CIDA has developed a reputation as one of the slowest bilateral aid agencies in the world," testified Ian Smillie, research co-ordinator of Partnership Africa Canada. "We have more checklists, forms, studies, consultancies and evaluations than any other donor I know. We are pathologically risk averse. "Given the failure of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in Africa over the past 38 years to make an effective foreign aid difference, the government of Canada should conduct an immediate review of whether or not this organization should continue to exist in its present non-statutory form," says the Senate foreign affairs committee in a report that was two years in the making and heard from hundreds of witnesses.
... made Afghanistan and Iraq Canada's top bilateral aid recipients over the past few years, even thoug...
...Bilateral US-Canada relations are characterized by a high de... the level of individual departments and agencies, due to the pervasive, if asymmetrical, interdepen...
... current scenario, Canadian government agencies are constrained in their Asia operations by inadeq... and help build more extensive bilateral "linkages" between Canada and the Asian recipient ...
...in Terry, at para.18, bilateral treaties negotiated pursuant to the Mutual Legal A... investigation involving law enforcement agencies of Canada and the United States will be governed b...
The report recommends that CIDA be abolished and the business of handling foreign aid be turned over to the Department of Foreign Affairs. Whatever the solution, the commitment that Canadians have to maintaining and increasing foreign aid is deeply held, a humanitarianism that deserves a better vehicle to carry it out than CIDA has offered. A majority of Canadians, according to the poll, agrees with the senators that foreign aid -- CIDA has about $4.5 billion this year to spend -- should be concentrated on only a few countries in the hope that it can actually accomplish something useful. They are more evenly divided about whether this country should set political, economic and human rights standards of eligibility for aid, but few, one suspects, see the sense in giving millions to China...
... that it is "one of the slowest bilateral aid agencies in the world" and "pathologically ri...
... work closely with other departments and agencies to ensure a balance between facilitating the legal...May impact Canada-Czech and Canada-EU bilateral relations. CIC, Canada Border Services Agency (CBS...
...; the use or creation of specific agencies, institutions, and arbitration panels; and a carve... able to reach an agreement, such as the bilateral moratorium on pollock fishing in 1992. Griffiths h...
... countries and cancellation of official bilateral debt, and more generous official development assis...Initially, development agencies recommended policy on the assumption that there ex...
...'s military headquarters, programs, and agencies. Those costs include personnel costs, operating co... aid but its member-states do so on a bilateral basis. Thus, the level of foreign assistance can b...
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