Deadline: 22-Jun-2026
The World Food Programme is accepting grant applications to improve food security, nutrition services, and resilience for vulnerable refugee populations in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania. The project will support food distribution, supplementary feeding, micronutrient supplementation, nutrition education, kitchen gardening, and targeted assistance for children, women, youth, elderly persons, people with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups.
Program Overview
The World Food Programme is inviting grant applications to strengthen food security and nutrition services in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp.
The project is part of the World Food Programme’s Country Strategic Plan for Tanzania for 2022–2027 and is aligned with Strategic Outcome 1. It aims to ensure that crisis-affected populations can meet their essential food and nutrition needs while also strengthening resilience to shocks and stressors.
The indicative budget for the project is 4,080,000,000 in local currency.
Project Purpose
The purpose of this grant opportunity is to improve access to adequate food and nutrition support for vulnerable refugee populations living in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp.
The project focuses on both immediate food assistance and longer-term resilience. It combines food distribution, nutrition support, household food production, and behavior change activities to help vulnerable people meet their daily food and nutrition needs.
Key Focus Areas and Objectives
The project focuses on improving food security, nutrition, and resilience among refugee households and vulnerable groups.
Key focus areas include:
- Food security
- Food assistance
- Nutrition in emergencies
- General food distribution management
- Supplementary feeding programmes
- Malnutrition prevention and treatment
- Micronutrient supplementation
- Nutrition-focused social and behavior change activities
- Warehouse and food distribution management
- Kitchen gardening for household food production
- Dietary diversity improvement
- Household food security and resilience
- Support for vulnerable groups
- Assistance for women, youth, elderly persons, and people with disabilities
Funding and Budget Details
The indicative budget for the project is 4,080,000,000 in local currency.
This funding is intended to support food security and nutrition activities within Nyarugusu Refugee Camp. The budget is linked to the implementation of food distribution systems, nutrition services, warehouse management, transportation, supplementary feeding, kitchen gardening, and community-based nutrition education.
Who Is Eligible?
The opportunity is open to eligible grant applicants capable of implementing food security and nutrition-related activities in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp.
Suitable applicants should have the capacity to support activities such as:
- Food distribution management
- Nutrition programming
- Emergency food assistance
- Supplementary feeding
- Warehouse and logistics coordination
- Community-based nutrition education
- Kitchen gardening support
- Services for vulnerable refugee groups
- Monitoring and reporting on food and nutrition outcomes
Applicants should be able to work with refugee populations and coordinate with relevant humanitarian, nutrition, health, and camp management systems.
Target Beneficiaries
The project is expected to improve access to adequate food and nutrition support for more than 102,000 vulnerable individuals.
Target groups include:
- Refugees living in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp
- Children requiring nutrition support
- Pregnant women and girls
- Breastfeeding women and girls
- Adults affected by HIV/AIDS
- Adults affected by tuberculosis
- Women
- Youth
- Elderly persons
- People with disabilities
- Households facing food insecurity
- Vulnerable individuals requiring specialized nutritional assistance
Main Project Activities
The programme includes a range of food security, nutrition, logistics, and resilience-building activities.
Main activities include:
- Implementing general food distribution
- Managing extended delivery points
- Managing final delivery points
- Transporting food commodities
- Distributing food commodities to camp populations
- Supporting inpatient feeding in health facilities
- Providing nutrition support for children
- Supporting pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls
- Delivering supplementary feeding programmes
- Providing micronutrient powders to young children
- Supporting adults affected by HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis
- Implementing nutrition education activities
- Conducting social and behavior change interventions
- Supporting kitchen gardening for refugee households
- Improving dietary diversity and household nutrition
- Strengthening food security and resilience among vulnerable households
General Food Distribution Component
The general food distribution component focuses on ensuring that refugee households can access essential food assistance.
This includes managing the movement, storage, and distribution of food commodities. It also includes the management of extended and final delivery points to ensure that food reaches the intended beneficiaries effectively.
This component is important because food assistance remains a critical support mechanism for crisis-affected refugee populations.
Nutrition Support Component
The nutrition component focuses on preventing and treating malnutrition among vulnerable groups in the camp.
Nutrition interventions target children, pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls, and other individuals who require specialized nutritional support. The project also includes supplementary feeding for adults affected by HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
These activities are intended to reduce nutrition risks, prevent deficiencies, and support better health outcomes among vulnerable camp residents.
Micronutrient Supplementation
The project includes the provision of micronutrient powders to young children.
Micronutrient supplementation helps prevent deficiencies that can affect growth, immunity, and overall health. This is especially important in emergency and displacement settings where food diversity may be limited.
Nutrition Education and Behavior Change
The programme includes nutrition-focused social and behavior change activities within the camp population.
These activities aim to improve knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to nutrition, food use, child feeding, household food preparation, and dietary diversity.
Nutrition education helps households make better use of available food resources and supports improved health and nutrition outcomes.
Kitchen Garden Component
The kitchen garden component focuses on establishing household-level vegetable production systems for approximately 2,000 refugee households.
This activity aims to complement reduced food rations and improve dietary diversity. It also helps reduce the need for households to sell food assistance in order to purchase other food items.
Kitchen gardening supports long-term self-reliance by giving refugee households basic gardening skills that can be used during displacement and beyond.
Why This Project Matters
Food insecurity and malnutrition are major risks in refugee settings, especially when households depend heavily on food assistance.
This project matters because it combines emergency food support with nutrition interventions and resilience-building activities. It addresses immediate needs while also helping households improve food diversity, develop basic food production skills, and reduce vulnerability over time.
The inclusion of kitchen gardens, micronutrient supplementation, supplementary feeding, and nutrition education makes the project more comprehensive than food distribution alone.
How the Project Works
The project works through a combination of food assistance, nutrition support, logistics management, and household resilience activities.
The implementation approach includes:
- Managing food storage, transport, and distribution systems.
- Ensuring food commodities reach intended beneficiaries through delivery points.
- Providing targeted nutrition services for children, pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls, and medically vulnerable adults.
- Supporting health facility-based inpatient feeding.
- Delivering micronutrient powders to young children.
- Conducting nutrition education and behavior change activities.
- Establishing kitchen gardens for selected refugee households.
- Monitoring food security, nutrition outcomes, and service delivery.
How to Apply
Applicants should prepare a proposal that clearly demonstrates their capacity to implement food security and nutrition activities in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp.
Application Preparation Steps
- Review the project objectives
Applicants should carefully review the food security, nutrition, resilience, and vulnerable group support objectives of the opportunity. - Confirm implementation capacity
Applicants should show experience in food assistance, nutrition programming, logistics, warehouse management, community outreach, or humanitarian response. - Define the proposed role
The proposal should clearly explain how the applicant will contribute to food distribution, nutrition support, kitchen gardening, behavior change activities, or service delivery. - Describe the target beneficiaries
Applicants should identify which groups will benefit, such as children, pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls, elderly persons, people with disabilities, or medically vulnerable adults. - Explain the implementation plan
The application should include clear activities, timelines, staffing arrangements, coordination plans, and delivery methods. - Include a realistic budget
The budget should match the proposed activities and reflect costs related to distribution, staffing, logistics, nutrition services, kitchen gardening, monitoring, and reporting. - Show coordination with camp systems
Applicants should demonstrate how they will coordinate with WFP, camp authorities, health facilities, community structures, and relevant humanitarian actors. - Include monitoring and reporting methods
The proposal should explain how progress, outputs, beneficiary reach, and nutrition or food security outcomes will be tracked.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
Applicants should avoid submitting proposals that are too general or not clearly connected to the needs of Nyarugusu Refugee Camp.
Common mistakes include:
- Not clearly linking activities to food security and nutrition outcomes
- Failing to identify vulnerable beneficiary groups
- Providing weak details on food distribution management
- Ignoring warehouse, transport, and delivery point requirements
- Leaving out nutrition education and behavior change activities
- Not explaining how kitchen gardens will be established and supported
- Submitting an unrealistic budget
- Failing to show experience in refugee or humanitarian settings
- Not including monitoring and reporting plans
- Overlooking coordination with WFP and camp-level systems
Tips for a Strong Application
A strong application should be practical, well-structured, and focused on measurable food security and nutrition results.
Applicants should:
- Use clear language to describe the food and nutrition problem
- Show direct experience with refugee populations or humanitarian programming
- Explain how food distribution will be managed efficiently
- Include strong logistics and warehouse management plans
- Address the needs of children, women, elderly persons, people with disabilities, and medically vulnerable adults
- Include clear plans for supplementary feeding and micronutrient support
- Explain how kitchen gardens will improve dietary diversity
- Show how nutrition education will change household practices
- Provide a realistic budget and timeline
- Include monitoring indicators linked to beneficiary reach, food access, nutrition support, and resilience
Key Terms Explained
Food Security
Food security means that people have reliable access to enough safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and live an active and healthy life.
Nutrition in Emergencies
Nutrition in emergencies refers to nutrition support provided during crises, displacement, conflict, or disaster situations. It focuses on preventing and treating malnutrition among vulnerable groups.
General Food Distribution
General food distribution is the organized delivery of food assistance to eligible households or individuals in a humanitarian setting.
Supplementary Feeding
Supplementary feeding provides additional food or nutrition products to people at risk of malnutrition or those already affected by undernutrition.
Micronutrient Supplementation
Micronutrient supplementation provides essential vitamins and minerals to prevent or address nutritional deficiencies.
Social and Behavior Change
Social and behavior change activities aim to improve knowledge and practices related to nutrition, feeding, food use, hygiene, and household health.
Kitchen Gardening
Kitchen gardening refers to small-scale household vegetable production. It helps families improve dietary diversity, supplement food rations, and build practical food production skills.
Dietary Diversity
Dietary diversity means eating a variety of foods from different food groups. It is important for balanced nutrition and better health outcomes.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the purpose of this World Food Programme grant?
The purpose is to strengthen food security, nutrition services, and resilience for vulnerable refugee populations in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp.
Where will the project be implemented?
The project will be implemented in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania.
What is the indicative budget for the project?
The indicative budget is 4,080,000,000 in local currency.
Which strategic plan is the project linked to?
The project is part of the World Food Programme’s Country Strategic Plan for Tanzania for 2022–2027 and is aligned with Strategic Outcome 1.
Who will benefit from the project?
The project is expected to benefit more than 102,000 vulnerable individuals, including children, pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls, women, youth, elderly persons, people with disabilities, and medically vulnerable adults.
What activities will the project support?
The project will support general food distribution, warehouse and food distribution management, transportation of food commodities, supplementary feeding, micronutrient supplementation, nutrition education, inpatient feeding, and kitchen gardening.
How many households will be supported through kitchen gardening?
The kitchen garden component aims to establish household-level vegetable production systems for approximately 2,000 refugee households.
Why is kitchen gardening included in the project?
Kitchen gardening is included to complement reduced food rations, improve dietary diversity, reduce reliance on selling food assistance, and build long-term self-reliance through basic gardening skills.
Conclusion
The World Food Programme grant opportunity for Nyarugusu Refugee Camp provides critical support for food security, nutrition services, and resilience-building among vulnerable refugee populations. By combining food distribution, nutrition support, micronutrient supplementation, behavior change activities, and kitchen gardening, the project aims to improve access to adequate food and nutrition for more than 102,000 people while helping households build stronger and more sustainable coping capacities.
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