Action Contre La Faim

Action Contre La Faim, doing business as ACF, is a foreign-owned non-profit organization that has been registered to receive U.S. federal grant awards since 2006. ACF provides a wide range of humanitarian assistance and development services to vulnerable populations affected by conflicts, natural disasters, and complex crises across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Through federal grant awards, ACF delivers critical goods and services in sectors such as emergency food assistance, nutrition, health, water/sanitation/hygiene (WASH), agriculture, economic recovery, and protection. The organization has extensive experience implementing multi-sector humanitarian aid and development projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. Department of State.

ACF has received numerous prime and sub-grant awards to support its humanitarian work. Major programs have included emergency food assistance in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Burkina Faso under USAID's Food for Peace program; multi-sector emergency response activities in countries like the Central African Republic and Zimbabwe funded through USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance; and refugee assistance projects in Jordan supported by the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. ACF has also been involved in innovative initiatives like the WASH'EM project to improve hygiene behavior change programming and research on child malnutrition relapse after treatment. The organization frequently partners with other non-profits, UN agencies, and local organizations to implement comprehensive humanitarian responses addressing immediate needs while building longer-term resilience in crisis-affected communities. Recent awards have supported activities such as improving food and nutrition security for drought-affected populations in Madagascar, delivering emergency health and WASH services in Cameroon, and strengthening national WASH coordination platforms globally.