Unicef

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), operating through its Programme and Policy Development (PPD) Division, is a federal grant recipient that delivers humanitarian assistance, emergency nutrition services, water-sanitation-hygiene (WASH) infrastructure, child protection, and health programming to vulnerable populations in crisis-affected regions worldwide. UNICEF is a non-profit international organization and division of the United Nations, headquartered in New York, that acts as prime recipient on federal grants (100% of recent awards) across USAID, the Department of State, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with no federal contracting activity or subcontractor engagements in the source data.

UNICEF's customer concentration is overwhelming: USAID accounts for 375 awards across its various bureaus, with the Bureau for Management Office of the Assistant Administrator contributing 137 awards and the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance contributing 41 awards. The Department of State's Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response and Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration together fund disaster response and refugee-assistance grants. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) funds immunization, public health emergency response, and disease surveillance programming. Across all named customers, 87% of UNICEF's 654 recent awards come from USAID accounts and USAID-managed offices.

UNICEF's federal grant portfolio spans nutrition interventions, WASH services, child protection in emergencies, health systems strengthening, immunization deployment, and humanitarian coordination. Representative awards include a $23.9 million USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) grant for nutrition and child protection in South Sudan (August 2024–August 2025); a $50.7 million USAID award for WASH and child protection assistance to displaced populations in Ethiopia (August 2021–June 2023); a $80 million grant to safeguard Afghanistan's education system (July 2022–December 2023); a $4.9 million Department of State grant for WASH services and public health interventions in Lebanon addressing internally displaced persons (June 2026–June 2027); a $10 million Department of State grant for emergency nutrition, health, WASH, and child protection services to vulnerable children and women in Venezuela (February 2026–September 2026); and a $5 million USAID Cooperative Agreement with the CDC for immunization and global emergency response partnership (July 2023–June 2028). UNICEF also acts as a sub-recipient on USAID grants through cooperative agreements and cost-type instruments, including a $5 million cooperative agreement for earthquake cash-plus services in Morocco (November 2023–May 2026) and a $10 million three-year cooperative agreement for multi-modal distance learning for conflict-affected children in Niger (December 2022–December 2025).

Activity has contracted sharply: 46 awards in 2022, 49 in 2023, 37 in 2024, dropping to 3 in 2025 and 2 in 2026 (as of mid-year). Seven awards are scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. UNICEF's grant portfolio reflects its mandate as a specialized UN agency implementing complex humanitarian operations globally, with recent awards concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa (South Sudan, DRC, Kenya, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Mali, Chad), South Asia (Pakistan, Bangladesh), the Middle East and North Africa (Lebanon, Yemen, Syria), and Latin America (Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela). Funding supports emergency response, crisis-affected IDP and refugee populations, and nutrition security in drought and conflict environments, with work performed in-country through UNICEF's field operations and administrative oversight from its New York headquarters.