International Development Grant
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Institutional Support 2011
Project Number: CA-3-M013542001
Status: Closed
Country/Region: Unknown
Regional Focus:
Maximum Contribution: $18,000,000.00
Start Date: May 20, 2011
End Date: March 30, 2012
Duration: 1.0 years
Project Description
This 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 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child UNICEF supports the rights of children to help meet their basic needs and expand opportunities to reach their full potential. It seeks to improve the social and economic conditions of children by ensuring that they have access to health care clean water food and education are protected from violence and abuse and receive relief in disasters. Canada's support to UNICEF helps to advance children's survival the equal rights of women and girls as well as their full participation in development.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of 2011 include: Respond to 292 humanitarian situations of varying scales in 80 countries; Provide support to more than 11 600 children formerly associated with armed forces or groups to reintegrate them into their families and communities; Help provide antiretroviral drugs for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV to 48% of globally pregnant women who are HIV positive; Contribute to strengthening the mechanisms required to protect children from violence exploitation and abuse in more than 120 countries; Help countries fight malnutrition and disease through the provision of vitamin A supplements to 350 million children and the vaccination of 10 million children against measles; Contribute to the scaling up of national social protection programmes including cash transfers in 93 countries and a more intensive focus on children in national development plans and budgets in 102 countries.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
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Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Core contributions to multilateral institutions
Collaboration: Multilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP