Spotlight on our Members
Promote, improve, inspire: WaterAid Canada’s response to COVID-19
While water and soap are considered basic household items in Canada, for many around the world it is normal to live without them.
Call to localization in the time of COVID-19
As MCC and our local partners around the world respond to COVID-19, we are striving to to be a bridge between the global and the local, the academic and the practical, international “best practices’” and what is wanted and needed on the ground.
Keeping an eye on COVID-19: Operation Eyesight’s approach to leveraging its network in times of crisis
CCIC member, Operation Eyesight, is pivoting its work, that typically focuses on eye health, to leverage its network of partner hospitals around the world to support effective, community led responses to the pandemic.
Save the Children’s COVID-19 learning pathway: Resources for everyone and anyone
At the Canadian Council for International Co-operation, we are committed to sharing stories of solidarity and innovation as Canada’s international development and humanitarian sector responds to the crisis. The first in this series, we are excited to share four ways our member Save the Children is supporting the most vulnerable communities here at home and communities abroad.
A conspiracy with hope
For International Development Week 2020, we are showcasing the impact that our member organizations are having around the world. This blog post, from Jennifer Henry of KAIROS, is the third in a special series. Make sure to read it and share it with your network!
Deepening democracy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
For International Development Week 2020, we are showcasing the impact that our member organizations are having around the world. This blog post from Development and Peace is the second in a special series. Make sure to read it and share it with your network!
Empowered women lift a community
For International Development Week 2020, we are showcasing the impact that our member organizations are having around the world. This blog post from Will Postma, Executive Director, PWRDF is the first in a special series. Make sure to read it and share it with your network!
New CCIC Member: Hope and Healing International
CCIC is happy to welcome Hope and Healing International (formerly cbm Canada) as its newest member! Hope and Healing International has over 110 years of experience developing proven community-based programs that help millions of people break out of the...
Young African Women Leading for Climate Action and Equality
Throughout Gender Equality Week, CCIC will highlight the work that some of our members are doing to advance gender equality. This blog post was written by Catherine Boyce, Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED), and presents their Climate-Smart Agriculture...
KAIROS’ Women of Courage Empowers Women Peacebuilders
The Women, Peace and Security Group - Parliamentary Visit (Photo submitted by KAIROS)Throughout Gender Equality Week, CCIC will highlight the work that some of our members are doing to advance gender equality. This blog post was written by Rachel Warden of KAIROS...
Bridging the Gap in Gender Equality and Adolescent Nutrition Education
Nutrition International launched a free online course titled Adolescent Nutrition and Anaemia to help fill a gap in available training and education and to support action in this very important area.Throughout Gender Equality Week, CCIC will highlight the work that...
Empowering Women in Unexpected Ways – The Interconnection Between Gender and Blindness
With limited access to clean water in her small village in Kenya, Anne contracted blinding trachoma. She lost all vision in her right eye and some in her left. Through Operation Eyesight’s SAFE program (which stands for Surgery, Antibiotics, Face washing and hygiene...
New CCIC Member: MEDA
We are happy to welcome MEDA as CCIC's newest member! MEDA - Mennonite Economic Development Associates - is an international economic development organization whose mission is to create business solutions to poverty.Since 1953, MEDA (Mennonite Economic...
Canadian Lutheran World Relief: A Long-Standing History of Responding to Injustice Around the World
Interview with Rev. Dr. Karin Achtelstetter, Executive Director of CLWR As we commemorated World Humanitarian Day just a few days ago, we wanted to profile one of our members who has had a long experience working in humanitarian assistance...
Hospital-Based Community Eye Health – a Model to Empower Local Communities
Aly speaking with one of Operation Eyesight’s beneficiaries in Kenya. The man had just received cataract surgery at the new eye unit at Kerugoya County Referral Hospital, Operation Eyesight’s partner hospital in Kirinyaga County. Interview with Aly Bandali, President...