United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - institutional support 2024 to 2026

This grant represents Canada’s institutional support to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF uses these funds and other donors’ 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 from violence and abuse and receive relief in disasters. Canada's support to UNICEF helps to advance Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy. This policy seeks to help the poorest and most vulnerable support fragile states and underpin Canada’s international efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) allowed every child including adolescents to survive and thrive to have access to nutritious diets quality primary health care nurturing practices and essential supplies; (2) allowed every child including adolescents to learn and acquire skills for the future; (3) protected every child including adolescents from violence exploitation abuse neglect and harmful practices; (4) allowed every child including adolescents to have access to safe and equitable water sanitation and hygiene services and lives in a safe and sustainable climate and environment; and (5) allowed every child including adolescents to have access to inclusive social protection and lives free of poverty.