Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) – What’s in the name –Three years later?

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Hear the latest on the status of Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP)
 
In 2017, Canada launched the Feminist International Assistance Policy. When the FIAP was launched, development practitioners had many questions about what it meant for a development cooperation agency like Canada’s to prioritize gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, how the six action areas of the FIAP would shape the profile of aid spending and how the new ways of working under the policy would affect development practitioners, active projects and future proposals. 

At the last CAIDP conference (January 2018) a Global Affairs Canada panel shed light on government plans under the FIAP. Now, three years into the new policy, as the world responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s time for an update. Tune into our 60 minute webinar the FIAP with Meghan Watkinson, Director, International Assistance Policy Coordination, Garett Pratt, Deputy Director of International Assistance Policy Coordination, Michael Arnoni, Deputy Director, Programming Process and Coordination and Simon Snoxell, Deputy Director for the Business Intelligence Unit in Partnerships for Development Innovation Branch. 

 
23 June, 2020
1:00pm Eastern
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To help our presenters prepare for your questions, CAIDP invites you to provide observations or questions about the FIAP in your registration. Meghan, Michael and Garett will incorporate as many of these as they can into their commentary before opening up to further questions.
 
 
 

Meghan Watkinson started as Director, International Assistance Policy Coordination in September 2018. Her team leads on implementation of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy and coordinating Canada’s international assistance to advance the 2030 Agenda.

As the former Director, Governance in the Global Issues and Development Branch of Global Affairs Canada, Meghan led the department’s work on advancing SDG 16 and was the co-chair of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development-Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) Network on Governance.

Meghan has worked on development issues in various positions within the former Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and at Global Affairs Canada. She holds a Masters of Arts (International Affairs) from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University.

Garett Pratt has worked in the International Assistance Policy Coordination division of Global Affairs Canada since the launch of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy in 2017. He has previously worked in bilateral programming in Vietnam, Ghana, and China.
 Michael Arnoni started as Deputy Director, Programming Process and Coordination in January 2019. His team leads on eveloping, maintaining and streamlining processes guiding Canada’s International Development Assistance.

Michael has worked on development issues in various positions within the former Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and at Global Affairs Canada. Prior to joining the Canadian Government, Michael worked with various Canadian and International Non-Government Organizations and was an international development consultant. He holds a Master of Adult Education (M.A.Ed - Community Development) from St. Francis Xavier University and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A. – Comparative Development Studies) from Trent University.
Simon Snoxell is Deputy Director for the Business Intelligence Unit in Partnerships for Development Innovation Branch. Simon has 18 years international development experience in universities, non-governmental organizations and the federal government. Since joining Global Affairs Canada in 2009, he has worked in a number of branches and has been posted in Ethiopia and Côte d’Ivoire.