Grants and Contributions:
Title:
Focused Assistance for COVID-19 Resilient Households
Agreement Number:
7423749 P009135001
Agreement Value:
$20,000,000.00
Agreement Date:
Jan 7, 2021 - Dec 31, 2025
Description:
This project aims to increase the wellbeing and resilience of the most vulnerable populations in Mozambique, especially children, women, including victims of domestic violence, women-headed households, and people living with disabilities. This project works closely with the Government of Mozambique to provide technical assistance to strengthen the capacity of social protection institutions to expand and effectively deliver gender-responsive social assistance programs. This project provides urgent mobile cash transfers to urban and peri-urban program beneficiaries to address immediate shocks and loss of income caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, helping them meet their essential needs and preserve nutrition. Targeted messaging on COVID-19 prevention addressing gender equality issues and on nutrition accompany every cash transfer. The project plans to gradually shift its support to the expansion of the child grant support program, helping vulnerable households affected by COVID-19 and with children between the ages zero and two with cash transfers and a comprehensive care component. This project supports beneficiaries to adopt positive practices related to health, nutrition, and hygiene, including ways to access referral mechanisms to social services. Community health care workers conduct specialized home visits for families at risk to promote and improve the household’s positive care practices.
Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Expected Results:
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved practices of households related to health, nutrition, hygiene and protection; (2) increased access to support services, including the use of referral mechanisms addressing gender-based violence, including child, early and forced marriage, and (3) improved efficiency of national social protection institutions to deliver gender-sensitive social protection assistance programs.
Location:
New York, US
Reference Number:
064-2022-2023-Q4-00004
Agreement Type:
Grant
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Additional Information:
The end date is changed to 2025-12-31.
Amendment Date
Jan 11, 2023
Recipient's Legal Name:
UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
Program:
International Development Assistance Program
Program Purpose:
The main purpose on the International Development Assistance Program is to reduce poverty for those living in countries where Global Affairs Canada engages in international development.
Amendments: