I'm going to start with the development program and then turn to my colleagues. Certainly the ambassador will have a fair amount to share, and then also Ms. Desloges will have some comments with regard to how we support these issues on the humanitarian side.
The Government of Canada mobilized $6 million worth of emergency funding in 2023, and the purpose of that was to recognize specifically that there were going to be new challenges that women and children, particularly girls, would face as a result of the onset of the crisis. We decided to allocate this fund specifically to education and emergencies, as well as for the prevention and response to sexual and gender-based violence.
I can share some of the concrete examples of what that money did. We supported 134 service points—these are mobile clinics as well as safe spaces for women and children—in response to people who are experiencing sexual and gender-based violence: 100,000 people received mental health supports as a result of that funding, and there were 80,000 consultations for sexual and reproductive health. I think these are significant ways of recognizing the unique ways in which women experience conflict, and of mobilizing development funds to respond to that.
At the same time, of course, women are also very much involved in needing to support their families in the context of this food security crisis, and so one of the things we have done is to adjust the existing food security programming in agriculture to be responsive in areas where it's actually still possible to work, and to create more resilience in communities by ensuring that they can continue to plant, grow and have access to seeds. As we know, a lot of smallholder farmers are women, and so these projects work directly with women to help them be better able to support their families.