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EcoAction Stream 2: Freshwater Sustainability and Innovation across Canada │Canada Water Agency (CWA)

Open to applications

Value

minimum of $25,000, and a maximum of $200,000

Description

EcoAction Stream 2: Freshwater Sustainability and Innovation across Canada will fund projects related to the following objectives:

  • Pilot innovative and/or clean technology solutions to improve freshwater quality and/or freshwater ecosystem health that not only address local issues but are able to be applied across Canada.
  • Enable circular economy opportunities (e.g., nutrient recycling and/or recovery) for communities and/or sectors to achieve co-benefits, such as increased resilience to climate change, local economic growth, value chain efficiencies, etc.
  • Address freshwater data challenges to ensure that Canadians and decision-makers have access to and can use freshwater-related data and/or Indigenous knowledges, to strengthen knowledge generation and to enhance effective freshwater management in Canada.

Eligible Applicants

The following applicants are eligible to receive funding:

  • Domestic not-for-profit organizations, such as charitable and volunteer organizations, professional associations, and non-governmental organizations
  • Municipal governments and local governments
  • Domestic research, academic and educational institutions
  • Domestic small for-profit entities piloting innovative and/or clean technology solutions (less than 100 employees)
  • Domestic Indigenous organizations, governments, boards, commissions, communities, associations and authorities

Eligible Expenses

  • Human resource costs, including salaries and benefits
  • Contractors required to perform activities related to the project
  • Management and professional service costs such as accounting, monitoring, communications, official language translation, Indigenous languages translation, audit and legal fees
  • Hospitality, travel and venues/conference expenses in accordance with the Treasury Board Secretariat’s Directive on Travel, Hospitality, Conference, and Event Expenditures
    • Hospitality expenditures can include costs related to Indigenous ceremonial offerings to be utilized or consumed during meetings or ceremonies such as traditional medicines, cultural foods, tea and sacred plants
  • Costs associated with an Indigenous participation or ceremony
  • Monetary honoraria offered to Indigenous Elders and/or Knowledge Keepers related to specific participation activities which may include but not be limited to translation and interpretative costs, leading a traditional opening/closing ceremony and/or prayer, the sharing of traditional knowledge and protocols, (including spiritual advice to individuals), and demonstrating traditional art and other practices
  • Materials and supplies
  • Printing, production and distribution costs
  • Equipment purchases or rentals
  • Vehicle rental and operational costs
  • Costs associated with land securement (e.g. leases, conservation easements, covenants or servitudes)  and
  •  A reasonable share (15% or less) of overhead and/or administrative costs which are directly attributed to the carrying out of the project

Deadline Date

Open until April 10, 2025.

Contact

Contact Name: Canada Water Agency (CWA)

E-mail Address: EcoActionStream2-EcoActionVolet2@cwa-aec.gc.ca

Website: https://www.canada.ca/en/canada-water-agency/funding/ecoaction-community-program/stream2.html

Industry:

Energy & Environment, Municipalities, Non-Profit, Software/Technology, University Partnerships

Location:

Alberta, British Colombia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, NWT, Ontario, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon

Tags:

ABmunis, Cleantech, R&D

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