On March 31, 2014, the Canadian International Development Platform (CIDP), an initiative of the former North-South Institute, and now housed at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA), organized a workshop in partnership with the Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) and Canadian [...]
The aim of this brief is to summarize key messages from a forthcoming research paper, “Paying for Impact: Results-based Approaches in Development Finance, Situating Canadian Efforts in a Global Context”. This paper is a primer on results-based approaches in development finance. It fills a gap [...]
This briefing note outlines key issues and links to resources related to the Financing for Development agenda, in the lead up to the third FfD conference in July 2015. [...]
The Third FfD conference will take place in July 2015 in Ethiopia. This is where the financing agenda to support the ever ambitious post 2015 sustainable development goals, will be agreed. What is different since the first FfD conference in Monterrey (2002), and what is the same? This page tracks [...]
Economic development is a domestically driven enterprise. No amount of foreign assistance or investment can substitute for a coherent, dynamic and domestically driven capital accumulation, intermediation and mobilization process. Such a process is vital, even in the poorest of countries, so that [...]
The forthcoming edition of the SAIS Review published by Johns Hopkins University Press includes an article titled “Fast Data, Slow Policy: Making the Most of Disruptive Innovation in International [...]
Canada has committed an additional $3.5 billion to maternal and newborn child health (MNCH), from 2015 to 2020. This is an amount higher than what non-governmental organizations were calling for. The present commitment made in 2010 at the Muskoka G8 summit expires in 2015. This new announcement [...]
This policy brief offers a preliminary data analysis of Canada’s Muskoka MNCH health financing initiative, placing the same in the wider context of global health [...]
This is a preliminary post, while we update our time-series data. All figures are in Canadian dollars and on a Canadian fiscal year basis, and therefore may have slight differences compared to OECD-DAC figures (in US$ and calendar year basis). All data come directly from Canada’s Department of [...]
Despite Canadians’ self-image as a generous international leader, our global influence in the fight against poverty is dwindling. Canada is struggling to figure out what we want our ever-scarce aid dollars to achieve at a time when new players are rising and the geography of poverty is changing [...]
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