Minister of Foreign Affairs appearance before the Committee of the Whole – Supplementary estimates (B) – Briefing material

2021-12-07/08

Table of contents

1. Page Proofs
2. Overview of Directed Supplementary Estimates B 2021-22
3. 2021-22 Supplementary Estimates B – by Vote
4. Funding to support access by developing countries to vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics (COVID-19)
5. Funding to support the recovery and resilience of developing countries
6. Funding for Canada's response to the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh
7. Funding for the Strategic Priority funds for international assistance
8. Adjustments Internal reallocation of resources from contributions to grants for Partnership with Canadians Programming
9. Adjustment to update L25 wording to increase the amount for the International Financial Institutions Capital Subscriptions
10. Overview – Funding by Core Responsibility
11. Development, Peace and Security Programming
12. Internal Services
13. Briefing note on Departmental Result Report 2019-20
14. Public Accounts – Overview
15. Public Accounts – Losses
16. Public Accounts – Travel and Conferences
17. Public Accounts – Lapses

Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Organization Summary

Note: Additional details by organization are available on the Treasury Board Secretariat website – http://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat.html.

Explanation of Requirements (dollars)

Budgetary - Voted Appropriations

Listing of Transfer Payments

Listing of Statutory Authorities

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

(for the financial year ending March 31, 2022)

Statutory Forecasts

Expenditures by Purpose

Budgetary

Non-Budgetary

Budgetary Expenditures by Standard Object

This table shows the forecast of total expenditures by Standard Object, which includes the types of goods or services to be acquired, or the transfer payments to be made and the funds to be credited to the vote. 

Definitions of standard objects available at: http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/pceaf-gwcoa/2122/7-eng.html

Directed 2021-22 supplementary estimates (B) Overview

• The Directed 2021-2022 Supplementary Estimates (B) are scheduled to be tabled in Parliament in the last week of November.
• In the Directed 2021-2022 Supplementary Estimates (B), GAC sought an increase of $683.8 million to its current authorities of $6.92 billion, bringing total authorities to $7.6 billion.
• The Directed 2021-2022 Supplementary Estimates (B), are comprised of an increase of $683.5 million in voted appropriations and $0,3 million in statutory funding.
• Funding being sought includes
  • $375 million to support access by developing countries to vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics (COVID-19) (Budget 2021);
  • $165 million to support the recovery and resilience of developing countries (Budget 2021);
  • $75 million to support the Strategic Priorities Fund for international assistance; and
  • $68.8 million to support Canada’s response to the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh (Budget 2021).

Supplementary messages

• Supplementary Estimates (A), (B) and (C) 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.
• Through the Directed Supplementary Estimates (B), GAC sought an increase of $683.8 million to its authorities of $6.92 billion: 
  • $375 million to support access by developing countries to vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics (COVID-19);
  • $165 million to support the recovery and resilience of developing countries (COVID-19);
  • $75 million to support the Strategic Priorities Fund for international assistance; and
  • $68.8 million to support Canada’s response to the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Supporting facts and figures

Directed 2021-22 supplementary estimates (B) By vote

• In the Directed 2021-2022 Supplementary Estimates (B), GAC sought a total of $683.8 million in funding including:
  • $2.5 million in Vote 1 – Operating;
  • $681 in Vote 10 - Grants and Contributions; and
  • $0.3 million in Statutory funding.
  • Funding being sought includes:
• Vote 1 - Operating:
  • $2.5 million to support Canada’s response to the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
• Vote 10 - Grants and Contributions
  • $375 million to support access by developing countries to vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics (COVID-19);
  • $165 million to support the recovery and resilience of developing countries;
  • $75 million to support the Strategic Priorities Fund for international assistance; and
  • $68.8 million to support Canada’s response to the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Supplementary messages

• Global Affairs Canada has six different 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 our Real Property program.
  • Vote 10 funds our grants and contributions expenditures including programming for international development and our 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 for International Financial Institutions
    • Contributions to employees benefit plans
    • Minister’s salary and motor car allowances
    • Payments under the Diplomatic Service (special) Superannuation Act

Supporting facts and figures

• The following items represent the increases by Vote:

Vote 10 – Grants and Contributions – $683.4 million

• $375 million to support access by developing countries to vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics (COVID-19);
• $165 million to support the recovery and resilience of developing countries;
• $75 million to support the Strategic Priorities Fund for international assistance; and
• $68.8 million to support Canada’s response to the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
• The Supplementary 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 supplementary estimates.

($ millions)

Funding to support access by developing countries to vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics (COVID-19) (Budget 2021)

• Global Affairs Canada is requesting funding of $375 million for 2021-2022 via Directed Supplementary Estimates (B) to support Covid Response.
• Budget 2021 earmarked up to $375 million for Canada’s international COVID-19 response to pursue a comprehensive approach to enabling equitable access to safe and effective COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines for low and lower middle-income countries via the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT)-Accelerator.

Supplementary messages

• The overall funding commitment of $375 million for the ACT-Accelerator was announced by the Prime Minister in May 2021.
• Global Affairs Canada accessed this new funding through the “Canada’s additional support to the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT)-Accelerator and international humanitarian assistance efforts” Treasury Board submission.

Expected results

• Global Affairs Canada will continue to support multilateral and global health initiatives that deliver Canada’s international COVID-19 response, with a focus on addressing the health needs of developing countries and ensuring countries have access to the tools necessary to contain the spread of COVID-19.
• This additional funding for the ACT-Accelerator is consistent with previous commitments to partners of the ACT-Accelerator, and builds on Canada’s leadership in supporting the procurement, scale-up, and distribution and delivery of COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines to low-income countries and lower and middle-income countries.
• Canada’s support will also ensure that health systems are strengthened across all pillars of the ACT-Accelerator, including support for vaccine manufacturing; the distribution and delivery of medical countermeasures and services quickly and efficiently; and overall increased resilience of health systems.
• This additional support will contribute to reduce the spread of the disease, help to prevent further disruptions to global health, security and economic infrastructure, and safeguard the health and safety of Canadians and people around the world.

Background

• With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the world continues to face an evolving threat from the virus and its variants. The emergence of new variants is exacerbating the spread of the virus, and eroding health and humanitarian situations in many low and lower middle-income countries, with grossly insufficient diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines available to meet immediate needs. Many countries are experiencing a resurgence in cases putting immense strain on their health systems.
• The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT)-Accelerator was established in April 2020 as a global collaborative framework that brings together diverse global stakeholders, including governments, global health organizations, scientists, businesses, civil society, and philanthropists. It is comprised of four distinct but complementary global partnerships or pillars: diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccines, and health systems connector.
• The ACT-Accelerator leverages each participant’s complementary strengths in diverse areas such as research and development, manufacturing, policy development, regulatory procedures, market shaping, and procurement and delivery, to accelerate the development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines.
• Since the beginning of the pandemic, Canada has been a global leader in the efforts to respond to COVID-19, and has committed more than $2.5 billion in international assistance in response to COVID-19. This includes over $1.3 billion to various partners of the ACT-Accelerator to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines. Canada is currently the 5th highest bilateral donor to the ACT-Accelerator after the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan.
• Consistent with the Budget 2021 commitment to support Canada’s international COVID-19 response and a recent announcement by the Prime Minister, the $375 million made available will support the activities of the ACT-Accelerator.

Supporting facts and figures

Allocation by Core Responsibility:

Allocation by Standard Object:

Funding to support the recovery and resilience of developing countries (Budget 2021)

• Global Affairs Canada is requesting funding of $165 million from the International Assistance Envelope for 2021-2022 via Directed Supplementary Estimates (B) to support International Humanitarian Assistance.
• Budget 2021 provided $165 million for international humanitarian assistance to save lives and alleviate suffering as a result of conflicts, food insecurity, and other crises in developing countries that are being exacerbated by the COVID- 19 pandemic.

Supplementary messages

• The $165 million contribution in support of international humanitarian assistance activities was earmarked in Budget 2021 to address various crisis in developing countries.

Expected results

• The allocated funding will support developing countries that are suffering from humanitarian crises while being highly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
• This additional support will reduce the spread of the disease, help to prevent further disruptions to global health, security and economic infrastructure, and safeguard the health and safety of Canadians and people around the world.
• The humanitarian allocations will save lives, protect human dignity, and alleviate suffering by meeting urgent humanitarian needs and will position Canada as a global leader in the response to COVID-19 and other global humanitarian crises.

Background

• With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the world continues to face an evolving threat from the virus and its variants. The emergence of new variants is exacerbating the spread of the virus, and eroding health and humanitarian situations in many low and lower middle-income countries, with insufficient diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines available to meet immediate needs.
• Many countries are experiencing a resurgence in cases putting immense strain on their health systems. The pandemic has also exacerbated humanitarian needs globally, and placed further strain on an already stretched humanitarian response system.
• As a global leader in the efforts to respond to COVID-19, Canada has provided significant and targeted support in response to international, regional, and bilateral calls for urgent assistance.
• Since February 2020, the Government of Canada has committed more than $2.5 billion in international assistance in response to COVID-19. This includes over $1.3 billion to various partners of the ACT-Accelerator to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines; and $740 million allocated to international humanitarian and development assistance to respond to the immediate needs.

Supporting facts and figures

Allocation by Core Responsibility:

Allocation by Standard Object:

Funding for Canada's respons to the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh (Budget 2021)

• Global Affairs Canada is requesting funding of $68.8 million for 2021-2022 via Directed Supplementary Estimates (B) to support the implementation of the Next Phase of the Rohingya Response Strategy.
• Budget 2021 announced the full funding, $288.3 million over three years from 2021-2022 to 2023-2024, for the Next Phase of the Rohingya Response Strategy.

Supplementary messages

• In total, Global Affairs Canada will be requesting $208.7 million (excluding PWGSC Accommodations and SSC Information Technology costs) over three years (from fiscal year 2021-2022 to 2023-2024).
• The total cost of this initiative including operating costs is $288.3 million over three years, of which $208.7 million is sourced from the fiscal framework and $79.6 million from GAC’s reference levels to cover the costs of existing full time equivalents and existing programming funds from the Myanmar Development Program and the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program.
• The requested funding for Grants and Contributions over the three-year period will be as follows:
  • Myanmar Development Program: $38 million;
  • Bangladesh Development Program: $145 million; and
  • Peace and Stabilization Operations Program: $15 million.
• A portion of the funding received is for a special envoy. Due to the unstable context, the departure of the special envoy is postponed and the funding received will be placed in a frozen allotment.

Expected results

• The next phase of Canada's Strategy will focus on the following objectives:
  • medium-term support to meet the needs of vulnerable and crisis-affected populations in Myanmar and Bangladesh, particularly Rohingya refugees, internally displaced persons and impacted host communities by addressing services such as education, skills development and livelihoods including: humanitarian assistance necessary to provide life-saving food assistance, helping host community children get equitable learning opportunities in a safe environment, helping setting up health and nutrition facilities etc.;
  • intensified efforts to advance an inclusive and sustainable peace in Myanmar;
  • targeted support to advance the restoration of democratic rule in Myanmar; and
  • increased pressure on malign actors, including through continued pursuit of accountability for human rights violations.
  • Canada will undertake to influence the international community through a multidimensional effort to support a negotiated resolution to the present conflict and to secure a durable, long-term solution to the political crisis for the eventual safe, voluntary, dignified and sustainable return of Rohingya refugees and Rohingya internally displaced persons to their homes.
• Canada will work to address the broader systemic root causes of conflict and inequality in Myanmar; these include amongst others: the ongoing contested legitimacy of the central state by Myanmar’s ethnic minorities; the dominance of the armed forces over political and peace processes; impunity and the weak rule of law; xenophobia and anti-minority discrimination; illicit narcotics production and trafficking; and transnational influences on armed conflict and instability.
• Recognizing that the Myanmar military coup has eliminated any reasonable prospect for the safe, voluntary, dignified and sustainable repatriation of Rohingya over the life-cycle of this Strategy, Canada will sustain its essential support to vulnerable populations, including Rohingya refugees and the host communities in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh through access to appropriate education, skills and the opportunity to develop livelihoods as well as access to health services, including mental health in the context of ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Background

• In August 2017, in the context of broader ongoing conflict between ethnic minority insurgent groups and the Myanmar military, Myanmar's military forces initiated clearance operations against the Rohingya population in Rakhine State, precipitating a refugee crisis that saw more than 727,000 Rohingya refugees flee to neighbouring Bangladesh. In response to this crisis, in October 2017, the Prime Minister appointed the Honourable Bob Rae as Special Envoy to Myanmar. Mr. Rae published a report on the situation in April 2018, Tell Them We're Human: What Canada and the World Can do About the Rohingya Refugee Crisis.
• Recommendations from this report formed the basis of Canada's Strategy to Respond to the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh, released by the Prime Minister in May 2018, which dedicated $300 million in international assistance over three years (2018-2021), funded in majority through the Crisis Pool. This Strategy provided a coordinated response aimed at: i) alleviating the humanitarian crisis; ii) encouraging positive political developments in Myanmar; iii) ensuring accountability for the crimes committed; and iv) enhancing international cooperation.
• Through this Strategy, Canada provided critical support to international efforts to address the humanitarian, development, and peace and stabilization needs resulting from the 2017 Rohingya crisis and entrenched conflict and instability in Myanmar. Canada positioned itself as a leading diplomatic advocate and contributor to the early response to the crisis, and worked closely with international partners to effectively advance the priorities identified in the Strategy.

Supporting facts and figures

Allocation by Core Responsibility:

Allocation by Standard Object:

Funding for the strategic priority fund for international assistance

• GAC is requesting International Assistance Envelop funding sourced from the Special Purpose Fund reallocation of $75 million for 2021-2022 via Directed Supplementary Estimates (B).
• Of the total amount, $10 million is announced for support to unpaid and paid care work, $50 million will be earmarked for the International Monetary Fund’s Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust and $15 million to the COVAX agreement to support COVAX Manufacturing Task Force partners, specifically the establishment of the South Africa Technology Transfer Hub.
• At the Generation Equality Forum in June 2021, Prime Minister Trudeau announced a $100 million commitment over five years beginning in 2021-2022 on stand-alone unpaid and paid care work programming.

Supplementary messages

• $115.0 million over two years ($75 million in 2021-2022 and $40 million in 2022-2023) was allocated to GAC International Assistance Envelope resources to replenish the Strategic Priorities Fund.
• In addition to the $10 million in 2021-2022, CARE (unpaid and paid work care) funding from new Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF) resources have also been earmarked to $15 million for two years (2022-2023 to 2023-2024).
• The remaining CARE funding, for a total of $60 million, will be sourced from GAC reference levels over fiscal years 2023-2024 to 2025-2026.
• The $100 million funding for unpaid and paid care work programming includes $25 million received in 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 under the Strategic Priority Fund for international assistance funding and $75 million from internal reference levels ($35 million in 2023-2024 and $20 million in 2024-2025 and 2025-2026).

Expected results

• The programming will recognize, address and reduce the unequal distribution of unpaid and paid care work and ensure that unpaid and paid care workers are represented and have their voices heard and their rights supported and protected.
• The funding will be used to support projects whose primary goal is to address inequalities with respect to paid and unpaid care work with emphasis on the department’s “5R” (recognize, reduce, redistribute, respond and represent) approach to addressing unpaid and paid care work issues. We are proposing a comprehensive approach that would ensure that the full range of the “5R” entry points are covered.
• This will offer Canada meaningful opportunities for visibility on the international stage, through building alliances and movements for change, sharing knowledge, and catalyzing investments from other states and from philanthropic bodies, in order to increase support for this issue globally.

Background

• The Feminist International Assistance Policy explicitly commits to helping address unpaid care work and the disproportionate proportion of care shouldered by women and girls around the world. This is reflected and expanded upon in the December 2019 Mandate Letter, which also includes a focus on paid care work, and requires Global Affairs Canada to: “develop programming that recognizes, reduces and addresses the unequal distribution of paid and unpaid care work and that supports and protects the rights of paid and unpaid care workers to address a root cause of global inequality”. This commitment was re-affirmed as a priority in the January 2021 Supplementary Mandate Letter within the context of the COVID- 19 pandemic.
• To address a root cause of global inequality—unpaid and paid care work in low- and middle-income countries—and to foster gender equality, women’s economic empowerment and gender-responsive economic response and recovery, Canada announced at the Generation Equality Forum that it will commit $100 million in new funding for stand-alone programming to address issues in unpaid and paid care work in low- and middle-income countries in which Canada provides international assistance.

Supporting facts and figures

Allocation by Core Responsibility:

Allocation by Standard Object:

Funding for the strategic priority fund for international assistance

Top line messages

• Global Affairs Canada is requesting International Assistance Envelop funding sourced from the Strategic Priority Fund reallocation of $75.0 million for 2021-22 via Directed Supplementary Estimates (B).
• Of the total amount, $10.0 million is announced for support to unpaid and paid care work, $50.0 million will be earmarked for the International Monetary Fund’s Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust and $15.0 million to the COVAX agreement to support COVAX Manufacturing Task Force partners, specifically the establishment of the South Africa Technology Transfer Hub.
• At the Generation Equality Forum in June 2021, Prime Minister Trudeau announced a $100.0 million commitment over five years beginning in 2021-22 on stand-alone unpaid and paid care work programming.

Supplementary messages

• $115.0 million over two years ($75.0 million in 2021-22 and $40.0 million in 2022-23) was allocated to Global Affairs Canada International Assistance Envelope resources to replenish the Strategic Priorities Fund.
• In addition to the $10.0 million in 2021-22, CARE (unpaid and paid work care) funding from new Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF) resources have also been earmarked to $15.0 million for two years (2022-23 to 2023-24).
• The remaining CARE funding, for a total of $60.0 million, will be sourced from Global Affairs Canada reference levels over fiscal years 2023-24 to 2025-26.
• The $100 million funding for unpaid and paid care work programming includes $25.0 million received in 2021-22 and 2022-23 under the Strategic Priority Fund for international assistance funding and $75.0 million from internal reference levels ($35.0 million in 2023-24 and $20.0 million in 2024- 25 and 2025-26).

Expected results

• The programming will recognize, address and reduce the unequal distribution of unpaid and paid care work and ensure that unpaid and paid care workers are represented and have their voices heard and their rights supported and protected.
• The funding will be used to support projects whose primary goal is to address inequalities with respect to paid and unpaid care work with emphasis on the department’s “5R” (recognize, reduce, redistribute, respond and represent) approach to addressing unpaid and paid care work issues. We are proposing a comprehensive approach that would ensure that the full range of the “5R” entry points are covered.
• This will offer Canada meaningful opportunities for visibility on the international stage, through building alliances and movements for change, sharing knowledge, and catalyzing investments from other states and from philanthropic bodies, in order to increase support for this issue globally.

Background

• The Feminist International Assistance Policy explicitly commits to helping address unpaid care work and the disproportionate proportion of care shouldered by women and girls around the world. This is reflected and expanded upon in the December 2019 Mandate Letter, which also includes a focus on paid care work, and requires Global Affairs Canada to: “develop programming that recognizes, reduces and addresses the unequal distribution of paid and unpaid care work and that supports and protects the rights of paid and unpaid care workers to address a root cause of global inequality”. This commitment was re-affirmed as a priority in the January 2021 Supplementary Mandate Letter within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• To address a root cause of global inequality—unpaid and paid care work in low- and middle-income countries—and to foster gender equality, women’s economic empowerment and gender-responsive economic response and recovery, Canada announced at the Generation Equality Forum that it will commit $100.0 million in new funding for stand-alone programming to address issues in unpaid and paid care work in low- and middle-income countries in which Canada provides international assistance.

Supporting facts and figures

Allocation by Core Responsibility:

Allocation by Standard Object:

Internal reallocation of ressources from contributions to grants for partnership with canadians programming

• Global Affairs Canada is requesting a grant authority increase of $32.2 million in 2021-2022 via Directed Supplementary Estimates (B) to support Grants for Partnership with Canadians Programming.
• The increase will be financed by a decrease to Contributions for Partnership with Canadians Programming.

Supplementary messages

• In total, Global Affairs Canada will be also requesting a grant authority increase of $32.2 million in 2022-2023 and ongoing via the 2022-2023 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU).

Expected results

• An increase in the Partnership with Canadians grant ceiling will enable the Partnership for Development Innovation Branch to work with trusted and well-established Canadian partners:
  • to more rapidly respond to the pandemic through top-ups to existing projects focusing on combatting COVID disinformation, largely in Africa;
  • to bring forward payments to the flagship [REDACTED] to enable it to launch several calls for proposals; and,
  • to proceed with a timely climate change initiative.

Background

• In accordance to the FRET, it is planned to increase the number of grants that will be issued to trusted partners. Multiple projects are now grants instead of contributions as per departmental requirements and priorities. This will also reduce administrative burden for our trusted partners.

Supporting facts and figures

Allocation by Core Responsibility:

Adjustment to update L25 wording to increase the amount for the international financial institutions capital subscriptions

Global Affairs Canada is seeking to reprofile $98.2 in 2021- 2022 via Directed Supplementary Estimates (B) to support the African Development Bank accelerated payments.

• Budget 2021 accelerates Canada’s payment of shares in the African Development Bank Seventh General Capital Increase to conclude such purchase in 2022-2023, rather than 2027- 2028.
• On October 31, 2019, the Governors of the African Development Bank approved a landmark increase in the Bank’s authorized capital base for the 7th General Capital Increase.
• The $1 item allows Parliament to approve a change to the Vote wording, which sets the maximum amount that can be paid.
• A change in vote wording is required in order to increase the estimated Canadian dollar amount from the existing $49.4 million to $147.6 million, as well as to increase the United States dollar amount by USD $79.2 million.
• The revised Vote wording will read as follows: Pursuant to subsection 12(2) of the International Development (Financial Institutions) Assistance Act, the amount of financial assistance provided by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in consultation with the Minister of Finance, by way of the purchase of shares of international financial institutions may not exceed USD $113,260,814 in the fiscal year 2021-2022, which is estimated in Canadian dollars at $147,602,231.

Supplementary messages

• A general capital increase is one of the key mechanisms multilateral development banks can use to ensure that their capital can meet demand. It takes place when the shareholders agree to expand its capital base.
• Reprofiled funds are required to accelerate the purchase of shares. This reprofiling is not seeking additional resources, only that the payment schedule be compressed from the remaining 7 years to 2 years.
• USD $79.2 million of funding is also being requested to be reprofiled to fiscal year 2022-2023.
• The reprofiling is requested as per budget 2021 in response to Canada's primary development partner in Africa, African Development Bank and thus a primary partner in achieving Feminist International Assistance Policy objectives across the continent. Canada is not expected to be the only donor member country to accelerate capital payments.

Expected results

• The Bank has been especially hard hit by the economic effects of the pandemic. The extraordinary demand for financial support by its clients, combined with the reduced ability of those clients to service the growing debt, and finally the impact Canada's own ratings downgrade all combined to put the AfDB's own credit rating in a position of imminent downgrade.
• An acceleration of Canada's capital payment schedule (the 4th largest non-regional member) will rapidly improve the Bank's cash situation, helping to maintain the Bank's prudential ratios and help guard against a downgrade of the Bank's rating. This was a budget 2021 decision.

Overview – Funding by core responsability

Consistent with the Policy on Results, departments are required to obtain deputy head and TBS approval on all amendments to their Departmental Results Framework (DRF).

• Global Affairs Canada’s DRF consists of six Core Responsibilities, which are the basis from which the new funding received through the Directed 2021-2022 Supplementary Estimates (B) is reported against. The breakdown by Core Responsibilities is as follows:
  • $683 million - Development, Peace and Security Programming; and
  • $748,818 - Internal Services.
• The Department’s total authorities requested in the Directed 2021-2022 Supplementary Estimates (B) is $683.8 million.

Background

• As of April 1, 2018, the Policy on Results requires that all departments have a new reporting framework, which includes a DRF, a Program Inventory and Performance Information Profiles.
• Global Affairs Canada’s DRF came into effect starting in fiscal year 2018-2019.
• 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.

Supporting facts and figures

Allocation by Core Responsibility:

Development, peace and security programming

• Through the Development, Peace and Security Programming Core Responsibility, 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.
• The current 2021-2022 funding for this Core Responsibility is $4.09 billion. Through Supplementary Estimates (B), Global Affairs Canada will receive an additional $683 million, bringing the total 2021-22 funding to $4.77 billion within Development, Peace and Security Programming.

Background

• The department 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; 2) Enhanced empowerment and rights of women and girls; 3) Reduction of suffering and increased human dignity in communities experiencing humanitarian crises; 4) Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages; and, 5) More effective international assistance through leveraging diverse partnerships, innovation, and experimentation.
• Highlights from the 2021-2022 Departmental Plan for this area include:
  • Contributing to a rules-based international system that advances Canadian interests by working bilaterally and multilaterally to drive positive change in areas such as democracy, human rights and gender equality, the rule of law, climate change and environmental protection;
  • 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 by strengthening key bilateral relationships and engaging new partners to address emerging challenges such as the current pandemic. When engaging bilaterally, the department will continue to integrate and calibrate foreign, security, development and trade policy priorities to enable a coherent approach;
  • Eradicating poverty by continuing the implementation of the Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy to help improve the lives of the people and communities that need it most, promote gender equality and empowering women and girls, invest in health, education, inclusive governance, economic development, and environment and climate change initiatives, and integrate humanitarian, development, and peace and security efforts.
• The department will report on its results against the 2020-2021 Departmental Plan via the Departmental Results Report (DRR) in the fall of 2021.

Supporting facts and figures

(in dollars)

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 initial 2021-22 funding for this Core Responsibility is $278.2 million. Through the Directed Supplementary Estimates (B), Global Affairs Canada will receive an additional $748,818, bringing the total 2021-2022 funding to $278.9 million within Internal Services Programming.

Background

• The Core Responsibilities 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 of the 10 distinct service categories that support Program delivery in the organization, regardless of the Internal Services delivery model in a department.
• The ten service categories 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.

Supplementary facts and figures

(in dollars)     

Briefing note on Departmental Result Report 2019-20

• In 2019-2020, 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 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. GAC 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. GAC 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 UN partners, NGOs 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, 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 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, 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 G 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 2019-2020.
• 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 2019-2020 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 2019-2020 compared to 2018-2019. 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.

Public accounts – Overview

• The Public Accounts of Canada is a report prepared annually by the Receiver General of Canada.
• 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 2020-2021 were $1,259,606.
• Significant and noteworthy losses for GAC in 2020-2021 include fraudulent use of contribution funds ($1,016,335) and accidental losses of materials, smartphones, laptops, and SecurID tokens (replacement value estimated at $117,814). GAC also reported 2 fraudulent claims ($71,852) and unauthorized usage of travel cards ($40,984).
• GAC has taken several actions in response to these losses and has recovered funds to minimize the financial impact. GAC 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 2020-2021 Public Accounts include:

• $1,016,335 in fraudulent use of contributions funds in Syria, Afghanistan, Mali, Pakistan, Benin, Bangladesh, Belarus and DR Congo.

GAC Response

• GAC 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 RCMP for investigation.
• The recipients are informed of the conclusions of the investigations whereupon the GAC demands funds used inappropriately be reimbursed.
• GAC requires that areas of concern be addressed and corrective actions be implemented before further contributions can be considered.
• GAC requires monitoring of the implementation of the remedial mitigation strategies.

Enhanced Measures Undertaken by GAC

• A new separate Fraud Management of Grants and Contributions Unit has been established, last fiscal year, 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

• Syria – Stichting Mayday Rescue Foundation: $897,432 ($426,000 has been recovered)
  • The fraud consisted of multiple ineligible expenses being claimed as well as misuse of contribution funds further to the death of the funder.
• Afghanistan (1) – Oxfam Canada: $34,314 (funds recovered)
  • Empowerment Centre for Women (ECW), a local partner of Oxfam overcharged salaries, inflated the price of rent and forged hotel receipts.
• Mali (1) – Cowater: $18,894 (funds recovered)
  • Ineligible expenses related to COVID-19 expenditures were identified through a financial review in June 2020.
• Afghanistan (2) – BBC Media Action: $18,707 (funds recovered)
  • ECW, a local partner of BBC Media Action submitted claims for ineligible expenses related to fuel, mobile payments, and stationary. In addition, there were multiple expenditures, that could not be substantiated with the documentation provided by the partner.
• Mali (2) – International Alert: $16,149 (funds recovered)
  • The Finance Manager forged some transactions and withdrew the equivalent cash for his personal use. He subsequently resigned.
• Pakistan – Oxfam Canada: $8,950 (funds recovered)
  • Sindh Development Society a local partner of Oxfam has implemented a salary kickback scheme. It was also discovered that the salary of an employee was being double-charged (in two different projects).
• Benin – Centre for International Studies and Cooperation: $8,608 (funds recovered)
  • This fraud involved Centre for International Studies and Cooperation in Benin, where salary kickback scheme had been implemented in the local office.
• Bangladesh – Plan International Canada: $6,874 (funds recovered)
  • World Mission Prayer League (LAMB Hospital), a local partner of Plan International Canada inflated and duplicated bills, payment vouchers were also inflated.
• Belarus – Office of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: $4,646 (funds have not been recovered yet)
  • The GAC-funded project was left incomplete given one of the few employees was arrested for his human rights work. It is therefore no longer possible to access the advanced project funds.
• Pakistan (2) – Centre for Youth Association Development (CYAD): $1,391 (funds recovered)
  • Expenses could not be substantiated with the documentation provided as the authenticity of the receipts was questionable. It was eventually established that CYAD forged supporting documentation.
• DR Congo – Centre for Search for Common Ground: $370 (funds recovered)
  • Inflated amount were claimed and some receipts falsified.

Other Losses

• $56,839 for damage of inventory (beer, wine and frozen meals):
  • Given the requirement for physical distancing in the pandemic, the number of hospitality events held in Missions was drastically limited.$5,001 worth of expired alcoholic beverages had to be disposed of in various mission.
  • An inventory of 4,200 frozen meals (valued at $51,838) that had been purchased to ensure the continuous operation for the Emergency Watch and Response Center were wasted due to an issue with the freezer.
• $60,975 for losses of smartphones, laptops, and SecurID tokens:
  • Sixty-two smartphones, nine laptops, and seven SecurID tokens, have been reported as lost at headquarters and missions abroad. It was determined that no further action was required as the assets were generally considered accidentally lost.
  • 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.
• $47,331 for a fraudulent allowance claim:
  • An employee provided false information and received payments under the Foreign Service Directives to which he was not entitled.
  • The full amount of $47,331 should be fully recovered in 2021-2022.
• $24,251 for a fraudulent overtime claim:
  • An employee claimed overtime without having performed the related work.
  • The employee has been laid-off and an account receivable was created.
  • The GAC expects to recover the full amount of $24,521 in subsequent years.
• $40,984 for unauthorized use of travel cards ($13,684 has been recovered in 2020-2021):
  • Five employees either used acquisition cards for unauthorized/personal purposes or did not paid their business travel card account.
  • An account receivable has been created in each case. GAC expects to recover the balance of $27,300 in subsequent years.

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 travel costs for Governor General, Prime Minister of Canada and delegates who attend the event reported for Canadian representation at international conferences and meetings are those related to the following conferences:
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs – Bilateral Visits ($38,216)
  • Planning and advance visit for the Prime Minister's Visit to Carbis Bay (United Kingdom) — G7 Leaders’ Summit, June 11-13, 2021 ($17,218)
  • Minister of International Development – Bilateral Visits ($636)
• The expenditures costs (travel, hospitality and conferences) for Governor General and Prime Minister of Canada reported for Canadian representation at international conferences and meetings include those related to the following conferences:
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs – Bilateral Visits ($38,840)
  • Planning and advance visit for the Prime Minister's Visit to Carbis Bay (United Kingdom) — G7 Leaders’ Summit, June 11-13, 2021 ($20,146)
  • Minister of International Development – Bilateral Visits ($636).

Public accounts - Lapses

• In the Public Accounts of Canada, Global Affairs Canada’s Operating budget (Vote 1) was $1,982.5 million in 2020-2021. The Public Accounts show an unspent amount of $179.4 million (9.1%). A total of $95.8 million (4.8%) will be carried forward to 2021-2022 and $47.4 million (2.3%) will be reprofiled to 2021-2022 and future years.
• GAC’s Capital budget (Vote 5) was $185.8 million in 2020-2021. The Public Accounts show an unspent amount of $80.3 million (43.2%). A total of $33.1 million (17.8%) will be carried forward to 2021-2022 and $44.9 million (24.2%) will be reprofiled to 2021-2022 and future years.
• Global Affairs Canada’s Grants and Contributions budget (Vote 10) was $6,810.9 million in 2020-21. The Public Accounts show an unspent amount of $50.8 million (0.7%). 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 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 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:

• GAC’s Operating budget (Vote 1) was $1,982.5 million in 2020-21. The Public Accounts show an unspent amount of $179.4 million (9.1%). From that amount, $95.8 million (4.8%) will be carried forward to 2021-2022, $46 million reprofiled to 2021-2022 and $1.4 million reprofiled to 2022-2023. The remaining unused amount is $36.2 million (1.8%). The surplus of $179.4 million can be broken down as follows:
  • Frozen allotment ($130.6 million)
    • Compensation/vacation liability ($31.7 million) reprofiled to 2021-2022;
    • Consular Affairs ($31.1 million);
    • Conversion factor (to allow for conversion of Operating to Salary Funds) ($27.4 million);
    • Canada's participation in Expo 2020 Dubai, United Arab Emirate ($15.7 million) reprofiled to 2021-2022 and 2022-2023;
    • Foreign Services Directives ($14.8 million);
    • Foreign Currency Gains ($7.8 million);
    • Program Integrity protocol office ($1.2 million); and
    • Protecting Canada’s National Security ($0.9 million).
  • Special purpose allotments (SPA) ($20.7 million)
    • Mission security abroad to mitigate risks to physical infrastructure, mission readiness, and security of information (hereafter referred to as Duty of Care at missions abroad) ($14.5 million);
    • Canada-United States Softwood Lumber Agreement litigation as well as Operation costs ($4.5 million);
    • Innovative Solutions Canada ($1.0 million);
    • Dispute Resolution Panelist (NAFTA) ($0.6 million); and
    • Immigration and Refugee Protections Act ($0.1 million).
  • Programming and others ($28.1 million)
    • Middle East Strategy ($5.1 million);
    • The remaining balance is related to delays in projects approvals, delays in staffing and cancellations of project/travel/training due to COVID-19, etc. ($23 million).
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Capital - Vote 5:

GAC’s Capital budget (Vote 5) was $185.8 million in 2020-2021. The Public Accounts show an unspent amount of $80.3 million (43.2%). From that amount, $33.1 million (17.8%) will be carried forward to 2021-2022, $6.1 million reprofiled to 2021-2022 and $38.8 million reprofiled to 2022-2023 and future years. The remaining unused amount is $2.3 million (1.2%). The surplus of $80.3 million can be broken down as follows:

• Frozen allotment ($26.2 million)
  • Duty of Care at missions abroad ($17.8 million) reprofiled to 2022-2023 to 2025-2026;
  • Renovation for 125 Sussex ($6.1 million) reprofiled to 2021-2022; and
  • Conversion factor (to allow for conversion of Capital to Salary Fund) ($2.3 million).
• Special purpose allotments (SPA) ($21 million)
  • Duty of Care at missions abroad ($21 million) reprofiled to 2022-2023 to 2025-2026.
• Capital Projects ($33.1 million)
  • Delays in the development of major capital projects such as capital projects at missions abroad, the Export and Import Control System II project and the 125 Sussex Renovation project ($31 million);
  • Various small projects ($2.1 million).

Grants and Contributions - Vote 10:

GAC’s Grants and Contributions budget (Vote 10) was $6,810.9 million in 2020-2021. The Public Accounts show an unspent amount of $50.8 million (0.7%) which can be broken down as follows:

• Frozen allotments ($17.7 million)
  • Innovative Finance (Grants of $9.5 million) reprofiled to 2021-2022;
  • Amazon Wild Fires (Strategic Priorities Funds) (Grants of $5.9 million) reprofiled to 2021-2022 and 2022-2023;
  • G7 Oceans (Strategic Priorities Funds) (Contributions of $0.7 million) reprofiled to 2021-2022;
  • Summit of La Francophonie (Contributions of $0.6 million) reprofiled to 2021- 2022;
  • Crisis Pool Quick Release Mechanism (Grants of $0.5 million) reprofiled to 2021-2022;
  • Scholarship Program (Contributions) ($0.4 million); and
  • Adjustment to loan forecast (Contributions) ($0.1 million).
• Grants ($2.6 million)
• Assessed Contributions ($22.1 million)
  • United Nations peacekeeping operations ($8.8 million); and
  • Other Assessed Contributions ($13.3 million).
• Non-Assessed Contributions ($8.4 million)
  • International Youth Internship Program (IYIP) ($5.4 million);
  • Innovation Program ($1.8 million);
  • Other Non-Assessed Contributions ($1.2 million).