Program directory · Global Affairs Canada

International Assistance Policy

Department

Global Affairs Canada

Program code

BVB20 (EA)

Core responsibility

International Advocacy and Diplomacy

In Departmental Plans

2020-21 – 2024-25 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

The International Assistance Policy Program reflects the areas where GAC’s Global Issues and Development (MFM) Branch is responsible for the development of policy and program guidance for Global Affairs Canada international development programming under CR3 of the Departmental Results Framework.

Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy seeks to reduce extreme poverty and build a more peaceful, inclusive and prosperous world. The Policy recognizes that promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls is the most effective approach to achieving this goal, including improving evidence based decision making investing in better data collection and evaluation for gender equality. The Policy contains the following five Action Areas for which MFM is the focal point in developing policy and programming approaches:

• Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls; which is the core Action Area. Gender equality can be advanced throughout our work by integrating this analysis across the other areas of action.

• Human dignity, which includes health and nutrition, education and humanitarian action;

• Growth that works for everyone, which targets areas such as sustainable agriculture, green technologies and renewable energy;

• Environment and climate action focusing on adaptation and mitigation, as well as on water management;

• Inclusive governance, including democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2020-21. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.