Grants and Contributions

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.

This project targets women of reproductive age, particularly pregnant women, their infants, and adolescent girls in the hinterland regions of Guyana.

With Global Affairs Canada’s support, in humanitarian emergencies, UNICEF is providing life-saving health and nutrition interventions for children, pregnant and lactating women to support the treatment, growth and development of healthy children.

Project activities include: (1) distributing emergency food assistance; (2) providing cash-based transfers to most vulnerable households; (3) treating moderate and acute malnutrition for children under five, including pregnant and lactating women; and (4) improving delivery of essential supplies, including for the cholera response.

This Project aims to reduce the incidence of COVID-19 related death and serious illness, particularly amongst priority groups and vulnerable populations, by increasing equitable access to and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in five countries in the African region. The Project will support health systems strengthening to enable the delivery of gender-equitable COVID-19 vaccination and routine health services.

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

Project activities include: (1) providing cash, vouchers, or in-kind food rations to address immediate food needs; (2) providing therapeutic and supplementary foods to boys, girls, and pregnant and lactating women; and (3) improving access to information to women and men from households experiencing acute food insecurity on sexual exploitation and abuse prevention.

This project aims to provide legal resources, services and advice to pregnant racialized women and their families living in vulnerable situations.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, help meet their basic needs and expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. In countries experiencing humanitarian crises, UNICEF fulfills its mandate through humanitarian assistance programming activities outlined under the Humanitarian Action for Children appeal and guided by its Core Commitments for Children.

With the support of Canada and other donors, UNICEF provides an integrated package of life-saving services to conflict and disaster-affected children and families. Project activities include: (1) providing water, sanitation and hygiene facilities; (2) treating children for severe acute malnutrition; (3) providing emergency education programming for children and adolescents; (4) providing child protection safe spaces including gender-based violence risk mitigation, prevention or response interventions for children and women; and (5) providing basic health care.

Project activities include: (1) providing infants and pregnant and lactating women with moderate and severe acute malnutrition treatments though mobile clinics; (2) providing households with malnutrition screening tools; (3) providing at least 28,000 beneficiaries with SRH or GBV services; and (4) providing at least 27,342 beneficiaries with primary health care services.