Micronutrient Initiative: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · grants and contributions register · Ottawa Centre

Micronutrient Initiative: federal grants and contributions: 7 agreements; $679M value; 1 departments; 3 programs.

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7agreements
$679Mvalue
1departments
3programs

Largest agreements

Support to Nutrition International’s Global Investment Case (2025-2031)$361Mvalue2025start2031end

Nutrition International (NI) was created by Canada over 30 years ago and has grown into a successful international development institution specializing in women’s, adolescents’, and children’s nutrition. This grant, valued at up to $360.6 million over six years (2025-2031), supports the organization’s new $1 billion Investment Case 2025-2031 (IC2), while improving the survival, health, and well-being of people, especially women, newborns, children, and adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries. Fully funded, the Investment Case is expected to reach up to 800 million people with nutr

Agreement$150Mvalue2014start–end
Agreement$100Mvalue2015start–end
Integrated Nutrition and Gender Project in Senegal (PINGS)$35.0Mvalue2021start2028end

This project seeks to positively transform gender relations to improve the health of women and adolescent girls in Senegal, particularly their nutrition and reproductive health (RH). The project targets 200,000 pregnant/nursing women and 600,000 adolescent girls in the 5 regions most affected by gender inequalities and malnutrition, and worsened by the impact of the pandemic: Kaffrine, Kédougou, Kolda, Sédhiou and Tambacounda. Project activities include the following: (1) offering professional development in the field of women’s nutrition; (2) developing a strategy to attract women and adoles

Building Rights for Improved Girls' Health in Tanzania (BRIGHT)$15.0Mvalue2022start2029end

This project seeks to increase the equality, agency and well-being of adolescents in the rural and remote region of Tabora to exercise their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and nutrition rights. The Building Rights for Improved Girls’ Health in Tanzania (BRIGHT) project focuses particularly on empowering girls who are young, in-and-out of school or pregnant. Project activities include: (1) utilizing nutrition-specific interventions, including iron and folic acid supplementation, as an entry point to provide young or pregnant girls with equitable, gender-responsive and adolesce

Agreement$9.9Mvalue2014start–end
Addressing Stunting in the Philippines$8.5Mvalue2025start2030end

This project aims to support the Government of the Philippines’ efforts to address stunting among children under the age of 5 (CU5) by improving local health system governance and service delivery. Specifically, the project seeks to help build the capacity of select local governments to plan and implement a multisectoral program for nutrition, focusing on the first 1000 days of life, in line with the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition 2023 to 2028. Project activities include: (1) training health service providers to improve provision of nutrition information and services (e.g. iron folic

Departments

Global Affairs Canada7agreements$679Mvalue3programs
  • Grants - Multilateral Programming
  • International Development Assistance Program
  • Contributions - Bilateral Programming

All grants from Global Affairs Canada

Years

20252agreements$369Mvalue2programs
  • Grants - Multilateral Programming
  • Contributions - Bilateral Programming
20221agreements$15.0Mvalue1programs
  • International Development Assistance Program
20211agreements$35.0Mvalue1programs
  • International Development Assistance Program
20151agreements$100Mvalue0programs
    20142agreements$160Mvalue0programs

      Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.