Canada scores a good grade when it comes to transparency. Recently, Publish What You Fund (UK) released its much anticipated 2013 Aid Transparency Index which ranks countries based on efforts on aid transparency. Among 67 donor organizations ranked by the index, Canada placed 8th and is one of only [...]
Canada needs to play a stronger role in the creation of the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a panel of United Nations and international development experts speaking at the University of Ottawa [...]
The new Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and Development is an opportunity to elevate the profile of international development in Canadian foreign [...]
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) has released their data on foreign aid spending for 2012. Multiple crises are changing the landscape of foreign [...]
At the 2011 Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4) held in Busan, South Korea, participants agreed to establish a Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation. The Global Partnership replaces the OECD-DAC-hosted Working Party on Aid Effectiveness (WP-EFF) launched in 2003 [...]
As the dust begins to settle, and the budget cuts begin to work through the bureaucratic system, it is time to update our initial analysis on cuts to Canada’s international assistance. [...]
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