International Development Grant
Improving Household Food Security - West Bank and Gaza - UN Consolidated Appeal 2011
Project Number: CA-3-Z020995001
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $2,890,000.00
Start Date: March 30, 2011
End Date: November 30, 2011
Duration: 1.0 years
Project Description
The project aims to mitigate household food insecurity in targeted areas of the West Bank and Gaza. The project is helping poor families to maintain or establish backyard gardens or to raise animals such as goats rabbits chickens or fish for food or to sell for income. The project is also helping targeted families to install rainwater collection and wastewater treatment systems to increase resilience to frequent water shortages. This project is one of over 200 projects that make up the United Nations' 2011 Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) for the West Bank and Gaza. The 2011 CAP worth over US$575 million allows the international community to help spare Palestinians from the worst effects of the ongoing crisis by delivering humanitarian assistance increasing the protection of civilians improving the collection of humanitarian information and strengthening the United Nations' humanitarian coordination structure. Overall through this appeal non-governmental organizations and the United Nations help restore human dignity and alleviate further poverty institutional weakness and instability in the West Bank and Gaza.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of the project (September 2012) include: (i) 514 livestock households received pregnant ewes; (ii) training was provided on issues such as flock management feeding insemination and reproduction; (iii) 360 households received rabbit units (each unit consisted of one buck five does one cage and three sacks of 50 kg of feed); (iv) 270 households received chicken units (each unit included one rooster 16 hens one cage and three sacks of 50 kg of feed); (v) 136 households received fodder and veterinary kits for their livestock; (vi) 625 beneficiary households received home garden units and training on how to develop home gardens; (vii) 136 households received beehive units and training; (viii) 141 families received water collection cisterns; (ix) 19 women’s associations received training on marketing; and (x) 700 students benefited from the Junior Farmers Field and Life School program which provides agricultural and life skills to youth. These results have contributed to helping poor families maintain their livelihoods and increasing household food security or access to safe sufficient and nutritious food.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
EGM Europe Arctic Middle East and Magh
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP