December 7, 2021 – Ottawa, Ontario – World Affairs Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic, climate-related disasters and battle are driving starvation and malnutrition worldwide, placing the world’s poorest and most susceptible—particularly girls and ladies—at elevated danger of loss of life and illness. As one of many largest donors to the diet sector globally, Canada is dedicated to working with its companions to reclaim the diet positive aspects misplaced through the COVID-19 pandemic whereas additionally persevering with to concentrate on the gender dimensions of the diet disaster.
The Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of Worldwide Growth and Minister answerable for the Pacific Financial Growth Company of Canada, as we speak introduced a monetary contribution of $195 million for 11 initiatives to be applied by Canadian and worldwide companions. A portion of this funding is a part of the $520 million pledged by Canada on the launch of the Vitamin for Development Yr of Motion a yr in the past.
Minister Sajjan made the announcement throughout his participation within the Tokyo Vitamin for Development Summit 2021, the place he additionally dedicated to make use of Canada’s investments to combine the supply of diet with different important companies. According to this dedication, as we speak’s announcement contains an extra $50 million for the World Financing Facility (GFF) COVID-19 Important Well being Providers to revive and maintain major well being care, together with diet companies, for essentially the most susceptible.
On the summit, Canada additionally referred to as on different donors to return ahead with commitments that may assist ship long-term diet and well being to the world’s poorest and most marginalized individuals, particularly girls and ladies.
Vitamin programming supported by Canada addresses the speedy causes of malnutrition, which embody unhealthy meals and nutrient consumption and illness, in addition to the underlying causes of malnutrition, reminiscent of meals insecurity, insufficient well being companies, protected water and sanitation.
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“We’re dedicated to bettering diet for the world’s poorest and most marginalized—particularly girls and ladies—by making certain higher entry to nutritious meals and companies. The strategic significance of specializing in girls and ladies can’t be underestimated. In lots of nations, girls plant the meals, work the fields, harvest the crops, and prepare dinner the meals. But, far too typically, they’re those who eat final and eat the least. Canada is dedicated to main efforts to enhance diet all over the world, and we name on different donors to additionally come ahead with commitments that ship long-term diet and well being companies to those that want them most.”
Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of Worldwide Growth and Minister answerable for the Pacific Financial Growth Company of Canada
Fast details
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In December 2020, Canada and Bangladesh co-hosted the Vitamin for Development 2021 Yr of Motion kick-off occasion, which mobilized over $3 billion in world diet programming. Throughout the occasion, Canada introduced its N4G pledge of $520 million in nutrition-specific programming over 5 years.
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Along with nutrition-specific programming, Canada spends roughly 1 billion yearly in nutrition-sensitive interventions designed to handle the underlying determinants of malnutrition.
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The GFF is the important thing world multi-stakeholder partnership to assist country-led efforts to enhance reproductive, maternal, new child, baby and adolescent well being and diet. On Could 7, 2021, Canada introduced a pledge of $100 million to the GFF’s Useful resource Mobilization marketing campaign to assist reclaim well being positive aspects for ladies, kids and adolescents. At this time’s pledge of an additional $50 million in assist of the GFF’s work to revive important well being companies brings Canada’s dedication to the useful resource mobilization marketing campaign to $150 million and complete assist for the GFF to $590 million. Canada co-founded the GFF in 2015, alongside the World Financial institution, Norway, the Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis, and United Nations and different companions.
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Early within the COVID-19 pandemic, UNICEF estimated a 30% total discount in important diet companies protection, reaching 75% to 100% throughout lockdowns. These numbers embody fragile nations the place there are humanitarian crises.
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By 2022, COVID-19 might lead to an extra
- 2.6 million stunted (under-height) kids
- 9.8 million wasted (underweight) kids,
- 168,000 child-deaths, and
- 2.1 million extra maternal anemia instances.
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Girls and ladies are at greater danger of being affected by malnutrition: 60% of the world’s hungry are girls, in accordance with the World Meals Programme.
Canada publicizes monetary contribution for initiatives to enhance diet for the world’s poorest and most susceptible
Backgrounder
Canada has introduced a monetary contribution of $195 million for 11 initiatives with Canadian and worldwide companions. A portion of this funding is a part of the $520 million pledged by Canada on the launch of the Vitamin for Development Yr of Motion a yr in the past.
Venture: Assist to COVID-19 Important Well being Providers Grants
Companion: World Financing Facility (GFF)
Funding: $50,000,000
Location: A number of nations. This pooled fund managed by the World Financial institution will present grants to as much as 36 low- and middle-income nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America with the very best maternal, new child and baby mortality charges.
Description: The GFF is a multi-stakeholder partnership serving to nations sort out the best well being and diet points affecting girls, kids and adolescents. The COVID-19 Important Well being Providers grants will allow associate nations to prioritize and strengthen the first care and community-based companies, capacities and health-care workforce which might be vital each for equitable and efficient supply of COVID-19 instruments and for different important well being companies for ladies, kids and adolescents. These grants search to stability supporting nations’ speedy wants for COVID-19 instruments and delivering and sustaining important well being companies, together with diet and sexual and reproductive well being, with sustained efforts to strengthen the nations’ well being programs.
Venture: Built-in Vitamin and Gender Venture in Senegal (PINGS)
Companion: Vitamin Worldwide
Funding: $35,000,000
Location: Senegal
Description: The venture goals to cut back gender inequalities that stop girls and adolescent ladies from exercising their rights and bettering their well being (diet and reproductive well being) and the well being of these round them within the context of the COVID‑19 pandemic. The initiative takes an progressive method that integrates gender and diet to rework gender relations in a constructive method to enhance the well being of girls, adolescent ladies and youngsters.
Venture: Larger Rural Alternatives for Girls 2 (GROW2)
Companion: Mennonite Financial Growth Associates (MEDA)
Funding: $25,000,000
Location: Ghana
Description: This venture will facilitate the success and empowerment of an estimated 40,000 girls smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs within the poorest areas of northern Ghana. By empowering girls entrepreneurs with data of excellent agricultural and diet practices, elevating consciousness inside communities of the significance of girls’s financial participation and shifting social norms across the distribution of home work, the venture will strengthen girls’s resilience within the face of local weather change and the chance of a COVID-19 pandemic-related rise in meals insecurity.
Venture: Ladies Reproductive Well being, Rights and Empowerment Accelerated in Tanzania (GRREAT)
Companion: UNICEF
Funding: $20,000,000
Location: Tanzania
Description: This venture will empower susceptible Tanzanian adolescent ladies to enhance their diet, sexual and reproductive well being and rights, and well-being by a multifaceted and complete method and by working with adolescent girls and boys, mother and father, communities and governments.
Venture: Constructing Rights for Improved Ladies’ Well being in Tanzania (BRIGHT)
Companion: Vitamin Worldwide
Funding: $15,000,000
Location: Tanzania
Description: This venture goals to utilise diet programming as an entry level to offer younger and/or pregnant ladies within the distant rural area of Tabora with equitable, gender-responsive and adolescent-friendly diet, SRHR and safety, by constructing company and empowering adolescents (10-19 years previous) to train their sexual and reproductive well being and diet rights. Total the initiative will assist and ship an built-in package deal of SRHR and diet companies.
Venture: Supporting the Built-in Combat In opposition to Continual Malnutrition in Mali
Companion: Motion In opposition to Starvation (ACF)
Funding: $13,200,000
Location: Mali
Description: This venture goals to enhance the dietary standing of youngsters below 5 years previous, in addition to pregnant and lactating girls within the Kayes and Sikasso areas. The venture will handle 3 main causes of continual malnutrition: lack of entry to enough care, wholesome environments and acceptable diet.
Venture: COVID-19: A Vitamin response for Pregnant Girls and Youngsters
Companion: Vitamin Worldwide (NI)
Funding: $13,000,000
Location: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Senegal, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Nigeria
Description: The initiative will assist NI to adapt its current programming to the COVID-19 context and broaden its work to fulfill the wants of girls and youngsters who’ve grow to be much more susceptible to malnutrition due to the pandemic. NI will do that by the growth and adaptation of life-saving diet companies, reminiscent of micronutrient dietary supplements, in addition to although constructing resilience by strengthening nationwide and world proof and evaluation, and investing in capability constructing for decision-makers.
Venture: Assist to Faculty Well being and Vitamin: Canadian Grant for South Sudan and Somalia
Companion: World Meals Programme (WFP)
Funding: $10,000,000
Location: South Sudan, Somalia
Description: This venture goals to offer an built-in suite of actions to assist kids’s well-being, well being and diet in South Sudan and Somalia as a part of the COVID-19 emergency response. The initiative will ship faculty meals, take-home rations, micronutrient supplementation and deworming treatment to 111,500 schoolchildren in each nations whereas making certain adherence to COVID-19 mitigation measures.
Venture: Assist to Scaling Up Vitamin (SUN) Motion Secretariat Part III
Companion: United Nations Workplace for Venture Providers (UNOPS)
Funding: $8,000,000
Location: World (not country-specific)
Description: The SUN Motion is a group of stakeholders from over 60 nations and sub nationwide states who intention to get rid of malnutrition. This contribution will proceed Canada’s assist for the SUN Motion’s program of labor, as per Canada’s dedication to the SUN 3.0 Technique (2022 to 2025). The initiative will intention to strengthen diet coverage and advocacy, construct nationwide motion plans, improve nation capability to finance, implement and monitor motion in diet, and leverage SUN governance to make sure motion and accountability.
Venture: Constructing Again Vitamin Providers – COVID-19
Companion: UNICEF
Funding: $5,000,000
Location: Bangladesh
Description: This venture goals to cut back the dietary vulnerability of youngsters below the age of 5 (girls and boys), adolescent ladies, pregnant girls and lactating moms in 3 districts of Bangladesh by constructing again the protection and high quality of diet companies to the pre-COVID-19 pandemic state of affairs. Bangladesh’s well being programs and diet companies have been considerably affected by COVID-19. This venture adopts a community-based preventive method to handle the foundation causes of malnutrition.
Venture: Each Youngster Thrives: Response to Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Companion: Impact: Hope
Funding: $1,000,000
Location: Kenya
Description: This venture goals to make sure that marginalized and susceptible teams in Kenya, notably kids below the age of 5, have the assets to entry diet and well being companies through the COVID-19 pandemic. This venture responds to the specter of COVID-19 by supporting and strengthening the capability of the native well being system to ship important diet and well being companies in 5 focused counties in Kenya: Kilifi, Kwale, Siaya, Taita Taveta and Uasin Gishu.