Facing the Biggest Challenges of Our Generation
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- 18 décembre 2018
Le Canada tient de beaux discours en matière d’aide au développement. Des gouvernements canadiens successifs se vantent des mérites de leurs nouvelles initiatives aux airs impressionnants et du rôle de leadership du pays sur la scène mondiale. Plus récemment, le …
EN SAVOIR PLUSFrom the international development perspective, Budget 2019 is the most disappointing federal budget since the current Liberal government was elected. Foreign aid warrants a mere three paragraphs. The first repeats past commitments and the third describes how the government will …
EN SAVOIR PLUSBy 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 …
EN SAVOIR PLUSOf 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 …
EN SAVOIR PLUSby 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 …
EN SAVOIR PLUSby 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 …
EN SAVOIR PLUSOne of the best predictors of whether a country criminalizes homosexuality is whether it is a member of the Commonwealth. In 36 out of 53 Commonwealth countries, sexual acts in private between two consenting adults of the same sex are …
EN SAVOIR PLUSThe preliminary aid statistics for 2017 are now out. What do they tell us about global trends and Canadian foreign aid?
Globally, official development assistance (ODA) from traditional donors has held steady. The total amount, US$147 billion, is down slightly …
EN SAVOIR PLUSby Stephen Brown and Hunter McGill
If you watched Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s budget speech in the House of Commons yesterday, you had to be paying close attention to catch the one sentence that refers to foreign aid: “We will …
EN SAVOIR PLUS“I would love to increase the aid budget,” admitted Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Liberal Member of Parliament and Parliamentary Secretary to Canada’s Minister of International Development, speaking at a recent conference organized by the Canadian Council for International Co-operation. But, she argued, …
EN SAVOIR PLUSLe gouvernement libéral de Justin Trudeau a transformé l’image de l’engagement du Canada sur la scène internationale, passant d’un ton autoritaire et mesquin aux «voies ensoleillées». Cependant, en ce qui concerne l’aide au développement, ses actions ne reflètent pas la …
EN SAVOIR PLUSAu début des années 2000, les bailleurs de fonds occidentaux ont enfin reconnu que si les résultats de l’aide au développement étaient souvent décevants, c’était qu’ils détenaient eux-mêmes une partie de la responsabilité. La Déclaration de Paris sur l’efficacité de …
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