Updates on COVID19.
Development Aid News Digest highlights the findings from the Gates Foundation's Annual Goal Keepers Report.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched its fourth annual Goalkeepers Report, featuring new data showing how the ripple effects of COVID-19 have stopped 20 years of progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals).
Following extensive discussion and consultation Global Affairs Canada has issued new guidance on Cost Share to assist partners during the COVID 19 pandemic.
Find all the new guidance to help you navigate this difficult time at:
More information has been added to the members area.
In addition, at the September 4 meeting, CAIDP representative Tanya Salewski of Alinea International shared the attached power point on Virtual Monitoring in the Time of COVID.
GAC has provided additional guidance on cost sharing and on CRA 20-04 (essentially no double dipping).
Please note that new guidance has been added to the Global Affairs Canada Development Assistance COVID web page.
This guidance reflects our Solutions Group discussions related to project implementation plan extensions, direct incremental costs for telework and telecommunications, and local office costs.
This guidance can be found through the following links:
The first solution was to help address cash flow problems by changing holdback requirements. Guidance on the new, more flexible holdback approach to help address the needs of partners is attached.
In June representatives of CAIDP's External Relations Committee attended the first weekly meeting of the joint GAC-International Development Community Solutions Group working on the impact of covid19 on Canadian international development programming.
The mandate of this group is work to simplify processes and mechanisms in the context of this crisis. Our focus is on finding practical solutions to the problems the pandemic has imposed on us and to figure out what we can do differently, while recognizing that not every problem is within our control.
Please consult the Guidance on eligibility of COVID-19 potential costs by clicking on the link below:
https://www.international.gc.ca/development-developpement/partners-partenaires/bt-oa/guidance-covid-guide.aspx?lang=eng
The Canadian Association for International Development Professionals (CAIDP), The Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC), the Climate Action Network (CAN-Rac), the Inter-Council Network (ICN) and the Canadian Partnership for Women and Children's Health (CanWaCH) presented to virtual Town Halls with Honourable Karina Gould, Minister of International Development on April 2 and May 12.