years for the IYIP and $4.2 million over two years for the IAYI.
Under the 2015-2020 VCP, 12 volunteer cooperation agencies will support the deployment of over 10,000 volunteers.
Canada is contributing $300.3 million over five years for the VCP.
All three programs play a critical role in reducing global poverty and advancing Canada’s international development priorities.
Projects under the 2015-2017 International Youth Internship Program (IYIP)
This project will provide 40 Canadian youth with internships throughout Africa and the Caribbean. The internships will focus on securing the future of children and youth, increasing food security and stimulating economic growth in these countries. Interns will help local partner organizations prepare educational and communications material, facilitate and design workshops, and organize events.
This project will provide 40 Canadian youth with internships throughout Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. The internships will focus on securing a future for children and youth, advancing democracy, stimulating economic growth, and promoting security and stability in these countries. Interns will support local partners in promoting democratic development through strengthening the rule of law, protecting human rights, and increasing access to justice and legal empowerment.
This project will provide 26 Canadian youth with internships throughout Africa and Asia. The internships will focus on increasing food security and stimulating sustainable economic growth in these countries. Interns will help local partner co-operatives and their members undertake agricultural activities to meet food and income needs, including financing and operating small and medium-sized enterprises.
This project will provide 32 Canadian youth with internships throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Interns will support local partners on initiatives focused on promoting equality between women and men, strengthening governance, and stimulating sustainable economic growth.
This project will provide 30 Canadian youth with internships throughout Africa and Latin America. Through training and outreach activities, interns will support partner organizations and the local population in areas such as sustainable agricultural development, community health, school dropout prevention, climate change adaptation and sustainable natural resource management.
This project will provide 20 Canadian youth with internships throughout Asia. The internships will focus on improving the livelihoods of marginalized migrant communities in these countries. Interns will work on initiatives benefiting migrants, especially women and children, who are vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, precarious employment and human rights abuses.
This project will provide 37 Canadian youth with internships throughout the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa. The internships will focus on improving health, education, agricultural practices, tourism, economic growth, governance and human rights in these countries. Interns will provide training and technical support, conduct research, and create and reinforce economic activities.
This project will provide 40 Canadian youth with internships throughout the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. The internships will focus on improving food security in rural communities. Interns will help local partners build capacity and support community-based organizations within model forest communities to transition to functional co-operatives while ensuring their production systems are sustainable and have minimal environmental impacts.
This project will provide 22 Canadian youth with internships throughout Africa. Interns will work in the areas of financial services for small businesses, communications, marketing, accounting, human resources and gender equality. Interns will support local partners in improving their services and making financial services more accessible to the least fortunate segment of the population.
This project will provide 40 Canadian youth with internships in Uganda. The internships will focus on improving the health and basic life skills of the local community, especially young single mothers and children, and youth at risk. Interns will support local partners to establish community libraries, provide health-literacy programs, and participate in child and youth support programs.
This project will provide 20 young Canadian lawyers with internships throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America. Interns will provide legal expertise to various field offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and have an impact on the lives of stateless and/or refugee women, children and men in these countries.
This project will provide 20 Canadian youth with internships throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Interns will work on ongoing programs in health and private sector development that are being implemented by local partners such as the local offices of Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief and local member organizations of Save the Children, and other independent local organizations. Interns will help local partners with reporting, monitoring and evaluation, planning and communications.
This project will provide 40 Canadian youth with internships throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Interns will work with local partners on initiatives that support the community health sector, particularly in areas that are most heavily affected by the AIDS epidemic.
L’AMIE (website in French only)
This project will provide 40 Canadian youth with internships in Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua. Interns will work on initiatives focused on children living in poverty and exclusion. Interns will provide children in need with access to learning and sharing activities, as well as the support and tools needed for them to improve their lives and succeed in life.
This project will provide 28 Canadian youth with internships throughout Africa and Latin America. Interns will work with local partners to apply business solutions aimed at reducing poverty and supporting sustainable economic growth, particularly in rural areas and specifically for women.
This project will provide 40 Canadian youth with internships throughout Asia and Africa. Interns will support the activities of seven local partners in the areas of private sector development, environmental sustainability, food security, and health and nutrition.
This project will provide 20 Canadian youth with internships throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America. The internships will focus on increasing food security and stimulating sustainable economic growth in these countries. Interns will support local partners’ efforts through studies, strategy development and implementation, and community mobilization.
This project will provide 34 Canadian youth with internships throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Interns will work with local partners on initiatives aimed at improving sustainable economic growth and strengthening democracy in these countries.
This project will provide 30 Canadian youth with internships throughout Africa and Latin America. The internships will focus on increasing food security, stimulating sustainable economic growth, and securing a future for children and youth in these countries. Interns will support 18 local partners with business management, marketing, training and nutrition activities.
VIDEA (website in English only)
This project will provide 40 Canadian youth with internships throughout Africa. The internships will focus on empowering youth, strengthening economic development and reducing poverty in these countries. Interns will work on gender-sensitive youth programs and help equip children and adults with the education skills and opportunities needed to realize their rights and become productive and participating members of society.
This project will provide five Canadian youth with internships in Bangladesh, Laos and Malawi. The internships will focus on securing a future for children and youth and increasing food security in these countries. Interns will support local partners to help meet community needs and contribute to advancing programming in the areas of child labour, health management systems, education and nutrition.
Projects under the 2015-2017 International Aboriginal Youth Internships (IAYI) initiative
This project will provide 20 Aboriginal youth with internships in Colombia. The internships will focus on strengthening environment and youth development, and increasing food security in communities in Colombia. Interns will support local partners and communities in the areas of technical support training, peer-to-peer learning, and social media and communications activities.
This project will provide 13 Aboriginal youth with internships in Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Ecuador. The internships will focus on improving maternal health and promoting agriculture and environmental sustainability in Aboriginal communities in these countries. Interns will work with local partners and communities in training technical support personnel, conducting research, and developing monitoring and evaluation tools.
This project will provide 16 Aboriginal youth with internships in Bolivia and Nicaragua. The internships will focus on improving maternal health and nutrition, stimulating sustainable economic growth, and strengthening governance in Aboriginal communities in these two countries.
This project will provide 19 Aboriginal youth with internships in Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. Interns will support local partners through a variety of culturally specific HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support services that focus on the needs of the local populations.
L’AMIE (website in French only)
This project will provide 12 Aboriginal youth with internships in Madagascar. The internships will focus on strengthening basic education for children in Aboriginal communities in this country. Interns will help local partners and communities to improve the quality of formal and informal education for children by developing tools and sharing educational approaches.
VIDEA (website in English only)
This project will provide 20 Aboriginal youth with internships in Uganda and Zambia. The internships will focus on improving the future of children and youth, and stimulating sustainable economic growth in these countries. Interns will assist partner organizations to provide local youth with the education and life skills needed to recognize their rights and to meaningfully contribute to society.
Projects under the 2015-2020 Volunteer Cooperation Program (VCP)
This project contributes to improved economic and social well-being of beneficiaries in 16 developing countries across Africa, Asia, the Americas and Caribbean, through more than 1,749 short-term volunteer assignments. The project aims to strengthen the capacity of 60 local partners and more than a thousand clients among their networks to deliver sustainable development results. The project supports activities in private sector development (primarily in the manufacturing, tourism and hospitality, agribusiness, and microfinance sectors) and democratic governance (strengthening public management systems and capacities at both national and municipal levels).
This project will provide over 430 volunteers with the opportunity to strengthen the institutional and technical capacities of 27 developing country partners to improve sustainable economic growth mostly in Africa. Volunteers will help promote equality between women and men, support local partners in establishing small business initiatives, and help cultivate regional networks focused on income generation and empowerment of women and youth.
This project will leverage the skills of approximately 3,000 volunteers to improve the economic and social well-being of communities in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. Volunteers will help local partners strengthen micro, small and medium-sized private sector businesses, promote trade and access to financial services, and improve the management of natural resources. They will also identify innovative solutions to help stimulate sustainable economic growth and increase women’s and children’s access to quality health and other basic services.
This project will support over 240 volunteers who will help build the capacity of local partners to address development challenges in five African countries. It will help stimulate sustainable economic growth by focusing on small and growing businesses and creating job opportunities that help improve livelihoods. It will also promote effective public service institutions by enhancing poor and marginalized communities’ access to public services that meet their basic needs.
EQWIP a consortium between Canada World Youth and Youth Challenge International (website in English only)
This project, implemented jointly by Canada World Youth and Youth Challenge International, will engage over 650 Canadian volunteers to help improve the livelihoods of young un-and-underemployed women and men in six countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas, by providing innovative training, support services, access to financing, networks and technology.
This project will mobilize 102 Canadian volunteers to help improve the protection of the rights of children, women and vulnerable and marginalized communities, as well as the strengthening of democracy and the rule of law by access to justice of developing-country organizations. The initiative will take place in nine countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
This project will mobilize approximately 747 Canadian volunteers to help improve the economic and social well-being of poor and marginalized communities, particularly women and youth, in 11 countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Volunteers will help increase the technical, financial and administrative capacity of developing country organizations to better contribute to sustainable economic growth and address food security challenges in their communities.
The project will mobilize 185 volunteers to help strengthen the capacity of 33 local partners to contribute to meeting the food security and income needs of women and men in select countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The volunteers will assist local partners to stimulate sustainable economic growth in the targeted countries by focusing on improved agricultural practices and livestock management, job creation and income generation, nutrition, sanitation and protection of natural resources.
This project will mobilize approximately 60 Canadian volunteers to help strengthen the individual and organizational capacities of eight local developing country partners in the sectors of health and education in countries in Latin America and Africa.
This project will provide 215 Canadian volunteers with the opportunity to help strengthen the capacity of nine local partners in meeting the food security and income needs of vulnerable people in six countries across Africa and the Americas. It will also empower agricultural entrepreneurs by improving their production and food processing.
This project, implemented by World University Service Canada and the Centre for International Studies and Cooperation, will mobilize 3,000 volunteers. These volunteers will work with 170 local partners across 14 countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas to help poor and marginalized communities improve their economic and social well-being. Volunteer activities will focus on sustainable economic growth, with an emphasis on increasing employment, income, and control over resources for women and youth.
This project will increase food security by using skilled Canadian volunteers to support the efforts of small-scale farmers to produce more and better food from livestock. The project will deploy 102 Canadian volunteers to work with developing country partners in six countries across Africa and Asia to help create integrated animal health systems that benefit small-scale farmers.
