Canadian Feed The Children works with local partners to build resilience through community-led development. Their work emerges from, respects and reflects each community’s unique needs, challenges and leadership. They believe that supporting food sovereignty in Indigenous communities is intrinsically linked to Indigenous land and resource rights.
Canadian Feed The Children, a Toronto-based global development organization, has a history of supporting community-led development approaches that encourage healthy child and youth development. As a civil society actor they understand well the universality of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and currently support fifteen First Nations and Indigenous partners in Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Saskatchewan, as well as 12 international partners in Bolivia, Ghana, Ethiopia and Uganda. Amongst the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, they focus most on Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 5: Gender Equality, and Goal 13: Climate Action.
With the support of their donors, they are also actively working to expand their partnerships to support a range of activities that reconnect children, youth, parents and elders across Canada to traditional practices around food, and contribute to self-determined food sovereignty.
Canadian Feed The Children’s approach is to be child-centered, community-led and impact focused. They seek to unleash the potential of children, families and communities to pursue their own sustainable change through innovative health, livelihoods, food security, education and community engagement programs. These programs help communities and families grow more food, eat healthy, culturally appropriate food, and earn incomes to buy more food. They also help children to attend early childhood development centres, get quality primary education, and eat nutritious meals at school, so they learn better.
Canadian Feed The Children has worked diligently to increase their capacity in the international development sector in Canada by deepening their expertise in food security, climate change and innovation in development. Engaging in these important national discussions has accompanied their heightened profile as a recognized, respected change-maker, and contributor to national policy dialogue. Canadian Feed The Children has also worked to develop formal monitoring and evaluation systems that are linked to clear Theory of Change-based outcomes, and enable continuous improvement that benefits children, women, men, families and communities.
They believe in delivering results through local partners and building resilience through community-led development. They seek to add value by sharing development high impact practices with local partners, so that they, in turn, can facilitate sustainable, community-led change and self-reliance.