UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund: federal grants and contributions: 142 agreements; $1.7B value; 1 departments; 7 programs.
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This project aims to improve the survival and well-being of children under the age of five in 15 African countries. The project seeks to deliver cost-effective life-saving nutrition and health services to children through semi-annual outreach events, also known as Child Health Days. These outreach events are designed to deliver health and nutrition services to children who would not normally be reached by the regular health care system. The most common services provided by these outreach events are vitamin A supplementation to prevent blindness and reduce child mortality rates, immunizations t
July 2019 - Humanitarian needs stemming from the crises in Syria and Iraq remain significant throughout the Middle East. Continued violence in Syria raises little prospects for the voluntary, safe, sustainable and dignified return of over 5.6 million refugees in the region. Internally displaced persons range in the millions in Syria and Iraq, and refugees facing protracted displacement in host countries continue to face acute humanitarian needs in Jordan and Lebanon. With the support of GAC and other donors, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) aims to save lives, protect the rights,
The grant represents Canada’s institutional support to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF uses these funds, along with other donor funding, to achieve its mandate. Guided by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF supports the rights of children to help meet their basic needs and expand opportunities for children to reach their full potential. UNICEF seeks to improve the social and economic conditions of children by ensuring that they have access to health care, clean water, food, and education. UNICEF also works to ensure that children are protected f
P006576001, P006576002 & P006576003: This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to Education Cannot Wait (ECW). ECW uses these funds, along with other donor’s funding to achieve its mandate. ECW is the only global fund designed to deliver rapid, flexible support to address gaps in financing, capacity and coordination to ensure that girls and boys in crisis situations have access to quality education. ECW is hosted by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and is administered under UNICEF's financial, human resources and administrative rules and regulations, while ope
September 2022 - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is mandated by the United Nations General-Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, help meet their basic needs, and expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF works in developing countries through its development and humanitarian assistance programming to fulfill its mandate, including promoting the equal rights of girls and women, equal rights and support their full participation in the political, social, and economic development of their communities. With Global Affairs Canada’s support,
This project aims to improve the nutritional status of women, girls, and children under the age of five living in vulnerable situations in the regions of Mopti, Segou, and Timbuktu. The activities in this project include: 1) providing training to service providers including health, education, child protection, community mobilization, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) agents so that they can offer a comprehensive package of integrated gender-sensitive services such as nutrition, health, WASH, education, early childhood development, and child protection for children, adolescent girls and wome
Periodic, high-dose vitamin A supplementation of children 6-59 months of age is a proven, low-cost intervention which has been shown to reduce all-cause mortality by 12 to 24 per cent, and is therefore an important programme in support of efforts to reduce child mortality. The GAC-funded three-year Vitamin A Supplementation in a New Age (VINA) project (FY2023-2026) aims to reduce mortality in girls and boys under the age of 5 years that are at high risk of vitamin A deficiency in fifteen countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Through this project UNICEF will support more equitable, gender respon
This project aims to register and issue birth certificates to 3.5 million girls and boys under the age of five (including 90% of newborns and 70% of previously unregistered children) in ten regions of mainland Tanzania. Accurate birth registration allows the Government of Tanzania to effectively and efficiently plan for health, education, and child protection services and ensure that children have access to these services. The project supports the scaling up of an innovative birth registration system, which was developed by Tanzania’s birth registration agency in partnership with Tigo (a mobil
This project supports the implementation of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)’s Endgame Strategic Plan, which provides a global roadmap to eradicate polio by 2020. Project activities include: (1) working with targeted governments to strengthen oral polio vaccine campaign safety and quality and introduce inactivated polio vaccine into routine immunization systems; (2) providing technical assistance to front-line workers to increase immunization coverage; and (3) working with governments to transition polio assets and infrastructure to broader health goals and national health system
P003017001 & P003017002: The project supports the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage, a multi-donor joint United Nations program aimed at eliminating child marriage in 12 countries in Africa and South Asia where the rates of child marriage are among the highest: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Yemen and Zambia. The project focuses on enabling girls at risk of child marriage to choose and direct their own futures, through activities aimed at bringing about change in the empowerment of girls,
January 2021 - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is mandated by the United Nations General-Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF works in developing countries through its development and humanitarian assistance programming to fulfill its mandate, including promoting the equal rights of girls’ and women’s, equal rights and support their full participation in the political, social, and economic development of their communities. With Global Affairs Canada’s su
January 2018 - Founded in 1946, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is mandated by the United Nation General Assembly to protect the rights of children and women in developing countries through its development and humanitarian assistance programming. UNICEF’s mandate in humanitarian situations is to meet the needs of the most vulnerable, to save lives and protect rights. In humanitarian emergencies, project activities include: (1) treating children for severe acute malnutrition; (2) providing people with access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities; (3) providing emergency
This project aims to increase civil and vital registration rates in Mozambique to ultimately inform and improve policies and programs that reduce maternal and child mortality. Project activities include: (1) establishing a continuous mortality survey system so that 60% of maternal and newborn deaths are notified by 2019; (2) certifying and determining 80% cause of deaths in hospitals; (3) developing a strategy to capture information about deaths at the community level; (4) supporting Parliament’s amendment of the Civil Registration Code; and (5) designing and using new forms for all four vital
July 2019 - Humanitarian needs stemming from the crises in Syria and Iraq remain significant throughout the Middle East. Continued violence in Syria raises little prospects for the voluntary, safe, sustainable and dignified return of over 5.6 million refugees in the region. Internally displaced persons range in the millions in Syria and Iraq, and refugees facing protracted displacement in host countries continue to face acute humanitarian needs in Jordan and Lebanon. With GAC’s support, the project is providing flexible regional funding to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on a mult
The project provides support to Education Cannot Wait (ECW), a global fund that aims to transform the delivery of education in emergencies. ECW focuses on joining governments, humanitarian actors and development efforts for a more rapid response to the educational needs of children and youth affected by crises. The fund is innovative through its focus on developing new approaches to bridge the gap between humanitarian assistance and development in the education sector, and engaging the global business community through innovative financing. It is designed to increase political mobilization, ra
This project aims to increase the wellbeing and resilience of the most vulnerable populations in Mozambique, especially children, women, including victims of domestic violence, women-headed households, and people living with disabilities. This project works closely with the Government of Mozambique to provide technical assistance to strengthen the capacity of social protection institutions to expand and effectively deliver gender-responsive social assistance programs. This project provides urgent mobile cash transfers to urban and peri-urban program beneficiaries to address immediate shocks an
This project aims to improve the well being of the most vulnerable children, particularly young girls and adolescent girls, by supporting the relaunch and improving the quality of essential services in health, nutrition, education and child protection that have been delayed or disrupted in the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic. The project also aims to reduce gender inequalities and support the empowerment of women and girls to increase their resilience to crises and strengthen their role at the social, economic and community level. Finally, the project improves the planning, management, coordinat
The project aims to reduce the burden of sanitation-related diseases and improve maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) in Ghana’s Northern Region. The project reaches 500,000 beneficiaries including 36,000 school children and 150,000 mothers; 120 schools and 60 health centers in 80 small towns. The project contributes to accelerating access to sanitation facilities and services in small towns to improve the health of Ghanaians. Activities include: (1) providing hygiene education and sanitation facilities (latrines and hand washing facilities); (2) improving sanitation and hygiene practices
This Project supports UNICEF’s multi-sectoral response plan to COVID-19 in Mali, which seeks to to limit COVID-19 related mortality and consequences on protection, health and education for the most vulnerable children. Project activities include: i) developing gender responsive and age sensitive hygiene and infection prevention campaigns; ii) ensuring the availability of WASH services and products in healthcare facilities and schools and for vulnerable populations, such as internally displaced people (IDPs) and host communities, iii) providing infection prevention and control materials and tra
This project works to empower and to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and well-being of vulnerable Tanzanian adolescent girls through a multifaceted and comprehensive approach and by working with adolescent boys and girls, parents, communities and governments. Project activities include: (1) scaling-up the supply (provision of and access to services) and demand (request for and use of services) for a full range of SRHR and nutrition services and information for adolescent girls; (2) establishing a platform for adolescent girls to share views on, and gain knowledge o
The project aims to strengthen the capacity of the Honduran national child protection institute, DINAF, to develop an effective national framework that will better protect children and youth from violence, exploitation, abuse and discrimination. It will also enhance the protective environment of 870,000 boys, girls and adolescents in 35 municipalities of Honduras, by increasing the capacity and coordination of municipal actors involved in promoting, protecting and restoring the rights of children. Project activities include: (1) developing a national child protection normative framework; (2)
The project aims to improve the sexual and reproductive health and nutritional status of adolescents, particularly adolescent girls. The project includes activities to support the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education in improving access to quality adolescent-specific reproductive health and nutrition knowledge and services within the health systems, schools and communities in food-insecure districts of Ethiopia. Project activities include: (1) training health workers to provide greater adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health and nutrition services; (2) providing iron fol
This project, also known as the Health, Empowerment and Rights (HER) project, addresses systemic barriers to the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and to ending sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) among vulnerable and marginalized populations in Myanmar, such as women, children, youth as well as ethnic and religious minorities. Project activities include: (1) supporting government capacity in ending SGBV, especially through informed policies, legislation and standard operating procedures; (2) empowering women, girls, boys and young people through local and nat
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.