This announcement builds directly on the Trump Administration’s December 2025 “Humanitarian Reset” memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Under the document, the more than 218 million USD in assistance to UNICEF and more than 800 million USD to WFP are the second and third in a series of global State Department awards to trusted and vetted implementing organizations.
UNICEF and WFP will use this funding to provide multi-sectoral assistance in line with their mandates, across the food, nutrition, health, child protection, logistics, and water and sanitation sectors, in countries with ongoing significant levels of humanitarian need, including Ethiopia, Burma, and Ukraine.
