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Effectiveness of Canadian Official Development
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A place to discuss Canada's development policy and its role in the world.
Effectiveness of Canadian Official Development
Priority 1: Saving the Canadian Foreign Service
This article from the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) states that "the Canadian foreign service is in desperate condition. If the Trudeau government hopes to achieve its foreign policy objectives, its first priority should be a wholesale reform of Global Affairs Canada that focuses on the rejuvenation of the foreign service." While noting that "GAC served the government well on trade files and consular issues during its first mandate, with strong records of achievement.
A new direction in Canadian development policy - good or bad?
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the main delivery agent for Canada's development policy, has undergone a significant change in direction since the Harper government has come to power. A lightning rod for controversy recently has been its new approach to one of the three main pillars or objectives affirmed by the current government - economic growth.
Canada and Multilateralism: Missing in Action
CANADA AND MULTILATERALISM: MISSING IN ACTION
Rearranging the Deck Chairs Award
Since the late 1980s CIDA has been in a constant process of reform, which have brought us to the point where our peers in the OECD think we have the most bureaucratic development agency in the world.
Launch of the New Directive Process
2010-01-29 Today, David and I are very pleased to announce that Management Board has approved the first major rollout of the Business Modernization Initiative: the Agencys new Directive Project Business Process. We are formally committing to adopt a significantly simpler, faster and smarter approach to the initiation, design and contracting of all directive projects.
OECD - DAC Midterm Review of Canada
Please find below a letter written at the end of November, 2009 regarding the effectiveness of Canadian Aid. Additionally, a word version has been posted here if you would like a copy. DAC Mid-term Review of Canada: Letter from Richard Care,
November 25, 2009
To: DAC Delegates Ottawa, 25 September 2009
Dear Delegates,
High Time for A Minister Who Understands Aid
Opinion piece by Ian Smillie, keynote speaker at the CAIDC Conference 2009. In addition to his many other accomplishments, Ian is an early member of CAIDC whose main area of concern was the quality and professionalisation of Canadian Development Services. Members may also be interested in a facebook page on this started by a Saskatchewan student: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&gid=246092183957
In Defense of CIDA
Canadas foreign aid program has its problems, but they are hardly unique. Nor are they the fault of a single agency. In the attached article, Patrick Johnston of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation helps to put into perspective the findings of the most recent Auditor General's report on the CIDA's progress in implementing its aid effectiveness agenda.
Canadian Public Service Could be Healthier
In the annual review of the Canadian Public Service, CIDA is 13 from the bottom out of 63.