Grants and Contributions

Project activities include: (1) providing basic food commodities and water; (2) providing essential non-food items such as blankets, mattresses and hygiene kits; (3) providing primary healthcare in emergency shelters; (4) maintaining UNRWA shelters, including installation of water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities, to provide essential protection for displaced persons; and (5) accounting for persons with special needs in emergency response including children, women, elderly and pregnant and lactating women.

Project activities include: (1) distributing food and cash-based transfers; (2) providing supplementary feeding for children under the age of five years, and pregnant and lactating people; and (3) providing logistical support and enabling access to the most remote and challenging locations.

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• Equitably improve health outcomes for population subgroups that have been underrepresented in research (e.g., women, LGBTQIA/2S populations, racialized Canadians, Indigenous Peoples, pregnant people) and those across life stages (e.g., children, older adults) through proven effective evidence-based interventions to address the health effects of inflammation

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• Equitably improve health outcomes for population subgroups that have been underrepresented in research (e.g., women, LGBTQIA/2S populations, racialized Canadians, Indigenous Peoples, pregnant people) and those across life stages (e.g., children, older adults) through proven effective evidence-based interventions to address the health effects of inflammation

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• Equitably improve health outcomes for population subgroups that have been underrepresented in research (e.g., women, LGBTQIA/2S populations, racialized Canadians, Indigenous Peoples, pregnant people) and those across life stages (e.g., children, older adults) through proven effective evidence-based interventions to address the health effects of inflammation

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• Equitably improve health outcomes for population subgroups that have been underrepresented in research (e.g., women, LGBTQIA/2S populations, racialized Canadians, Indigenous Peoples, pregnant people) and those across life stages (e.g., children, older adults) through proven effective evidence-based interventions to address the health effects of inflammation

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• Equitably improve health outcomes for population subgroups that have been underrepresented in research (e.g., women, LGBTQIA/2S populations, racialized Canadians, Indigenous Peoples, pregnant people) and those across life stages (e.g., children, older adults) through proven effective evidence-based interventions to address the health effects of inflammation

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• Equitably improve health outcomes for population subgroups that have been underrepresented in research (e.g., women, LGBTQIA/2S populations, racialized Canadians, Indigenous Peoples, pregnant people) and those across life stages (e.g., children, older adults) through proven effective evidence-based interventions to address the health effects of inflammation

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• Equitably improve health outcomes for population subgroups that have been underrepresented in research (e.g., women, LGBTQIA/2S populations, racialized Canadians, Indigenous Peoples, pregnant people) and those across life stages (e.g., children, older adults) through proven effective evidence-based interventions to address the health effects of inflammation

This project seeks to improve nutrition for the poorest and most marginalized, especially women, adolescent girls, and children in Bahi and Itigi Districts in Tanzania and Moroto, Nakapiripirit and Nabilatuk districts in Uganda. Project activities include: (1) training Community Health Workers on maternal, infant, young child and adolescent nutrition and health practices; (2) training district and ward extension officers on nutrition-sensitive agriculture and small animal husbandry; (3) training and grants for women’s care groups for income-generating activities and skills development; (4) upgrading water, sanitation and hygiene facilities at selected schools related to handwashing and menstrual health management; and (5) training health care providers on integrated management of severe acute malnutrition.

The project aims to reach 214,764 direct beneficiaries (124,562 women and 90,202 man) and 92,105 indirect beneficiaries (34,500 women and 57,605 man in Tanzania and Uganda. Action Against Hunger together with local partners, implements this project that includes Sustainable Environmental Management Action in Tanzania and Karamoja Women’s Umbrella Organization in Uganda.