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Title:

World Food Programme - Institutional Support – 2025 to 2029

Agreement Number:

7465762 P014431001

Agreement Value:

$100,000,000.00

Agreement Date:

Apr 2, 2025 - Dec 31, 2028

Description:

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.

Organization:

Global Affairs Canada

Expected Results:

The expected outcomes as stated by the World Food Programme include: (1) improved access to food and nutrition assistance for food-insecure populations; and (2) increased ability of the World Food Programme to provide appropriate responses to humanitarian crises.

The expected ultimate outcome of Global Affairs Canada’s humanitarian assistance is to save lives, alleviate suffering and maintained human dignity in countries experiencing humanitarian crises or acute food insecurity

Location:

Rome, IT 00148

Reference Number:

064-2025-2026-Q1-00227

Agreement Type:

Grant

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Business Number:

6000000000000

Recipient Type:

Not-for-profit organization or charity

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