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International Humanitarian Assistance

Program code
DAQ00 (EA)
Core responsibility
International Assistance and Poverty Alleviation - Poverty is reduced, and security and democracy are increased for those living in countries where Canada engages.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2015-16 – 2017-18

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2015-16. 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).

2015-162016-172017-18International Humanitarian Assistance 2015-16: $700MInternational Humanitarian Assistance 2016-17: $852MInternational Humanitarian Assistance 2017-18: $893MInternational Humanitarian Assistanc…
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
International Humanitarian AssistanceThis program2015-16 – 2017-18$2.45B

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.

YearWhat changedSource
2016-17Employees (FTEs) 69, against 40 in 2015-16 (+73%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2024Budget 2024 measure “International Humanitarian Assistance”: $350M in total over its years (linked to this program by name, a best-effort match).Budget 2024, PDF page 342

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2015-16: $700M2015-162016-17: $852M2016-172017-18: $893M2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2015-16—$700M
2016-17—$852M
2017-18—$893M

Employees (FTEs)

2015-16: 442015-16: 402015-162016-17: 692016-17: 692016-172017-18: 702017-18: 782017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2015-164440
2016-176969
2017-187078

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
Actual

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