THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD
$100,000,000.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program
- —
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2025-2026
- Agreement period
- April 2, 2025 – December 31, 2029
- Reference
- CA-3-P014431001
Published purpose
This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the World Food Programme (WFP). WFP uses these funds, along with other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate. WFP is the food assistance arm of the United Nations and is the largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger in the world. Its mandate is to provide food assistance quickly to vulnerable people in humanitarian emergencies such as natural disasters, civil conflict and war, and reduce global food insecurity. Project activities include: (1) saving lives and protecting livelihoods in emergencies; (2) supporting or restoring food security and nutrition, and establishing or rebuilding livelihoods in fragile settings and following emergencies; (3) reducing risk and enabling people, communities and countries to meet their own food and nutrition needs; and (4) reducing under-nutrition and break the intergenerational cycle of hunger.
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This grant provides Canada's long-term institutional support to the World Food Programme, a UN agency that delivers emergency food assistance and works to reduce global hunger and malnutrition in humanitarian crises and fragile settings.
Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada
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