Grants and Contributions:
Title:
SCC - Malnutrition And Protection for Lifesaving in Emergencies 2025-2028
Agreement Number:
7466909 P015250001
Agreement Value:
$48,000,000.00
Agreement Date:
Apr 17, 2025 - Mar 31, 2028
Description:
With Global Affairs Canada (GAC) support, Save the Children Canada will provide lifesaving assistance to address the urgent nutrition and protection needs of crisis-affected people across the globe for three years. This project will focus on improving the nutritional status of vulnerable populations and enhancing the protective environment so that risks of violence are mitigated, through delivering emergency nutrition and complementary health and water, sanitation and hygiene services in approximately 15 countries each year.
Country-level interventions will be implemented through a global program that will allow for a greater overall coherence and visibility of sectoral results achieved. Countries of implementation will be selected on a yearly basis and in consultation with GAC, with priority given to extreme nutrition crisis in countries experiencing protracted. At least half of the budget will be directed towards nutrition sector activities.
Project activities include: (1) providing emergency nutrition services for girls and boys under 5 and pregnant and lactating women and girls, including Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM), supplementary feeding programs, micronutrient supplementation, community outreach, and providing treatment of severe acute malnutrition; (2) providing emergency infant and young child feeding services for parents/caregivers of girls and boys under 5; (3) providing health services for girls and boys under the age of five, as well as women of reproductive age; (4) providing community and /or facility-based health and water and sanitation services; (5) providing survivor-centered protection services to at risk groups, including referral, case management, psychological first aid (PFA), care for child survivors, and tailored psychosocial support (PSS).
Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Expected Results:
The expected outcomes for the project include: (1) Improved nutritional status among girls and boys under 5 years and pregnant and lactating women and girls; and (2) Enhanced protective environment in which risks (e.g. abuse, neglect, exploitation, and other forms of violence including SGBV) are mitigated for crisis-affected girls, boys, women and men.
The expected ultimate outcome is lives saved, suffering alleviated and human dignity maintained in countries experiencing humanitarian crises or acute food insecurity.
Location:
Toronto, Ontario, CA M2P 2A8
Reference Number:
064-2025-2026-Q1-00229
Agreement Type:
Grant
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Business Number:
3203107958621
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Recipient's Legal Name:
Save the Children Canada
Federal Riding Name:
Don Valley North
Federal Riding Number:
35023
Program:
Grants - Multilateral Programming
Program Purpose:
Subvention Programmation multilatérale