Event Date: April 30, 2025 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: FSS 5028 and Zoom, 120 University Private, University of Ottawa

Registration: Google Forms

Presented by the CIPS and the Gender, Peace and Development Research Network

Much has been written about Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP), its discursive limits, its uncertain results and how it is being implemented in parts of Africa and the Middle East. This panel will share the results of the first studies of how FIAP is landing in three Latin American and Caribbean contexts – Colombia, Haiti and Jamaica/CARICOM. It will analyse the (f)actors, on the Canadian and partner sides of cooperation relationships, that explain FIAP’s varied results on the ground. It will also start a conversation about the future of FIAP, given the results of the upcoming federal election.

This panel will be bilingual and take place in-person and online (via Zoom).

Please note that registration is required and that lunch will be served to all those registered in-person.

Panelists:

Jody-Ann Anderson – FIAP in Jamaica and CARICOM

Jody-Ann recently earned her PhD from SIDGS, where her research examined the challenges and opportunities of police reform in Jamaica. She has extensive experience working with violence-affected youth and communities across Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.

Nancy Saint Louis – FIAP in Haiti

Nancy is a PhD candidate at SIDGS, working on the women with disabilities’ limited access to justice and police protection in Haiti. She has professional experience working with violence-affected communities in her country.

Safo Musta – FIAP in Colombia

A lawyer by training, Safo is a PhD candidate at SIDGS, working on transitional justice in Colombia. She has extensive professional experience working on law and development in several jurisdictions, including in Kosovo and her native Albania.

Commentators:

Denise Beaulieu has worked for more than 25 years as a senior gender specialist, evaluator and knowledge management advisor on evaluations, reviews, training programs and planning and research studies for the Caribbean Development Bank, Global Affairs Canada, Inter-American Development Bank, UNICEF, UN Women, and the World Bank in Francophone and Anglophone Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. Based in Gatineau, Quebec, she holds a Ph.D. in Administrative Sciences from Université Laval.

Rebecca Tiessen is Professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa, President of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID), co-Director of the Gender, Peace and Development Research Network (uOttawa) and co-Director of the Research Network on Women, Peace and Security (national). Her areas of specialization include gender equality and women’s empowerment, Canadian foreign aid policy, feminist foreign policy, and global service learning. Her recent research examines the role and impact of transnational actors on gender equality outcomes in the Global South.  Her most recent book is: Innovations in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Understanding the Role of International Development Volunteers as Transnational Actors (co-edited with Benjamin Lough, Tiffany Laursen and Khursheed Sadat in Voluntaris, 2021).

Chair:

Stephen Baranyi is a Professor at the University of Ottawa’s School of International Development, where he teaches and conducts research at the intersection of development and justice — particularly on the activism of persons with (dis)abilities; gender (in)equality; justice and security sector reform; as well as Canada’s engagement in fragile and conflict-affected societies. Since 2005, he has been focusing on Haiti, while maintaining a comparative perspective. He has edited several books and published numerous articles in journals such as Aequitas; Conflict, Security and Development; the Revue internationale d’étude du développement international; Recherches féministes; Third World Quarterly. Before coming to uOttawa, he was a practitioner with NGOs and governmental agencies in Canada, Central America and Europe.