Program directory · Global Affairs Canada
Multilateral International Assistance
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program code
- BVD04 (EA)
- Core responsibility
- Development, Peace and Security Programming
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2024-25 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
The Program contributes to the achievement of GAC’s thematic expected outcomes as described in the Action Area Results Frameworks, which replaced Thematic PIPs (#s 11-17) in January 2020, and to the departmental results under corporate responsibility 3 through the management of multilateral and global programming in the form of: • Support of the regular budget and planned activities of a multilateral or global organization through Long-term Institutional Support, OR • International development assistance delivered using a multilateral or global organization as the implementer The program manages grants and contributions to trusted multilateral and global partners whose’ mandates and work support the achievement of the department’s thematic results for: Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women & Girls; Human Dignity (Health and Nutrition, Education, Gender-Responsive Humanitarian Action); Growth that Works for Everyone; Environment and Climate Action; Inclusive Governance. The program undertakes due diligence in order to ensure adequate organizational capacity of multilateral and global partners and continues to engage throughout implementation, often through donor representation on executive bodies, including a role in decision making, management and oversight. Projects and programs are monitoring during implementation by implementers and by program staff, and an analysis of progress on or toward the achievement of results is completed annually for each project.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multilateral International Assistance | This program | 2018-19 – 2026-27 | $16.2B |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Employees (FTEs) 76, against 47 in 2018-19 (+62%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2020-21 | Spending $2.94B, against $1.55B in 2019-20 (+90%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2022-23 | Employees (FTEs) 114, against 89 in 2021-22 (+28%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2025-26 | Planned employees (FTEs) 140, against 104 in 2024-25 (+35%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
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
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | — | 2020 | 100% New target has been determined for the 2020-21 reporting period. | No result reported |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 100% | 2021 | 100% | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 100% | 2022 | 100% | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 75% | 2023 | 100% | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 75% | 2024 | 86% | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 75% | 2025 | 80% | Met |
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 | $1.21B | $1.46B |
| 2019-20 | $1.11B | $1.55B |
| 2020-21 | $1.6B | $2.94B |
| 2021-22 | $1.28B | $2.44B |
| 2022-23 | $1.76B | $3B |
| 2023-24 | $1.49B | $2.4B |
| 2024-25 | $2.6B | $2.39B |
| 2025-26 | $2.06B* | — |
| 2026-27 | $1.58B* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 51 | 47 |
| 2019-20 | 59 | 76 |
| 2020-21 | 83 | 85 |
| 2021-22 | 90 | 89 |
| 2022-23 | 123 | 114 |
| 2023-24 | 131 | 116 |
| 2024-25 | 139 | 104 |
| 2025-26 | 140* | — |
| 2026-27 | 135* | — |
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 | $1,210,584,779 | $1,039,329,363 | $938,669,401 | ||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $1,112,735,638 | $1,153,326,047 | $1,043,713,740 | ||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $1,598,856,679 | $1,271,108,977 | $1,367,643,756 | ||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $1,280,424,900 | $1,487,962,322 | $1,504,424,349 | ||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $1,761,081,312 | $1,753,450,933 | $1,851,183,324 | ||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $1,491,205,891 | $1,586,755,305 | $1,462,982,195 | ||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $2,601,614,958 | $2,057,349,725 | $1,579,677,252 | ||||||
| Actual | $1,457,329,419 | $1,553,028,916 | $2,944,807,439 | $2,442,375,508 | $2,998,635,362 | $2,398,971,645 | $2,392,222,385 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.