National Farmed Animal Health and Welfare Council: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Elora, ON · grants and contributions register

National Farmed Animal Health and Welfare Council: federal grants and contributions: 5 agreements; $6.9M value; 2 departments; 2 programs.

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5agreements
$6.9Mvalue
2departments
2programs

Largest agreements

Animal Health Emergency Management- Animal Health Emergency Management II Awareness, Capacity, Confidence$2.4Mvalue2020start2023end

The objective of this project is to enhance Animal Health Emergency Management in provincial/national associations; collaborating to build awareness and capacity and the resulting confidence in industry as effective partners, by defining protocols that improve policy and address lessons learned; supporting /establishing partnerships that provide effective communication channels, knowledge transfer networks and leadership opportunities; and developing consistent, region/sector specific training and resource tools.

Advancing Animal Welfare and Public Trust Through Codes of Practice$2.4Mvalue2020start2023end

The objective of this project is to develop/update four Codes of Practice for care and handling of farm animals and provide necessary communications to support successful Code outcomes. The Codes for transportation, dairy cattle, and goats will be updated. A Code for aquaculture will be developed. Communication activities will support broad Code awareness, implementation, and support, while building consumer/buyer confidence about how farm animals are raised and transported, and standards are developed in Canada.

The Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System (CAHSS) - Enhance Collaboration, Data Integration, Analysis and Reporting$2.0Mvalue2019start2023end

The objective of this project aims to enhance surveillance capacity of the Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System at the national level through collaboration with surveillance networks in order to serve as a central surveillance information hub, establishing surveillance priorities, and developing a national report on animal health surveillance.

Enhancing Poultry and Livestock Handling and Transportation Training$147Kvalue2021start2023end

The objective of this project is to enhance the technical content and learner experience for existing online and classroom certification training for livestock and poultry transporters, to develop additional online training courses that supplements BQA/TQA certification and to develop a robust and standardized train-the-trainer certification and audit program for in-classroom poultry and livestock humane transportation training.

Supporting the African Swine Fever Executive Management Board and Developing an Industry / Government Integrated National African Swine Fever Response Plan and Related Activities.$90.0Kvalue2020start2022end

The overall objective of this project is to provide enhanced coordination, support and resources to the National African Swine Fever Executive Management Board for the development and testing of an Industry/Government Integrated National African Swine Fever Response Plan, and the preparation of a long-term funding model for the development of future integrated animal-disease response plans.

Departments

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada4agreements$6.8Mvalue1programs
  • AgriAssurance Program: National Industry Association

All grants from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Canadian Food Inspection Agency1agreements$90.0Kvalue1programs

Years

20211agreements$147Kvalue1programs
  • AgriAssurance Program: National Industry Association
20203agreements$4.8Mvalue2programs
  • AgriAssurance Program: National Industry Association
  • Federal Assistance Program
20191agreements$2.0Mvalue1programs
  • AgriAssurance Program: National Industry Association

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.