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Application Deadlines: September 18, 2025
Program Summary:
The Indo-Pacific Regional Connectivity Envelope (RCE) aims to enhance Canada’s profile in the region, accelerate Canada’s ability to develop or gain access to influential networks and form strategic partnerships. The focus of the engagement includes participation or facilitation of events in the region or in Canada.
Eligible project activity categories include:
Participating: Attending a conference/event/training or research without leading or playing a key role in its implementation.
Facilitating: Hosting/cohosting a conference/event/training or research and playing a key role in its implementation.
Eligible project activity categories:
- Knowledge sharing (conferences, workshops, round table discussions, panels)
- Training;
- Research;
- Indo-Pacific cultural events;
- Indigenous events and reconciliation.
Proposed projects must start after April 1, 2026, and end prior to March 31, 2028. Funding range is $20,000-$250,000.
Eligible Applicants
To be eligible, projects must meet each requirement and, where stipulated, provide supporting documentation:
- Your organization is legally incorporated in Canada and can provide a Canada Revenue Agency business number;
or
- Your organization is an Indigenous organization or government (Inuit, Métis and First Nations organization) in Canada. Your organization must provide supporting documentation about its history, governance structure, and/or ownership;
and
- You are not a consortium, only one Canadian organization collaborating with one Indo-Pacific organization per proposal;
- You are not a sovereign entity (government), for-profit organization, a multilateral institution, or an individual.
Each eligible organization may submit up to four (4) proposals. Organizations must coordinate internally to develop the proposals. If an organization submits more than four proposals, any additional submissions beyond the limit will be rejected.
Project Parameters:
You must be able to answer “yes” to all of the following statements in order for your application to be considered:
- Your proposed project is starting after April 1, 2026, and ending prior to March 31, 2028.
- You are requesting Global Affairs Canada funding of at least $20,000 and no more than $250,000
- If the total project value exceeds $40,000, your organization will provide at least 15% of the total eligible direct project costs: Policy on Cost-Sharing for Grant and Non-Repayable Contribution Agreements
- Your proposed project is in line with one or more of the Strategic Objectives of the Indo-Pacific Strategy
- Your proposed project duration is no longer than 2 years
- The geographic focus of your project is in the Indo-Pacific (as defined by the Indo-Pacific Strategy), in Canada, or in both regions
- Your application identifies an Indo-Pacific regional organization*, who is based in the region, and how they will meaningfully support the project’s implementation (*must be based in the IP region as defined by the Indo-Pacific Strategy, including Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, the Pacific Island Countries ( Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu ), Pakistan, the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor Leste, and Vietnam) While included in the Indo-Pacific Strategy, this program will not fund activities in Myanmar or Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) due to current Government of Canada travel advisories
- You have identified at least one intermediate outcome and one immediate outcome, based on the project’s activity category
- Your application package documents are complete and presented in either English or French
Program Information session video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcjmsh69R4E
