Grants and Contributions

With GAC’s support, Action Against Hunger Canada aims to reduce mortality and morbidity, improve wellbeing and support the dignity of conflict-affected refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities in Central Darfur and South Kordofan, with a particular focus on women, adolescent girls and children under the age of five.

The Feminist Solutions to Climate Change-Driven Food Insecurity (FEMIN-ACT) project aims to address Iraq’s poverty reduction and food insecurity in Iraq through an integrated approach to agricultural development. It aims to enhance the capacity of smallholder farmers to operationalize best practices of climate-smart agriculture, such as drip irrigation systems, reduced pesticide use and increased use of drought-resistant crop varieties. These techniques focus on reducing water consumption, increasing productivity, and boosting income, reducing poverty and increasing food security. Moreover, the project aims to enhance the participation of women alongside men farmers to fully engage in the agriculture field. It aims to create an enabling environment empowering women and youth to exercise their leadership potential through networking and collaboration with other farmers, farmers unions, and associations to connect, share knowledge, and enhance their capacity to make informed decisions. Finally, this project contributes to strengthening the knowledge and skills among food value chain actors to be more productive, market-integrated, and sustainable.

With GAC’s support, Action Against Hunger aims to provide lifesaving assistance to address the urgent needs of up to 2,000,000 crisis-affected people across the globe over three years.

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.

This project aims to empower women and adolescent girls and improve their sexual and reproductive health, as well as maternal and infant health, in the Tchologo region of Côte d’Ivoire.

The project’s activities include: (1) analyzing gender roles within the community and identifying socio-cultural barriers to access to services and risk factors; (2) raising awareness among communities, mothers, husbands and adolescents to improve behaviours related to sexual and reproductive health, maternal and infant health, nutrition, and outbreak prevention; (3) supporting members of women’s and adolescent girls’ associations in establishing healthy and sustainable association management mechanisms; (4) training and raising awareness among community leaders and officials on inclusive governance so that women and adolescent girls can participate in local decision making; and (5) training women’s and adolescent girls’ associations on the use of referral services and mechanisms for survivors of gender based violence.

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Empowerment of indigenous Wayuu women through incomegenerating
activities and access to mental, sexual, and reproductive
health services to reduce poverty, early pregnancy, maternal and
infant mortality rates in Villa del Rosario, Zulia

With GAC’s support, Action Against Hunger (ACF) provides lifesaving assistance to address the urgent needs of up to 2,000,000 crisis-affected people in multiple countries across the globe for three years.

P008522001: This project aims to improve the nutritional status of children under five years old and pregnant and lactating women in the Kayes and Sikasso regions.
The project will address three major causes of chronic malnutrition: access to adequate care, healthy environment and appropriate nutrition. Project activities include: 1) developing and implementing behavioural change strategies with communities to promote access to sexual and reproductive health services for women and adolescent girls; 2) training approximately 150 health workers (including 66% of women) in sexual and reproductive health, family planning, early childhood food and nutrition, and respect for the rights of women and adolescent girls; 3) rehabilitating or building approximately 40 water points and 60 family or school latrines, taking into account the specific needs of women and girls; 4) providing women's groups with inputs and equipment for processing, storing and marketing high nutritional value products.

The project aims to benefit an estimated 728,000 people, including 52.7 % women and adolescent girls and 46.9 % children under five years of age, and indirectly benefit the entire population of the four target districts, i.e. more than 2,088,000 people.

P008522002: This project aims to strengthen the capacity of health structures to plan and implement a response plan to epidemics, including to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
Project activities include: (1) providing technical support to approximately 150 health structures to develop or update epidemic management plans, including the response to that of COVID-19, that take into account the specific needs of women, girls and boys; (2) providing materials to these health structures to respond to epidemics, including urgent needs identified in relation to COVID-19.

This project brings additional funding to the projet "Supporting the Integrated Fight Against Chronic Malnutrition in Mali" in response to COVID-19

Protection of deportees upon arrival in Guatemala through safer quality care and services guaranteeing human rights and a gender approach in the context of COVID19

With GAC’s support, Action Against Hunger (ACF) is helping address the basic health, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene, and protection needs of crisis-affected people in the departments of Guajira, Cesar and Norte de Santander in Colombia.