Program directory · Global Affairs Canada
Humanitarian Assistance
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program code
- BVD02 (EA)
- Core responsibility
- Development, Peace and Security Programming
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2024-25 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
This Program provides strategic policy advice on all aspects of Canada's international engagement related to humanitarian action. It delivers timely and effective support for Canada's efforts to ensure predictable multi-year funding for humanitarian action and address forced and protracted displacement. It uses evidence and globally recognized best practice to establish the performance measurement framework guiding all of the department's international programs related to humanitarian action.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. 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).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humanitarian Assistance | This program | 2018-19 – 2026-27 | $6.75B |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | Spending $1.37B, against $799M in 2019-20 (+71%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2021-22 | Spending $1B, against $1.37B in 2020-21 (−26%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2023 | Budget 2023 measure “Enabling Humanitarian Assistance”: $13M in total over its years (linked to this program by name, a best-effort match). | Budget 2023, PDF page 190 |
| 2023-24 | Spending $726M, against $1.17B in 2022-23 (−38%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2025-26 | Planned spending $586M, against $841M in 2024-25 (−30%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
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.
Historical: targets against results
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | Given the nature of humanitarian assistance, neither baseline information nor targets are appropriate. | — | 86.7 million Establishing a target for this indicator is not appropriate, as data is dependent on the number and/or intensity of emergencies that occur during the year. | No result reported |
| 2019-20 | Not applicable. | 2020 | 97.1 million Establishing a target for this indicator is not appropriate, as data is dependent on the number and/or intensity of emergencies that occur during the year. Data is only available by calendar year. | No result reported |
| 2020-21 | — | 2021 | 115.5M | No result reported |
| 2021-22 | — | 2022 | 128.2 million Target not applicable. | No result reported |
| 2022-23 | — | 2023 | 160 million S.O. | No result reported |
| 2023-24 | — | 2024 | 152 million 80.1 million women (43.4 million girls); 71.9 million men (42.7 million boys) | No result reported |
| 2024-25 | — | 2025 | 124.4 million 66.8 million women (35.9 million girls); 57.6 million men (35.1 million boys) | No result reported |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $631M | $838M |
| 2019-20 | $586M | $799M |
| 2020-21 | $752M | $1.37B |
| 2021-22 | $586M | $1B |
| 2022-23 | $586M | $1.17B |
| 2023-24 | $873M | $726M |
| 2024-25 | $586M | $841M |
| 2025-26 | $586M* | — |
| 2026-27 | $586M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 17 | 21 |
| 2019-20 | 21 | 20 |
| 2020-21 | 18 | 15 |
| 2021-22 | 14 | 12 |
| 2022-23 | 12 | 11 |
| 2023-24 | 13 | 12 |
| 2024-25 | 14 | 12 |
| 2025-26 | 14* | — |
| 2026-27 | 14* | — |
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
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $630,789,051 | $466,047,890 | $466,269,974 | ||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $585,927,793 | $586,149,843 | $586,131,237 | ||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $751,736,748 | $586,150,051 | $586,148,642 | ||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $586,240,489 | $586,239,210 | $586,238,839 | ||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $586,250,340 | $586,249,743 | $586,249,642 | ||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $873,068,107 | $873,067,690 | $873,070,165 | ||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $586,330,122 | $586,372,437 | $586,305,123 | ||||||
| Actual | $838,476,566 | $799,326,477 | $1,366,440,474 | $1,004,378,210 | $1,174,530,006 | $726,407,095 | $840,585,653 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
