Minister of International Development appearance before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (FAAE) – Main estimates – Briefing material

2021-04-29

Table of contents

Financial notes

• 2021-2022 Main Estimates – Page Proofs
• 2021-2022 Main Estimates – Overview
• 2021-2022 Main Estimates – Year-over-Year Changes – Explanation of Items
• 2021-2022 Main Estimates – Decrease in funding to help developing countries address the impact of climate change
• 2021-2022 Main Estimates – Sunset of funding received for Renewing Middle East Strategy
• 2021-2022 Main Estimates – Decrease in funding to implement the Feminist International Assistance Agenda
• 2021-2022 Main Estimates – Decrease in the current funding for the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program
• 2021-2022 Main Estimates – Decrease in funding for Duty of Care
• 2021-2022 Main Estimates – Adjustment related to the cost of assessed contributions
• 2021-2022 Main Estimates – Funding for compensation related to collective agreements
• 2021-2022 Main Estimates – Funding for currency exchange fluctuations on expenditures at missions abroad
• 2021-2022 Main Estimates – Funding for payments, in respect of pension, insurance and social security programs or other arrangements for employees locally engaged outside of Canada
• 2021-2022 Main Estimates – by Vote (Overview)
  • Vote 10 - Grant and Discretionary Contribution Programs
  • Vote 10 – International Organizations – Assessed Contributions
• 2021-2022 Main Estimates – by Core Responsibility (Overview)
  • Development, Peace and Security Programming
  • Support for Canada’s Presence Abroad
  • International Advocacy and Diplomacy
  • Trade and Investment
  • Help for Canadians Abroad
  • Internal Services
• Departmental Plan 2021-22
• Departmental Results Report (DRR) 2019-2020
• Canada’s Network Abroad
• Overview of Main Estimates 2020-2021
• Public Accounts – Overview
• Public Accounts – Losses
• Public Accounts – Travel and Conferences
• Public Accounts - Lapses

2021-2022 Main Estimates – Page Proofs

Items for inclusion in the Proposed Schedule 1 to the Appropriation Bill

(for the financial year ending March 31, 2022)

Unless specifically identified under the Changes in 2021–22 Main Estimates section, all vote wordings have been provided in earlier appropriation acts.

Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Raison d'être

Global Affairs Canada, under the leadership of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of International Development, and the Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, is responsible for advancing Canada’s international relations, including: developing and implementing foreign policy; fostering the development of international law, international trade and commerce; providing international assistance (encompassing humanitarian, development, and peace and security); ensuring Canada’s strong and sustained engagement in La Francophonie’s institutions; providing consular services for Canadians; and overseeing the Government of Canada’s global network of missions abroad.

Additional information can be found in Global Affairs Canada’s Departmental Plan.

Note: Until the establishing legislation is amended, the legal name of the department for the purposes of Appropriation Acts remains Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development.

2021-2022 Main Estimates – Overview

• The 2021-22 Main Estimates were tabled in Parliament the week of February 15, 2021 and the related Appropriation Act is expected to receive Royal Assent in June 2021 with an Interim Supply bill approved by March 31, 2021.
• The Department’s total funding requested in the 2021-22 Main Estimates is $6,723.2 million, which represents a net decrease of $761.0 million over the 2020-21 Main Estimates of $7,484.2 million.
• The decrease is mainly due to funding received in previous years to help developing countries address the impact of climate change, for Renewing Canadaʼs Middle East Strategy and to implement the Feminist International Assistance Agenda.

Supporting facts and figures

• Significant funding decreases include:
  • $363.0 million related to funding received in previous years to help developing countries address the impact of climate change;
  • $249.7 million related to the sunset of funding received for Renewing Canada’s Middle East Strategy;
  • $124.5 million related to funding received in previous years to implement the Feminist International Assistance Policy. The total decrease of $124.5 million includes a decrease of $129.9 million in grants and contributions (Vote 10), an increase of $5.1 million in operating expenditures (Vote 1) and an increase of $0.3 million for employee benefit plan. The total decrease of $124.5 million is due to: a decrease of $284.0 million related to the reprofile of funding for the establishment of the Partnership for Gender Equality (Gender Equality Fund), an increase of $9.9 million for Counter Terrorism Capacity Building – Sahel, an increase of $55.7 million for Innovative Financing Programs to support International Assistance, an increase of $93.8 million to support the Feminist International Assistance Policy and an increase of $0.1 million for the Weapons Threat Reduction Program;
  • $57.0 million in the current funding for the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program; and
  • $31.6 million in the current funding for the Duty of Care Special Purpose Allotment to support mission security abroad.
• Significant funding increases include:
  • $18.7 million related to the cost of assessed contributions due to changes in the international organizations' budgets and the impact of currency fluctuations resulting from the payment in the prescribed foreign currency of these contributions which represent Canada’s treaty obligations and legal commitments to international organizations;
  • $17.9 million for compensation related to collective agreements;
  • $15.5 million relating to the impact of foreign currency fluctuations incurred on expenditures at missions abroad; and
  • $14.4 million for payments, in respect of pension, insurance and social security programs or other arrangements for employees locally engaged outside of Canada.

Background

• The Main Estimates present Global Affairs Canada’s reference levels which are broken down by the nature of the funding (Vote) and according to the Departmental Results Framework (DRF). Adjustments to Main Estimates to account for new programming or for programs that were approved after the process for including items in the Main Estimates (concluded in the Fall), will be received through Supplementary Estimates.
• Supplementary Estimates are part of the normal Parliamentary approval process to ensure that previously planned government initiatives receive the necessary funding to move them forward. They present information to Parliament of the Government of Canada’s spending requirements that were not sufficiently developed in time for inclusion in the Main Estimates.

2021-2022 Main Estimates – Year-over-Year Changes – Explanation of Items

• The Department’s total funding requested in the 2021-22 Main Estimates is $6,723.2 million, which represents a net decrease of $761.0 million over the 2020-21 Main Estimates of $7,484.2 million.
• Funding decreases include:
  • $363.0 million related to funding received in previous years to help developing countries address the impact of climate change. The decrease is due to: a decrease of $174.0 million for Canada Clean Energy and Forest Facility (Climate Change World Bank projects), a decrease of $109.0 for Climate Change and a decrease of $80.0 million for International Fund for Agriculture Development;
  • $249.7 million related to the sunset of funding received for Renewing Canada’s Middle East Strategy;
  • $124.5 million related to funding received in previous years to implement the Feminist International Assistance Policy. The decrease is due to: a decrease of $284.0 million related to the reprofile of funding for the establishment of the Partnership for Gender Equality (Gender Equality Fund), an increase of $9.9 million for Counter Terrorism Capacity Building – Sahel, an increase of $55.7 million for Innovative Financing Programs to support International Assistance, an increase of $93.8 million to support the Feminist International Assistance Policy and an increase of $0.1 million for the Weapons Threat Reduction Program;
  • $57.0 million in the current funding for the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program. The decrease is due to: a decrease of $55.0 million for the Renewed Approach to Canada’s Development Assistance and Security Sector Support to Afghanistan and a decrease of $2.0 million for the United Nations Peace Operations; and
  • $31.6 million in the current funding for the Duty of Care Special Purpose Allotment to support mission security abroad. The decrease is due to: a decrease of $26.7 million related to a reprofile of Duty of Care special purpose allotment, a decrease of $12.0 million in funding for Duty of Care, an increase of $3.6 million for Colombo Chancery Relocation, an increase of $3.0 million related to inflation and currency fluctuations and an increase of $0.5 million for compensations related to Collective Agreements.
• Funding increases include:
  • $18.7 million related to the cost of assessed contributions due to changes in the international organizations' budgets and the impact of currency fluctuations resulting from the payment in the prescribed foreign currency of these contributions which represent Canada’s treaty obligations and legal commitments to international organizations;
  • $17.9 million for compensation related to collective agreements;
  • $15.5 million relating to the impact of foreign currency fluctuations incurred on expenditures at missions abroad; and
  • $14.4 million for payments, in respect of pension, insurance and social security programs or other arrangements for employees locally engaged outside of Canada.

Supplementary messages

The 2021-22 Main Estimates include:

• Decrease of $363.0 million in the 2021-22 Main Estimates when compared to the 2020-21 Main Estimates related to help developing countries address the impact of climate change. In November 2015, in the lead up to the Paris Climate Conference, the Prime Minister announced an investment of $2.65 billion to Global Climate Change Action by 2020-21.
• Decrease of $249.7 million in the 2021-22 Main Estimates when compared to the 2020-21 Main Estimates related funding received for Renewing Canada’s Middle East Strategy. Budget 2019 included funding up to an additional $1.39 billion over two years (2019-20 and 2020-21) to renew Canada’s engagement in the Middle East, with a greater focus on building stability, governance and long-term resilience.
• Decrease of $124.5 million in the 2021-22 Main Estimates when compared to the 2020-21 Main Estimates related funding received to implement the Feminist International Assistance Agenda. Budget 2018 decisions provided $2.0 billion in new resources over five years, starting in 2018-19, from the International Assistance Envelope to accelerate the impact of Canada’s new Feminist International Assistance Policy. Budget 2018 decisions also provided $1.5 billion over five years, starting in 2018-19, and $492.7 million per year thereafter from existing unallocated International Assistance Envelope resources, to support innovation in Canada’s international assistance through the International Assistance Innovation Program and the Sovereign Loans Program.
• Decrease of $57.0 million in the 2021-22 Main Estimates when compared to the 2020-21 Main Estimates related the current funding for the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program.
• Decrease of $31.6 million in the 2021-22 Main Estimates when compared to the 2020-21 Main Estimates related to the current funding for the Duty of Care Special Purpose Allotment to support mission security abroad [Planned to access from the fiscal framework previously approved funding].
• $18.7 million related to the cost of assessed contributions, due to changes in the international organizations' budgets and the impact of currency fluctuations resulting from the payment in the prescribed foreign currency of these contributions, which represent Canada’s treaty obligations and legal commitments to international organizations.
• $17.9 million for compensation related to collective agreements. Global Affairs Canada is receiving incremental funding for the impact of signed collective agreements.
• $15.5 million relating to the impact of foreign currency fluctuations incurred on expenditures at missions abroad. To ensure that Global Affairs Canada maintains its purchasing power on overseas operations, and is not positively or negatively impacted by currency fluctuations, Global Affairs Canada’s budget is adjusted for currency fluctuations on an annual basis.
• $14.4 million for payments, in respect of pension, insurance and social security programs or other arrangements for employees locally engaged outside of Canada. Incremental funding was requested to allow Global Affairs Canada to meet the expenditure requirements of the current Program on behalf of Treasury Board as the Employer and the Government of Canada as the sponsor of the plans.

Supporting facts and figures

• Other items that contributed to year-over-year changes, but not highlighted in these Main Estimates, are shown below:

2021-2022 Main Estimates – Decrease in funding to help developing countries address the impact of climate change

• In the lead up to the 2015 Paris Climate conference to support developing countries, the Prime Minister announced a $2.65 billion funding commitment to advance international climate change objectives.
• The 2021-22 Main Estimates include a net decrease of $363.0 million compared to the 2020-21 Main Estimates to implement programming to help developing countries address the impact of climate change.
• These decreases align with the planned funding profiles for each of these initiatives.

Supplementary messages

• The decrease is the result of the sunset of $363.0 million in funding requested through the 2020-21 Main Estimates to further implement operational projects under Canada’s Climate Finance commitment broken down as follows:
  • $174.0 million to support the Canada Clean Energy and Forest Facility at the World Bank.
  • $80.0 million to support climate-smart agriculture programming at the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
  • $109.0 million for Establishing Canadian Climate Funds Focused on the Private Sector through the Canada Climate Change Program - Phase II and the Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in the Americas - Phase II.
• These initiatives are aligned with the Feminist International Assistance Policy action areas of Environment and Climate Action and Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls.

Results

• Of the portion of Canada’s $2.65 billion climate finance disbursed between FY 2015-16 and FY 2019-20, approximately $277 million targeted climate change adaptation; $541 million was provided for mitigation initiatives and $998 million for crosscutting initiatives (targeting both adaptation and mitigation). This financing delivers on the objectives set out as part of Canada’s 2015 Climate Finance commitment.
• In addition, support provided between FY 2015-16 and the end of FY 2019-20 covered a wide geographical area, with 80 countries directly benefiting from Canada’s climate finance and various other countries benefitting from providing Canada’s support through multilateral funds.
• Using the OECD DAC approach, Canada estimates that approximately US$309.0 million of private finance for climate-related activities was mobilized in developing countries over 2017 and 2018, via an investment of US$213.0 million in Canadian public finance.
• Canada is meeting our objective to support the institutions and financial mechanisms, which play a fundamental role in global action on climate change, in support of the Paris Agreement. To date, for example:
  • Canada is a strong supporter of the Global Environment Facility, which funds valuable activities to address climate change in developing countries.
  • Through a $200.0 million investment for the Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in Asia II at the Asian Development Bank, Canada was able to provide US$30.0 million in support of a 216-megawatt run-of-the-river hydro power plant in Nepal, which will reduce imports of electricity into the country, contributing to its long-term energy security, sufficiency and sustainability.
  • Canada provided support to the Least Developed Countries Fund under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) through its $30.0 million contribution to address the urgent adaptation needs of the poorest and most vulnerable countries.
  • Through the International Development Research Centre, Canada is supporting the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in building a critical mass of scientists to contribute to climate change solutions in Africa. AIMS is also contributing to the advancement of women through a special emphasis on recruiting and supporting women in math and science. As of 30 June 2019, AIMS has over 2,200 alumni, of which 704 (32%) are women and 1,496 (68%) are men, representing 43 countries across Africa.
  • Through its support to the Africa Risk Capacity (ARC), a specialized agency of the African Union, Canada is helping countries better plan, prepare and respond to natural disasters and extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change, through innovative financial products such as sovereign-level drought insurance. As of April 2020, ARC has reported more than 2 million vulnerable people assisted, more than 1 million livestock saved, and over US$600 million in drought coverage provided.

Canada Clean Energy and Forest Facility

• The World Bank Group provides financing through low-interest loans and grants in all development sectors – including education, health, public administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector development, agriculture, and environmental and natural resource management. The organizational structure comprises the Board of Governors, the Board of Executive Directors, and the President. The Board of Governors is the highest decision-making body. Canada is represented on the board by our Minister of Finance.
• Through this initiative, Global Affairs Canada has put in place a Canadian single donor trust fund at the World Bank, dedicated to supporting climate change activities through projects focused on the promotion of renewable energy, both globally and in Small Island Developing States, as well as on sustainable forestry management.
• This funding helps to demonstrate Canada’s leadership in multilateral institutions and our support to climate change mitigation activities in the energy and forestry sectors. This initiative and other Canadian climate funds also support a larger effort to increase the percentage of climate smart programming by these institutions, and are used to leverage our other policy priorities such as gender.
• Results will focus on:
  • significant greenhouse gas emissions reduction;
  • measurable increases in generation of clean energy measured in megawatts; and
  • measurable increases in the percent of national/sub-national forest and landscapes managed sustainably.
• This facility also contributes to reducing gender inequality in the transition to a low- carbon economy by increasing women's skills and employment in the renewable energy sector, especially in the Renewable Energy in the Small Island Developing States program.
• Results will be reported annually by the Canada Clean Energy and Forest Facility at the World Bank.

International Fund for Agricultural Development’s Climate Smart Agriculture in Developing Countries

• The International Fund for Agricultural Development is a UN Specialized Agency and International Finance Institution (IFI) with the mandate to support rural poor people in remotest, hardest to reach areas. Canada sees IFAD as an important strategic partner in helping developing countries achieve the SDGs, leaving no one behind.
• The initiative supports the International Fund for Agricultural Development in providing eligible Member States with loans to support smallholder farmers, particularly women, by increasing their capacity to adapt their farming practices to climate change and adopt technologies and practices, which help reduce the carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture systems.
• It contributes to results under the Feminist International Assistance Policy, specifically in the Environment and Climate Action area and the objective “Canada is committed to helping the most vulnerable communities adapt to climate change, mitigate the impact and, by leveraging private sector investment, facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy”.
• The International Fund for Agricultural Development reports its results transparently on its public web site through an Annual Climate Action Report and its annual Report on IFAD’s Development Effectiveness summarizing climate-related results across the entire portfolio and for specific initiatives.
• Canada’s support for IFAD’s Climate Smart Agriculture Programming builds on our previous support for IFAD’s climate action, including:
  • In FY 2011/12 Canada contributed approximately $20.0 million to a climate adaptation initiative - the Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme.
  • In FY 2015/16, Canada provided $10.0 million complementary contribution to support IFAD’s ten-point climate mainstreaming plan, as well as Phase 2 of IFAD’s Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP). As of April 2020, ASAP grants were supporting nearly 4.9 million beneficiaries to cope with the effects of climate change, and have channeled approximately US$300 million in environment and climate finance into country programmes.

Establishing Canadian Climate Funds Focused on the Private Sector

• Building on the first phases of the Canada Climate Change Program and the Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in the Americas, Global Affairs Canada continues to provide financing for eligible private-sector led climate change mitigation and adaptation activities through the second phases of each initiative; The Canada Climate Change Program - Phase II with the International Finance Corporation (IFC); and, Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in the Americas - Phase II with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
• Created in 1959, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is the oldest regional development bank (RDB) and the largest source of multilateral development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean (the only region where an RDB is larger than the World Bank). Canada has been an active member of the IDB since 1972 and is the sixth largest shareholder. Given its reach and knowledge of the region, the IDB is an important development partner for Canada in the Americas.
• IFC is a sister organization of the World Bank and member of the World Bank Group and is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in developing countries. The Bank Group has set two goals for the world to achieve by 2030: end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in every country.
• Both Canadian initiatives support investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency, biofuels, sustainable agriculture, forestry, land use and livelihoods resilience, using established networks and expertise. They help Canada deliver on its climate finance commitment, including demonstrating global leadership on climate change through the provision of concessional finance to help developing countries transition to low-carbon, climate-resilient economies, while also delivering development co-benefits including the empowerment of women and girls and contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
• Canadian support also helps mobilize significant volumes of additional private and public capital for climate and sustainable development investments through the International Finance Corporation and Inter-American Development Bank’s extensive private sector networks.
• Canada’s $223.5 million in the second phase of the Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in the Americas is expected to leverage up to US$1.0 billion in private-sector investments for renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and forestry to help the most vulnerable in the region, especially women and girls, adapt to climate change. It is also expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 15 million tons.
• These initiatives build on Canada’s Fast-Start climate finance program that delivered $1.2 billion of funding to help developing countries tackle climate change over 2010 to 2013, including the first phases of these initiatives. As of May 2013, Canada’s Fast-Start investments have mobilized approximately $822.0 million in co-financing, including from the private sector and supported the reduction of over 559,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions. These figures are expected to increase as the investments are further implemented.

Supporting facts and figures

• In total (excluding PWGSC Accommodations and SSC Information Technology costs), Global Affairs Canada was allocated $2.6 billion over five years (from 2016- 17 to 2020-21). Of this total, $363.0 million was included in 2020-21, resulting in a net decrease in the 2021-22 Main Estimates when compared with the 2020-21 Main Estimates.

Allocation by Core Responsibility:

Canada Clean Energy and Forest Facility:

• In total, Global Affairs Canada was allocated $400.0 million over two years (2019- 20 to 2020-21) for the Canada Clean Energy and Forest Facility at the World Bank of which $174.0 million was requested via the 2020-21 Main Estimates and $226.0 million was requested via the 2019-20 Supplementary Estimates (A).

International Fund for Agricultural Development:

• In total, Global Affairs Canada was allocated $150.0 million over two years (2019- 20 to 2020-21) for the International Fund for Agricultural Development of which $80 million was requested via the 2020-21 Main Estimates. $70.0 million was requested via the 2019-20 Supplementary Estimates (A).

Establishing Canadian Climate Funds Focused on the Private Sector:

• In total, Global Affairs Canada allocated $473.5 million over five years (2017-18 to 2020-21) to support the second phases of these two initiatives; $250 million to the International Finance Corporation to support the Canada Climate Change Program - Phase II; and, $223.5 million to the Inter-American Development Bank to support the Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in the Americas - Phase II, of which $109.0 million was requested via the 2020-21 Main Estimates.

Background

• In November 2015, in the lead up to the Paris Climate Conference, the Prime Minister announced Canada’s contribution to supporting the implementation of the Paris Agreement would be $2.65 billion in climate finance for developing countries in the five-year period to 2020-21.
• Of the overall $2.65 billion commitment, Global Affairs Canada is programming 98% with Environment and Climate Change Canada programming the balance of approximately 2%.
• As at March 2021, Canada has announced $2.3 billion of programming against its target of $2.65 billion.
• MINE will appear before FAAE in late April, and will announce that the $2.65B has been fully disbursed.
• Environment and Climate Action is a core action area of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy. Consistent with the policy, Canada is pursuing gender-responsive climate action, which recognizes that environment and climate action is most effective when women and girls play an active role in designing and developing strategic responses to climate change and environmental issues.

Qs and As

How will the COVID-19 crises impact this program and what is the department doing to mitigate?

• GAC is reviewing its operational and planned projects to determine how it can respond to the COVID-19 crisis and help to build the resilience of vulnerable communities, mitigate the impact of the pandemic and support countries to recover better. This includes actively reaching out to program partners to determine the impact of the current crisis on existing projects and on the partners’ capacity to continue to invest into new projects or if there is an opportunity to reorient focus to support climate related COVID recovery.
• IFC, together with the broader World Bank Group (WBG), is developing a corporate approach for dealing with the crisis and staying in close contact with clients to ensure responsiveness. The Bretton Woods Institutions unit, the institutional lead for the WBG within Global Affairs Canada, is closely following this exercise.

What do these funds cover?

• These funds cover contributions funding that invest in initiatives and programs that contribute to climate change efforts in developing countries.

How do you justify these expenditures?

• These expenditures allow Canada to deliver on the commitment made under the 2015 Paris Agreement to support developing countries’ transition to low carbon economies and efforts to adapt to the increasingly severe impacts of climate change. This is in line with the Joint Statement of the Alliance for Multilateralism that was recently signed by numerous member countries including Canada. It states that as we will strive to ‘’recover better’’, our common roadmap remains the 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. The investments also support Canada’s commitment made under the 2009 Copenhagen Accord to work with partners to jointly mobilize climate finance from a wide variety of public and private sources, to reach US $100 billion annually by 2020.

Canada Clean Energy and Forest Facility

How does this project advance Canada’s international commitments to developing countries?

• This project delivers on Canada’s commitment to support developing countries, particularly the poorest and most vulnerable, in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
• Support for renewable energy and sustainable forestry will enable both greenhouse gas emissions reductions and help advance adaptation.
• In view of the particular vulnerability of Small Island Developing States to climate change, two components of this initiative target solutions that are well aligned with energy security, resilience and economic growth needs, enhancing their capacity to adapt to climate change.

Why should Canada pursue climate action through working with the World Bank?

• The World Bank is one of Canada’s most trusted international partners. Canada, as a key shareholder of the World Bank, has also supported the establishment of strong climate targets for the organization. The World Bank has put in place a strong gender and climate policy that also aligns well with Canada’s priorities. Moreover, the World Bank is already active in all of the countries where this facility will invest. Hence, it has the capacity and can convene the expertise required to achieve the expected outcomes of the Canada Clean Energy and Forestry Facility.

Where is results information available?

• Result information will be provided in the facility’s annual report to GAC. Result information on individual projects funded through this facility will also be available on the World Bank website.

International Fund for Agricultural Development’s Climate Smart Agriculture in Developing Countries

Why should Canada pursue climate action through working with the International Fund for Agricultural Development?

• The International Fund for Agricultural Development focuses exclusively on smallholder farmers in developing countries, a large proportion of whom are women.
• Evidence has shown that global climate finance is not sufficiently addressing climate adaptation needs, and that an even smaller proportion (estimate of 2%) of climate finance is reaching smallholder farmers.
• International Fund for Agricultural Development programming helps to build the resilience of smallholder farmers to the destabilizing impacts of climate change, including extreme weather such as floods and droughts.
• By building resilience, the International Fund for Agricultural Development programming can also help to mitigate climate change through sequestering carbon in agricultural soils, crops, and trees. The International Fund for Agricultural Development is a well-managed and effective organization that contributes to eradicating rural poverty and ending hunger – Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 2.
• The International Fund for Agricultural Development is well positioned to meet the growing demand for highly concessional loans and grants, and support climate smart agriculture on a large scale.

How will Global Affairs ensure this project advances Canada’s international commitments to developing countries?

• The International Fund for Agricultural Development is a United Nations specialized agency and international financial institution with a mandate focused exclusively on reducing poverty and food insecurity in rural areas.
• Support will be tailored to country contexts, and could include scaling up programs for low-carbon technologies and renewable energy sources, natural resource management, and expansion of irrigation systems.
• Through its seat on the Executive Board of the International Fund for Agriculture Development, Canada contributes to its overall governance and oversight. Canada has been a key voice for acceleration of the integration of climate considerations into programming.

Funding for Establishing Canadian Climate Funds Focused on the Private Sector

Can you provide an example of a project using this funding?

• As the second phase of the Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in the Americas (C2F) was just signed in 2019, it is still developing its pipeline. The following are two projects from the first phase of the C2F (part of Fast-Start):
  • La Castellana and Achiras Wind Projects in Argentina
    • Through the Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in the Americas (C2F) project, Canada provided $15 million in concessional finance to the Castellana and Achiras Wind projects in Argentina. Together, both projects are expected to displace close to 330,000 tons of CO2e emissions per year.
    • The funding from Canada supported the projects’ environmental and social standards, which included a performance-based incentive program to promote gender equality.
    • By demonstrating the commercial viability of wind projects, these two projects have made a positive impact on Argentina’s fight against climate change.
    • Just as importantly, these two projects have made a positive contribution to women’s economic empowerment by providing opportunities for young women in fields where they are traditionally under-represented, and by spurring an important conversation on gender equality in the labour market in Argentina.
  • Pecasa - First wind farm in Dominican Republic
    • This project provides clean renewable energy to over 150,000 homes in Monte Cristi province.
    • The Canada Climate Change Program contributed $17 million to a $120 million financing package for the construction of a new, grid-connected 50MW wind farm expected to reduce greenhouse gases by about 91,000 tons CO2 equivalent a year — roughly comparable to taking 20,000 cars off the road.
    • The project will reduce the country’s reliance on fossil fuels.

General

What are some examples of specific initiatives and programs Global Affairs Canada has announced to date?

• Since 2015, Canada has announced over $2 billion to specific initiatives and programs, including $600 million to the Green Climate Fund (of which $350 million is part of the $2.65 billion climate finance commitment).
• The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the largest dedicated international climate fund, helping developing countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. GCF projects support the poorest and most vulnerable countries, including least developed countries, small island developing states, and African states, in fighting the adverse effects of climate change, as well as mobilizing private sector resources for climate friendly investments.
• Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) uses performance-based incentives to enhance gender equality: To incentivize their private sector clients to integrate gender equality, the Bank provided lower interest rates if they met agreed-upon targets on gender equality outcomes. As a result of training on gender integration, one company in Argentina increased the number of female workers by 25% in a one-year period. Additional companies increased the percentage of women in the workforce, including by hiring 4 women into positions traditionally held by men and providing internship opportunities for women in STEM. Canada’s policy on gender equality led to an incentive scheme that has demonstrated an ability to spark cultural changes across private sector companies.
• Rapid post disaster payments through drought insurance in Africa: Canada’s $40 million for the African Risk Capacity (ARC) agency helped create the world’s first parametric drought insurance product. Irregular rainfall in 2017 led to water scarcity and reduced productivity that put Mauritania at risk of a nutrition emergency. ARC’s rapid payout of US$2.4 million enabled the government to help close to 70,000 pastoralists and farmers in the aftermath of chronic dry weather.
• Two solar power plants in Zambia produce over 75 megawatts of clean electricity providing energy for more than 27,000 households (equivalent to the power required by 15,000 Canadian homes): Zambia, which had previously been relying on mostly hydropower, combined with recent droughts, was experiencing significantly lower water levels in its reservoirs. The establishment of two solar power plants will help to increase the country’s available generating capacity by 5% and allow water levels in its dams to be restored. Through the Canada Climate Change Program with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Canada is helping to demonstrate the feasibility of solar energy in the country and expand uptake in neighbouring countries.

Climate Change Funding and Commitment

• The below disbursement profile represents funding to advance Global Affairs Canada’s share of the $2.65B Commitment.

Climate Change COP21

Total Target: $2.65B of which $2.59B for GAC from 2015/16 - 2020/21

2021-2022 Main Estimates – Sunset of funding received for Renewing Middle East Strategy

• Budget 2021 extends Canada’s Middle East Strategy for another year, this includes up to $63.7M in new funding for GAC to support development, security and stabilization activities along with up to $14.2M to support diplomatic engagement. This funding will be sought in future Supplementary Estimates. An additional $213M will be provided by GAC’s existing International Assistance Envelope.
• Budget 2019 included funding up to an additional $1.39 billion over two years (2019-20 and 2020-21) to renew Canada’s engagement in the Middle East.
• The 2021-22 Main Estimates include a net decrease of $249.7 million compared to the 2020-21 Main Estimates related to the sunset of funding of the Strategy.
• The funding allows Global Affairs Canada to build on its current programming to respond to the crises in Iraq and Syria, address their impact on Lebanon, Jordan and the region, and enhance security and stability in the region.

Supplementary messages

• In total, Global Affairs Canada requested $499.7 million over two years (from 2019-20 to 2020-21) to renew Canada’s Middle East Strategy. Of this total, the department received $250 million in 2019-20 via the 2019 Budget Implementation Vote 45 and the remainder was requested via the 2020-21 Main Estimates.
• The Global Coalition has been effective in its mission to degrade and ultimately defeat Daesh in Iraq and Syria.
• Going forward, Canada will continue to work with the international community to set the conditions for longer-term security and stability, enable civilian-led stabilization programs and support governance efforts.
• There have been a number of COVID-19 cases confirmed in countries under the Middle East Strategy. Canada is monitoring the situation in the region, particularly concerning the impact an outbreak could have on stability.

Expected results

• Canada’s renewed Middle East Strategy is working to:
  • provide gender-sensitive humanitarian assistance to the over 18 million people in Syria and Iraq who are in dire need;
  • build the resilience of communities and governments in Jordan and Lebanon to help them shoulder the burden of hosting approximately 1.5 million Syrian refugees;
  • foster social cohesion, build livelihoods, restore services and basic infrastructure, and support demining operations to help more of the 8 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Iraq and Syria to safely return home;
  • increase stability by sustained efforts to improve inclusive governance; and,
  • support the Global Coalition Against Daesh, strengthen counter-terrorism capacity, and combat the acquisition and use of weapons of mass destruction to mitigate the threat of terrorism and violent extremism to Canada, our partners, and the region.

Results to date

• Through the Middle East Strategy, Canada contributed to the following results with the support of coalition partners:
  • Over 7.7 million people, and all of the territory once held by Daesh in Iraq and Syria, have been freed from Daesh’s control;
  • More than 19.2 million square meters of land have been cleared of explosives, allowing displaced persons to safely return home;
  • Security forces in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon have received specialized advice, training and equipment to detect and address security threats in the region;
  • Canadian humanitarian and development assistance has enabled humanitarian partners to provide 5.3 million people with emergency food assistance on a monthly basis and training and financial support to 3,600 public schools in Jordan.
  • Canadian funding supported the delivery of adolescent sexual and reproductive health services to approximately 1,435,000 beneficiaries in Syria, 52,000 in Iraq, 30,000 in Jordan and 6,000 in Lebanon. Over 300,000 women and girls were provided reproductive health services or support to prevent gender-based violence in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.
• The Middle East Strategy Coordination Secretariat at Global Affairs Canada has a comprehensive results-based management approach supported by an evergreen horizontal Logic Model and Performance Management Framework that organize and track the results achieved by Global Affairs Canada and other government departments.
• These results are reported through bi-annual and annual reports, which are overseen by a DG-level Middle East Strategy Steering Committee that can adjust operations as necessary. Results are also reported through the annual Departmental Results Report.

Supporting facts and figures

• In total (excluding PWGSC Accommodations and SSC Information Technology costs), Global Affairs Canada was allocated $499.7 million over two years (from 2019-20 to 2020-21) to renew Canada’s Middle East Strategy. Of this total, $250 million was requested in 2019-20 via the 2019 Budget Implementation Vote 45 and the remainder was requested via the 2020-21 Main Estimates.

Allocation by Core Responsibility:

Background

• Budget 2019 confirmed the Government’s plan to provide up to an additional $1.39 billion over two years, starting in 2019-20.
• Of this amount, $967.9 million was provided from the fiscal framework and $426 million sourced from Global Affairs Canada’s existing International Assistance Envelope (IAE) resources. The overall funding was allocated as follows:
  • $926 million to support humanitarian, development, stabilization and security, and diplomatic activities ($500 million from the fiscal framework and $426 million from existing IAE resources);
  • $442 million to renew Operation IMPACT, Canada’s military contribution; and
  • $25.9 million to support intelligence activities.

Qs and As

What did these funds cover?

• This funding build on results achieved to date and will sustain programming over the two-year horizon. It will focus on three key pillars: security and stabilization, humanitarian and resilience-building assistance and diplomatic engagement. Funding will be allocated as follows:
  • Humanitarian Assistance Programming - $330 million;
  • Development Assistance - $80 million;
  • Peace and Stabilization Operations Programming - $38.2 million;
  • Counter-Terrorism Capacity-Building Programming - $10 million.
  A total of $41.2 million in Vote 1 operating was allocated to fund 54 FTEs abroad and at HQ, and other related operating expenses.

How has the COVID-19 virus affected the Strategy?

• The COVID-19 outbreak has impacted the Middle East and poses a threat to the stability in the region. There have been a number of COVID-19 cases confirmed in countries under the Middle East Strategy.
• Countries such as Lebanon with already existing food shortages and a weak economy have instituted lockdowns to limit the spread of the virus, which were met with protests. Iraq has been affected with the collapse in global oil prices due to a global lack in demand, with its revenues dropping by nearly 50% in the first six months of 2020.
• Canada is monitoring the situation closely, particularly the impact an outbreak could have on the stability of the region, and urges individuals and governments to work together to reduce the spread of the virus.

2021-2022 Main Estimates – Decrease in funding to implement the Feminist International Assistance Agenda

• Budget 2018 provided $2.0 billion in new resources over five years to the International Assistance Envelope to accelerate the impact of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy.
• Budget 2018 also allocated $1.5 billion over five years for the creation of the International Assistance Innovation Program and the Sovereign Loans Program, and $72.8 million per year on an ongoing basis to support the Weapons Threat Reduction Program.
• The 2021-22 Main Estimates include a net decrease of $124.5 million compared to the 2020-21 Main Estimates to implement the Feminist International Assistance Agenda.
• The funding will allow Global Affairs Canada to address interrelated global challenges in the interest of the poorest and most vulnerable and to prevent Weapons of Mass Destruction proliferation.

Supplementary messages

• In total, Global Affairs Canada is requesting $698.9 million in 2021-22 compared to $823.4 million in 2020-21 to further the implementation of the Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP).
• The $698.9 million is broken down as follows:
  • In 2021-22, $504.3 million of International Assistance Envelope (IAE) resources will support initiatives in the following four priority areas, aligned with the FIAP and Canada’s commitments:
    • regularize humanitarian assistance and apply gender-responsive approach to humanitarian action;
    • breakdown barriers to girls, adolescent girls and women's empowerment;
    • project Canadian leadership and deploy Canadian expertise; and
    • augment Canada's support to Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Decrease of $89.0 million due to a change in the funding profile to move $195 million into 2020-21 to support the establishment of the Gender Equality Fund, an initiative that aims to mobilize resources from the private sector and philanthropic organizations to create a sustainable and predictable source of funding for women’s organizations and movements in developing countries. The funding was reprofiled from 2021-22 ($89.0 million) and 2022- 23 ($106.0 million) to 2020-21 ($195.0 million).
• $200.6 million will support the implementation of the International Assistance Innovation Program (IAIP). Initiatives pursued under this program will support innovative approaches and partnerships, including with the private and public sectors.
• $10.0 million will allow the Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program – Sahel to be better equipped to sustain longer-term programming in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin region as well as in Kenya and Somalia to reduce security threats from existing and emerging terrorist and violent extremist organizations.
• $73.0 million will allow Global Affairs Canada to work with partner countries, international organizations and non-governmental organizations to implement concrete projects aimed at preventing proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).

Results

• The increased resources for the IAE will help to support the achievement of Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. It will also address the significant demands on Canada’s International Assistance Envelope, including calls by stakeholders for the Government to increase its Official Development Assistance (ODA).
• The Gender Equality Fund will:
  • strengthen the institutional capacity of women’s organizations to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate their programs and services;
  • combine Canadian leadership on gender equality with leadership and expertise on innovative financing for development to create a global platform and leverage diverse partnerships for greater collective impact;
  • increase the capacity of women’s rights organizations and movements to build alliances and advocate for the rights, interests, participation of women and girls, particularly the poorest, most marginalized and most vulnerable;
  • improved social and economic well-being of women and girls in countries where Canada engages.
• The International Assistance Innovation Program will provide Global Affairs Canada with greater flexibility in its programming by enabling the mobilization of public and private sector resources in support of the Sustainable Development Goals through collaborative approaches to complex development challenges.
• The Sovereign Loans Program will enable Canada to provide low interest rate sovereign loans to eligible recipients with concessional terms, thereby enhancing developing countries’ capacity to make important investments in poverty reduction, peace and security, while recognizing their relative ability to pay.
• Through the Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program – Sahel, Global Affairs Canada will contribute to preventing, detecting and responding to terrorism in Sahel and Lake Chad Basin as well as Kenya and Somalia, which in turn will contribute to improved peace and security.
• Funding for the Weapons Threat Reduction Program (WTRP) will enable Canada to continue as a leader in mitigating threats to peace and security, especially the proliferation and use of WMD and related materials.
• The WTRP will support several projects including:
  • The second phase of a project led by the International Atomic Energy Agency to develop Nuclear Regulatory Infrastructure in Latin America.
  • Support to the upgrades to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Laboratories to increase verification research.
  • Support to other Government departments' participation in the WTRP program. For example, the deployment of RCMP officers to provide training in recipient countries.

Supporting Facts and Figures

• In total (excluding PWGSC Accommodations and SSC Information Technology costs), Global Affairs Canada is requesting $698.9 million in the 2021-22 Main Estimates to further the implementation of the Feminist International Assistance Policy, resulting in a net decrease of $124.5 million when compared with the 2020- 21 Main Estimates. The net decrease of $124.5 million includes a decrease of $129.9 million in grants and contributions (Vote 10), an increase of $5.1 million in operating expenditures (Vote 1) and an increase of $0.3 million for employee benefit plan. The total decrease of $124.5 million is due to: a decrease of $284.0 million related to the reprofile of funding for the establishment of the Partnership for Gender Equality (Gender Equality Fund), an increase of $9.9 million for Counter Terrorism Capacity Building – Sahel, an increase of $55.7 million for Innovative Financing Programs to support International Assistance, an increase of $93.8 million to support the Feminist International Assistance Policy and an increase of $0.1 million for the Weapons Threat Reduction Program;

Allocation by Core Responsibility:

Funding to implement the Feminist International Assistance Agenda

• In total (excluding PWGSC Accommodations and SSC Information Technology costs), Global Affairs Canada was allocated $2.0 billion over five years (from 2018- 19 to 2022-23) and $587.4 million ongoing, to accelerate the implementation of the Feminist International Assistance Policy. Of this total, $504.3 million was requested via the 2021-22 Main Estimates.

Funding for the establishment of the Partnership for Gender Equality (Gender Equality Fund)

• In total (excluding PWGSC Accommodations and SSC Information Technology costs), Global Affairs Canada was allocated $300.0 million over two years (2019-20 to 2020-21) for the establishment of the Gender Equality Fund. The funding was reprofiled from 2021-22 ($89.0 million) and 2022-23 ($106.0 million) to 2020-21 ($195.0 million).

Funding for Innovative Financing Programs to support International Assistance

• In total, (excluding PWGSC Accommodations and SSC Information Technology costs), Global Affairs Canada was allocated $1.5 billion over five years (from 2019- 20 to 2023-24) and $515.2 million ongoing to support the new Innovative Finance Programs. Of this total, $200.6 million was requested via the 2021-22 Main Estimates for the International Assistance Innovation Program (IAIP).

Funding for the Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program – Sahel

• In total (excluding PWGSC Accommodations and SSC Information Technology costs), Global Affairs Canada was allocated $49.9 million over five years (from 2020-21 to 2024-25) and $10.0 million ongoing to respond to threats from violent extremist groups activities in that area. Of this total, Global Affairs Canada received $10.0 million via the 2020-21 Supplementary Estimates (A) and the remainder was requested via the 2021-22 Main Estimates.

Funding for the Weapons Threat Reduction Programs

• In total, (excluding PWGSC Accommodations and SSC Information Technology costs), Global Affairs Canada was allocated $364 million over five years (from 2018-19 to 2022-23) and $72.8 million ongoing to support the Weapons Threat Reduction Program (WTRP). Of this total, $73.0 million was requested via the 2021-22 Main Estimates.

Background

• Through Budget 2018, the Government of Canada allocated $2 billion over five years to the IAE to accelerate the impact of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy; $1.5 billion over five years for Global Affairs Canada to manage the “International Assistance Innovation Program” and the “Sovereign Loans Program”; and $72.8 million per year on an ongoing basis to implement projects aimed at preventing Weapons of Mass Destruction proliferation through the WRTP.
• The Feminist International Assistance Policy has positioned Canada at the vanguard of global efforts to eradicate poverty and contribute to a more peaceful, inclusive and prosperous world, and to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. The Policy recognizes that supporting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is the best way to achieve these goals.
• The Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program was established in 2005 with an ongoing funding of $13.0 million annually as part of Canada’s contribution and commitment to peace, security and stability in the world. The funding provides States, government entities and other international non-governmental organizations with technical and legal assistance to strengthen their capacity to prevent and respond to terrorist and violent extremist activity.
• In 2010 and 2016, an additional envelope was granted to the Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program to provide training, equipment and technical assistance to countries in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin region to respond to threats from violent extremist groups activities in that area. Budget 2018 renewed the funding for the Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program for Sahel and Lake Chad Basin region and provided $10.0 million annually and on an ongoing basis.

Qs and As

How will the current COVID-19 crisis impact Canada’s effort on these initiatives and what is the department doing to mitigate?

• The Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program’s implementing partners have deferred, cancelled, re-adjusted and/or, re-purposed programming accordingly in support of COVID restrictions. While not all activities have unfolded as planned, many have been readjusted to virtual or mixed model of delivery to enable the continuation of capacity building.

How will Global Affairs Canada measure the impact of the additional $2.0 billion over five years on the FIAP implementation?

• The increase to the international assistance envelop will help Canada demonstrate greater leadership in key priority areas, and will contribute to improving the predictability of Canada’s Official Development Assistance, which is an important factor in maximizing development impact at the country-level. Global Affairs Canada will monitor the international assistance results achieved with its international assistance funding, through indicators aligned to Feminist International Assistance Policy, such as:
  • Number of people reached with humanitarian assistance and protection activities.
  • Number of countries, where GAC engages, that show a decrease in the adolescent fertility rate (number of births/1000 women).
  • Primary and lower-secondary school completion rate in countries where GAC engages.
  • Megatons of greenhouse gas emissions (CO2 equivalent) reduced or avoided through Canadian government contributions.

How will Global Affairs Canada achieve Canada’s G7 commitment on Quality Education for Girls, Adolescent Girls and Women in Developing Countries?

• Canada has a strong track record of programming in education on which to build. Canada’s funding to education helps to train teachers, build and rehabilitate classrooms and latrines, provide textbooks and learning material, and strengthen education systems, with a view to helping boys and girls to access and stay in school. The additional funding for education will contribute to:
  • Increase and improve inclusive and equitable quality education for girls and women in crisis and conflict situations;
  • Reduce the barriers that prevent women and girls from accessing education and skills-development in crisis and conflict situations;
  • Promote education as a means to achieve the empowerment and economic equality of girls and women in crisis and conflict situations.

Why establish the Equality Fund?

• The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report, “Donor Support to Southern Women's Rights Organisations”, identified a significant funding gap to women’s organizations in developing countries. The Gender Equality Fund initiative aims to contribute to addressing this gap by creating a flexible and sustainable source of funding to women’s organizations and movements. It also aims to ensure that funding is effective by providing capacity building technical assistance to recipient organizations.

How is International Assistance Innovation Program support different from traditional support (grants and contributions) offered by Global Affairs Canada?

• Unlike traditional grants and contributions, investments made under the International Assistance Innovation Program and Sovereign Loans Program are expected to be repaid, with possible consideration of below market terms. It is through the use of this concessionality that the programs hope to mobilize additional public and private sector investment in development.

How will International Assistance Innovation Program initiatives be assessed?

• All initiatives will be assessed for sustainable development impact, additionality, financial sustainability, and minimum concessionality.

Have the programs supported any projects to date?

• The programs were officially launched in July 2019. Global Affairs Canada is now in the process of finalizing initial transactions for the International Assistance Innovation Program and the Sovereign Loans Program. Note that the Sovereign Loans Program was not expected to disburse any funds until 2020-2021.

Could you please provide a few examples of what the innovative finance program funding (Vote 10) will be used for?

• A concrete example of an innovative finance project is the $12.5M contribution Canada is providing to the African Guarantee Fund for the AFAWA (Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa) initiative. This project to improve access to finance for women entrepreneurs in Africa was announced at the 2019 Biarritz G7 Summit. Due diligence and approvals are currently being finalized.
• Other potential initiatives have been identified for the Programs. As these are still under consideration for approval, further information is not yet available.

2021-2022 Main Estimates – Decrease in the current funding for the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program

• The Peace and Stabilization Operations Program (PSOPs) is the Government’s principal platform for conflict prevention, stabilization and peacebuilding. The Program contributes to improved peace, security and stability for all people in fragile and conflict-affected states.
• The 2021-22 Main Estimates include a net decrease of $57.0 million compared to the 2020-21 Main Estimates in the current funding for the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program.
• The decrease aligns with the original planned funding profile for these initiatives.

Supplementary messages

• The net decrease of $57.0 million broken down as follows:
  • A decrease of $55.0 for the Renewed Approach to Canada’s Development Assistance and Security Sector Support to Afghanistan; and
  • A decrease of $2.0 million for Canada’s Contribution to United Nations Peace Operations.
• Security and political stability are key to Afghanistan’s ability to meet its citizens’ basic needs, strengthen sustainable economic growth, and reduce its aid dependency.
• Funding for the Afghan Nation Defence and Security Forces builds capacity, including the recruitment, training and retention of women in Afghanistan’s security sector, ensuring respect for international humanitarian law, and the better protection of civilians.
• Canada’s contribution to United Nations peace operations aligns with a number of Government priorities, as outlined in Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy, Canada’s Defence Policy (Strong Secure Engaged), Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, and Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security.
• Current funding aims to support and improve the effectiveness of United Nations peace operations through four main lines of effort:
  • the Elsie Initiative for Women in Peace Operations;
  • provision of high-value military capabilities through a series of “smart pledges” (in collaboration with the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces);
  • innovative training for military, police and civilians deploying or deployed to UN peace operations; and
  • increased political and diplomatic engagement in support of Canada’s priorities for UN peace operations, including the implementation of the Vancouver Principles on Child Soldiers.

Results

• Elsie Initiative for Women in Peace Operations: The Elsie Initiative has made significant progress since its establishment in 2017, with all components launched. To date, Canada has established bilateral partnerships with the Ghana Armed Forces, the Zambia Police Service, and the Armed Forces of Senegal; worked with the UN to design and launch the Elsie Initiative Fund for Uniformed Women in Peace Operations to test the effectiveness of financial incentives on uniformed women’s participation, with the first funding recipients announced; developed and publicly released a comprehensive methodology to identify barriers to women’s integration in military and police institutions; supported the UN to create receptive environments in UN peace operations, including the development of gender- responsive guidelines for physical mission infrastructure; funded cutting-edge research on challenges facing women personnel; conducted advocacy around the world; and successfully negotiated normative language in key UN documents on the basis of interim findings.
• The Peace and Stabilization Operations Program leads on international advocacy and implementation of the Vancouver Principles on Peacekeeping and the Prevention of the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers. Targeted advocacy has led to 99 endorsements by UN Member States, including leading UN troop and police contributors, as of mid-February 2021. Work is currently underway to operationalize implementation of the Principles across the UN system and with endorsing States. The Peace and Stabilization Operations Program has also successfully advocated at the UN for the inclusion of child protection activities in key UN peace operations mandates, including UNITAMS.
• Provision of high-value military capabilities: The Peace and Stabilization Operations Program continues to support the deployment of DND/CAF military capabilities to peace operations. In particular, the program is facilitating the ongoing deployment of the Tactical Airlift (TAL) Detachment in support of UN missions from the UN Regional Services Centre Entebbe, in Uganda, through engagement with the UN, host governments and Canadian missions on the ground; and coordinates with DND the Inter-Departmental Task Force on the implementation of Canada's commitments to UN peace operations.
• Innovative Training for Peace Operations: Since 2017, the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program has supported a number of initiatives to make peace operations more efficient and effective. This includes providing training in key areas such as leadership, counter-improvised explosive devices (IEDs), medical and operations; increasing the participation of women peacekeepers; increasing the capacity of UN missions to implement the Women Peace and Security agenda; developing e-learning platforms to make training available to peacekeepers around the world (expanded in the current COVID context); and ensuring francophone peacekeepers have access to key UN documents in French by funding their translation. This support is in direct response to the key capability gaps identified by the UN Department of Peace Operations and the result of consistent diplomatic engagement with the UN and key partners.
• Increased political and diplomatic engagement on peace operations: The Peace and Stabilization Operations Program supports Canada’s high-level, diplomatic engagement with non-government entities, the UN and partner countries, both on specific projects and on the broader policy framework enabling Canada’s international work on peace operations. For example, the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program provided assistance to DND, including through extensive diplomatic engagement with the UN and local partners, to facilitate the deployment of an Air Task Force to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) from 15 August 2018 to 31 August 2019. The Peace and Stabilization Operations Program has also successfully supported advocacy efforts at the UN to streamline the UN Secretary General’s Agenda for Peacekeeping, Women in Peace and Security, and Child Protection. For example, as Chair of the Working Group of the Whole of the UN General Assembly’s Special committee on Peacekeeping Operations (C-34), Canada helped produce the most effective C-34 report in recent memory, ensuring alignment with the Action for Peacekeeping reform agenda; gender mainstreaming throughout; strong language on Women Peace and Security, the protection of civilians, and human rights, as well as reforms to improve peacekeeping performance and accountability.

Afghanistan Program

• Funding to the Afghan National Army Trust Fund (ANATF) helped to assist in the future stability of a secure and democratic Afghanistan and ensure that the Afghan Nation Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) are sufficiently trained and equipped to fulfill their responsibilities for Afghanistan’s national security. This support included: training in human rights compliance, capacity building and security forces professionalization; recruitment and retention of women in the Afghan Nation Defense and Security Forces and building and maintaining infrastructure.
• The Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan (LOTFA) assisted the Afghan government in building and maintaining a professional police force, and implementing the reform priorities of the Ministry of Interior Affairs. The Fund increased the effectiveness and accountability of security service delivery, improves justice service delivery for all Afghans (particularly vulnerable groups), and strengthened legal and institutional framework to combat corruption.

Supporting Facts and Figures

• In total (excluding PWGSC Accommodations and SSC Information Technology costs), the 2021-22 Main Estimates will have a net decrease of $57.0 million compared with the 2020-21 Main Estimates for the the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program.

Allocation by Core Responsibility:

Renewed Approach to Canada’s Development Assistance and Security Sector Support to Afghanistan

• In total (excluding PWGSC Accommodations and SSC Information Technology costs), Global Affairs Canada was allocated $137.5 million over three years (from 2018-19 to 2020-21) for the Renewed Approach to Canada’s Development Assistance and Security Sector Support to Afghanistan via the 2018-19 Annual Reference Level Update.

Canada’s Contribution to United Nations Peace Operations

• In total (excluding PWGSC Accommodations and SSC Information Technology costs), Global Affairs Canada was allocated $45.8 million over three years (from 2019-20 to 2021-22) for Canada’s Contribution to United Nations Peace Operations via the 2019-20 Annual Reference Level Update.

Background

• The Government of Canada has committed to reasserting Canada’s leadership in the world with a strong emphasis on a renewed role in international peace and security. Canada focuses its efforts on the empowerment of women and girls, the promotion of gender equality, and the protection of their human rights in fragile and conflict-affected states.
• Global Affairs Canada’s core mandate includes implementing programs to foster peace and security, reduce poverty and increase opportunity for people around the world, including women and girls, and to reduce suffering in humanitarian crises. This includes Canadian involvement in fragile and conflict-affected states and leading whole-of-Government engagements in complex political-security crises.
• The Peace and Stabilization Operations Program has two core responsibilities:
  • (1) providing policy leadership on peace and stabilization; and,
  • (2) delivering conflict prevention, stabilization and peacebuilding initiatives through both projects and deployments.
• The Peace and Stabilization Operations Program leads on the implementation of Canada’s Contribution to United Nations peace operations, which is a key element the Program’s mandate and results framework.

2021-2022 Main Estimates – Decrease in funding for Duty of Care

• The 2017 Fall Economic Statement provided ongoing funding to Global Affairs Canada to ensure the Government fulfilled its duty of care obligations in protecting Canada’s missions and people abroad.
• The 2021-22 Main Estimates include a net decrease of $31.7 million compared to the 2020-21 Main Estimates for the Duty of Care Special Purpose Allotment to support mission security abroad.
• The use of a Special Purpose Allotment (SPA) is to restrict the use of a portion of funds to a specific purpose, in this case, ensuring Global Affairs Canada’s ability to reach program objectives under its Duty of Care obligation.

Supplementary messages

• The COVID-19 outbreak continues to have a significant impact on Global Affairs Canada’s operations due to international and local travel restrictions, confinement measures and on-site work limitations. As a result, several activities have been cancelled or postponed in 2020-21 and 2021-22.
• In total, Global Affairs Canada is requesting $167.1 million in 2021-22 compared to $198.8 million in 2020-21 for the Duty of Care Special Purpose Allotment to support mission security abroad.
• The decrease of $31.7 million is due to the variation of several budget line items, notably:
  • A $26.7 million decrease due to the reprofile of the Duty of Care Special Purpose Allotment;
  • A $12 million decrease in funding for Duty of Care from its original 2018- 19 annual reference levels update request;
  • An increase of $3.6 million increase in funding for the Colombo Chancery Relocation project;
  • An increase of $3.5 million attributed to quasi-statutory adjustments, collective bargaining, etc.
• Funding for Duty of Care initiatives reported outside the Duty of Care SPA are not part of the identified decrease (e.g. a portion of internal services and employee benefit plans).
• The need for the Duty of Care Special Purpose Allotment funding reprofile is due to the:
  • Reprogramming of work that has been postponed to future years;
  • Capital, operational and capacity requirements resulting from the feasibility studies conducted for physical security enhancement projects, seismic enhancement projects and relocations; and
  • Funding of new identified pressures such as increasing procurement capacity to deliver Duty of Care initiatives, providing missions with the necessary provisions to establish alternate command posts and to procure emergency supplies in the event of emergencies, the temporary co- location of the Moscow chancery, and allocating resources for human resource emergency management and critical emergency response oversight.
• The revised funding profile for the Duty of Care Special Purpose Allotment is aligned with the requirements over the next five years as reflected in the Departmental Security Investment Plan.
• The Departmental Security Investment Plan was developed following annual five-year planning exercise, which result in updated financial forecast for the Duty of Care Special Purpose Allotment initiatives up to 2024-25.

Results

• Ensuring the safety of our people and facilities is both a moral and legal imperative. The proposed investments will continue to improve Canada’s security posture abroad by:
  • Protecting people through infrastructure (e.g. minor security upgrades and feasibility studies for major infrastructure projects, etc.);
  • Protecting people through enhancing mission readiness (e.g. security personnel, equipment and training, etc.);
  • Protecting people through securing information (e.g. threat-related intelligence, classified information technology networks, and bandwidth, etc.); and
  • Protection of people in Kabul mission operations in Kabul (e.g. competitive security guard services contract).
• Through the Colombo Chancery Relocation project, Global Affairs Canada will design a long-term accommodation solution for Canada’s chancery in Colombo to ensure a secure working environment by meeting current day security codes and standards.

Supporting facts and figures

• In total, Global Affairs Canada’s 2021-22 Main Estimates will have a net decrease of $31.7 million compared to the 2020-21 Main Estimates for the Duty of Care Special Purpose Allotment to support mission security abroad.

Allocation by Core Responsibility:

Funding Reprofile for the Duty of Care Special Purpose Allotment

• Global Affairs Canada sought an $83.1 million reprofile of the Duty of Care funding via the 2020-21 Annual Reference Level Update from fiscal year 2017-18 ($56.4 million within the Fiscal Framework and $26.7 million within existing reference levels).

Funding for Duty of Care to support mission security abroad

• In total (excluding PWGSC Accommodations and SSC Information Technology costs), Global Affairs Canada was allocated $1,162.0 million over ten years (from 2017-18 to 2026-27) and $103.2 million ongoing for the Duty of Care to support mission security abroad via the 2018-19 Annual Reference Level Update.

Funding for the Colombo Chancery Relocation project

• In total (excluding PWGSC Accommodations and SSC Information Technology costs), Global Affairs Canada was allocated $5.6 million over three years (from 2019-20 to 2021-22) to support the Colombo Chancery Relocation. Of this total, Global Affairs Canada received $654,391 via the 2019-20 Supplementary Estimates (A) and the remainder was requested via the 2020-21 Main Estimates.

Background

• Under the Canada Labour Code, the Government of Canada has a duty of care obligation to keep its employees working abroad reasonably safe from risks in their chanceries, staff quarters and when travelling. As per the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act, this accountability falls to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is responsible for “the management of Canada’s diplomatic and consular missions.”
• Global Affairs Canada is the lead department responsible for coordinating international affairs, trade and development on behalf of the Government of Canada and serves as the government's common services provider overseas.
• The approval of the Duty of Care Memorandum to Cabinet and Treasury Board Submission signaled a long-term commitment by the Government of Canada to improve physical and operational security at missions abroad as well as seismic protection, thereby enhancing the personal safety of staff at missions.
• The Duty of Care Special Purpose Allotment is an amalgamation of the following three initiatives: Mission Security, Strengthening Security at Missions Abroad, and Duty of Care.
• Since 2007, all facilities on the Colombo site have been deteriorating into very poor condition due to humidity, rain, and moisture infiltration into the structures. Due to dilapidated building condition, the facility no longer meets the requirements of Part II of the Canada Labour Code, the National Building Code of Canada or the Treasury Board Policy on Occupational Safety and Health. Mitigation efforts were unsuccessful in resolving the deterioration problems.
• To meet its Duty of Care obligation, the Department is currently undertaking some minor projects with the mission to address deficiencies where possible. Most of the security deficiencies can only be addressed through a relocation. A long-term accommodation solution is required to ensure the Mission can vacate its interim premises and continue to deliver its critical mandate.

2021-2022 Main Estimates – Adjustment related to the cost of assessed contributions

• The 2021-22 Main Estimates include a net increase of $18.7 million due to changes in the international organization’s budget and the impact of currency fluctuations resulting from the payment of the contributions in foreign currencies.
• The increase is due to the following three factors:
  • Increase in the size of the organizations' budgets;
  • Increase in Canada's rates of assessment (usually calculated on the basis of per capita GDP); and
  • Losses resulting from changes in the rate of exchange.
• On behalf of the Government of Canada, Global Affairs Canada pays annual assessments to 58 international organizations including 12 that relate to United Nations peacekeeping operations.

Supplementary messages

• Assessed contributions are treaty-based membership fees for international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization.
• In order to maintain membership in these international organizations, Canada receives an annual assessment for the cost of these organizations.
• Global Affairs Canada, on behalf of Canada, is responsible for paying these annual assessments. The assessments vary each year due to fluctuating foreign currency rates (most assessments are in USD or Euro), changes to the organizations’ budgets, and adjustments to Canada’s rate of assessment.

Supporting facts and figures

• In total, Global Affairs Canada is proposing an increase of $28.8 million to the cost of assessed contributions in 2021-22. This is mainly due to the following three factors:
  • $0.8 million increase in the size of the organizations' budgets;
  • $7.5 million increase in Canada's rates of assessment (usually calculated on the basis of per capita GDP); and
  • $20.4 million increase due to losses resulting from changes in the rate of exchange.
• Of this total, $10.1 million (ODA portion) will be reflected as an internal budget transfer in the reference level process within Vote 10 (Grants & Contributions).
• The Official Development Assistance (ODA) adjustments fall within the purview of the International Assistance Envelope and, as such, adjustments are made internally via transfers to/from development funds through the Annual Reference Level Update.

Background

• The assessed contributions represent Canada’s membership to international organizations which are paid in foreign currencies. The cost of membership in international organizations is determined by each organization and is an obligation of membership. Most international organizations are funded by assessed contributions based on a formula agreed to by all members. These assessed contributions are accepted as treaty obligations and are legal commitments of the Government of Canada.
• Global Affairs Canada vigorously pursues a policy of zero-nominal growth in budget discussions in international organizations. Canada is aligned, particularly in the United Nations system of specialized agencies, with other like-minded countries in systematically seeking more efficient management of these organizations.

2021-2022 Main Estimates – Funding for compensation related to collective agreements

• The 2021-22 Main Estimates include a net increase of $17.9 million compared to the 2020-21 Main Estimates for compensation related to collective agreements.
• The amount includes the eligible funding for newly signed collective agreements and other compensation.
• In accordance with information communicated to departments from Treasury Board Secretariat, Global Affairs Canada is receiving incremental funding in 2020-21 and future years.

Supplementary messages

• Global Affairs Canada will be receiving:
  • $84.3 million over five years (from 2020-21 to 2024-25) and $13.2 million per year ongoing to compensate for the impact signed collective agreements for Canada-based staff taking effect for the following employee groups: Education and Library Science (EB); Program and Administrative Services (PA); Operational Services (SV); and, Technical Services (TC).
  • $113.1 million over five years (from 2019-20 to 2023-24) and $25.1 million per year ongoing to compensate for the impact signed collective agreements for Canada-based staff taking effect for the following employee groups : Audit, Commerce and Purchasing (AV), Economics and Social Sciences Services (EC), Electronics (EL), Financial Administration (FI), Foreign Service (FS), Human Resources Management (HR), Law Practitioner (LP), Architecture, Engineering and Land Survey (NR), Compensation Advisor Incentive Package, Research (RE), and Applied Science and Patent Examination (SP).

Supporting facts and figures

Background

• The Compensation Reserve group prepares a base payroll snapshot from the Public Service and Procurement Canada’s pay files ahead of each round of bargaining. The snapshot is taken immediately before a new round of collective bargaining starts. The snapshot that is used in the calculations of the impacts of economic increases, market adjustments and restructures for all departments, agencies and crown corporations is from March 2018. This time period was chosen because it provided an accurate representation of the wage base at the end of the previous round of bargaining.

2021-2022 Main Estimates – Funding For currency exchange fluctuations on expenditures at missions abroad

• The 2021-22 Main Estimates include a net increase of $15.5 million relating to the impact of foreign currency fluctuations incurred on expenditures at missions abroad.
• To ensure that Global Affairs Canada maintains its purchasing power, and is not positively or negatively impacted by foreign exchange rate fluctuations, Global Affairs Canada’s budget is adjusted for currency fluctuations on an annual basis.

Supplementary messages

• The purpose of the adjustment is to ensure that Global Affairs Canada maintains its purchasing power on items that are impacted by currency fluctuations including:
  • Locally engaged staff (LES) salaries, and
  • Operating expenditures at mission abroad, including those managed at headquarters.
• Currency gains are returned to the Consolidated Revenue Fund, and reimbursement for currency losses are sought through the Supplementary Estimates and the Annual Reference Level Update.

Supporting facts and figures

• Overall, the Department requested an ongoing increase of $16.2 million to maintain funding requirements for operating costs.
• Of this amount, $15.5 million was received from the fiscal framework and $0.7 million from Global Affairs Canada’s Vote 10 (Grants and Contributions) to cover the Official Development Assistance (ODA) portion.

Background

• In recognition of the fact that currency rate fluctuations can affect the Department's purchasing power abroad, Global Affairs Canada and Treasury Board are parties to a longstanding arrangement whereby Global Affairs Canada is annually compensated for net currency losses experienced abroad and, conversely, "returns" any net currency gains to the Consolidated Revenue Fund. This way, Global Affairs Canada neither loses nor gains simply as a result of changes in the relative value of the Canadian dollar vis-à-vis the foreign currencies in which its missions operate.
• Currency adjustments are made on two occasions each year, if required. The first adjustment is made annually through the Annual Reference Level Update and is intended to adjust departmental budgets to reflect changes in foreign exchange rates for the period since the previous year's Annual Reference Level Update. The second occasion for making currency adjustments is through Supplementary Estimates to accommodate "in-year" fluctuations. Fluctuations within a fiscal year represent the difference between the actual exchange rates that were in effect throughout the fiscal year when individual payments are issued, and the "base rates" that were established for that year through the Annual Reference Level Update.
• The funding requirements for operating costs are maintained in Canadian dollars. As such, the currency adjustment of the current year (included in Supplementary Estimates C) is based on the forecast of currency gains/losses that will be incurred for the current fiscal year (in this case 2020-21).

2021-2022 Main Estimates – Funding for payments, in respect of pension, insurance and social security programs or other arrangements for employees locally engaged outside of Canada

• The 2021-22 Main Estimates include a net increase of $14.4 million compared to the 2020-21 Main Estimates for payments, in respect of pension, insurance and social security programs or other arrangements for employees locally engaged outside of Canada.
• The Program was transferred to Global Affairs Canada from Treasury Board Secretariat effective January 1, 2012 at an annual base funding level of $50.8 million. However, annual costs, as evidenced by actual expenditures both prior and subsequent to the transfer, have consistently exceeded the current base funding level.
• As a result of the current year increase of $34.7 million, Global Affairs Canada’s annual base budget for payments, in respect of pension, insurance and social security programs or other arrangements for employees locally engaged outside of Canada (Vote 15) would go from $50,779,000 to $85,473,000 for fiscal year 2021-22.

Supplementary messages

• Global Affairs Canada manages Locally Engaged Staff Pension, Insurance and Social Security Program. The Program consists of pension and insurance plans and affiliation with local social security.
• Locally Engaged Staff pension and insurance plans are established when required by local law; are comparable to other employers within each country. The Government of Canada participates in local social security systems unless there is a good reason not to.

Supporting facts and figures

• Program approved budget for 2020-21 is $71.0 million. The incremental funding of $20.2 million above the reference level for fiscal year 2020-21 was approved through the 2020-21 Annual Reference Level Update. Funding requirements for 2021-22 and 2022-23 were requested through the 2021-22 Annual Reference Level Update (Quasi-Statutory process) to allow Global Affairs Canada to meet the expenditure requirements of the current Program on behalf of Treasury Board as the Employer and the Government of Canada as the sponsor of the plans.
• The request for 2021-22 represents an increase of $34.7 million over the Vote 15 ongoing reference level of $50.8 million and an increase of $14.4 million over the approved budget for 2020-21. The Vote 15 is comprised of the three following components: Social Security costs, Pension costs and Insurance costs. Specifically:
  • Social security costs have gradually increased since the Program’s transfer in 2012. These costs are levied by local governments and are a function of local political decisions and economic factors. Social security costs are responsible for 23.0% (or approximately $8.0 million) of the incremental funding request above the Vote 15 reference level. This includes a one-time cost of $1.7 million in retroactive social security payments to ensure compliance of our missions with legislation in local jurisdictions. Social security costs are expected to increase by approximately $4.7 million or 20.4% over the social security budget for 2020-21.
  • Pension cost includes costs related to both the “Pension Scheme” and local employer pension plans, together representing 44.0% (or approximately $15.3 million) of the incremental funding request above the Vote 15 reference level. Pension costs are expected to increase by approximately $7.0 million or 25.7% over the pension budget for 2020-21:
    • Pension Scheme for Employees of the Government of Canada Locally- Engaged Outside of Canada, 1996 (Pension Scheme) is a Government of Canada provided pay-as-you-go plan, which provides a lump sum benefit upon eligible end of service. Although the Pension Scheme costs are relatively stable, they are relative to the number of expected retirements in the year, and the amount payable is a factor of salary, which is subject to incremental increases. These costs are difficult to anticipate given that payment requirements are not known in advance.
    • Locally established Employer sponsored pension plans include both defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution plans (DC). Estimated DB costs are based on the actuarial valuation of the plans performed by the plan actuary based on legislated funding requirements. In the case of DB pension plans, in low interest rate environments, plan liabilities increase which result in higher employer contribution requirements. In addition, pension plan assets invested in securities markets are subject to fluctuation, which affects pension funding and therefore contribution requirements. Employer contributions to DC plans are estimated as a percentage of salary and increase as a function of membership and salaries. These factors are all subject to local law and practice.
• Insurance costs vary according to membership, local medical inflation, claims experience and changes in local regulatory requirements. Insurance costs represent 33.0% (or approximately $11.4 million) of the incremental funding request above the Vote 15 reference level. Insurance costs are expected to increase by approximately $2.7 million or 13.2% over the insurance budget for 2020-21.
• The Vote 15 requirement to meet existing needs is not static and is subject to many variables. As such, in addition to the funding requirements for 2021-22 and 2022- 23, approved funding of $20.2 million for 2023-24 and ongoing is anticipated to be an interim step in funding ongoing requirements, regularizing the difference between the initial transfer amount and actual funding requirements at that time. Further adjustments will be made to anticipated future year funding requirements in accordance to established methodology and practice.
• The table below shows the situation of the last 3 years. The 2018-19 Supplementary Estimates includes an incremental amount of $18.0 million not approved at the moment of the Main Estimates and $0.8M related to currency fluctuations.

• The table below shows the situation of the current fiscal year 2020-21. The projected surplus of $1.3 million is related to the request in the Supplementary Estimates for the currency fluctuations. The Canadian dollar has risen in value since the request in the Supplementary Estimates which explains the projected surplus of 1.3 million.

• Total incremental request for LES Pension Benefits is broken down as follows:

Background

• In support of the Government of Canada’s international priorities, employees are hired locally at Canada’s diplomatic and consular missions worldwide. The Government of Canada employs approximately 5,700 Locally Engaged Staff in diplomatic missions abroad.
• Locally Engaged Staff are a distinct group of employees of the Government of Canada that are not part of the Canadian Public Service. Locally Engaged Staff are employed by Heads of Mission abroad according to foreign host government legislation.
• Locally Engaged Staff compensation is determined locally, and pension and insurance benefits and local social security affiliation form an integral part of the compensation package. Canada is obligated to provide local legally compliant pension, insurance and social security benefits.
• Vote 15, a quasi-statutory Vote, is used to pay employer costs related to Locally Engaged Staff pension, insurance and social security benefit. Such program expenditures include contributions to pension plans, premiums to insurance coverage, premiums to local social security and costs related to plan management such as accountants, actuaries, fund managers and other third party providers.
• Program expenditures progressively increase and therefore exceed the reference level due to factors that are inherent to employee benefit plans and that are not internally controlled, such as inflation, plan membership, market fluctuations creating plan deficits, and changes to local laws affecting benefit design and funding requirements.

2021-2022 Main Estimates – by Vote (Overview)

• In the 2021-22 Main Estimates, Global Affairs Canada requested expenditure authorities of $6,723.2 million, which represents a net decrease of $761.0 million over the 2020-21 Main Estimates of $7,484.2 million.
• The Main Estimates are reported by Vote as well as Standard Object.
• Net decrease by Vote:
  • ($19.1 million) in Vote 1 - Operating expenditures;
  • ($7.4 million) in Vote 5 - Capital expenditures;
  • ($759.5 million) in Vote 10 - Grants and Contributions;
  • $14.4 million in Vote 15 - Locally engaged staff pension programs; and
  • $10.6 million in the Statutory Vote.
• Variance in the allocation compared to 2020-21 is a result of year- over-year changes in the Department’s funding profile.

Supplementary messages

• Global Affairs Canada’s 2021-22 Main Estimates has the following votes:
  • Vote 1 is to fund the operations of the department, which is comprised of salaries, the operating costs to deliver our programs (Trade, Development, and Foreign Affairs), including operating expenditures at missions abroad and other operational expenses such as travel and professional services.
  • Vote 5 is to cover capital expenditures which are largely related to the Real Property program.
  • Vote 10 funds the grants and contributions expenditures including programming for international development and assessed contributions.
  • Vote 15 is for expenditures relating to the costs of pension, insurance and benefits for Locally Engaged Staff (LES).
• The following two votes are technical in nature:
  • Vote 20 allows Global Affairs to make direct payments to International Financial Institutions, which are typically development banks.
• The Statutory Vote includes the following items:
  • Direct payments to International Financial Institutions;
  • Contributions to employees benefit plans;
  • Minister’s salary and motor car allowances; and
  • Payments under the Diplomatic Service (special) Superannuation Act.

Supporting facts and figures

The following items represent the increases / decreases by Vote:

• Vote 1 – Operating Expenditures – ($19.1 million)
  • ($19.2 million) for the operating portion of the Duty of Care Special Purpose Allotment to support mission security abroad [Planned to access from the fiscal framework previously approved funding];
  • ($18.8 million) related to the sunset of funding received for Renewing Canada’s Middle East Strategy;
  • ($14.7 million) related to the decrease of current funding for Canada’s participation in Expo 2020 Dubai, United Arab Emirates;
  • ($12.3 million) for transfers to Other Government Departments to provide support to departmental staff located at missions abroad;
  • $9.4 million for inflation on overseas operating costs;
  • $9.8 million for locally engaged staff salaries and related benefits incurred at missions abroad;
  • $14.4 million for foreign currency fluctuations incurred on expenditures at missions abroad;
  • $15.3 million for compensation related to collective agreements; and
  • ($3.0 million) for other items.
• Vote 5 – Capital Expenditures – ($7.4 million)
  • ($12.4 million) for the capital portion of the Duty of Care Special Purpose Allotment to support mission security abroad [Planned to access from the fiscal framework previously approved funding]; and
  • $5.0 million for the funding for the Trade Commissioner Service Electronic Client Relationship Management.
• Vote 10 – Grants and Contributions – ($759.5 million)
  • ($363.0 million) related to funding received in previous years to help developing countries to address the impact of climate change;
  • ($229.1 million) related to the sunset of funding received for Renewing Canada’s Middle East Strategy;
  • ($129.9 million) related to funding received in previous years to implement the Feminist International Assistance Agenda. This decrease of $129.9 million only refers to grants and contributions (Vote 10) and excludes the variation related to operating expenditures (Vote 1) and employee benefit plan;
  • ($57.0 million) related to the decrease of current funding of the Peace and Stabilization Program;
  • ($3.9 million) related to the sunset of reprofiled funding to support Operation IMPACT through the Middle East Strategy;
  • $5.5 million to enhance Canada’s global Arctic leadership; and
  • $18.7 million for an adjustment related to the cost of assessed contributions, due to changes in the international organizations' budgets and the impact of currency fluctuations resulting from the payment in the prescribed foreign currency of these contributions.
• Vote 15 – Payments in respect of pension, insurance and social security programs for locally engaged staff – $14.4 million
  • $14.4 million for payments, in respect of pension, insurance and social security programs or other arrangements for employees locally engaged outside of Canada, or in respect of the administration of such programs or arrangements.
• Vote 20 – Payments to international financial institutions – Direct payments
  • $1 to authorize the inclusion of an authority embedded in vote wording. The statutory spending authority for direct payments for the purpose of contributions to International Financial Institutions is $257.4 million in the 2021-22 Main Estimates.
• Statutory Vote – $10.6 million
  • $9.9 million relating to the Employee Benefit Plan (EBP) component of new funding requested through the 2021-22 Main Estimates;
  • $6.7 million for a technical adjustment to increase spending authority for International Financial Institutions – Direct payments;
  • $0.4 million related to increased funding for the Payments under the Diplomatic Service (special) Superannuation Act;
  • ($5.7 million) for the Treasury Board Secretariat EBP adjustment to bring the rate of Global Affairs Canada’s salary base to 14.8% in the 2021-22 Main Estimates. This amount also includes an adjustment related to the locally engaged staff (LES) EBP component, which are to be excluded from the calculation of the final EBP amount for the Department; and
  • ($0.7 million) for the EBP variation in funding profile and sunset of programs.
• The Main Estimates are also provided by Standard Object, which includes the types of goods or services to be acquired, or the transfer payments to be made from funding contained in these estimates.

Vote 10 - Grant and Discretionary Contribution Programs

• The Department’s grants and contributions amount to $4,534.1 million, including statutory transfer payments:
  • $2,547.9 million in grants; and
  • $1,986.2 million in contributions.
• Total contribution funding is comprised of:
  • $1,117.3 million in discretionary (or non-assessed) contributions;
  • $611.6 million in assessed contributions for Canada’s memberships in international organizations; and
  • $257.4 million in direct payments to International Financial Institutions.

Supplementary messages

• The department has a rigorous challenge function to ensure effective oversight and efficient monitoring within the Investment Decision Framework.
• Further, the department integrates fiduciary risk management and recipient audit to balance sufficient accountability requirements with flexibility to maximize development results.
• A risk-based approach is being used to inform the selection of recipients that will be subject to financial compliance audits.

Supporting facts and figures

Global Affairs Canada's Grants and Contributions are broken down as follows:

• Significant voted grants ($2,547.0 million) with, discretionary contributions ($1,117.3 million) and statutory transfer payments (258.3M)
  • $2,489.6 million (grants of $2,305.4 million and contributions of $184.2 million) from International Development Assistance for Multilateral Programming;
  • $494.1 million (grants of $7.9 million and contributions of $486.2 million) from the International Development Assistance for Bilateral Programming to support regional or country specific;
  • $320.2 million (grants of $38.9 million and contributions of $281.3 million) from the International Development Assistance for Partnerships with Canadians Programming;
  • $257.4 million in payments to International Financial Institutions – Direct payments;
  • $133.9 million (grants of $96.9 million and contributions of $37.0 million) in support of the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program (PSOP);
  • $63.5 million (grants of $25.6 million and contributions of $37.9 million) under the Weapons Threat Reduction Program;
  • $43.9 million (contributions) for the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI); and
  • $31.9 million (grants of $28.9 million and contributions of $3.0 million) in support of the CanExport Program.

Vote 10 – International Organizations – Assessed Contributions

• The total cost of Canada’s membership in international organizations is $611.6 million in the 2021-22 Main Estimates, a net increase of $28.8 million in comparison with last year’s Main Estimates.
• The increase in the Main Estimates is attributable to changes in international organizations’ budgets (which in turn affects Canada’s share) and foreign currency fluctuations.
• On behalf of the Government of Canada, Global Affairs Canada pays annual assessments to 58 international organizations including 12 that relate to UN peacekeeping operations.

Supplementary messages

• Paying a share of the UN’s costs is a core obligation of membership. This is a collective responsibility that all have to shoulder. Canada always pays its assessed contributions to the UN system in full, on time and without conditions.
• Canada has again earned a position on the UN Honour Roll for 2021, as one of 41 countries that paid in full its annual assessed contribution to the UN regular budget by the payment due date (February 11, 2021).
• Canada continues to rank as one the largest overall financial contributors to the United Nations.
• Assessed at 2.734%, Canada currently ranks as 9th largest contributor to the UN regular budget (after USA, China, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Brazil).
• Canada currently ranks as the 9th largest financial contributor to UN peacekeeping operations.

Supporting facts and figures

• The most significant assessed contributions by category in the 2021-22 Main Estimates include:
• International Organizations - $360.9 million
  • United Nations Organization - $113.9 million
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization–civil administration - $26.2 million
  • World Health Organization - $19.9 million
  • Food and Agriculture Organization - $18.6 million
  • International Organization of La Francophonie - $17.2 million
  • Other International Organizations - $165.1 million
• United Nations Peacekeeping Operations - $250.7 million
  • UN Mission in Mali - $46.7 million
  • UN Mission in Republic of South Sudan - $46.5 million
  • UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo - $42.4 million
  • UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic - $37.0 million
  • UN Missions in Somalia - $21.7 million
  • AU-UN Hybrid Operations in Darfur - $18.9 million
  • Other UN Peacekeeping Operations - $37.5 million
• In total, Global Affairs Canada is proposing an increase of $28.8 million to the cost of assessed contributions in 2021-22. This is mainly due to the following three factors:
  • $0.8 million increase in the size of the organizations' budgets;
  • $7.5 million increase in Canada's rates of assessment (usually calculated on the basis of per capita GDP); and
  • $20.4 million increase due to losses resulting from changes in the rate of exchange.
• Of this total, $10.1 million (ODA portion) will be reflected as an internal budget transfer in the reference level process within Vote 10 (Grants & Contributions).
• The Official Development Assistance (ODA) adjustments fall within the purview of the International Assistance Envelope and, as such, adjustments are made internally via transfers to/from development funds through the Annual Reference Level Update.

Background

• Assessed contributions are treaty-based membership dues for international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization.
• Global Affairs Canada, on behalf of Canada, is responsible for paying most of these annual assessments. The assessments vary each year due to fluctuating foreign currency rates (most assessments are in USD or Euro), changes to the organizations’ budgets, and adjustments to Canada’s rate of assessment.
• The increased cost in these Main Estimates is attributable to changes in international organizations’ budgets (which in turn affects Canada’s share) and foreign currency fluctuations.

2021-2022 Main Estimates – by Core Responsibility (Overview)

• Following the requirements of the Policy on Results, the 2021-22 Main Estimates for Global Affairs Canada are reported by Core Responsibility:
  • $929.0 million - International Advocacy and Diplomacy;
  • $376.7 million - Trade and Investment;
  • $4,015.5 million - Development, Peace and Security Programming;
  • $53.9 million - Help for Canadians Abroad;
  • $1,071.3 million - Support for Canada's Presence Abroad; and
  • $276.8 million - Internal Services.

Supporting facts and figures

Allocation by Core Responsibility:

Background

• As per the TBS Policy on Results, each department is required to have a Departmental Results Framework (DRF) and Program Inventory established and validated yearly.
• The DRF outlines what Global Affairs Canada does, what high-level results the department is seeking to achieve and how progress will be assessed.
• It is the basis for the department’s reporting to Parliament and Canadians on performance and expenditures in the Main Estimates and Public Accounts.
• The Core Responsibilities outlined in the DRF stem from Global Affairs Canada’s legislative framework and describe high-level domains in which Global Affairs Canada acts or has authority to operate on behalf of Canadians.
  • International Advocacy and Diplomacy: Global Affairs Canada promotes Canada’s interests and values through policy development, diplomacy, advocacy, and effective engagement.
  • Trade and Investment: Global Affairs Canada supports increased and more diverse trade and investment to raise the standard of living for all Canadians and to enable Canadian businesses to grow internationally and to create economic opportunities.
  • Development, Peace and Security Programming: Global Affairs Canada programming contributes to reducing poverty, increasing opportunity for people around the world, alleviating suffering in humanitarian crises, and fostering peace and security, and in so doing, advances the Sustainable Development Goals.
  • Help for Canadians Abroad: Global Affairs Canada provides timely and appropriate consular services for Canadians abroad, contributing to their safety and security.
  • Support for Canada's Presence Abroad: Global Affairs Canada manages and delivers resources, infrastructure and services enabling Canada’s presence abroad, including at embassies, high commissions, and consulates.
  • Internal Services: Internal Services are those groups of related activities and resources that the federal government considers to be services in support of programs and/or required to meet corporate obligations of an organization. Internal Services refers to the activities and resources of the 10 distinct service categories that support Program delivery in the organization, regardless of the Internal Services delivery model in a department.

Development, Peace and Security Programming

• Through the Development, Peace and Security Programming core responsibility, Global Affairs Canada’s programming contributes to reducing poverty, increasing opportunity for people around the world, alleviating suffering in humanitarian crises, and fostering peace and security, and in so doing, advances the Sustainable Development Goals.
• The 2021-22 Main Estimates includes funding of $4,015.5 million within the Development, Peace and Security Programming core responsibility.

Supporting facts and figures

Background

• Global Affairs Canada seeks to advance five high level results through this area of departmental spending: 1) Improved physical, social and economic well-being among the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where Canada engages; 2) Enhanced empowerment and rights of women and girls in countries where Canada engages; 3) Reduced suffering and increased human dignity in communities experiencing humanitarian crises; 4) Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages; and, 5) Canada’s international assistance is made more effective by leveraging diverse partnerships, innovation, and experimentation.
• Highlights from this year’s Departmental Plan for this area include:
  • Continuing to prioritize Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy to help improve the lives of the people and communities that need it most and to support developing country partners in their efforts to tackle serious and pressing issues, including those related to climate change, poverty, poor governance, gender inequality, health, education women’s economic empowerment and human rights;
  • Contributing to achieving progress on the UN 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals at home and abroad, including supporting developing countries in their sustainable economic recoveries and improving their resilience to respond to the current global crisis;
  • Working with partners to react rapidly and flexibly to provide immediate and life- saving support for crisis-affected populations through gender-responsive humanitarian action to alleviate suffering and increase human dignity in communities experiencing crises;
  • Implementing multiple approaches to addressing pressing security concerns, including through targeted stabilization programming in fragile and conflict- affected states and the deployment of Canadian civilian experts;
  • Contributing to Canada’s broader commitments on peace operations, including support for the full and meaningful participation of women in peace and security efforts and improved UN effectiveness;
  • Participating effectively in global efforts aimed at eliminating poverty through innovative financing approaches; and,
  • Engaging with partners through innovation and experimentation to help the department identify opportunities to scale up effective innovations, particularly in the context of post-pandemic recovery.
• The department will report on results against the 2021-22 Departmental Plan in fall 2022.

Support for Canada’s Presence Abroad

• Through the Support for Canada's Presence Abroad core responsibility, Global Affairs Canada manages and delivers resources, infrastructure and services enabling Canada’s presence abroad, including at embassies, high commissions, and consulates.
• The 2021-22 Main Estimates includes funding of $1,071.3 million within the Support for Canada’s Presence Abroad core responsibility.

Supporting facts and figures

• The revenues and other reductions of $43.4 million is related to the authority to collect revenues. The department has a net voting authority for revenues received from services that are not funded by appropriations. The amount of $43.4 million includes $1.1 million for the international telecommunication services and $42.3 million for the real property services abroad.

Background

• Global Affairs Canada seeks to advance two high level results through this area of departmental spending: 1) Sound management and delivery of resources, infrastructure and services enables Canada’s presence abroad; and, 2) Personnel are safe, missions are more secure and government and partner assets and information are protected.
• Highlights from this year’s Departmental Plan for this area include:
  • Modernizing its network and tools at missions through the transformation of its technology infrastructure is a high priority, and a great challenge, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The department will continue to improve on its digital workplace portfolio initiatives, which aim to increase the ability of its workforce at home and abroad to work remotely.
  • The department is also making efforts at greening its government operations, by prioritizing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, investing in LED lighting, and other green pilot projects. This includes by applying the BOMA best certification at missions in support of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
  • Significant investments are also being made to improve security services, upgrade infrastructure, and improve emergency readiness and training programs for employees posted at high and critical threat missions, in an effort to better serve Canadians abroad.
  • The department continues to provide safe and productive working environments via enhanced communication tools which have become essential for remote work during the onset of the pandemic and will remain in use given the evolving security environment and restrictions at missions.
• The department will report on results against the 2021-22 Departmental Plan in fall 2022.

International Advocacy and Diplomacy

• Through the International Advocacy and Diplomacy core responsibility, Global Affairs Canada promotes Canada’s interests and values through policy development, diplomacy, advocacy, and effective engagement.
• The 2021-22 Main Estimates includes funding of $929.0 million within the International Advocacy and Diplomacy core responsibility.

Supporting facts and figures

Background

• Global Affairs Canada seeks to advance four high-level results through this area of departmental spending: 1) Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada's interests; 2) Canada's leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world; 3) Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law; and 4) Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened.
• Highlights from this year’s Departmental Plan for this area include:
  • Adopting innovative and agile advocacy and diplomacy to build new, inclusive, and innovative international partnerships and strengthen long-standing relationships. This includes on areas of trade, investment, innovation, security, energy and the environment;
  • Advancing comprehensive engagement and reinforcing Canada’s role in key multilateral forums, especially to overcome challenges created and accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic;
  • Renewing and strengthening the current rules-based system and advancing Canadian values and interests internationally;
  • Asserting Canada’s Arctic sovereignty and implementing the International Arctic Policy, in close cooperation with domestic and international partners;
  • Working with partners to champion rights and inclusive governance, advance democracy and human rights, promote inclusion and respect for diversity, and challenge corruption and impunity;
  • Advancing international peace and security interests related to stabilization and counter-terrorism, and delivering on its commitment to make Canada a leader in international efforts to combat climate change;
  • Pursuing constructive leadership and engagement to support organizational innovation and reforms to improve accountability, transparency, effectiveness and results in international institutions; and
  • Expanding and strengthening Canada’s global influence on key issues by continuing to advance issues of importance on the global stage.
• The department will report on results against the 2021-22 Departmental Plan in fall 2022.

Trade and Investment

• Through the Trade and Investment core responsibility, Global Affairs Canada aims to increase and diversify trade and investment to raise the standard of living for all Canadians and to enable Canadian businesses to grow internationally and to create economic opportunities.
• The 2021-22 Main Estimates includes funding of $376.7 million within the Trade and Investment core responsibility.

Supporting facts and figures

• The revenues and other reductions of $2.0 million is related to the authority to collect revenues. The department has a net voting authority for revenues received from services that are not funded by appropriations. The amount of $2.0 million includes $1.0 million for Edu-Canada and $1.0 million for trade fairs and missions.

Background

• Global Affairs Canada seeks to advance three high level results through this area of departmental spending: 1) Building and safeguarding an open and inclusive rules-based global trading system; 2) Supporting Canadian exporters and innovators internationally; and, 3) Ensuring Canada is a top destination for global investment.
• Highlights from this year’s Departmental Plan for this area include:
  • Addressing restrictions on Canada’s ability to import and access critical goods and services, and helping SMEs facing export challenges and trade barriers in the context of COVID-19.
  • Advancing comprehensive free trade agreement discussions with Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance, as well as a trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
  • Recognizing that the United States is the gateway to other markets, strengthen Canada’s relationship with the United States and ensure that Canada’s trade promotion and diversification efforts are maximized.
  • Improving the ability to connect Arctic and northern businesses with export opportunities, and supporting business-to-business activities including through the Arctic Economic Council.
  • Advancing inclusive approaches to trade, with a special focus on women and women-owned businesses, Indigenous peoples, small and medium-sized enterprises, newcomers and LGBTQ2I persons; and offering a CanExport concierge service to help Indigenous people, visible minorities and women- owned businesses seek growth opportunities during the pandemic.
  • Working with Invest in Canada to increase foreign investment to Canada and assist Canadian communities to attract, retain and expand foreign investment. Implement the Foreign Direct Investment Attraction Strategy to support Canada’s economic growth objectives, including sustainable and inclusive economic recovery.
• The department will report on results against the 2021-22 Departmental Plan in fall 2022.

Help for Canadians Abroad

• Through the Help for Canadians Abroad Core Responsibility, Global Affairs Canada provides timely and appropriate consular services for Canadians abroad, contributing to their safety and security.
• The 2021-22 Main Estimates includes funding of $53.9 million within the Help for Canadians Abroad Core Responsibility.

Supporting facts and figures

• The revenues and other reductions of $2.4 million is related to the authority to collect revenues for the specialized consular service fees. The department has a net voting authority for revenues received from services that are not funded by appropriations.

Background

• Global Affairs Canada seeks to advance two high level results through this area of departmental spending: 1) Canadians have timely access to information and services that keeps them safer abroad; and, 2) Canadians abroad receive timely and appropriate government services.
• Highlights from this year’s Departmental Plan for this area include:
  • The department will ensure that Canadians will continue receiving responsive bilingual consular and emergency services, particularly in the context of the evolving global pandemic.
  • As part of its renewed consular strategy, the department is modernizing its consular service delivery by launching a new case contact and emergency management system, to collect more timely and relevant information in support of Canadians seeking assistance abroad for urgent and complex situations.
  • Global Affairs Canada continues to enhance its capacity to assist Canadians during complicated emergencies with its highly trained and capable team of emergency core responders via its Emergency Watch and Response Centre.
  • In line with Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy, the consular program also strives to provide appropriate assistance to all Canadians, including vulnerable clients in potentially vulnerable situations, including women, children, and those dealing with mental health issues, and members of the LGBTQ2I community.
  • In addition to providing the latest up to date information during crises and significant events through the department’s travel.gc.ca portal, Global Affairs Canada is continuing to improve its outreach to Canadians by expanding its communications on other social media platforms as well as SMS notifications so that Canadians can access information from anywhere in the world.
  • In the year ahead, the department will enhance support and oversight to its network of honorary consuls and explore expanding to new locations to further strengthen its service delivery to Canadians.
• The department will report on results against the 2021-22 Departmental Plan in fall 2022.

Internal Services

• Internal Services are those groups of related activities and resources that the federal government considers to be services in support of programs and/or required to meet corporate obligations of an organization.
• The 2021-22 Main Estimates includes funding of $276.8 million within the Internal Services.

Supporting facts and figures

• The revenues and other reductions of $1.4 million is related to the authority to collect revenues for the Canadian Foreign Service Institute (CFSI). The department has a net voting authority for revenues received from services that are not funded by appropriations.

Background

• The department has five core responsibilities that stem from Global Affairs Canada’s legislative framework and describe high-level domains in which Global Affairs Canada acts or has authority to operate on behalf of Canadians.
• Internal Services refers to the activities and resources that support program delivery in the organization. They are composed of ten distinct internal service categories, defined by Treasury Board Secretariat, which are:
  • Management and Oversight Services;
  • Communications Services;
  • Legal Services;
  • Human Resources Management Services;
  • Financial Management Services;
  • Information Management Services;
  • Information Technology Services;
  • Real Property Services;
  • Materiel Services; and,
  • Acquisition Services.
• The department will focus on the following corporate priorities that will guide its internal services in 2021-22:
  • Fostering an ethical, respectful, diverse, inclusive, healthy and resilient workplace for all employees;
  • Ensuring the safety and security of employees at HQ and abroad; and,
  • Driving digital adoption and leveraging data and technology to enable a culture of flexibility, collaboration, transparency and innovation.

Departmental Plan 2021-22

• The Global Affairs Canada 2021-22 Departmental Plan was tabled in Parliament on February 25, 2021.
• The Departmental Plan presents the department’s policy priorities, planned results and associated resources requirements for the coming fiscal year, as well as the performance targets against which the department will report its final results through its 2021-22 Departmental Results Report (in fall 2022).
• Global Affairs Canada is implementing Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy across its commitments in diplomacy, trade, security, development and consular services. In 2021-22, the department’s efforts will focus on the four following priorities: contributing to a rules-based international system that advances Canadian interests; supporting Canadian exporters and economic recovery, building economic resilience, and working toward the renewal of the rules- based multilateral trading system; deepening Canada’s engagement in the world; and, eradicating poverty.

Background

• The annual Departmental Plan is a legislative requirement as part of the Government’s annual planning and resource management process.
• The Departmental Plan provides Parliament and Canadians with a strategic overview of the department’s priorities and planned results for the coming fiscal year by outlining its expenditures grouped by core responsibilities under the 2021-22 Departmental Results Framework.
• The format of the 2021-22 Departmental Plan remains very similar to that of last year. The first section presents the Ministers’ Message, which reflects our ministers’ shared vision of the results that the department will achieve for Canadians in 2021-22.
• The Planned Results section provides an overview of the department’s key planned activities to deliver on its priorities for the coming fiscal year. Planning highlights in this section are outlined by each core responsibility, and presented alongside the associated departmental results indicators. The planned results tables demonstrate how results, including performance targets, will be measured at the end of the fiscal year in the Departmental Results Report. The actual results for the past three years are also included in these tables, where applicable.
• For ease of reference, the Spending and Human Resources section consolidates the financial and human resource information provided for each core responsibility and internal services, including explanations of any significant variances in expenditure plans over the next three fiscal years. Planned spending is also compared with the current and previous years’ actual spending.
• The Additional Information section includes corporate information about the department, including the organizational profile and the results reporting framework. This section also presents a listing of supplementary information made available online, including the department’s raison d’être, mandate and role, gender-based analysis plus, and tables outlining its grants and contributions programs.
• Further details on the Departmental Results Framework and core responsibilities, as well as highlights can be found as individual notes in this binder.

Departmental Results Report (DRR) 2019-2020

• In 2019-20, Global Affairs Canada advanced Canada’s foreign policy, trade and development interests in an evolving international landscape marked by heightened international instability. The department worked to reinforce ties with traditional allies while actively pursuing new collaborations with emerging partners. It also worked to strengthen multilateral institutions that are crucial to the global commons and rallied partners around common causes, such as the response to the instability in Venezuela and the need for a coordinated global response to the COVID-19 crisis.
• Global Affairs Canada enhanced market access and increased opportunities flowing from trade agreements. It advanced Canada’s efforts on World Trade Organization (WTO) reform, including through its leadership of the Ottawa Group and successful efforts to preserve Canada’s rights to effective dispute settlement.
• At the outset of the pandemic, the department created the COVID- 19 Emergency Loan Program for Canadians Abroad to help ensure Canadians could get home safely. Within the first few weeks, more than 7,586 Canadians and permanent residents of Canada had returned on 47 facilitation flights organized in 31 countries. The department also supported the fight against COVID-19 by vetting international suppliers to facilitate procurement of critical medical supplies and helping to identify Canadian companies capable of supplying domestic needs.
• Through the Ministerial Coordination Group on COVID-19 and the Alliance for Multilateralism, Canada took a leadership role in ensuring that responses to the pandemic protect and advance gender equality and human rights. The department also effectively deployed international assistance to reduce poverty and increase opportunities for people around the world, this includes improving the lives of more than 97.1 million people through humanitarian assistance support to United Nations partners, non-governmental organizations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
• The department supported the families of the 85 Canadian and permanent resident victims of the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, establishing a dedicated consular case management unit, sending Standing Rapid Deployment Team members to Iran, Turkey and locations across Canada, and launching the PS752 Emergency Family Assistance Fund.

Supplementary messages

• Global Affairs Canada’s results highlights include:
  • Developing and launching Empowerment and Progression of Women’s Economic Representation, or EMPOWER—an alliance of private sector champions to support women’s economic empowerment and private sector leadership.
  • Hosting the Canada-EU Leaders’ Summit in Montréal, Quebec, where leaders committed to enhancing cooperation for inclusive growth, the environment, peace and security, gender equality and innovation.
  • Releasing the Arctic and Northern Policy Framework, helping to empower northern communities, deepen international Arctic cooperation, and protect the fragile Arctic environment.
  • Effectively leading Canada’s efforts on key free trade agreements, including ratifying and implementing the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).
  • Facilitating 128 new or expanded foreign investments and 235 investor visits to Canada, and providing Trade Commissioner Services to 16,942 active Canadian business clients, with a satisfaction rate of 91%.
  • Launching a new five-year international education strategy and welcoming a record 829,405 international students who contributed an estimated $24 billion to the Canadian economy.
  • Hosting the Women Deliver global conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, the world’s largest gathering on gender equality and the health, rights and well-being of women and girls, resulting in innovative partnerships and resource mobilization to drive transformative change.
  • Cementing Canada’s role as a global leader on financing for development, including through co-facilitating the first High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development, and establishing new approaches for the deployment of innovative financing.
  • Advancing efforts to achieve peace and stability in fragile and conflict- affected states by disbursing $152 million via the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program.
  • Undertaking complex repatriation efforts to help 343 Canadians evacuate from Wuhan, China, and 357 from the Princess cruise ships in Japan and California early in the pandemic.
  • Providing more than 170,241 new and routine consular cases, including more than 12,489 cases concerning Canadians who required urgent consular assistance.
  • Launching a renewed innovative and evidence-based consular strategy that delivers enhanced assistance for Canadians requiring help abroad.
  • Strengthening security measures at missions abroad through 22 projects that upgraded security elements such as closed-circuit television systems, perimeter walls, safe haven rooms, and consular booths.
  • Ensuring the safety and security of staff in missions abroad by evacuating approximately 1,300 employees and their dependents while ensuring continuity of services for Canadians.

Background

• The Departmental Results Report describes the department’s achievements for the fiscal year against the priorities and expected results established in the corresponding Departmental Plan. It highlights a number of significant accomplishments achieved by the department over fiscal year 2019-20.
• The Departmental Results Report was tabled on December 7, 2020, and is available online. More information on departmental results can be found in the supplementary information tables available on the department’s website and on the Government of Canada’s InfoBase website.

Explanation of Variances

• Global Affairs Canada’s total actual spending in 2019-20 of $7,176 million was within its total authorities of $7,654 million. The department’s total expenses increased by $178.1 million (+3 percent) during 2019-20 compared to 2018-19. This increase in actual spending is attributable to additional funding for:
  • Supporting Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy;
  • Initiatives to help developing countries address the impact of climate change;
  • Pandemic responses related to COVID-19;
  • The Export Diversification Strategy;
  • Development assistance and security sector support to Afghanistan;
  • Canada’s future participation in the postponed Expo 2020 Dubai in the United Arab Emirates; and
  • Transfers from other government departments to provide support to departmental staff located at missions abroad.

Canada’s Network Abroad

• In 2020-21, Canada’s Network Abroad consisted of 178* missions in 110* countries, including 8,382 positions. This comprises 2,518 Canada-based staff and 5,864 Locally-engaged staff as of March 31st, 2020.
• Canada’s Network Abroad includes 27 partners (other government departments, Global Affairs Canada’s programs) and 14 co-locators (crown corporations, provincial governments, foreign governments and International Organization).
• Global Affairs Canada continues to work with other Foreign Ministries to identify opportunities for co-location in order to maximize the reach of our diplomatic network abroad at a minimum cost to taxpayers.

Supporting facts and figures

• Recent openings and closures of missions:
  • 2020- PM Trudeau authorized the opening of a mission in Suva, Fiji.
  • 2020- Minister Champagne authorized the opening of a Consulate in Milan, Italy. Expected opening date with fiscal year 2021-22.
  • 2018 – the mission opening in Fukuoka as a trade office (relocated from Kitakyushu).
  • 2017- the mission in Oaxaca, Mexico was closed, while a mission in Cotonou, Benin opened.
  • 2015 - ASEAN (Indonesia), Phnom Penh (Cambodia) and Vientiane (Laos) mission openings.
  • 2015 - ASEAN (Indonesia), Phnom Penh (Cambodia) and Vientiane (Laos) mission openings.
  • 2014 - the Chancery in Yangon, Burma opened in August 2014, signaling the end of Canada’s co-location with the United Kingdom.
  • 2013 - addition of an Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq (co-located with the United Kingdom) and interim operations for the Embassy in Juba, South Sudan (co- location with the Netherlands).
• Partners and Co-locators in our missions:
  • Canada’s Network Abroad includes 27 partners and 14 co-locators.
  • The partners comprise federal departments, agencies and sub-agencies that sponsor programs involving diplomatic activities abroad.
  • The co-locators comprise crown corporations, provincial governments, foreign governments and an International Organization (NATO) for which Global Affairs Canada provides common services on a cost-recovery basis.
• Other offices:
  • Across Canada, Global Affairs Canada operates a total of six regional trade offices located in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax.
  • Ten trade offices abroad headed by the Canadian Commercial Corporation also operate in emerging business centres in China.
  • Canada is also represented by more than 100 consulates headed by honorary consuls. Honorary consuls are not employees of the Government of Canada. They are private individuals appointed by Order in Council who provide consular and other services on behalf of Canada.
  • Canadians can also receive consular services from a limited number of Australian, Swedish and Italian missions under agreements with those countries.

Background

• Services to the Network include management of financial and human resources, benefits for locally-engaged staff (including pension, social security programs and insurance), mission and staff related accommodations (including work facilities and living quarters), physical and property security, transportation, contracting and procurement, information and technology management, and diplomatic mail. These services support Canada-based staff from Global Affairs Canada and other federal government departments, agencies and co-locators, as well as locally-engaged staff.

Overview of Main Estimates 2020-2021

• The 2020-21 Main Estimates were tabled in Parliament the week of February 24, 2020, and the related Appropriation Act received Royal Assent in June 2020 with an Interim Supply bill approved by March 31, 2020.
• The Department’s total funding requested in the 2020-21 Main Estimates is $7,484.2 million, which represents a net increase of $764.5 million over the 2019-20 Main Estimates of $6,719.7 million.
• Significant funding increases include funding to implement the Feminist International Assistance Agenda, funding to help developing countries address the impact of climate change, and funding for the new Export Diversification Strategy. Notable funding decreases include a decrease in funding related to the 2015-2020 strategy for maternal, newborn and child health (however, this funding has since been renewed), as well as a decrease related to Ensuring Rules-Based and Responsible Trade.

Supplementary messages

• The Main Estimates present Global Affairs Canada’s reference levels which are broken down by the nature of the funding (Vote) and according to the Departmental Results Framework (DRF).

Supporting facts and figures

• Funding increases include:
  • $456.9 million to implement the Feminist International Assistance Agenda;
  • $297.3 million to help developing countries address the impact of climate change;
  • $57.7 million for the new Export Diversification Strategy;
  • $20.0 million related to a transfer from Shared Services Canada for the cost of providing core information technology services to missions abroad;
  • $19.2 million for locally engaged staff salaries and related benefits incurred at missions abroad;
  • $19.1 million for compensation related to collective agreements; and
  • $19.0 million for transfers from other government departments to provide support to departmental staff located at missions abroad.
• Funding decreases include:
  • $107.5 million related to the 2015-2020 strategy for maternal, newborn and child health (this funding has since been renewed); and
  • $15.2 million for Ensuring Rules-Based and Responsible Trade (Softwood Lumber).

Background

• As part of a two-year pilot project (2018-19/2019-20), there has been a change in the timing of the Expenditure Management Cycle whereby departments were required to prepare both Interim and Main Estimates. This enabled the inclusion of Budget items in the Main Estimates.
• With the end of this two-year pilot project, departments were informed that the Treasury Board Secretariat will revert to tabling the Main Estimates on or before March 1, 2020 with an Interim Supply bill approved by March 31, 2020. Consequently, it is anticipated that Budget 2020 announcements would be sought through the Supplementary Estimates process in 2020-21.
• Supplementary Estimates are part of the normal Parliamentary approval process to ensure that previously planned government initiatives receive the necessary funding to move them forward. They present information to Parliament on the Government of Canada’s spending requirements that were not sufficiently developed in time for inclusion in the Main Estimates.

Public Accounts – Overview

• The Public Accounts of Canada are prepared annually by the Receiver General of Canada. The Public Accounts of Canada 2020 were tabled in the House of Commons on November 30, 2020.
• The Public Accounts contain all government expenditures and revenues, accounts receivables, loans, assets and related reserves that are deemed necessary to present a fair picture of the Government of Canada’s financial position. They also highlight, among other things, any losses of public money and property and explain the nature of lapses at year-end.
• The financial information of each individual department and agency are rolled up into the Public Accounts of Canada.

Supplementary messages

• Each year, the President of the Treasury Board tables a detailed report of the financial transactions of all government departments and agencies, entitled the Public Accounts of Canada.
• The report must be tabled on or before December 31 following the end of the fiscal year to which the accounts apply; or, if the House is not sitting, on any of the first 15 subsequent sitting days. As a matter of tradition only, the Public Accounts are addressed to the Governor General.
• The fundamental purpose of the Public Accounts of Canada is to provide information to Parliament, and thus to the public, which will enable them to understand and evaluate the financial position and transactions of the government.
• Two constitutional principles underlie the public accounting system: that duties and revenues accruing to the Government of Canada form one Consolidated Revenue Fund, and that the balance of the Fund after certain prior charges is appropriated by the Parliament of Canada for the public service.

Public Accounts – Losses

• The Public Accounts of Canada reports losses of public money or property due to offenses, illegal acts, accidents or accidental destruction. Total losses of public money and property reported in the Public Accounts for Global Affairs Canada in 2019-20 were $364,556.
• Significant and noteworthy losses for Global Affairs Canada in 2019-20 include fraudulent use of contribution funds ($146,436) and accidental losses of smartphones, laptops, SecurID tokens and beer and wine at headquarters and missions (replacement value estimated at $65,958). Global Affairs Canada also reported a fraudulent use of fuel cards ($133,828), a loss of a cheque ($8,087), and a loss of funds due to a fraudulent email chain ($3,435). Total losses (3) of consular revenue ($495), theft of camera (1) and theft of laptop (8) were also reported ($5,319).
• Global Affairs Canada has taken several actions in response to these losses and has recovered funds to minimize the financial impact. The Department has strengthened internal controls around the use of mobile devices and promoted awareness around fraud and the safeguarding of its assets.

Supporting facts and figures

• Significant losses reported in the 2019-20 Public Accounts include:
  • $146,436 in fraudulent use of contributions funds in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Tanzania Syria and Myanmar.

Global Affairs Canada response when dealing with these situations

• Global Affairs Canada receives information on the questionable or potentially fraudulent use of contribution funds through monitoring, audits, whistleblowers or directly from partner organizations.
• Further payments to organizations are suspended until the activities are investigated. Complex cases or cases of significant value are referred to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for investigation.
• The recipients are informed of the conclusions of the investigations whereupon the department demands funds used inappropriately be reimbursed.
• Global Affairs Canada requires that areas of concern be addressed and corrective actions be implemented before further contributions can be considered.
• Global Affairs Canada requires monitoring of the implementation of the remedial mitigation strategies.

Recent enhanced measures undertaken by Global Affairs Canada

• A new separate Fraud Management of Grants and Contributions Unit has been established, in December 2019, to provide fraud management advisory services as well as implement, maintain and operate risk reporting channels and fraud issue tracking.
• A Grants and Contributions Fraud Review Committee is being established, to provide governance and oversee fraud risk management implementation and activities.

Additional information

• Democratic Republic of Congo: $104,232 (funds have not been recovered yet)
  
  • This fraud involved a recipient in DR Congo. There is an inflated number of trainees and training duration as well as an inflated transportation allocation. Also, there is an inflated number of related party transactions with local suppliers/staff as well as falsified receipts for accommodation and meals.
• Iraq: $18,828 (funds recovered)
  • As part of the Economic Recovery and Development Program (ERD), a local partner staff member interfered in the vulnerability assessment and cash distribution processes to qualify potentially ineligible beneficiaries to receive cash assistance.
• Tanzania: $13,904 (funds recovered)
  • Employees and contractors falsified the number of latrines constructed and misappropriated latrine construction materials from January 2016 to June 30, 2018.
• Syria: $5,701 (funds recovered)
  • Salary continued to be charged to the grant even after employee stopped working for the organization. The salary for the month of May 2018 was charged without any supporting documents (Pay slips and/or wire transfer).
• Myanmar: $3,771 (funds recovered)
  • Two locally engaged staff committed fraud by overstating amounts of funds that were paid to local partners and by misusing per diem and transportation funds for training.

Other Losses

• $133,828 for a fraudulent use of fuel cards in Addis Ababa:
  • A customs clerk intentionally misled mission management in November 2018 by failing to disclose the existence of two fuel cards.
  • The investigation also showed that the customs clerk repeatedly misused two fuel cards over a period of ten years and the losses amount to at least $133,828.
  • The employee has been terminated and an account receivable has been created.
• $71,277 for losses of smartphones, laptops, SecurID tokens and beer and wine at headquarters and missions:
  • Eighty-six smartphones, two laptops, three SecurID tokens, and fifteen beer and wine ($65,958) have been reported as lost or stolen at headquarters and missions abroad. It was determined that no further action was required as the assets were generally considered accidentally lost.
  • One camera and eight laptops have been reported as stolen ($5,319) at missions abroad. New procedures and controls have been developed and were made available with the release of Android and iOS. These procedures include the remote locking down of lost/stolen devices and greater communication to promote awareness.
  • Measures to reduce the number of devices issued, to align with Shared Service Canada standards were also taken.
• $8,087 for loss of cheque in Quito:
  • Company in Quito assured that they never received a payment for services rendered.
  • The Department issued another payment waiting for investigation results.
• $3,434 for a fraudulent email chain:
  • The payroll administrator was influenced into bypassing the mission’s process for the modification of the direct deposit information by the impersonator.
  • US secret services have a mandate to investigate such fraud.
  • An attempt to stop to erroneous payment and a review of the procedures and an assessment on where and why the policies/procedures where not followed was done with the employee.
• $495 for losses of consular revenue in Riyadh and Alger:
  • While the department supports and promotes the use of electronic payments, in certain geographic locations, cash is still the major method of payment. Cash transactions inherently have high risk of errors in handling and recording.
  • Our department continues to promote alternative methods of payments to minimize cash transactions. Department uses communication and training to strengthen internal controls in the cash management area.

Public Accounts – Travel and Conferences

• Travel information is disclosed as part of the Public Accounts of Canada, including Travel of Ministers’ Offices (Volume III-Section 10).
• These expenditures are incurred by ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries, and Ministers’ staff in the course of their duties on behalf of Global Affairs Canada.
• Expenditures, including travel, for Canadian representation at International Conferences and Meetings are also reported in Volume III-Section 11 of the Public Accounts of Canada.

Supplementary messages

• Expenditures for Canadian Representation at International Conferences and Meetings are also included in the Public Accounts (Vol III - Section 11). This includes expenditures such as travel, hospitality and conference fees that are covered under the department’s International Conference Allotment (ICA) that is approved by Cabinet to fund the protocol activities of the Governor General and the Prime Minister of Canada during official visits abroad. The allotment also supports the participation of Global Affairs Canada portfolio ministers and their official delegations in major multilateral international conferences defined as a congress, convention, briefing seminar or other formal gathering in one location outside Canada, that deals with topics related to government of Canada objectives and priorities.
• This statement also contains travel costs incurred during each visit or conference that appear separately on the “Travel Expenditures for Canadian Representation at International Conferences and Meetings” statement which lists the travelling delegates.

Supporting facts and figures

• The most significant costs reported for Canadian representation at international conferences and meetings are those related to the following conferences:
  • Prime Minister's Visit to Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)—African Union Summit, Kuwait City (Kuwait), Dakar (Senegal), Munich (Germany)—Munich Security Conference ($873,357)
  • Canadian Delegation to New York (USA) - 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly ($592,262)
  • Prime Minister's Visit to Portsmouth and London (UK), Juno Beach and Paris (France)—D-Day 75th Anniversary ($467,745)
• The most significant travel costs reported for Canadian representation at international conferences and meetings include those related to the following conferences:
  • Prime Minister's Visit to Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)—African Union Summit, Kuwait City (Kuwait), Dakar (Senegal), Munich (Germany)— Munich Security Conference ($612,771)
  • Canadian Delegation to New York (USA)—74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly ($504,244)
  • Governor General's Visit to the Republic of Lithuania and the Republic of Estonia ($279,365)

Public Accounts - Lapses

• In the 2019-20 Public Accounts of Canada, Global Affairs Canada’s Operating budget (Vote 1) was $2,000.3 million in 2019-20. The Public Accounts show an unspent amount of $116.9 million (5.8%). A total of $81.7 million was eligible to be carried forward to 2020- 21.
• Global Affairs Canada’s Capital budget (Vote 5) was $130.3 million in 2019-20. The Public Accounts show an unspent amount of $21.8 million (16.7%). A total of $14.2 million was eligible to be carried forward to 2020-21.
• Global Affairs Canada’s Grants and Contributions budget (Vote 10) was $4,970.1 million in 2019-20. The Public Accounts show an unspent amount of $296.1 million (6.0%). Grants and Contributions surplus is not eligible to carry forward.

Supplementary messages

• The Department’s three primary votes are highlighted in the Public Accounts are as follows:
  • Vote 1 is to fund the operations of the Department, which is comprised of salaries, the operating costs to deliver programs (Trade, Development, and Foreign Affairs), including operating expenditures at missions abroad, and other operational expenses such as travel and professional services.
  • Vote 5 is to cover capital expenditures, which are largely related to the Real Property program.
  • Vote 10 is for grants and contributions expenditures including programming for international development and assessed contributions.
• Departments are able to use portions of their operating and capital lapses in future fiscal years through the Operating and Capital Budget Carry Forward process.
• Grants and Contributions surpluses are not eligible to be carry forward to future fiscal years.

Supporting facts and figures

Operating - Vote 1:

• Global Affairs Canada’s Operating budget (Vote 1) was $2,000.3 million in 2019-20. The Public Accounts show an unspent amount of $116.9 million (5.8%). A total of $81.7 million was eligible to be carried forward to 2020-21. The surplus ($116.9 million) can be broken down as follows:
  • Frozen allotment ($32.5 million)
    • Pandemic Response (COVID-19) ($20.3 million);
    • Conversion Factor between Operating and Salary Funds ($7.4 million);
    • Foreign Currency Gains ($3.0 million);
    • Program Integrity protocol office ($1.2 million); and
    • CP-QRM ($0.6 million).
  • Special purpose allotments ($24.4 million)
    • Canada-US Softwood Lumber Agreement litigation ($15.9 million);
    • Duty of Care at missions abroad ($8.0 million);
    • Dispute Resolution Panelist ($0.4 million); and
    • Immigration and Refugee Protections Act ($0.1 million).
  • Programming and others ($60.0 million)
    • Expo 2020 Dubai ($10.3 million);
    • Middle East Strategy ($5.4 million);
    • Peace and Stabilization Operations ($4.3 million);
    • Foreign Service Allowance ($2.1 million);
    • International Education Strategy ($2.0 million);
    • Staffing delay due to the location in high-risk countries ($2.0 million); and
    • Delays in projects approvals due to COVID-19, etc. ($33.9 million).

Capital - Vote 5:

• Global Affairs Canada’s Capital budget (Vote 5) was $130.3 million in 2019-20. The Public Accounts show an unspent amount of $21.8 million (16.7%). A total of $14.2 million was eligible to be carried forward to 2020-21.The surplus ($21.8 million) can be broken down as follows:
  • Frozen allotment ($7.6 million)
    • Duty of Care at missions ($5.9 million); and
    • Conversion Factor: Capital to Salary Fund ($1.7 million).
  • Special purpose allotments ($6.8 million)
    • Duty of Care at missions abroad ($6.8 million).
  • Capital Projects ($7.4 million)
    • Delays in the development of major capital projects ($6.0 million);
    • Global Affairs Canada’s Renovation Projects ($1.1 million);
    • Export and Import Control System II project ($0.2 million); and
    • Going Digital ($0.1 million).

Grants and Contributions - Vote 10:

• Global Affairs Canada’s Grants and Contributions budget (Vote 10) was $4,970.1 million in 2019-20. The Public Accounts show an unspent amount of $296.1 million (6.0%) and can be broken down as follows:
  • Frozen allotments ($210.6 million)
    • Crisis Pool Quick Release Mechanism ($178.5 million);
    • Amazon Wild Fires (SPF) reprofile ($12.6 million);
    • Canadian International Innovation Program ($1.3 million); and
    • International Financial Institutions ($18.2 million).
  • Grants ($2.2 million)
  • Assessed contributions ($17.7 million)
    • United Nations peacekeeping operations ($1.7 million); and
    • Other Assessed Contributions ($16.0 million).
  • Non-Assessed Contributions ($65.6 million)
    • Multilateral programming related to the Feminist International Assistance Agenda ($53.7 million);
    • Bilateral programming ($7.7 million);
    • Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program ($2.4 million);
    • Peace and Stabilization Operation Program ($0.7 million);
    • Global Partnership Program ($0.2 million);
    • Contributions for the Anti-Crime Capacity Building Program ($0.2 million); and
    • Other Non-Assessed Contributions ($0.7 million).