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.
... emerging donors such as Brazil, South Africa, and the Gulf states), or whether a new branch sho...
... reiterated Canada's pledge to increase foreign aid spending to more than $5 billion by 2010, whic... Commonwealth and francophone countries in Africa and Asia, while simultaneously balancing broader r...
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...
...The Senate report deals with sub-Saharan Africa where CIDA has spent $12.4 billion since 1968 with...
The economic crisis has hit Africa due to the falling prices of such commodities as oil, gold, zinc and copper, and drops in tourism, foreign aid and money being sent home by workers in wealthier countries.
Montreal's Liberal While the Manitoba delegates were sure on Wednesday which Liberal leadership candidate they support, they might offer Each delegate at Montreal's convention was elected by other Liberal party members this fall.
...: Canada's involvement in Afghanistan, foreign aid to Africa, government investments in early chi...
Schraeder lays out the context of the debate in Washington on Africa and then proceeds to establish the foreign policy challenges of the continent for not just the United States, but for all other major powers as well e.g., reversing grinding poverty and the lack of sustainable growth and development, mitigating the deleterious impacts of corruption and authoritarianism, stemming the multiplication of civil conflicts, containing and eliminating transborder threats, halting the spread of HIV/AIDS.\n Schraeder offers the best analytical framework for integrating the insights of international political economy and regional issues with US strategic and global concerns in the post-9/11 environment, and a framework that could have been the model for the other case studies in attempting to gra...
It is, of course, a book with a point of view. Several of them. One is [Jeffrey D. Sachs]' deep disagreement with free market absolutists about the necessarily benevolent consequences of untrammelled free markets as solutions to the problems of sustainable development. Here again he is locking horns with neo-liberal opinion in the West, which holds that foreign aid has largely failed. Indeed, he offers a splendidly compelling account of how within the modest envelope of a government provision of 0.7 per cent of GDP to foreign aid there can be financed all sorts of successful programs for malaria protection nets, antiretroviral drugs for HIV-AIDs sufferers in Africa, simple irrigation techniques, high yield seeds, fertilizers and so on. Of course, Sachs's world view is not unchallengea...
...'s area secretary for North Eastern Africa. Today, he is senior policy analyst for the Canadi... militant Islamist group that has opposed foreign aid]. Was there that kind of difficulty delivering...
... with [the] broader philosophy of our foreign policy." The importance of Darfur, together with M... in the chapter tellingly entitled "Into Africa." Exercising leadership abroad was certainly a pri...
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