BAGHDAD ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in partnership with the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) and with financial support from Global Affairs Canada (GAC), has launched the MURUNA (¡°resilience¡± in Arabic) project to strengthen Iraq¡¯s climate resilience.
PORT-AU-PRINCE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes new multi-year funding from the Government of Canada to enable Â鶹ÊÓƵ and the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (MENFP) to provide healthy daily meals for up to 100,000 pre-school and primary school students in Haiti.
East Jerusalem ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a grant of US$5.2 million from the Government of Canada. This timely contribution will enable Â鶹ÊÓƵ to provide essential emergency food assistance to people in Gaza.
ROME ¨C The United Nation¡¯s Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has received CAD 12 million (US$8.9 million) from the Government of Canada to support Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Africa Risk Capacity (ARC) Replica initiative, aimed at protecting two million vulnerable people and enhancing gender-sensitive protection from catastrophic climate risks in Africa.
BEIRUT ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of CAD $35 million (US$25.9 million) from the Government of Canada to support cash assistance to vulnerable Lebanese via the National Poverty Targeting Program (NPTP) and to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA).
OUAGADOUGOU ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) supported vulnerable populations affected by the crisis in Burkina Faso in 2022, thanks to a USD 11.8 million contribution from the Government of Canada, channeled through Global Affairs Canada.
JUBA ¨C A contribution of CAD5.5 million (US$4.1 million) from the Government of Canada will provide more than 23,000 children in South Sudan with access to daily nutritious meals at school, or take-home rations, over the next three years, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) announced today at a signing ceremony.
BAGHDAD ¨C In 2021, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) received a total of a CAD 5.5 million contribution from the Government of Canada, including CAD 1 million from a regional project between Canada and Â鶹ÊÓƵ. This donation has helped Â鶹ÊÓƵ provide food assistance to 255,000 displaced Iraqi families and 72,000 Syrian refugees living in camps as well as emergency livelihood restoration activities throughout 2021.
DAR ES SALAAM ¨C The Government of Canada has provided USD 3.74 million to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to contribute towards its efforts to support the Government¡¯s social protection programme in the country. Both Canada and Â鶹ÊÓƵ are strong supporters of social safety nets, including cash transfers to the most vulnerable populations.
Amman ¨C?The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Jordan today welcomed a timely contribution from the Government of Canada which helped the agency reverse planned cuts in food assistance for 110,000 refugees.
MONROVIA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is providing take-home rations to pre-primary and primary school children and their household members, totalling 5,000 beneficiaries. The rations comprising of rice, fortified vegetable oil, and pulses are intended to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the students and their families. This assistance was made possible thanks to a contribution of 200,000 CAD (US$ 150,000) by the Government of Canada to Â鶹ÊÓƵ in Liberia.
COLOMBO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of Sri Lanka welcome a funding of CAD 1 million (LKR 151 million) from Global Affairs Canada to help smallholder farmers cultivate nutritious crops for the National School Meal Programme.
HARARE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomed a contribution of CA$1 million from the Government of Canada for life-saving humanitarian operations in Zimbabwe. Canada¡¯s total support to Â鶹ÊÓƵ since February 2019 is CA$5 million and this latest contribution will enable the provision of emergency assistance to 66,000 people experiencing acute food insecurity.
JERUSALEM ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomed a contribution of CAD$6 million (approximately US$4.3 million) from the Government of Canada to provide much-needed food assistance to Palestinians facing hardship in Gaza and the West Bank.
HARARE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomes a contribution of $3 million CAD from the Canadian Government to life-saving humanitarian operations in Zimbabwe. The funding supports Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s rapid scale-up of emergency food assistance to reach almost 55,000 people in Matobo district.
JERUSALEM ¨C The Government of Canada has provided the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) with a contribution of CAD$3.2 million (approximately US$2.4 million) to support 128,000 vulnerable Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
