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International Development




  • Budget Bill Will Reduce Government Accountability for Canadian Foreign Aid

    Budget Bill Will Reduce Government Accountability for Canadian Foreign Aid

    • November 28, 2018

    By Stephen Brown and Hunter McGill

    To help ensure that Canadian foreign aid is spent on supporting people in need in developing countries — rather than things like white elephants and Canadian commercial interests — Canada has legislation that mandates …

    By Stephen Brown
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  • Canada’s Afghanistan Aid Urgently Needs Review — But That Doesn’t Mean We Should Go It Alone

    Canada’s Afghanistan Aid Urgently Needs Review — But That Doesn’t Mean We Should Go It Alone

    • November 28, 2018

    The recent interaction of John Sopko — the American Special Inspector General of Afghanistan Reconstruction — with the Canadian media on billions of wasted aid dollars in Afghanistan has stirred Canadian public interest on the forgotten subject of Canada’s Afghanistan …

    By Nipa Banerjee
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  • Lessons from Canadian Involvement in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States

    Lessons from Canadian Involvement in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States

    • November 1, 2018

    As Stephen Brown noted in a recent blog, much of the media commentary on the latest Peer Review of Canada’s development co-operation has focused on its recommendations to increase spending and implement the Feminist International Assistance Policy. Brown reminds …

    By Stephen Baranyi
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  • Canada’s Lessons in Afghanistan Not Recorded and Not Learned: Part 1

    Canada’s Lessons in Afghanistan Not Recorded and Not Learned: Part 1

    • October 29, 2018

    Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko’s assessment of American lessons learned in Afghanistan is similar to that of Canada, except that our findings are not based on systematic and independent review. Canada lacks appropriate monitoring and evaluation …

    By Nipa Banerjee
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  • Canada’s Lessons in Afghanistan Not Recorded and Not Learned: Part 2

    Canada’s Lessons in Afghanistan Not Recorded and Not Learned: Part 2

    • October 29, 2018

    In terms of Afghanistan, Canada has clearly been afflicted with attention deficit disorder; in less than a decade, it changed program focus three times (as noted by a summative evaluation of Canada’s development program in 2015). The lessons that could …

    By Nipa Banerjee
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  • Development Partnership Part 1: The Way of the Future

    Development Partnership Part 1: The Way of the Future

    • October 10, 2018

    A key goal for Canada is to be BACK as a credible development partner. A significant driver is the ambition of taking a UN Security Council (SC) seat in 2020. Recent signals, however, suggest some uncertainty about Canada winning …

    By John Sinclair
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  • Development Partnership Part 2: A Canadian Action Agenda

    Development Partnership Part 2: A Canadian Action Agenda

    • October 10, 2018

    This blog continues from Part 1, The Way of the Future.

    A solid agenda exists of desirable institutional changes in Global Affairs Canada (GAC, and other public entities) over the next few years. We need to start building new …

    By John Sinclair
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  • Beyond Aid Budgets: What Canada Can Do to Promote International Development

    Beyond Aid Budgets: What Canada Can Do to Promote International Development

    • October 10, 2018

    Of late, many commentators, from humble bloggers to the more august Toronto Star and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), have lamented Canada’s relative lack of generosity in foreign aid and called on the Canadian government to increase the …

    By Stephen Brown
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  • What Do Canada’s Peers Say about Canadian Development Co-operation?

    What Do Canada’s Peers Say about Canadian Development Co-operation?

    • September 19, 2018

    by Hunter McGill and Stephen Brown

    Every five years or so, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducts a “peer review” of the countries that belong to its Development Assistance Committee (DAC). This year was Canada’s turn and …

    By Stephen Brown
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  • Canada’s Feminist International Assistance: Can Bad Policy be Well Implemented? (Part 1)

    Canada’s Feminist International Assistance: Can Bad Policy be Well Implemented? (Part 1)

    • September 13, 2018

    Last summer, the government of Canada launched its “feminist international assistance policy,” a radical rebranding to a “truly feminist approach that supports the economic, political and social empowerment of women and girls, and makes gender equality a priority, …

    By Christoph Zuercher
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  • Canada’s Feminist International Assistance: Can Bad Policy be Well Implemented? (Part 2)

    Canada’s Feminist International Assistance: Can Bad Policy be Well Implemented? (Part 2)

    • September 13, 2018

    In Part 1 of this blog post, I ranted about discussed why Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy is likely to fail. However, even a bad policy can be implemented in ways that make failure less likely and create opportunities …

    By Christoph Zuercher
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  • The ODA Accountability Act at Ten: Time for an Update

    The ODA Accountability Act at Ten: Time for an Update

    • September 5, 2018

    by Stephen Brown and Hunter McGill

    Ten years ago, the Canadian parliament unanimously passed the Official Development Assistance Accountability Act, following years of intensive lobbying by Canadian civil society organizations. Prior to 2008, Canada had not had any legislation …

    By Stephen Brown
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