THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD
$33,400,000.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program
- —
- Recipient country
- Congo - Kinshasa
- Fiscal year
- 2020-2021
- Agreement period
- March 24, 2021 – March 31, 2022
- Project status
- Closed
- Reference
- CA-3-P010181001
Published purpose
January 2021 - The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations’ frontline agency in the fight against hunger. It responds to emergencies, saves lives by quickly getting food to the hungry, and helps prevent hunger in the future. As the global lead agency for logistics and emergency telecommunications, WFP plays a major role in providing common services for the humanitarian community. It transports passengers undertaking humanitarian work, carries light cargo for humanitarian agencies, and carries out emergency medical and security evacuations. This project operates in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. With GAC’s support in humanitarian emergencies, WFP focuses on providing targeted food assistance to reduce acute malnutrition and food insecurity, and protect livelihoods. Project activities include: (1) distributing food; and (2) providing supplementary feeding for children under the age of five years, and pregnant and lactating women.
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This contribution supports the World Food Programme in providing emergency food assistance and supplementary feeding for vulnerable groups across multiple African countries, aiming to reduce acute malnutrition and food insecurity.
Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada
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