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Title:

Multi-country emergency - food assistance - WFP 2025

Agreement Number:

7465731 P015659001

Agreement Value:

$78,597,500.00

Agreement Date:

Feb 17, 2025 - Mar 31, 2026

Description:

[February 2025] 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 multi-countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Central America, Colombia, El Salvador, Global, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Ukraine?and Venezuela. 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.

Organization:

Global Affairs Canada

Expected Results:

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased access to food assistance for crisis-affected populations; (2) increased access to supplementary feeding for vulnerable groups, including children, and pregnant and lactating women; and (3) increased logistics and increased access to remote and challenging areas for humanitarian workers.

The expected ultimate outcome is lives saved, suffering alleviated and human dignity maintained in countries experiencing humanitarian crises.

Location:

ROME, IT 00148

Reference Number:

064-2024-2025-Q4-00001

Agreement Type:

Grant

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Business Number:

6000000000000

Recipient Type:

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Amendment Date

Mar 28, 2025

Recipient's Legal Name:

WFP - World Food Programme

Federal Riding Name:

Not Coded

Federal Riding Number:

Program:

Grants - Multilateral Programming

Program Purpose:

Subvention Programmation multilatérale

Amendments:

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