ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross

$40,000,000.00 CAD

≈ $0.97 for every person in Canada ≈ 517 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
Global Affairs Canada
Program
Grants - Multilateral Programming
Recipient country
Switzerland
Fiscal year
2024-2025
Agreement period
February 20, 2025 – December 31, 2026
Reference
dfatd-maecd:064-2024-2025-Q4-00159

Published purpose

March 2025 - The International Committee of the Red Cross’ (ICRC) aims to protect the lives and dignity of people affected by armed conflicts and other situations of violence in various countries. This includes people in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. The ICRC assists and works to prevent further suffering by promoting and strengthening international humanitarian law. The ICRC collaborates with local Red Cross and Red Crescent national society staff and volunteers to implement its protection and assistance programmes worldwide. Canada will also provide rapid and flexible resources via the drawdown fund allocations to enable the ICRC to respond to new and unexpected crisis and reach beneficiaries more efficiently and in a timely manner. With GAC and other donors’ support, the ICRC’s humanitarian operations aim to provide protection, emergency relief, and other essential services

In plain English AI-generated

This grant provides $40 million to the International Committee of the Red Cross to support humanitarian protection and assistance for people affected by armed conflict and violence in multiple African countries and Sudan, including emergency relief and strengthening international humanitarian law.

Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada

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