WHO - World Health Organization

$10,200,000.00 CAD

≈ $0.24 for every person in Canada ≈ 130 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
Global Affairs Canada
Program
—
Recipient country
Ethiopia
Fiscal year
2011-2012
Agreement period
March 29, 2012 – September 30, 2016
Project status
Closed
Reference
CA-3-M013596002

Published purpose

The World Health Organization's Accelerating Nutrition Improvements project aims to catalyze action to improve health and reduce deaths of the most disadvantaged women and children by scaling up nutrition interventions. The project is designed to strengthen country government’s ability to combat disease and mortality rates, associated with undernutrition of the most disadvantaged women and children. The Accelerating Nutrition Improvements project aims to scale-up direct evidence-based nutrition interventions in three high-burden countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that have joined the Scaling Up Nutrition movement.

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This grant supports the World Health Organization's project to scale up nutrition interventions for women and children in three high-burden Sub-Saharan African countries, aiming to reduce undernutrition-related deaths and disease.

Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada

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