Today, the Honourable Randeep Sarai, Secretary of State (International Development), announced more than $120 million in humanitarian assistance, development, and peace and stabilization funding to help address the growing needs of the people in Sudan and neighbouring countries.

2026 Humanitarian Assistance

Country: Sudan
Partners: World Food Programme (WFP), UNICEF, UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Save the Children, Plan Canada, International Rescue Committee, Development and Peace, CARE, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), Action Against Hunger (ACF)
Funding: $50.9 million

Country: South Sudan
Partner: WFP, International Organization for Migration (IOM), UNHCR, UNICEF, OCHA, ICRC, ACF, CARE, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Oxfam, Save the Children
Funding: $23.9 million

Country: Chad
Partner: WFP, UNICEF, UNHCR, OCHA, ICRC, World Vision, Plan Canada, Oxfam Canada and Oxfam-Québec, MSF, CARE, ACF
Funding: $16.6 million

Country: Regional Sudan Crisis
Partner: UNHCR
Funding: $3 million

This funding will provide life-saving humanitarian assistance, such as the delivery of food and nutrition, shelter, protection (including sexual and gender-based violence response), emergency health care, water, sanitation and hygiene, and other essential relief services. 

Development funding

Project: Building Resilient and Inclusive Teaching and Education Systems in Sudan (BRITE Sudan)
Partner: Save the Children Canada
Funding: $18 million (2026 to 2030)

This project aims to improve and strengthen access to safe, quality and crisis-resilient education. Canada’s contribution will help ensure continued learning for 60,000 children amidst the world’s longest school closures due to conflict. The project focuses especially on girls and survivors of conflict-related sexual violence and gender-based violence. By addressing the massive school disruption caused by the ongoing conflict, this initiative seeks to empower children to claim their right to education, improve the gender responsiveness and overall quality of learning environments and reinforce child-protection mechanisms that safeguard students and support resilient education systems in a complex emergency context.

Project: Combatting and Responding to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Sudan
Partner: UN Population Fund (UNFPA)
Funding: $7 million (2026)

Canada is providing an increase of $7 million this year to extend this initiative’s activities for an additional six months to December 2026 in response to rising sexual and gender-based violence in Darfur and Kordofan. Canada has already contributed $8 million to this initiative, bringing Canada’s total to $15 million.

Recent escalation of violence in North Darfur, particularly El Fasher, and South Kordofan, characterized by widespread sexual violence, has heightened displacement and sexual and gender-based violence risks, demanding urgent expansion of services for displaced women and girls. Canada’s additional support will support the continued provision of clinical care and psychosocial support for rape survivors across eight states and scale interventions to Darfur and Kordofan. It will reach 80,000 more people with direct services and 400,000 people by strengthening protection systems an expanding life-saving services. 

Peace and stabilization funding

Project: Civilian Protection and Grassroots Dialogue in Sudan Partner: Name withheld for safety reasons
Funding: $750,000 (2026)

Canada is allocating an additional $750,000 in project funding for a total of $2.75 million to continue supporting Sudanese community groups responding to the crisis in Sudan, improving the participation and leadership of women and youth in community-led conflict resolution, advocating against conflict-related sexual violence and engaging civilian-led dialogue efforts in support of the political peace process.

Project: Supporting Pro-Democratic Sudanese Civilian Actors and Platforms for Peace
Partner: Norwegian People’s Aid, implemented by Leadership Initiatives for Transformation
Funding: $500,000 (2026)

This project aims to strengthen the capacity, legitimacy and coordination of Sudanese civilian actors to shape and lead inclusive political and peace processes. It will provide support to pro-democratic actors alongside independent civilian networks and youth and women’s platforms within and outside Sudan. This work will include establishing and operationalizing inclusive civilian coordination mechanisms, providing training to pro-democracy actors to enhance organizational and strategic capacities, convening regional consultations and dialogue and facilitating civilian engagement, including youth and women, with the African Union, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and UN-led mediation processes.