Press Release: Canada backs greater gender equality in nutrition response to COVID-19

When a crisis hits, women and girls often suffer undue hardship while taking on a double burden of additional care of their children, families, and communities. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Today the Government of Canada, announced it is taking action to explore how the pandemic and efforts to control the outbreaks have impacted populations, especially vulnerable groups such as women and girls. 

At the Nutrition for Growth Year of Action Launch, the Government of Canada announced a commitment of $520 million for nutrition-specific investments. This included over $1 million in funding to the Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium, a multidisciplinary group of over 50 nutrition, economics, food, and health system experts across the world working collectively to address the scale and reach of the COVID-related nutrition crises. Read the full press release in English, French and Spanish.