CHILDREN BELIEVE FUND

$14,633,868.00 CAD

≈ $0.35 for every person in Canada ≈ 189 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
Global Affairs Canada
Program
International Development Assistance Program
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2023-2024
Agreement period
May 23, 2023 – March 31, 2031
Reference
dfatd-maecd:064-2023-2024-Q1-00104

Published purpose

The project aims to improve nutrition for the poorest and most marginalized, especially women, adolescent girls, and children to reach 142,347 people (54% female) in Ghana and 243,509 people (60% female) in Ethiopia. Project activities include: (1) training and growing of high nutrient vegetables, legumes and indigenous species of fruit-bearing trees by community members, especially women; (2) WASH infrastructure for sanitation and hygiene and water for household nutrition gardens (3) village savings and loans and community led integrated nutrition teams, especially with women, in procuring and/or constructing appropriate processing and storage solutions; (4) training of health services providers on strategies for gender-responsive integrated nutrition-health delivery; and (5) district level inter-sectoral nutrition forum/meetings facilitated for information sharing, collective capacity building, and informing policy/decision-making.

In plain English AI-generated

This project improves nutrition for vulnerable populations, especially women and children, in Ghana and Ethiopia through vegetable and fruit tree training, WASH infrastructure, savings groups, health provider training, and district nutrition forums.

Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada

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