This $27,500,000 cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (CFDA 10.608) aims to improve food security, reduce hunger, and enhance literacy and primary education in Laos. The primary awardee is the United Nations World Food Programme, which will collaborate with Catholic Relief Services to monitor school meals programs, implement inclusive literacy activities, conduct community health and...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $27,225,000 Cooperative Agreement under the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (CFDA 10.608) to Catholic Relief Services - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (CRS-USCCB) to introduce and expand food resources in Madagascar. The key objectives are to improve food security, reduce hunger, and enhance literacy and primary education, with a focus on supporting girls' education. CRS-USCCB will...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a $2,500,000 Project Grant to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to provide disaster risk reduction policy and practice programming in Sri Lanka. The award, funded under USAID's Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program, covers a 2-year period from August 16, 2023 to August 15, 2025. The WFP, as the prime awardee, has an extensive history of delivering emergency food and nutrition assistance, as well as...
The United States Agency for International Development Sri Lanka awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the World Food Program under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas federal grant program (CFDA 98.001). The grant period ran from June 15, 2021 to November 30, 2021 to support disaster relief efforts in Sri Lanka. Under this award, the World Food Program provided food assistance and humanitarian aid to communities impacted by natural disasters through USAID Sri Lanka's Foreign...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded $8.5 million to Save the Children Federation, Inc. under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) federal grant program to provide disaster risk reduction, agriculture, multipurpose cash assistance, and shelter and settlements programming in Sri Lanka from June 22, 2022 through June 21, 2023. Specifically, the award will support building resilience of at-risk communities through shelter and settlements,...
The Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service awarded $28.5 million under the Food for Education (CFDA 10.608) McGovern-Dole Program to Catholic Relief Services - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on September 16, 2022. This Cooperative Agreement will support a food for education project in Lesotho through September 2025. The project aims to improve education, food security, health and literacy rates for school-aged children in Lesotho, with a focus on girls. Catholic...
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a $3,350,000 Project Grant under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas program (CFDA 98.001) to World Vision Inc., a non-profit organization, to "Building Resilience and Strengthening Community Disaster Preparedness in Sri Lanka". The grant term is from Aug 1, 2023 to Jul 31, 2025. Through this funding, World Vision Inc. and its sub-grantees Lanka Evangelical Alliance Development Service and Lanka Jathika...
This $27,500,000 McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (CFDA 10.608) Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and effective September 30, 2024, will provide food and support educational and nutrition initiatives in El Salvador. The awardee, Counterpart International, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., will implement the project, which aims to improve food security, reduce hunger, and enhance...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (CFDA 10.608) awarded a $27,713,462 Cooperative Agreement to Catholic Relief Services - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (CRS-USCCB) on September 30, 2024. The award will provide food, educational, and health interventions to improve literacy and nutrition for school-aged children in Guinea. Key objectives include improving the quality of literacy instruction, reducing...
The Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service awarded a $25 million cooperative agreement under the McGovern-Dole Food for Education program to Global Communities, Inc. to implement a food for education project in Madagascar from October 2021 through September 2026. The key objective of the McGovern-Dole program is to reduce hunger and improve literacy and primary education, especially for girls, by providing school meals, teacher training and related support. Under this award,...