Grants and Contributions

November 28- Cyclone Ditwah made landfall in Sri Lanka, resulting in widespread flooding, landslides, and significant infrastructure damage across all 25 districts. Approximately 2.2 million people have been affected, with 635 confirmed fatalities and 370 individuals reported missing.

With Global Affairs Canada’s support, WFP responds effectively to the humanitarian needs caused by Cyclone Ditwah by providing emergency food, nutrition, cash assistance and support to logistical operations. Project activities include: (1) providing food and nutrition assistance; (2) providing cash assistance; and (3) supporting logistical operations.

October 2025 - Hurricane Melissa made landfall as a catastrophic Category 5 storm in southwestern Jamaica on October 28, 2025, and as a powerful Category 3 storm in eastern Cuba the following day. The hurricane caused widespread flooding, damage and destruction to infrastructure, as well as displacement in Jamaica and Cuba.

With Global Affairs Canada’s support, World Food Program responds to the humanitarian needs caused by Hurricane Melissa by providing food, financial, logistical, and emergency communications assistance. Project activities include: (1) providing immediate food and nutrition assistance; (2) supporting supply chain and logistics operations; and (3) strengthening emergency telecommunications.

September 2025 – On August 31, 2025, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck north-eastern Afghanistan causing widespread destruction across Nangarhar, Kunar, Laghman, and Nuristan provinces. With thousands of people affected, this disaster occurred against the backdrop of a protracted humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan with half of the population in need of humanitarian assistance in 2025.

The Caribbean regional logistics hub and centre for excellence serves as a central location to strengthen the region’s ability to efficiently respond to humanitarian emergencies. The Hub, co-led by the World Food Programme, supports the prepositioning and deploying emergency relief supplies, including food and basic items, and logistics capabilities and expertise in the Caribbean for emergency responses. With Global Affairs Canada's support, the WFP supports emergency preparedness and relief operations in the Caribbean. The project aims to enable timely and efficient emergency responses from WFP and for other humanitarian partners. Project activities include: (1) pre-positioning, procuring, distributing and transporting essential food and non-food items for crisis-affected people in official development assistance-eligible countries in the Caribbean; and (2) providing logistics equipment and technical assistance to impacted countries and humanitarian partners.

March 2025 - A 7.7 magnitude earthquake and a 6.4 magnitude aftershock struck central Myanmar on March 28, 2025, resulting in extensive destruction and loss of life. A state of emergency has been declared in 6 regions, home to over 28 million people. The earthquake compounds an already fragile situation driven by an ongoing conflict, displacement and past disasters.

With GAC's support, the World Food Programme (WFP) helps provide emergency food and nutrition assistance and logistical services to address lifesaving and time-critical needs of vulnerable people living in the affected regions. Project activities include: (1) providing immediate food and nutrition assistance; (2) distributing emergency cash assistance; and (3) supporting logistical operations.

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the World Food Programme (WFP). WFP uses these funds, along with other donors’ funding, to achieve its mandate.

WFP is the food assistance arm of the United Nations and is the largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger in the world. Its mandate is to provide food assistance quickly to vulnerable people in humanitarian emergencies such as natural disasters, civil conflict and war, and reduce global food insecurity.

Project activities include: (1) saving lives and protecting livelihoods in emergencies; (2) supporting or restoring food security and nutrition, and establishing or rebuilding livelihoods in fragile settings and following emergencies; (3) reducing risk and enabling people, communities and countries to meet their own food and nutrition needs; and (4) reducing under-nutrition and break the intergenerational cycle of hunger.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations’ frontline agency in the fight against hunger. It responds to emergencies, saves lives by quickly getting food assistance (cash or in-kind) to vulnerable food insecure populations and helps prevent hunger. As the global lead agency for logistics and emergency telecommunications, WFP plays a major role in providing common services for the humanitarian community. It transports humanitarian workers, carries light cargo for humanitarian agencies and carries out emergency medical and security evacuations. This project operates in Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.

With the support of Global Affairs Canada (GAC), WFP provides targeted food assistance to vulnerable populations to reduce acute malnutrition and food insecurity and protect livelihoods. Project activities include: (1) distributing food and cash-based transfer; (2) providing supplementary feeding for children under the age of 5 years, as well as pregnant and lactating women; and (3) providing logistical support and enabling access to the most remote and challenging locations.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations’ frontline agency in the fight against hunger. It responds to emergencies, saves lives by quickly getting food assistance (cash or in-kind) to vulnerable food insecure populations and helps prevent hunger. As the global lead agency for logistics and emergency telecommunications, WFP plays a major role in providing common services for the humanitarian community. It transports humanitarian workers, carries light cargo for humanitarian agencies and carries out emergency medical and security evacuations. This project operates in the West Bank and Gaza.

With the support of Global Affairs Canada (GAC), WFP provides targeted food assistance to vulnerable populations to reduce acute malnutrition and food insecurity and protect livelihoods. Project activities include: (1) distributing food and cash-based transfer; (2) providing supplementary feeding for children under the age of 5 years, as well as pregnant and lactating women; and (3) providing logistical support

Through this project, WFP will boost income generation opportunities and livelihood diversification of vulnerable households and promote women’s empowerment and household care practices in Venezuela. The project will enhance individuals’ technical skills towards more diversified and reliable sources of income, through training and follow up programmes; support households to meet their immediate food needs through food transfers to promote their participation in technical and life skills training; and strengthen the capacity of local organizations and institutions to design and implement training programmes for livelihood diversification and the creation of income generating opportunities at community level.

The project will operate in Amazonas, Apure and Sucre, Falcón and Delta Amacuro over a three-year period.

The project aims to assist some 10,000 people within the framework of its livelihood support strategy, including women, caregivers of people with disabilities, and indigenous communities.

This project aims to improve food security and nutritional status of children up to 12 years and pregnant and breastfeeding women in 6 prioritized municipalities in Cuba. Project activities include: (1) facilitating opportunities for small farmers and cooperatives to access local markets and strengthen direct links with social protection programs for the sale of locally produced nutritious food; (2) strengthening local early warning system and integrated risk management plans to manage shocks and mitigate impacts with a age-sensitive and gender lens; (3) improving infrastructure of health, education and social protection institutions that are essential to guarantee optimal conditions for better nutrition and hygiene; and (4) improving local decision making related to food security and nutrition through multi-sectoral coordination and evidence generation considering child-sensitive and gender lens. The World Food Programme (WFP) in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) implements this project.