Global Affairs Canada: Departmental Plan 2021-22 - Supplementary Information Tables

This section provides additional information in support of the 2021-22 Departmental Plan and includes the following subsections:

Table of contents

• Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy
• TPPs with total planned spending of $5 million or more
  • Anti-Crime Capacity Building Program
  • Canada Fund for Local Initiatives
  • Canadian International Innovation Program
  • Can Export program
  • Commonwealth Secretariat
  • Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
  • Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  • Global Arctic Leadership Initiative (Formally known as Canadian International Arctic Fund)
  • Grants and Contributions in Aid of Academic Relations
  • Grants in Lieu of Taxes on Diplomatic, Consular and International Organizations’ Property in Canada
  • International Atomic Energy Agency
  • International Criminal Court
  • International Development Assistance
  • International Financial Institutions
  • International Labour Organization
  • International Organisation of la Francophonie
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization Civil Administration
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Organization of American States
  • Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
  • Pan American Health Organization
  • Peace and Stabilization Operations Program
  • Projects and Development Activities Resulting from La Francophonie Summits
  • United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
  • United Nations Organization
  • United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
  • Weapons Threat Reduction Program
  • World Health Organization
  • World Trade Organization
• TPPs with total planned spending of less than $5 million
  • Annual Voluntary Contributions to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and to the Organization of American States' Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission
  • Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat
  • Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
  • Canada’s annual host country grant to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
  • Commonwealth Foundation
  • Commonwealth Youth Program
  • Convention on Biological Diversity
  • Diplomatic Supplement Retirement Benefit
  • Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
  • International Agency for Research on Cancer
  • International Civil Aviation Organization
  • International Energy Agency
  • International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission
  • International Maritime Organization
  • International Renewable Energy Agency
  • International Seabed Authority
  • International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
  • Non-proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament
  • Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation
  • OECD Steel Committee (formerly called International Commodity Organizations)
  • Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
  • Payments under the Diplomatic Service Superannuation Act
  • Peace Implementation Council
  • Permanent Court of Arbitration
  • Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission
  • Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade
  • Secrétariat technique permanent des conférences ministérielles de l’éducation, de la jeunesse et des sports des pays d’expression française
  • Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change  
  • United Nations Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues
  • United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture
  • Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
  • Wassenaar Arrangement
  • World Customs Organization
  • World Intellectual Property Organization
• Gender-based analysis plus
  • Institutional GBA+ Capacity
  • Highlights of GBA+ Results Reporting Capacity by Program
• Up-front multi-year funding
• United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals

Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy

Global Affairs Canada’s 2020-23 Departmental Sustainable Strategy (DSDS) was tabled in Parliament on October 7, 2020. Updates were made during the development of the Departmental Plan in January 2021.

TPPs with total planned spending of $5 million or more

Anti-Crime Capacity Building Program

Start date: December 2009

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant and Contributions

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12 (amended); 2015-16 (amended); 2018-19 (amended); 2019-20 (amended)

Link to departmental result(s):  3.4 Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 26 Anti-Crime and Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The Anti-Crime Capacity Building Program (ACCBP) provides assistance to enhance the capacity of key beneficiary states, government entities and other international and non-governmental organizations to prevent and respond to threats posed by international criminal activity in a manner consistent with international human rights obligations, norms and standards, with a global mandate and a focus on the Americas.

Expected results:

• Reduced security threats from transnational organized crime for Canadians, and affected populations, particularly women and girls, in countries where Canada engages;
• Enhanced inclusive and gender-responsive prevention and response to transnational organized crime by security institutions in countries where GAC programs;
• Improved inclusive and gender-responsive development and compliance of anti-crime legal instruments, controls or frameworks by states in countries where GAC programs; and
• Improved inclusive and gender-responsive engagement and resilience of communities and civil society in the areas of anti-crime in countries where GAC programs.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: 2015-16

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: 2021-22

General targeted recipient groups: All levels of government of affected states, community-based organizations and associations in recipient countries, multilateral, intergovernmental, international and regional organizations, non-profit, and private organizations, participating Canadian federal government departments and agencies, and other levels of government, as established under the approved terms and conditions of the ACCBP.

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: The ACCBP accepts proposals from partners at any time for prospective projects. Applicants include other federal government departments, non-government organizations and international organizations. The ACCBP works directly with recipient organizations and their beneficiary state agencies to determine how best to support their security efforts.

Canada Fund for Local Initiatives

Start date: April 1, 2012

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2020-21

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada's interests.

1.2: Canada's leadership on global issues contributed to a just and inclusive world.

3.1: Improved physical, social and economic well-being for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where Canada engages.

3.2: Enhanced empowerment and rights for women and girls in countries where Canada engages.

3.3: Reduced suffering and increased human dignity in communities experiencing humanitarian crises.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 9. Geographic Coordination and Mission Support

Program 22. Humanitarian Assistance

Program 28. Canada fund for Local Initiatives

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) is a contributions program delivered through Canadian embassies and high commissions in approximately 130 countries. CFLI supports projects that are comparatively modest in scope, scale and cost, and that are usually conceived and implemented by local authorities or organizations.

The program is guided by three core objectives:

1. To contribute to the achievement of Canada’s thematic priorities for international assistance, with special emphasis on the themes of advancing democracy, protecting and promoting human rights, and ensuring security and stability;
2. To assist in the advocacy of Canadian values and interests and strengthening Canada’s bilateral relations with foreign countries and their civil societies; and
3. To provide small-scale financing to local organizations to respond to natural disasters and other emergencies.

The CFLI Thematic Priorities are approved annually by a Program Management Board. For 2020-2021, they are:

1. Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
2. Inclusive governance, including diversity, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
3. Peace and security, with a focus on conflict prevention and building peace.
4. Human dignity, covering health, education and nutrition.
5. Growth that works for everyone, including women’s economic rights, access to decent jobs and entrepreneurship, investing in the poorest and most vulnerable, and safeguarding economic gains.
6. Environment and climate action focusing on adaptation and mitigation, as well as on water management.

Expected Results:

• Increased capacity of local organizations, institutions and governments to deliver projects that address local development challenges in a gender-sensitive^{Footnote 1} manner.
• Increased access to, and influence with, key local decision makers and change makers to raise awareness and promote Canada’s values and interests.
• Increased capacity of local organizations to deliver humanitarian assistance that responds to sudden onset natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies in a gender-sensitive manner.

Performance Indicators:

• Percentage of projects implemented by local organizations, women’s rights organizations, and human rights and inclusive governance organizations.
• Percentage of projects that completed a limited or detailed gender-based analysis.
• Extent to which the CFLI Program created meaningful opportunities for interactions with local stakeholders on issues related to Canada’s values and interests (Qualitative indicator).
• Number of project beneficiaries who received humanitarian assistance.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: 2015-16

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: TBD, planned 2020-21 evaluation postponed.

General targeted recipient groups:

• Not-for-profit organizations and charities:
  • Academia and public institutions
  • Government
  • International (non-government)
  • Other

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Canadian embassies and high commissions engage in various forms of outreach to encourage CFLI project proposals, including through mission websites and social media. Prospective and current recipients may be invited to training workshops on Gender-Based Analysis + and effective project management to contribute to the achievement of project results. Canadian embassies and high commissions further engage with recipients through site visits during the project and end-of-year project reporting. Canadian officers may meet with recipients at the close of the project to discuss results and lessons learned.

Canadian International Innovation Program

Start date: April 1, 2006

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: Amended 2017-18

Link to departmental result(s): 2.2: Canadian exporters and innovators are successful in their international business development efforts.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 1.5 International Innovation and Investment

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP) fosters and supports collaborative industrial research and development projects with high potential for commercialization between Canada and partner countries. It also stimulates bilateral science and technology networking and matchmaking activities to further new partnerships and accelerate the commercialization of research and development. Although CIIP has authority to deliver the program in all countries with which Canada has a bilateral STI agreement, in practical terms, the small amount of funding dedicated to the program is made equally available for engagement with five priority partners: Brazil, China, India, Israel, and South Korea.

Expected results: Canadian companies have increased knowledge and networking opportunities leading to potential international partnerships and increasing their engagement with global markets; Canadian companies have increased innovation capacity; Canadian companies grow and scale; Canadian companies have increased business activity in global markets.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: 2019-20

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: 2024-25

General targeted recipient groups:

• For-profit organizations
• Not-for-profit

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: The program implements Partnership Development Activities to create a pipeline for CIIP R&D projects.

Progress and Final Reporting is required from all CIIP recipient. Information provided in the report is used to evaluate the effectiveness/efficiency and to improve program policies and services.

Can Export program

Start date: December 11, 2008

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grants and Contributions

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2018-19 (March 6, 2019 – Helping Canadian Businesses Diversify and Grow their Exports) 2008-2009 (updated 2013-2014 to add the Foreign Trade Zones Marketing Program [FTZ-MP], 2015-2016 to add the CanExport Program, 2017-2018 amendments to program terms and conditions including name change of program from Global Markets Support Program to Trade and Investment Support Program, 2018-2019 additional funding ($50 million over 5 years) in response to Budget 2018 to increase Trade Diversification, and 2019-2020 additional funding (100 million over 5 years) in response to the Fall Economic Statement, changes to Program Terms and Conditions and name change of program from Trade and Investment Support Program to CanExport Program), Approved October 21, 2020 changes to incorporate measures in accordance with Government of Canada’s COVID-19 response.

Link to departmental result(s): 2.2: Canadian exporters and innovators are successful in their international business development efforts.

2.3: Foreign direct investment is facilitated, expanded or retained.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 14. International Business Development

Program 15. International Innovation and Investment

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The purposes and objective of the program is to build a stronger and more effective Canadian capacity to compete in the global economy. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results:

CanExport Community Investments

Enhance the capability and effectiveness of Canadian communities to attract, retain and expand foreign direct investment (FDI), as measured by analysis of recipient performance reports and surveys.

Key Performance Measures and Indicators:

• Number of leads generated from program-funded activities;
• Recipient’s feedback on whether or not knowledge of opportunities has improved and in what manner; and
• Number of potential investors who requested information, participated in site visits and/or submitted investment proposals.

CanExport Associations

Stimulate the engagement of Canadian industry associations, their members, and non-member firms in international markets, in order to expand commercial linkages and facilitate future successes abroad, as measured by analysis of recipient performance reports and surveys.

Key Performance Measures and Indicators:

• Evidence that more Canadian companies are involved in international business as indicated by agreements/negotiated joint ventures (partnerships, distributors, agents, etc.) within three years of project completion; and
• Number of companies that have expanded their international business.

CanExport Innovation

Increase Canadian science and technological innovation and commercialization opportunities as measured by analysis of recipient performance reports and surveys.

Key Performance Measures and Indicators:

• Number of collaborative international research and development initiatives that have been facilitated by GMSP-funded projects within three years of project completion (as evidenced by formal agreements entered into);
• For each collaborative international research and development initiative that has been facilitated by GMSP-funded projects, recipients’ feedback on whether or not GMSP support has led or will lead to the commercialization of products, technologies, etc. and the potential value; and
• Number of partnerships entered into between Canadian researchers and key players in foreign countries within a year of project completion (as evidenced by agreements entered into, such as memorandums of understanding and letters of intent).

CanExport SMEs

Provide direct financial assistance to Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) seeking to develop new markets, especially in high-growth emerging markets.

Key Performance Measures and Indicators:

• Evidence that Canadian SMEs have started exporting within three years of project completion;
• Evidence that Canadian SMEs have diversified their export markets within three years of project completion; and
• Number of companies that have expanded their international business development efforts.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: 2014-15

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: The evaluation scheduled for 2018-2019 was postponed due to a major reorganisation which resulted in the amalgamation of the four former Trade and Investment Support Programs (TISP) into the new CanExport Program. PMAC agreed at the time on an evaluation in year 2 of the new CanExport program (2021-2022).

The CanExport Program Evaluation strategy was presented to PMEC and the committee agreed to reschedule the evaluation for a later date to provide Trade the opportunity to implement new authorities approved under two Treasury Board Submissions entitled: 1) Enhanced Export Diversification Support, and 2) Helping Canadian Businesses Diversify and Grow Their Exports. The CanExport Program Evaluation is scheduled to commence in 2024.

General targeted recipient groups: Each CanExport sub-program targets different groups of eligible recipients, all based in Canada:

• CanExport Community Investments: municipalities, communities, and non-profit organizations and locally based organizations acting as a third party or intermediary on behalf of a number of eligible communities;
• CanExport Associations: trade or industry associations (or a regional association with a national perspective) or national horizontal/multi-sectorial organizations;
• CanExport Innovation: Canadian researchers from private companies, universities and non-government research centres (all levels of government); and
• CanExport SMEs: small and medium sized enterprises.

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients:

• Acquire feedback on programs and identify potential areas of improvement through questionnaires submitted by recipients;
• Add a section on the website for feedback from recipients Evaluate adding a section on the website for feedback from recipients;
• Scope program evaluation to include recommendations for recipient engagement; and
• Engage recipients through the Trade Commissioner Service/client acquisition.

Commonwealth Secretariat

Start date: September 28, 1965

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2006-07

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s assessed contribution to the regular budget of the Commonwealth is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of Canada’s membership is to further the Government of Canada’s foreign policy goals related to international peace, security and development and, to this end, to enhance relationships among the 54 Commonwealth member countries. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results:

The expected results for 2021-2022 are those outlined in the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Strategic Plan 2017-2018 to 2020-2021.

• Greater adherence to Commonwealth values and principles, in particular those enunciated in the Commonwealth Charter;
• More effective, efficient and equitable and equitable public governance;
• Enhanced positive impact of social development;
• Youth more integrated and valued in the political and development processes;
• More inclusive economic growth and sustainable development; and
• Strengthened resilience of small states and vulnerable states.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: The Commonwealth Secretariat conducted an independent mid-term review of its Strategic Plan 2017-18 to 2020-21 in February 2020, which is available online.

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: The Commonwealth Secretariat will be conducting an external review of its Strategic Plan 2017-2021. The review’s findings will be made available to Commonwealth member states during 2021-2022 and will feed into the new 2021-2025 Strategic Plan.

General targeted recipient groups:

• Government: international governments of Commonwealth member countries
• International (non-government): support to an intergovernmental organisation (Commonwealth Secretariat)

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: The next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is now scheduled to take place in June 2021 (it was postponed by a year due to COVID-19). There will be several opportunities for Canada to engage and consult with other Commonwealth member governments and with the Commonwealth Secretariat, that will contribute to the planning and design of the Commonwealth’s Secretariat’s overall policy framework and activities.

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization

Start date: February 1998

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: December 2011 – extended indefinitely by the Minister of Foreign Affairs

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1 Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11.International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the CTBTO, which is responsible for provisionally implementing the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

Expected results:

• To strengthen global capacity, including by addressing gaps in coverage from the International Monitoring System, to monitor for nuclear tests and seismic events.
• Effective and efficient implementation of the CTBTO’s major programs as reflected in its program and budget and;
• To ensure that CTBTO actions and decisions are consistent with Canadian foreign policy priorities, through continued Canadian participation in the CTBTO’s activities, including the Preparatory Commission and its political and technical subsidiary bodies.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: The CTBTO’s internal and external oversight bodies provide functions such as internal audit, program monitoring, program evaluation, inspections, consulting and investigations. The CTBTO’s current external auditor is the Auditor General of Thailand. Canada’s representatives to the CTBTO have access to all audit and financial reports produced by the oversight bodies and presented to the Preparatory Commission.Global Affairs Canada officials may review these reports and advocate Canadian issues, as required.

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program

Start date: September 2005

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant and Contributions

Type of appropriation:  Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12 (amended); 2015-16 (amended); 2018-19 (amended); 2019-20 (amended).

Link to departmental result(s):  3.4 Improved peace and security in controls and regions where Canada engages.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 26 Anti-Crime and Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program (CTCBP) provides assistance to enhance the capacity of key beneficiary states, government entities and other international and non-governmental organizations to prevent and respond to terrorist activity in a manner consistent with international counter-terrorism and human rights obligations, norms and standards.

Expected results:

• Reduced security threats from transnational terrorism for Canadians, and affected populations, particularly women and girls, in countries where Canada engages;
• Enhanced inclusive and gender-responsive prevention and response to terrorism by security institutions in countries where GAC programs;
• Improved inclusive and gender-responsive development and compliance of counter-terrorism legal instruments, controls or frameworks by states in countries where GAC programs; and
• Improved inclusive and gender-responsive engagement and resilience of communities and civil society in counter-terrorism in countries where GAC programs.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: 2015-16

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: 2021-22

General targeted recipient groups: All levels of government of affected states, community-based organizations and associations in recipient countries, multilateral, intergovernmental, international and regional organizations, non-profit and private organizations, participating Canadian federal government departments and agencies, and other levels of government, as established under the approved terms and conditions of the CTCBP.

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: The CTCBP accepts proposals from partners at any time for prospective projects. Applicants include other federal government departments, non-governmental organizations and international organizations. The CTCBP works directly with recipient organizations and their beneficiary state agencies to determine how best to support their security efforts.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Start date: 1945

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s annual assessed contribution to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of membership is to further the Government of Canada’s foreign policy and international development assistance goals related to agricultural development and food systems, and to provide Canada with a voice in the international community on global efforts to eradicate hunger and all forms of malnutrition. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results:

• To adopt integrated and inclusive approaches to sustainable agricultural development and food systems, particularly in relation to gender equality, climate action, humanitarian action and resilience, including in the lead-up to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit.
• As a knowledge organization and neutral convener of inclusive and science-based dialogues on standards for food safety and plant health, and policy guidance on issues related to agriculture, fisheries and forestry, to ensure that its work in this area remains neutral, scientifically sound, and evidence-based.
• To promote effective and accountable multilateral governance in the context of United Nations development system reform, including measures to prevent and address sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse.

The FAO’s Programme of Work and Budget (PWB), which sets out the strategic objectives and expected outcomes for the organization’s work is approved every two years by the FAO Conference. For additional details on results and plans, please consult: FAO's Programme of Work and Budget 2020-2021 and Adjustments to PWB 2020-2021.

The next FAO Conference will take place in July 2021 and is expected to adopt a new Strategic Framework for the next 10 years, as well as a PWB for the new biennium (2022-2023) and a new Private Sector Strategy.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

Global Arctic Leadership Initiative (Formally known as Canadian International Arctic Fund)

Start date: November 5, 2020

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant and Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2020-2021

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1 Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests;

1.2 Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world;

1.3 Canada helps build strong institutions and respect for international law;

1.4 Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 5. Europe, Arctic, Middle East and Maghreb Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Purpose: To strengthen Canada’s global leadership in the Arctic.

Objectives:

• Bolster Canadian leadership in multilateral forums where polar issues are discussed and decided upon;
• Enhance representation and participation of Arctic and northern Canadians in relevant international forums and negotiations.

Expected results:

• Increased contributions to international Arctic research, discussions, and events by Northern Canadians, including indigenous peoples, women and youth
• Increased contribution in international decision-making by Northern Canadians, including Indigenous peoples, women and youth
• Enhanced Canadian engagement in strengthening international Arctic forums, including at the Arctic Council in areas of human, social, economic development and environmental protection

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: 2016-17 (The December 2016 Evaluation of Canada’s Arctic Foreign Policy)

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: 2023-2024

General targeted recipient groups: Indigenous organizations, other levels of government, non-profit and non-governmental organizations, national, regional, international and multilateral organizations, educational institutions, industry associations and individuals.

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Through the forum of the Arctic Cooperation Advisory Committee, discussions with Other Government Departments, ongoing collaboration with external stakeholders through multiple forums, public call for proposals.

Grants and Contributions in Aid of Academic Relations

Start date: January 1, 1989

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grants and contributions

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2015-16

Link to departmental result(s): 2.2: Canadian exporters and innovators are successful in their international business development efforts.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 14. International Business Development

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program : The objective of Grants and Contributions in Aid of Academic Relations is to support international education by using learning, scholarship, research, academic relations cooperation and dialogue to improve awareness of Canada’s international policies and priorities (e.g. democracy, the rule of law and human rights) and facilitate Canada’s economic prosperity. Recipients are not required to repay grant funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results: Highly skilled and qualified international students/researchers/professionals in Canada

• # of international students who select Canada as a study destination through program-funded activities
• # of recipients that choose to remain or return to a Canadian institution to pursue further study/research following program-funded activities

Canadian students/researchers/professionals abroad

• # of Canadian students, researchers, academia and professionals funded to undertake studies/research or professional development abroad

Circulation of ideas and research to the benefit of Canadian and international individuals, as well as the public and private sectors

• # of collaborative linkages established between foreign and Canadian institutions
• # of opportunities created via program-funded activities to publish academic articles or research, commercialize a product or collaborate with industry

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: 2018-19

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: Evaluation completed in 2018-19 as part of Global Affairs Canada’s 2018/2019 – 2022/2023 Departmental Evaluation Plan. Next Program evaluation will depend on the next Departmental Evaluation Plan, which has not been set. 

General targeted recipient groups: Non-governmental organizations, post-secondary and higher learning institutions, academics, mid-career professionals, scholars and students from Canada and abroad.

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Promotion of programs by missions, collaborations with non-governmental organizations, participation in education conferences and forums, EduCanada website and branding, targeted marketing campaigns, Twitter, news items via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, and annual collaboration missions of leaders of international academic institutions to Canada.

Grants in Lieu of Taxes on Diplomatic, Consular and International Organizations’ Property in Canada

Start date: January 18, 1979

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grants

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 1978-79

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada's interests.

1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 4. The Office of Protocol

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: This transfer program aims to operationalize the Diplomatic, Consular and International Organizations’ Property Grants Order (P.C.1979-59, January 18, 1979). The related Memorandum of Understanding between Global Affairs Canada and Public Services and Procurement Canada establishes responsibilities for the provision of services related to the payment of grants in lieu of real property and frontage or area taxes with respect to diplomatic and consular properties.

Expected results: Canada’s international obligations and commitments are met, as measured by:

• The timely and accurate administration of payments to taxing authorities in Canada with respect to properties of foreign States entitled to realty tax exemptions; and
• The maintenance and expansion of the most favourable property tax exemption opportunities for Canadian missions abroad.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: 2016-17

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: “Taxing authorities,” as defined under the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

International Atomic Energy Agency

Start date: December 19, 1989

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests.

1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to
a just and inclusive world.

1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s annual assessed contribution to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is a legally binding obligation of membership. Payment is made to ensure that membership remains in good standing and to therefore allow Canada to vote and participate in the Agency’s activities, including as a member of its Board of Governors. The IAEA is the main UN organization responsible for furthering the safe, secure and peaceful uses of nuclear technology.

Expected results:

• Effective and efficient implementation of the IAEA’s major programs, as reflected in the Agency’s biennial program and budget, and effective participation for Canada in the Agency’s activities;
• Direct and indirect technical and commercial dividends to the Canadian nuclear industry; and
• IAEA actions and decisions reflect Canadian interests and priorities.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: No evaluation is planned based on a low risk exemption.

General targeted recipient groups: International (non-government): Non‑governmental organizations that are not from Canada or that are not located in Canada.

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

International Criminal Court

Start date: April 1, 2005

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2021-2022

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 3. International Law

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To support the role of the ICC as the first permanent, treaty-based, international criminal court established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. The Court’s expenses are funded primarily by assessed contributions from states parties. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program. Canada’s support for the ICC is directly related to article 10(2)(j) of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act, according to which the Minister of Foreign Affairs is required to “foster the development of international law and its application in Canada’s external relations.”

Expected results:

• Enable the ICC to carry out preliminary investigations, investigations and prosecutions. To date, 30 cases have been brought before the Court and 13 different situations are under investigation. A further 9 preliminary examinations are underway. Verdicts have been issued in 7 cases. 1 case is currently awaiting a verdict, the trial for 1 case is scheduled to start in February 2021, and the opening of the confirmation of charges proceedings for 2 cases will take place in 2021. For more information, please visit the “Situations and cases” tab on the Court’s website.
• Engage in outreach to promote accountability for serious international crimes and advance the interests of justice; the Court has created an outreach strategy and published a report for the General Assembly of the United Nations. The report is available on the Court’s website here. The Court also reports on its outreach activities on an annual basis to the Assembly of States Parties (ASP). Reports to the ASP are available on the Court’s website here.
• Carry on all other activities required and expected of a judicial body functioning in accordance with international standards.
• Carry on all activities in accordance with the Court’s internal and external oversight mechanisms. Internal controls are maintained by the Court’s Registrar, including through the Office of Internal Audit. The ASP also appoints an External Auditor, and created the Committee on Budget and Finance for the budgetary and financial review and monitoring of the resources of the Court. The Court’s reports to the ASP contain detailed performance measures and performance indicators for its various activities. All proposed ICC budgets, Committee on Budget and Finance reports, financial statements, external audit reports, and resolutions are available on the ICC website.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Canada is an active participant in the annual ASP including in the budget negotiations. The Embassy of Canada to the Netherlands is regularly in direct contact with Court officials and, together with the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in New York, participates in working groups dealing with governance and financial issues affecting the Court.

International Development Assistance

Start date: 2001-02

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grants and contributions

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2012-13

Link to departmental result(s): 3.1: Improved physical, social and economic well-being for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where Canada engages.

3.2: Enhanced empowerment and rights for women and girls in countries where Canada engages

3.3: Reduced suffering and increased human dignity in communities experiencing humanitarian crises.

3.4: Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages.

3.5: Canada’s international assistance is made more effective by leveraging diverse partnerships, innovation, and experimentation.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Programs:

11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

22. Humanitarian Assistance

23. Partnerships and Development Innovation

24. Multilateral International Assistance

25. Peace and Stabilization Operations

28. Canada Fund for Local Initiatives

29. Europe, Arctic, Middle East and Maghreb International Assistance

30. Americas International Assistance

31. Asia Pacific International Assistance

32. Sub-Saharan Africa International Assistance

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: In 2017, the Minister of International Development and La Francophonie launched the Feminist International Assistance Policy. The policy outlines how Canada will refocus its international assistance on helping the poorest and most vulnerable people and build a more peaceful, inclusive and prosperous world. The policy implementation is focused on six action areas (Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls, Human Dignity (Heath, Education and Humanitarian Assistance), Growth That Works for Everyone, Environment and Climate Change, Inclusive Governance and Peace and Security) while recognizing that promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is the most effective approach to eradicating poverty and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Official development assistance (ODA) activities contribute to poverty reduction, take into account the perspectives of the poor, and are consistent with international human rights standards, as per the Official Development Assistance Accountability Act (the Act). ODA may also be provided for the purposes of alleviating the effects of natural disasters or other emergency events occurring outside Canada. Global Affairs Canada (GAC) is the lead department responsible for Canada's ODA. The majority of the department’s international assistance activities meet the requirements of the Act. However, Global Affairs Canada’s transfer payment program does not preclude activities falling outside the scope of the Act. Most of recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results:

• Improved physical, social and economic well-being for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where Canada engages.
• Enhanced empowerment and rights for women and girls in countries where Canada engages.
• Reduced suffering and increased human dignity in communities experiencing humanitarian crises.
• Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages.
• Canada’s international assistance is made more effective by leveraging diverse partnerships, innovation, and experimentation.

or fuller and more detailed description of results achieved and other performance related information, please consult GAC’s International Assistance Results Report, as an accompanying tool to DP and DRR, published online and released every fall.

For more detailed description of GAC’s disbursements related to the International Assistance Envelope, please consult Statistical Report on International Assistance, as an accompanying tool to DRR, published online and released every fall.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups:

• For-profit organizations
• Not-for-profit organizations and charities
• Academia and public institutions
• Government
• International (non-government)
• Other

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

International Financial Institutions

Start date: N/A

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Statutory Authority (Payments to International Financial Institutions – Direct payments)

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: N/A

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1 Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests;

1.2 Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world;

1.3 Canada helps strong international institutions and respect for international law; and

1.4 Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened.

3.1 Improved physical, social and economic well-being for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where Canada engages; and

3.2 Enhanced empowerment and rights for women and girls in countries where Canada engages

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 24. Multilateral International Assistance

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: International financial institutions such as the World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund and the regional development banks (including the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Caribbean Development Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank) provide technical assistance and financial services that focus on country-specific development solutions. Payments to IFIs are made in accordance with sections 3(a), 3(c) and section 12 of the International Development (Financial Institutions) Assistance Act. These include direct payment to the institutions to enable the IFIs to finance their concessional facilities and funding windows for assistance to the poorest developing countries, as well as the purchase of shares of the institutions to provide them with increased capital in order to expand their financing activities. There is no expectation for recipients to repay funds provided under this transfer payment program.

Expected results: Increased effectiveness of Canadian development cooperation through engagement with, and investment in, multilateral and global organizations, to address humanitarian and development challenges, including: progress in global food security, health, education, women’s economic empowerment, governance, climate mitigation and adaptation, infrastructure development, and support inclusive, sustainable economic growth in developing countries.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: Overarching assessments of many key partners are primarily done through the Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN).

MOPAN completed evaluation for the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Global Environment Facility and the International Fund for Agricultural Development in 2017-18.

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: Overarching assessments of many key partners will primarily be done through MOPAN. Planned assessments to commence in 2018-19, did not include any International Financial Institutions (IFIs). MOPAN plans to evaluate the African Development Bank (ADB), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the World Bank Group (WBG) – Including the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in 2021.

Please consult Global Affairs Canada’s Rolling Five-Year Development Evaluation Work Plan.

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: GAC sits on the boards of many of these institutions and holds regular consultations with them, including through annual conferences, bilateral meetings, donors meetings, including on general capital increases and replenishment discussions.

International Labour Organization

Start date: The ILO was founded in 1919, and Canada has been a member since inception.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada`s annual assessed contribution to the ILO is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of membership is to further the Government of Canada`s foreign policy goals related to international labour and social policy issues and provide it with a voice in the international community. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results:

• Development and effective supervision of international labour standards and realization of fundamental principles and rights of work;
• Targeted action against child labour, giving priority to the urgent elimination of its worst forms;
• Contributions to poverty reduction through promotion of coherent economic and social policies that support employment creation;
• Assistance to constituents in the development of skills and employability policies and programs for decent work;
• Better instruments and tools for policy analysis and formulation that support good governance and the extension of social protections to vulnerable workers;
• Strengthened social dialogue on labour and social policy issues at the national and international levels;
• Implementation of the ILO Strategy to facilitate ratification and effective application of Convention 190 on Violence and Harassment in the world of work; and,
• Policy guidance on addressing labour exploitation in global supply chains.

The ILO`s Programme and Budget, which sets out the strategic objectives and expected outcomes for the organization`s work, is approved every two years by the International Labour Conference. For additional details on results and plans, please consult the Programme and Budget Proposals for 2020-2021 and the Resolution adopted

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

International Organisation of la Francophonie

Start date: March 9, 1972

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada's interests.

1.2: Canada's leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s assessed contribution to the regular budget of the IOF is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of Canada’s membership is to promote Canadian values (e.g. gender equality, cultural and linguistic diversity, democracy, human rights, and good governance) and interests; to further the Government of Canada’s foreign policy objectives related to international peace, security, development and prosperity; and to enhance relationships among the 87 other La Francophonie states and governments. The IOF is not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results:

• Greater adherence to La Francophonie values and principles;
• Greater appreciation and use of the French language;
• More effective, efficient and equitable global governance;
• Women and youth more integrated and valued in political and development processes;
• More inclusive economic growth and sustainable development; and,
• Continuation of cooperation programs and activities undertaken by the organization as measured by performance measures and indicators for monitoring and reporting, as established under the approved terms and conditions.

Global Affairs Canada does not govern the IOF’s performance management strategy; however, the department receives annual financial statements, annual reports from the IOF Comptroller and the external auditor and a report from the Secretary General every two years. Canada is represented by the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Ministerial Conference of La Francophonie and by the Prime Minister of Canada at La Francophonie summits. As well, a number of administrative and financial meetings at the officer level and at the level of the Prime Minister’s Personal Representative to La Francophonie are held during the year at which such reports are presented.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: 2019-2020

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International Organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: The next ministerial summit, initially planned in 2020 and postponed due to COVID-19 will take place in November 2021. Canada will have opportunities to engage and consult other members of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) who will contribute to planning and designing the policy framework and activities of the OIF.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization Civil Administration

Start date: January 1, 1989

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12 (amended)

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests.

1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

3.4: Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s annual assessed contribution to NATO flows from its membership in NATO under the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty. Canada’s contribution furthers its foreign policy goals by funding the administrative budget of NATO, an international organization vital to Canadian defence and security interests. NATO was founded to promote the stability of the Euro-Atlantic area and to safeguard the freedom and security of its people based on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and international law.

Expected results:

• Effective decision-making by NATO in pursuit of its objectives to maintain stability and security in the Euro-Atlantic area in the context of a rapidly changing international security environment in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and North Africa region as measured by, for example, implementation of NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence and Projecting Stability initiatives, including in the context of the NATO Leaders meeting in London in 2019;
• Linked to above, direct support to prime ministerial and ministerial engagement in NATO decision-making processes (e.g. summits, foreign and defence ministerial meetings);
• Support to NATO operations as measured by progress with respect to ongoing NATO operations and activities, including in Eastern and Central Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Kosovo, Afghanistan and elsewhere;
• Enhanced relations with NATO partners as measured by the development and implementation of policies aimed at enhancing these relationships;
• Appropriate response to current and emerging defence and security challenges, as measured by, for example, ongoing progress on NATO cyber defence and by ensuring that NATO is able to defend its own networks against cyber threats; and
• Proper management of the Alliance’s resources, as measured by ongoing reform and transformation initiatives, which include increasing NATO’s transparency and accountability and ensuring appropriate value for money.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: Not applicable.

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Not applicable.

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International Organisations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Not applicable

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Start date: March 20, 1975

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12 (amended)

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests

1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world

1.3: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 1. International Policy Coordination

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to develop and promote evidence-based policies and standards that will improve the economic and social well-being of its 36 member countries and people around the world. The OECD works primarily with governments to understand what drives economic, social and environmental change, measures productivity and global flows of trade and investment, analyzes and compares data to predict future trends, and sets international standards on a wide range of areas, from agriculture and tax to the safety of chemicals. The OECD’s biennial planning and budgeting are governed by an outputs-based management framework, delivered through a Programme of Work and Budget, which is approved by members, based on their priorities. Outputs are tracked by the Secretariat and each of the OECD’s committees, whose members assess the activities’ quality and impact through the Programme Implementation Report, with a view to improving performance. Impact effectiveness and efficiency of committees are also assessed through in-depth evaluations on a five-year basis. Financial operations and expenditures are externally audited annually and reported to members; external auditors also undertake performance audits. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results:

• Find solutions to common economic and social problems by working cooperatively with members toward the development of evidence-based international policies, standards, models, guidelines and agreements;
• Implement OECD work programs and policy positions that reflect input from across the Canadian government and support domestic priorities;
• Influence the policy development of other members and of non-members to improve the functioning of the international economic environment;
• Analyze new and emerging issues, both domestic and global, that affect Canada’s economy and standard of living;
• Improve engagement with non-members, reflecting Canadian priorities to increase the long-term reach and global impact of the organization’s standards;
• Implement institutional reforms to improve the OECD’s ability to cope with new issues and power dynamics; and
• Ensure sound management of the OECD.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next
planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International Organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

Organization of American States

Start date: 1990 (Canada is a member of the OAS since 1990)

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada's interests.

1.2: Canada's leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 6. Americas Policy & Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Assessed contributions are mandatory dues to fund the Organization’s core functions and are calculated according to Member States’ Gross National Income and relative size of their economy, in line with the scale of assessments used at the Organization of American States (OAS).

The OAS is the region’s premier multilateral forum for cooperation and dialogue on issues of importance to the hemisphere, including democracy, human rights, security and development. The OAS is an important partner for advancing Canada's foreign policy priorities and objectives in the Americas.

Through its membership, diplomatic engagement and financial support, Canada ensures the implementation of projects in areas of key Canadian interest, complementing and leveraging the impact of Canada’s bilateral interventions in the hemisphere.

Expected results: Expected results for Canada at the OAS include: 1) fostering regional multilateral collaboration to resolve crises and address issues of mutual interest affecting the hemisphere; 2) promoting and protecting democracy and human rights across the hemisphere; 3) encouraging sustainable development in the region; and 4) ensuring security-related coordination and cooperation in the Americas.

The Terms and Conditions governing this transfer payment do not specify performance measures and indicators.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International Organization

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Canada maintains a permanent mission to the OAS, headed by an ambassador and permanent representative to the OAS in Washington, D.C.

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Start date: January 1, 1993

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2012-13

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests.

1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

3.4: Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s annual assessed contribution to the OSCE is an obligation arising from its membership in what has become the world’s largest regional security organization, with 57 participating states from North America, Europe and Eurasia. Canada’s contribution furthers its foreign policy goals related to human rights, fundamental freedoms, democratization, fragile states, conflict prevention, crisis management, mediation, post-conflict development, and arms control. This is achieved by funding OSCE operations; Permanent Council meetings and working groups; policy conferences and expert workshops; and on-the-ground mediation, social betterment, and capacity-building programs implemented by the OSCE Secretariat, autonomous institutions, and field missions.

Canada’s OSCE contributions also include payments made to administer and implement two legally binding conventional arms control regimes to which Canada is state party: The Treaty on Open Skies (for which Canada is a treaty co-depository, together with Hungary) and the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, as well as the politically binding Vienna Document. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results:

• Effective and timely implementation of the decisions of the OSCE Permanent Council as well as the Ministerial Council as measured by the organization’s successful work and progress on such issues of importance to Canada as: human rights; election monitoring; democracy building; good governance; tolerance and non-discrimination; safeguarding fundamental freedoms; combatting human trafficking; counterterrorism and extremism; as well as enhanced engagement with key OSCE Partners.
• Continuous monitoring of the security situation in Europe, as measured by the OSCE’s regular reporting and early warning function provided by the organization’s Conflict Prevention Centre, its specialized institutions and its Field Operations, including the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. In this regard, the OSCE’s work and engagement in the region’s conflicts (e.g. Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh, Moldova-Transnistria, and Georgia’s secessionist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia) contribute to promoting dialogue and lowering tensions.
• Concerted programming to actively contribute to conflict prevention, conflict resolution and post-conflict institution building, as measured by the successful implementation of the Permanent Council and the Ministerial Decisions that strengthen the OSCE’s conflict prevention toolkit, especially in the key areas of early warning and mediation. In addition, the Transnational Threats Unit consolidates and coordinates the OSCE’s work on counterterrorism, border security, policing and anti-trafficking.
• Proper management of the organization’s resources, as measured by the audits on the OSCE’s financial statements and by the renewed efforts of the OSCE Secretary General to enhance the organization’s accountability and transparency.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Not applicable

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International Organisation

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Not applicable

Pan American Health Organization

Start date: 1971 (Canada is a member of PAHO since 1971)

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2013-14

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada's interests.

1.2: Canada's leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 6. Americas Policy & Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Assessed contributions are mandatory dues to fund the Organization’s core functions and are calculated according to Member States’ Gross National Income and relative size of their economy, in line with the scale of assessments used at the Organization of American States (OAS).

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) serves as the specialized organization for health in the Inter-American System. It also serves as the Regional Office of the World Health Organization for the Americas and enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system. 

Membership in PAHO enables Canada to expand its multilateral and bilateral relations with its 34 member countries and be an active hemispheric partner on health-related issues, including on sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR). Through its membership, Canada contributes to the Organization’s mission “to promote equity in health, to combat diseases, and to improve the quality of life and well-being of the peoples in the Americas.”

Expected results: Expected results for Canada at PAHO are to:

1. protect the health of Canadians by contributing to the safety and security of the Americas
2. advance Canada’s influence and interests in the Americas - with respect to policies, good governance, transparency, and accountability; and 3) disseminate Canadian-based values related to health, as well as successes on key policies such as universal health coverage.

The Terms and Conditions governing this transfer payment do not specify performance measures and indicators.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International Organization

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: As a Member State of PAHO, Canada attends the PAHO Directing Council and the Pan American Sanitary Conference, which are the most important governing bodies of the Organization. In these entities, Canada supports transparency, accountability and alignment of PAHO with the WHO and the UN system.

Peace and Stabilization Operations Program

Start date: 2016

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grants and Contributions

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2018-19

Link to departmental result(s): 1.2: Canada's leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

3.2: Enhanced empowerment and rights for women and girls in countries where Canada engages.

3.4: Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 25. Peace and Stabilization Operations

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The Peace and Stabilization Operations Program (PSOPs) is the Government of Canada’s platform for conflict prevention, stabilization and peacebuilding. It engages in fragile and conflict-affected states leveraging resources of, and partnerships with, multilateral institutions and like-minded nations. It affects its work through policy expertise, support to multilateral institutions, programming and deployments.

PSOPs core responsibilities are: 1) to provide policy leadership on peace and stabilization, including strategic coordination of Government of Canada responses to complex political crises on an as-needed basis; and 2) to deliver gender-responsive conflict prevention, stabilization, and peacebuilding initiatives through both programming (in the form of grants and contributions) and deployments.

Per the PSOPs Terms and Conditions, contributions supported by PSOPs programming are not repayable.

Expected results:

• Improved inclusive and gender-responsive prevention of violent conflict, response to crisis, and peacebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected areas where PSOPs engages.
• Enhanced inclusive and gender-responsive prevention of and response to national and transnational threats by security institutions in fragile and conflict-affected areas where PSOPs engages.
• Enhanced inclusive and gender-responsive multilateral prevention, mitigation and response to violent conflict, threats, insecurity and fragility in the world.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: 2015-16

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation of Program

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: Summative Evaluation Scheduled for 2021/22

General targeted recipient groups:

• Not-for-profit organizations and charities
• International (non-government)
• Academia and public institutions
• Other: All levels of government of affected States and other donor countries
• Other: Multilateral, intergovernmental, international and regional organizations, agencies and institutions

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: The PSOPs website is the key tool through which PSOPs communicates with the public and potential applicants. It includes key information on applying for funding, and applicants may submit concept papers, whether unsolicited or in response to a call for concepts, through the website.

PSOPs undertakes formal and informal discussions with partners to inform the PSOPs Strategy, to facilitate understanding of PSOPs priorities and the funding process, and to solicit feedback to improve how the program works.

PSOPs engages regularly with multilateral recipients including the UN system to identify funding gaps and opportunities, and to discuss global priorities on peace, stabilization and conflict prevention.

PSOPs relies on Canadian representatives abroad to engage regularly with potential recipients and partners. As projects are being implemented, PSOPs officers regularly monitor PSOPs-funded projects, including through regular contact with implementing partners and monitoring visits. These visits not only allow PSOPs to monitor project progress and results, but also allow officers to engage directly with beneficiaries and local implementing partners. 

PSOPs officers participate actively in Solution Teams convened by the Task Force on Improving Effectiveness to address specific challenges in the international assistance process. These groups are composed of Global Affairs staff and civil society
representatives, and provide a space for open dialogue to develop mutually beneficial solutions.

Projects and Development Activities Resulting from La Francophonie Summits

Start date: March 9, 1979

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2010-2011

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests.

1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 24. Multilateral International Assistance

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: This program provides funding to cooperation programs and activities undertaken by the International Organisation of La Francophonie (IOF). It also provides financial support to the Government of New Brunswick to foster its participation in summits, ministerial conferences and other related La Francophonie activities. This program promotes Canadian interests and is consistent with Canada’s development, political and economic objectives for La Francophonie.

Expected results:

• Active participation by the IOF in all areas identified in the contribution agreement as measured by the Performance Management Strategy, which requires that financial reports be submitted to Global Affairs Canada before settlements to the IOF are initiated. Reports are also presented at the annual Ministerial Conference of La Francophonie as well as to the Administration and Finance Commission and the Permanent Council of La Francophonie, which are held as preparatory meetings in advance of the Ministerial Conference of La Francophonie.
• Active participation by the Government of New Brunswick in all significant IOF activities as measured by the provision on accountability that is part of the protocol of agreement on Canada’s financial contribution for the participation of New Brunswick at La Francophonie events and follow-up. New Brunswick accepts to submit to Canada, in the six months following the end of the duration of the protocol, a narrative report as well as a certified financial report on real time expenses made by New Brunswick during the fiscal year.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: 2019-2020

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: Other levels of government and international organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: The next ministerial summit, initially planned in 2020 and postponed due to COVID-19 will take place in November 2021. Canada will have opportunities to engage and consult other members of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) who will contribute to planning and designing the policy framework and activities of the OIF.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Start date: The UN was established in 1945, and Canada has been a member since inception.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada`s annual assessed contribution to the United Nations is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of membership is to further the Government of Canada`s foreign policy goals related to international peace, security and development and provide it with a voice in the international community. Assessed contributions are used to finance the organization`s programs toward attainment of the UN`s objectives, as set out in its Charter. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results:

• Promotion of peace and security;
• Progress toward achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
• Promotion and protection of human rights;
• Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance efforts;
• Promotion of justice and international law;
• Progress toward disarmament;
• International cooperation for drug control and crime prevention; and
• International cooperation to combat terrorism.

The UN’s program and budget which set out the strategic objectives and expected outcomes for the organization’s work, are approved annually by the UN General Assembly. For further information, please visit the website of the UN, including the Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization (A/75/1)

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

United Nations Organization

Start date: The UN was established in 1945, and Canada has been a member since inception.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada`s annual assessed contribution to the United Nations is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of membership is to further the Government of Canada`s foreign policy goals related to international peace, security and development and provide it with a voice in the international community. Assessed contributions are used to finance the organization`s programs toward attainment of the UN`s objectives, as set out in its Charter. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results:

• Promotion of peace and security;
• Progress toward achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
• Promotion and protection of human rights;
• Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance efforts;
• Promotion of justice and international law;
• Progress toward disarmament;
• International cooperation for drug control and crime prevention; and
• International cooperation to combat terrorism.

The UN’s program and budget which set out the strategic objectives and expected outcomes for the organization’s work, are approved annually by the UN General Assembly. For further information, please visit the website of the UN, including the Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization (A/75/1)

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

United Nations Peacekeeping Operations

Start date: The UN was established in 1945, and Canada has been a member since inception.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations help countries torn by conflict create the conditions for lasting peace. In addition to maintaining peace and security, peacekeepers are increasingly charged with assisting in political processes, reforming judicial systems, training law enforcement and policy forces, disarming and reintegrating former combatants, and supporting the return of internally displaced persons and refugees. Canada`s assessed contribution to UN Peacekeeping Operations is a legally binding obligation of membership. 

Expected results:

• Enhance peace and security for the countries and regions concerned;
• Contribute to increased levels of security, protection of civilians, support to humanitarian activities, basic services and governance provided in affected areas, promoting advanced prospects for peace as well as enabling reconstruction and development activities; and
• Maintain multilateral relationships with key UN organizations and bilateral relationships with key allies and other troop-contributing countries.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

Weapons Threat Reduction Program

Start date: June 7, 2018

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grants and contributions

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2017-18

Link to departmental result(s): 3.4: Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages. 

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 27. Weapons Threat Reduction

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The Weapons Threat Reduction Program (WTRP) implements Canada’s commitments to the G7-led, 31-member Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction (the Global Partnership). In 2018, the WTRP was renewed on an ongoing basis at reference levels of $73.4 million per annum to address ongoing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation threats globally, corresponding with the G7’s decision to expand the Global Partnership’s geographic focus. The WTRP implements cooperative threat reduction projects in the following priority areas: nuclear and radiological security; biological security; support for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (to counter WMD proliferation); chemical security; and, as part of the WTRP’s newly expanded mandate, providing institutional support to international legal regimes dealing with conventional weapons.

Expected results:

• Reduced threats to Canadians and the global population from WMDs and related materials as well as conventional weapons;
• Strengthened detection, prevention and response of partner states, regional and international organizations to the proliferation of weapons and related materials;
• Reduced access to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear-related materials by non-state actors and states of proliferation concern; and,
• Improved legal and policy instruments and frameworks of partner states that meet international security and threat reduction standards and best practices.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: 2017-18

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation of program

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: 2022-23

General targeted recipient groups: Implementing partners : regional and international organizations with relevant chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear-related security expertise and capacities; partner foreign states and entities thereof, including those states whose counter-proliferation regimes are deemed to be vulnerable; all other legal entities, including civil society and individuals who meet the eligibility requirements under the program’s terms and conditions; Crown corporations and other government departments and agencies.

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: In addition to leveraging Canada's global network of missions to identify potential project initiatives, the program undertakes targeted outreach and assessment missions to countries and organizations identified in its interdepartmental strategic programming consultations. The program also engages with relevant regional and multilateral institutions (e.g. International Atomic Energy Agency, World Health Organization and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) and plays a leading role within the G7-led, 31-member Global Partnership Working Group (and related groupings and initiatives) to identify and coordinate cooperative threat reduction programming.

World Health Organization

Start date: The WHO was founded in 1948, and Canada has been a member since inception.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2016-17

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada`s annual assessed contribution to the WHO is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of membership is to further the Government of Canada`s foreign policy goals related to health and provide it with a voice in the international community. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results:

• Enhanced global health security through:
  • operationalization of a unified WHO emergency program;
  • contribution toward International Health Regulations (2005) (IHRs) core capacities and improvements to the IHRs; and
  • Support for the implementation of the Contingency Fund for Emergencies.
• Accelerated progress toward achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by:
  • reducing maternal mortality;
  • improving child survival;
  • addressing the global burden of non-communicable diseases and their main risk factors;
  • promoting healthy environments; and
  • Increasing access to essential medicines.
• Promotion of health equity by:
  • Strengthening health systems to reach the poorest and most vulnerable.
• Strengthened global norms and standards in health by:
  • Developing, implementing and monitoring global norms and standards; and
  • Promoting safety of food, water and medical products and devices.
• Continued progress to implement WHO institutional reform by:
  • Supporting ongoing efforts to enhance organizational efficiency and transparency.

The WHO`s programme budget, which sets out the strategic objectives and expected outcomes for the organization’s work is approved every two years by the World Health Assembly. For additional details on results and plans, please consult: WHO Programme and Budget 2020-2021

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

World Trade Organization

Start date: January 1, 1995

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2009-10

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law. 

2.1: Canada helps to build and safeguard an open and inclusive rules-based global trading system.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 12. Trade Policy, Agreements, Negotiations, and Disputes

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s contribution to the World Trade Organization (WTO) budget reflects Canada’s commitment to safeguarding the multilateral trading system. It is based on our share of world trade and determined on an annual basis. The WTO is a cornerstone of Canada’s trade policy, providing a common set of rules, rights and obligations for the trade policies of its 164 members and a forum for Canada to advance its trade interests on the broadest possible basis. The WTO provides Canada with the opportunity to build alliances, influence rules and secure concessions on issues where it may otherwise have less leverage. Issues such as agriculture subsidies and regulatory concerns (e.g. sanitary and phytosanitary measures) are more effectively addressed multilaterally. The WTO also has a robust dispute settlement system, of which Canada is a regular user. Through the ongoing work of its many committees, the WTO provides a forum for Canada to raise and resolve a range of trade irritants and market access issues. Finally, the WTO is also an active forum for trade policy monitoring and surveillance.

Expected results:

• As a trade-dependent country, Canada has been actively involved in all areas of the WTO negotiations:
  • Canada’s key interests are protecting the integrity of the WTO agreements and institutions; pursuing a number of remaining Doha-round (DDA) issues, particularly disciplines on domestic support for agriculture; advancing negotiations on eliminating harmful fisheries subsidies; and ensuring that the WTO remains relevant to the realities of 21st century economies, including for example, by delivering outcomes in negotiations on contemporary economic issues such as electronic commerce and trade and gender.
  • Multilateral DDA negotiations are at an impasse but negotiations continue with respect to fisheries and agriculture. Canada continues to work with other WTO members to find constructive ways to advance multilateral discussions on issues facing the global trading system. Progress in these areas will be measured by WTO reports (including committee reports) and developments in WTO negotiations (for example, outcomes of the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference).
  • Given the challenges in the WTO’s multilateral negotiations, Canada has been participating in open-ended plurilateral discussions with a subset of like-minded WTO members in a number of areas (e.g. investment facilitation, e-commerce, domestic regulation for services, and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises).
• Continued work with WTO members to advance discussions on issues facing the global trading system:
  • WTO members have begun to consider possible next steps to advance the multilateral trading system. WTO ministers will meet in June 2020 for the WTO’s 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12). In the lead up to MC12, key WTO trade ministers, including from Canada, participated in mini-ministerial meetings during 2019-2020 to help advance discussions. 
• Leadership on WTO reform:
  • As an active member of the organization and in keeping with its traditional multilateral trade leadership, Canada has convened a representative group of WTO members (the “Ottawa Group”) committed to supporting and modernizing the multilateral trading system.
  • Ottawa Group discussions are intended to complement reform efforts by other WTO members. Discussions focus on three main themes: immediate actions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the WTO; safeguarding and strengthening the dispute-settlement system; and reinvigorating the WTO’s negotiating function.
  • The Ottawa Group has met twice in FY 2019-2020: in May 2019 on the margins of the OECD Trade ministers’ meetings and in January 2020 on the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
• Participation in accession negotiations and reviews on WTO members:
  • Canada participates in the accession negotiations for all countries seeking to join the WTO. Canada also participates in the review of the trade policies of each WTO member, as well as preparing for its own review (every five years).
• Participation in the WTO dispute settlement system:
  • Canada is one of the most active participants in the WTO dispute settlement system, as measured by the number of disputes in which Canada is a participant as either a direct or intervening party. The WTO’s dispute settlement system is the world’s preeminent body for discussing and resolving international trade disputes. Canada is also an active participant in efforts to review the Dispute Settlement Understanding.
  • Canada continues to work with like-minded WTO members to find interim and long-term solutions to the impasse in new appointments to the WTO Appellate Body, which has resulted in it no longer being able to hear new appeals as of December 2019.

The governance mechanisms of international organizations include oversight services. Global Affairs Canada will rely upon these oversight regimes to assist in monitoring the WTO’s accountability for achieving objectives agreed to by its members and for stewardship of its funds, which are contributed by member states, including Canada.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: The WTO’s external auditors conduct a performance audit of the WTO, which is based on standards set by the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions. The 2018 performance audit was released on June 7, 2019.

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation: “The audit revealed no weaknesses or errors which I considered material to the accuracy, completeness and validity of the financial statements as a whole. Therefore, I have placed an unqualified audit opinion on WTO’s financial statements for 2018.”See WT/BFA/W/488.

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: Evaluation for 2019 is expected to be released in June 2020.

General targeted recipient groups: International (non-government)

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

TPPs with total planned spending of less than $5 million

Annual Voluntary Contributions to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and to the Organization of American States' Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission

Start date: December 1999

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contributions

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12 (amended); 2015-16 (amended); 2018-19 (amended); 2019-20 (amended).

Link to departmental result(s): 3.4 Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 26 Anti-Crime and Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The Anti-Crime Capacity Building Program (ACCBP) provides assistance to enhance the capacity of key beneficiary states, government entities and other international and non-governmental organizations to prevent and respond to threats posed by international criminal activity in a manner consistent with international human rights obligations, norms and standards, with a global mandate and a focus on the Americas.

The ACCBP manages the Annual Voluntary Contributions (AVCs) to the Organization of American States Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (OAS-CICAD) and to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The AVCs have three primary objectives:

1. to financially assist UNODC to fulfill its mandate in the fight against drugs and international crime at global levels;
2. to financially assist OAS to fulfill its mandate in the fight against drugs at hemispheric levels; and
3. to help enable Canada to maintain a visible and influential role in UNODC and OAS

Expected results: The AVCs fund efforts to reduce demand for illicit drugs, reduce supply and availability of illicit drugs, strengthen the ability of the international community to address international crime, and support coordination of drug control through research, international policy development and evaluation. Addressing international crime includes crime prevention, criminal justice, criminal law reform (rule of law) including transnational organized crime, corruption, trafficking in persons, and terrorism prevention.

The AVCs include dedicated funds to support objectives within the Enforcement Pillar of Canada’s National Anti-Drug Strategy.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: 2012-13

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: 2021-2022

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations (UNODC & OAS-CICAD)

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: The ACCBP accepts proposals from partners at any time for prospective projects. Applicants include other federal government departments, non-government organizations and international organizations. The ACCBP works directly with recipient organizations and their beneficiary state agencies to determine how best to support their security efforts.

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat

Start date: 1989

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: N/A

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests.

1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 18. Asia Pacific Trade

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s assessed contribution to the APEC Secretariat serves to sustain our influence on economic integration and cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region (e.g. trade liberalization and facilitation, economic development, human security). Active engagement in APEC ensures that Canada maintains the necessary visibility and credibility to be a valued Asia-Pacific partner and provides Canada with a valuable platform to promote Canadian priorities and interests in the region. APEC is the only Asia-Pacific regional body that meets at the Leader-level of which Canada is a member.

Expected results: Enhanced overall engagement with rapidly growing Southeast Asia nations that build and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests in the Asia-Pacific. Increased trade and foreign direct investment with Asia-Pacific partners with a focus on more diversified, modern, and inclusive approaches.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal

Start date: 1992

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution under the Basel Convention to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects of hazardous wastes. The scope of application of the Convention covers a wide range of wastes defined as “hazardous wastes” based on their origin and/or composition and their characteristics, as well as three types of wastes defined as “other wastes” – household waste, incinerator ash, and, as of 1 January 2021, plastic waste. Canada’s assessed contribution to the Basel Convention is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results: Under the Basel Convention, key results expected include:

• development of technical guidelines on environmentally sound management (ESM) practices for many types of waste, to provide direction to Parties and others;
• clarification of the scope of the Basel Convention (waste lists) and work on hazard classes;
• harmonization of the OECD and Basel Convention control systems;
• preparation of manuals and guidance to improve legal clarity and implementation of provisions; and
• national reporting.

For more information about Canada`s involvement, visit: Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

Canada’s annual host country grant to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Start date: November 6, 1992

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 24. Multilateral International Assistance

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To support activities related to the permanent establishment in Canada of the SCBD

Expected results: It is expected that the annual grant to the CBD Secretariat will achieve the following results:

• demonstrate the importance that Canada attaches to the objectives of the CBD, and highlight the sustainable development agenda of the Government of Canada;
• generate economic benefits in proportion to the investment made by Canada in the CBD Secretariat;
• strengthen Montreal's and Canada’s position as a highly desirable location for international organizations.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

Commonwealth Foundation

Start date: 1966

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2006-07

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

3.1: Improved physical, social and economic well-being for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where Canada engages.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s assessed contribution to the regular budget of the Commonwealth Foundation demonstrates Canada’s commitment to inclusive governance, by promoting transparency and the active participation of civil society in Commonwealth countries. Engagement also reinforces Canada’s relationships with other Commonwealth members.

Expected results: The following expected results are from the Commonwealth Foundation’s 2017-2021 Strategic Plan:

• Policy, law and government institutions are more effective contributors to development through the influence of civic voices;
• Civic voices are more effective in holding institutions to account;
• Public discourse is shaped by less-heard narratives.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: The Commonwealth Foundation completed a mid-term review of its Strategic Plan 2017-21 in June 2019 (fiscal year 2019-20).

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation.

Following the last mid-term evaluation of the Foundation’s strategy, several recommendations are being implemented. For example:

• Strengthen results-based management practices in its annual reporting to members;
• Improve the integration of gender equality in the Foundation’s strategic and programme performance frameworks, to be followed through by training;

Improve the Foundation’s outreach to Commonwealth members and civil society organizations outside of London, UK.

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: The Commonwealth Foundation conducted in December 2020 an external review of its 2017-2021 Strategic Plan, which will be discussed with members in the lead up to the June 2021 Board of Governors meeting, and will feed into the development of the new 2021-2025 Strategic Plan.

General targeted recipient groups:

• International (non-government): support to an intergovernmental organisation (Commonwealth Foundation), as well as support to NGOs located in Commonwealth countries who benefit from the activities of the Commonwealth Foundation, via its Strategic Plan.
• Individual: the Foundation provides funding to individuals from across the Commonwealth (e.g. Writers), such as to allow travel to events such as the launch of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: The next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is now scheduled to take place in June 2021, (it was postponed by a year due to COVID-19) There will be several opportunities for Canada to engage and consult with civil society organizations (NGOs) from Commonwealth member governments, and with the Commonwealth Foundation. This will contribute to the planning, delivery and design of the Commonwealth Foundation.

Commonwealth Youth Program

Start date: 1973

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2006-07

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

3.1: Improved physical, social and economic well-being for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where Canada engages.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s support to the Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) promotes and contributes to youth development in the Commonwealth, and to enhancing Canada’s relationships with other Commonwealth countries on youth issues. CYP advocates for the effective participation of young women and men in the development process and for social transformation and values their full engagement at all levels of decision-making.

Expected results: Although the CYP is managed through a funding stream that is separate from the Commonwealth Secretariat, its activities are overseen by the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Youth Affairs Division. The following expected results, specific to youth, are outlined in the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Strategic Plan:

• Young people are engaged and empowered to meaningfully participate in political and development processes;
• Sports contribute to sustainable development, health, and peaceful and just societies;
• Strengthened sustainable policies that reduce disparities and improve health and education outcomes;

Women, girls and other vulnerable groups are empowered and protected against violence and harmful practices.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: The last evaluation GAC has on record of the Commonwealth Youth Program dates back to June 2011, and was conducted by an external consultant.

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation.

Following the last mid-term evaluation of the CYP’s strategy, several recommendations were implemented. For example:

• Improve the effectiveness and reach of regional Commonwealth Youth Centres (in Africa, Asia, Pacific, Caribbean);
• Align the CYP to a narrower programme focus, which is less event-driven;
• Further mainstream youth in the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Strategic Plan, and for Youth to be less siloed.

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: The CYP has not yet announced its plans for its next evaluation (TBD).

General targeted recipient groups:

• International (non-government): Support to an intergovernmental organisation (Commonwealth Secretariat, which houses the CYP)
• Individual: the CYP supports individual youth delegates to participate in Commonwealth youth events, such as the Commonwealth Youth Forum held at the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Forum (CHOGM).

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: The next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is now scheduled to take place in June 2021, (it was postponed by a year due to COVID-19). There should be several opportunities for Canada to engage and consult with youth delegates and youth organizations (NGOs) from Commonwealth member governments, particularly at the Commonwealth Youth Forum. This will contribute to some extent to the delivery of the overall Commonwealth Youth Program.

Convention on Biological Diversity

Start date: 1992

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in support of its three objectives: the conservation of biological diversity; the sustainable use of the components of biological diversity; and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources. Canada’s assessed contribution to the CBD is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected Results:

• Parties agree to increase efforts to meet the three objectives of the Convention: to conserve biodiversity, sustainably use biodiversity, and to share the benefits from the utilization of genetic resources.
• Parties develop national and regional targets, using the Strategic Plan and its Aichi targets as a flexible framework, thus providing information on measures that they have taken to meet the objectives of the Convention.
• The Convention monitors and reviews of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan implementation in accordance with the Strategic Plan and national targets, making use of the set of indicators developed for the Strategic Plan as a flexible framework.
• Parties report on progress achieved towards implementation of the Strategic Plan and Aichi Biodiversity Targets through their national reports.

For more information about Canada’s involvement, visit: Environment and Climate Change Canada

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

Diplomatic Supplement Retirement Benefit

Start date: 1985

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant

Type of appropriation: Statutory Authority: Diplomatic Service (Special) Superannuation Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. D-2)

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2013-14

Link to departmental result(s): 5.1: Sound management and delivery of resources, infrastructure and services enables Canada’s presence abroad.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 48. Financial Management

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To provide superannuation benefits for senior appointees of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (Global Affairs Canada) serving outside Canada.

Expected results: Continued payment of superannuation benefits for senior appointees of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (Global Affairs Canada) serving outside Canada.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A (Statutory Authority)

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: N/A

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

Start date: 1972 (Canada is a member of IICA since 1972)

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2010-11

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada's interests.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 6. Americas Policy & Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Assessed contributions are mandatory dues to fund the Organization’s core functions and are calculated according to Member States’ Gross National Income and relative size of their economy, in line with the scale of assessments used at the Organization of American States (OAS).

The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) is the specialized agency for agriculture in the Inter-American system. It focuses on designing and delivering agricultural projects to improve food security, trade and prosperity in the hemisphere.

Canada’s membership in IICA permits it to participate in the work of the Organization in the areas of trade development, food safety and sustainable production. IICA is a forum through which Canada works to promote Canadian expertise and agri-business, and to improve and build new linkages for Canada in the Americas.

Expected results: Canada benefits from IICA’s work in several ways, including:

1. increased adoption of science-based standards to regulate food and trade, and increased capacity to implement these standards in the countries of the region;
2. developing countries are enabled to participate in international standard-setting bodies helping to develop a regional consensus on standards; and
3. IICA’s meetings with other countries allow to share information on important agriculture and agri-food related topics.

The Terms and Conditions governing this transfer payment do not specify performance measures and indicators.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International Organization

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Canada participates in IICA’s governing and technical bodies.

International Agency for Research on Cancer

Start date: IARC was established in 1965 and Canada joined in 1981

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2016-17

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada`s assessed contribution to the IARC, the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization. Its mission is to conduct and promote international collaboration in cancer research with the objective of improving health through a reduction in the incidence of and mortality from cancer throughout the world. Canada`s assessed contribution to the IARC is a legally binding obligation of membership. Assessed contributions are used to finance the organization’s research program toward attainment of IARC’s objectives, as set out in its Statute. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results: Through collaboration with international partners:

• Elucidate the causes of cancer and study approaches for early detection and prevention;
• Report on the burden of cancer worldwide and monitor geographical variations and trends over time;
• Contribute evidence to be translated effectively into timely policies for cancer control;
• Coordinate a biobank (+6 million samples) to study the causes, early detection and prevention of cancer;
• Contribute to education and training of cancer researchers worldwide;
• Disseminate findings to the widest possible audience.

For further information, visit the IARC web site

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

International Civil Aviation Organization

Start date: 1946

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to ICAO, a specialized agency of the UN that works with the Convention on International Civil Aviation’s 193 Member States and industry groups to reach consensus on international standards and recommended practices and policies, which States use when developing their legally enforceable national regulations. Canada`s assessed contribution to ICAO is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results: The Assembly approves the ICAO Budget every three years. The budget set out the priorities to guide the activities of the Organization to enable States to attain safe, secure, efficient, economically viable and environmentally responsible air transport. For additional details on the budget of the Organization for 2020, 2021, and 2022, please consult: ICAO Budget

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

International Energy Agency

Start date: Not applicable. Assessed contributions to international organizations.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: Not applicable. Assessed contributions to international organizations.

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests.

1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 1. International Policy Coordination

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution as a member of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the leading global authority on energy policy, market analysis and cleaner technologies. The IEA is an autonomous organization that works to ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy for its 30 member countries and beyond. The IEA has four main areas of focus: energy security, economic development, environmental awareness and engagement worldwide.

Expected results: Assessed contributions to international organizations.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission

Start date: 20 Nov 1990

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2021-2022

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3 Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law. Canada is a state party to the IHFFC and promotion of the IHFFC reflects Canada’s role in the international rules based order, particularly related to international humanitarian law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 3: International Law

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the IHFFC, which is the only permanent international fact-finding body mandated to investigate violations of international humanitarian law. 76 of the States Members of the Geneva Convention’s First Additional Protocol (as well as the Palestinian Authority) have recognized the competence of the Commission. IHFFC conducted its first investigation in 2017 by finalizing an Independent Forensic Investigation in Ukraine in 2017 at the request of the OSCE. Canada has been a state party since 1990.

Expected results: IHFFC promotes compliance with International Humanitarian law through enquiries of potential grave breaches or other violations of the Geneva Conventions or Protocols.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organization: Non‑governmental organizations that are not from Canada or that are not located in Canada

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Limited engagement. Canada has pledged to promote the IHFFC at the International Conference of the International Red Cross/Red Crescent. Canada frequently promotes the competency of the IHFFC in international resolutions.

International Maritime Organization

Start date: 1948

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada`s assessed contribution to the IMO, a specialized agency of the UN that is responsible for measures to improve the safety and security of international shipping and to prevent pollution from ships. It is also involved in legal matters, including liability and compensation issues and the facilitation of international maritime traffic. Canada’s assessed contribution to the IMO is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results: Under the IMO Convention, key results expected include:

• Promotion of safe, secure, and environmentally responsible international shipping;
• Progress toward achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

For more information, visit the International Maritime Organization

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

International Renewable Energy Agency

Start date: Not applicable. Assessed contributions to international organizations.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: Not applicable. Assessed contributions to international organizations.

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests.

1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 1. International Policy Coordination

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution as a member of International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). IRENA’s mandate is to promote and support the widespread deployment and sustainable use of renewable energy in the pursuit of sustainable development, energy access, energy security and low-carbon economic growth and prosperity.

Expected results: Assessed contributions to international organizations.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: Not applicable, international organisation. Transfer Payments excepted from the FAA 42.1 Requirements.

General targeted recipient groups: International organization

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

International Seabed Authority

Start date: November 7, 2003

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution (annual, assessed).

Type of appropriation: Estimates.

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: N/A

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada's interests.

1.2: Canada's leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 3: International Law

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s annual assessed contribution under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) for the operation of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for budget years 2021, 2022, 2023.

Expected results: Canada’s annual contributions to this organisation for the years 2021, 2022, and 2023 are paid in full and on time, meeting Canada’s obligations.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations. The ISA is an international organization created under UNCLOS.

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Through regular contacts with the ISA, including at annual meetings of ISA Member States, Canada is kept informed of the Authority’s activities and given an opportunity to comment and contribute to charting the way forward. The ISA budget is approved by its Member States (including Canada) at regular ISA meetings.

International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

Start date: 1996

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution (annual, assessed)

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: N/A

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada's interests.

1.2: Canada's leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 3: International Law

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s annual assessed contribution under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) for the operation of International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) for budget years 2021, 2022, 2023.

Expected results: Canada’s annual contributions to this international tribunal for the years 2021, 2022, and 2023 are paid in full and on time, meeting Canada’s obligations.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations. ITLOS is an international tribunal created under UNCLOS.

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Through regular contact with the ITLOS, including at annual meetings of Parties to UNCLOS, Canada is kept informed of the Tribunal’s activities and given an opportunity to comment and contribute to charting the way forward. ITLOS’ annual budgets are approved every two years by UNCLOS States Parties (including Canada) at annual meetings of Parties to UNCLOS.

Non-proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament

Start date: Ongoing

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: Varies

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada's interests.

1.2: Canada's leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program:: To pay Canada’s assessed contributions as a state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the Convention on Anti-Personnel Landmines, the Arms Trade Treaty, and the Seabed Arms Control Treaty

Expected results: Canada’s treaty obligations are upheld.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International (non-government): Non‑governmental organizations that are not from Canada or that are not located in Canada

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Canada conducts regular diplomatic engagement with the aforementioned international non-proliferation and disarmament bodies.

Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Start date: 1975

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2020-21

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests.

1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in order to meet its financial obligations as an NEA member. Membership in the NEA furthers the Government of Canada’s domestic nuclear policy goals and provides Canada with access to an international forum to discuss the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Expected results:

• Effective and efficient implementation of the OECD NEA’s programme of work.
• Direct and indirect technical and commercial dividends to the Canadian nuclear industry; and
• OECD NEA actions and decisions reflect Canadian interests and priorities.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: No evaluation is planned based on a low risk exemption.

General targeted recipient groups: International (non-government): Non-governmental organizations that are not from Canada or that are not located in Canada.

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation

Start date: 1968

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2012

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: 1. International Policy Coordination

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay the assessed contribution for Canada’s participation in CERI to further the provincial/territorial and federal government’s development, analysis and understanding of activities, policies and innovations in the area of education and learning.

Expected results: Provide and promote international comparative research, innovation and key indicators.

Explore forward-looking and innovative approaches to education and learning.

Facilitate bridges between educational research, innovation and policy development.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International Organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

OECD Steel Committee (formerly called International Commodity Organizations)

Start date: 1978

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Annual 

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2019-20

Link to departmental result(s): 2.1: Canada helps to build and safeguard an open and inclusive rules-based global trading system.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 12. Trade Policy, Agreements, Negotiations, and Disputes

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Support the activities of the OECD Steel Committee that provides participants with a forum to exchange views on commercial and policy developments in their domestic and global steel markets. The Committee also provides participants with regular statistical and analytical reports on such developments.

Expected results: Degree to which Canada opens markets and advances trade policy through negotiations, agreements and discussions. Degree to which Canada works to resolve or mitigate market access barriers, disputes or other strategic policy issues.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: No evaluations are planned since it is a very small amount that Canada contributes as an annual assessed contribution to cover our share of the OECD Steel Committee costs. 

General targeted recipient groups: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development located in Paris France.

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

Start date: 29 April, 1997

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions:

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada's interests.

1.2: Canada's leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution under the Chemical Weapons Convention. The OPCW comprises over 190 member states that share the collective goal of preventing chemistry from ever again being used for warfare, thereby strengthening international security. To this end, the Convention contains four key objectives: destroying all existing chemical weapons under international verification by the OPCW; monitoring the chemical industry to prevent new weapons from re-emerging; providing assistance and protection to States Parties against chemical threats; and fostering international cooperation to strengthen implementation of the Convention and promote the peaceful use of chemistry.

Expected results: Canada’s treaty obligations are upheld.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International (non-government): Non‑governmental organizations that are not from Canada or that are not located in Canada

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Canada conducts regular diplomatic engagement with the aforementioned international non-proliferation and disarmament bodies.

Payments under the Diplomatic Service Superannuation Act

Start date: 1985

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant

Type of appropriation: Statutory Authority - Diplomatic Service (Special) Superannuation Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. D-2)

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2013-14

Link to departmental result(s): 5.1: Sound management and delivery of resources, infrastructure and services enables Canada’s presence abroad.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 48. Financial Management

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To provide superannuation benefits for senior appointees of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (Global Affairs Canada) serving outside Canada.

Expected results: Continued payment of superannuation benefits for senior appointees of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (Global Affairs Canada) serving outside Canada.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A, Statutory Authority

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: N/A

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

Peace Implementation Council

Start date: July 1^st, 1996

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2012-13

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 5. Europe, Arctic, Middle East and Maghreb Policy & Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to support the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) and its Steering Board, of which Canada is a member. The PIC Steering Board advises the Office of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (OHR) on political, economic and security matters. The Steering Board members share the cost of OHR operations.

Expected results:

• The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina is provided with guidance and advice on political, economic and security matters.
• The development of Bosnia and Herzegovina into a functioning state is facilitated.
• The Dayton Peace Agreement is further implemented.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International (non-government)

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients:

• The PIC Steering Board meets at the level of political directors twice a year.
• The High Representative reports periodically on progress in implementation of the Peace Agreement to the United Nations.
• Each year, an External Auditor presents a report and opinion to the High Representative and the PIC Steering Board Financial Experts. The PIC Steering Board and the High Representative review the report and take appropriate actions to improve resources management.

Permanent Court of Arbitration

Start date: Unknown

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2021-2022

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 3. International Law

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To support the key role that the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) plays in resolving international disputes in a peaceful manner and in the successful resolution of both public and private disputes between states. Canada’s support for the PCA is directly related to article 10(2)(j) of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act, according to which the Minister of Foreign Affairs is required to “foster the development of international law and its application in Canada’s external relations.”

Expected results:

• Enable the PCA to carry out its role of facilitating arbitration, conciliation, fact-finding, and other dispute resolution proceedings among various combinations of States, State entities, intergovernmental organizations, and private parties. The PCA’s International Bureau is currently administering 7 interstate proceedings, 101 investor-state arbitrations and 52 cases arising under contracts involving a state or other public entity. Details can be found on the PCA’s website.
• Engage in outreach to promote better understanding and greater use of arbitration and conciliation procedures to resolve international disputes. The PCA publishes a report on its activities each year, which includes a section on its outreach activities to the arbitral community. The PCA’s annual reports can be downloaded from its website here. 
• Carry on all other activities required and expected of a judicial body functioning in accordance with international standards.
• Carry on all activities in accordance with the PCA’s oversight mechanisms. The PCA’s Administrative Council, composed of diplomatic representatives of the Contracting Parties accredited to The Hague, is responsible for the general governance and oversight of the PCA. To do this, it has established two specialized committees. The first is the Financial Committee, which is composed of three independent financial experts, who work pro bono for a renewable term of three years, and advise on financial documents submitted to the Administrative Council. The second is the Budget Committee, where all Contracting Parties may participate to review the financial or budgetary documents prior to consideration by the Administrative Council.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Canada is an active participant in the annual discussions in the Budget Committee via the Embassy of Canada to the Netherlands. In addition, Global Affairs Canada and Justice Canada collaborate to ensure that the Canadian National Group – comprised of the four members of the Court which each Contracting Party is entitled to nominate as potential arbitrators – is staffed with one member from the Supreme Court of Canada, one member of the private bar, one legal academic, and the Legal Adviser to Global Affairs Canada. These members are selected to reflect the geographic and linguistic realties of Canada, for a term of six years.

Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission

Start date: 1964

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates 

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2016-17

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1 Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 6. Americas Policy & Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: As required by the 1964 agreement between Canada and the United States, the two nations share equally in the costs of development, operation, and maintenance of the Roosevelt Campobello International Park, site of the summer home of former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The park is located on Campobello Island, New Brunswick (in the Bay of Fundy), and is a lasting symbol of the close relationship between Canada and the United States.

Expected results: Funding at the current level will allow the park to catch up on deferred maintenance. Investments in infrastructure will improve it from poor/unsatisfactory to satisfactory/good.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: Not Applicable. Funding covered under a binding international treaty.

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: Not applicable. Funding covered under a binding international treaty.

General targeted recipient groups: Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Consultations with Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission and park staff

Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

Start date: Canada ratified the Rotterdam Convention in 2002. The Convention came into force in 2004.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution under the Rotterdam Convention, which promotes shared responsibility and cooperative efforts among parties in the international trade of certain hazardous chemicals in order to protect human health and the environment from potential harm. It also contributes to the environmentally sound use of those hazardous chemicals by facilitating information exchange about their characteristics, providing for a national decision-making process on their import and export and disseminating these decisions to parties. Canada`s assessed contribution is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results: Under the Rotterdam Convention, key results expected include:

• Scientific support, technical assistance and capacity development to facilitate implementation and compliance with the Convention
• Support to the Chemical Review Committee responsible for reviewing notifications of Final Regulatory Actions and making recommendations to the Conference of the Parties on candidate substances to be subject to the Prior Informed Consent Procedure (PIC)
• Parties share decisions to refuse imports of industrial chemicals or pesticides they have banned domestically when those substances are subject to the PIC procedure
• Information is shared on the risks and hazards of substances subject to the PIC procedure.
• Information is shared with the importing Party on the risks and hazards of industrial chemicals and pesticides not subject to the PIC procedure, but banned or severely restricted by the exporting Party.

For more information about Canada’s involvement, visit: Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

Secrétariat technique permanent des conférences ministérielles de l’éducation, de la jeunesse et des sports des pays d’expression française

Start date: N/A

End date: Canada’s voluntary contributions ended on December 31, 2012. Assessed contributions continue.

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-2012

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests.

1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the Conference des ministres de la jeunesse et des sports des pays d’expression française (CONFEJES), whose goal is to promote youth and sport among La Francophonie member states, and to the Conférence des ministres de l’Éducation de la Francophonie (CONFEMEN), whose mandate is to promote education, and professional and technical training.

Expected results: The expected results for CONFEJES are as follows:

• The contribution of the Youth, Sports and Recreation (JLS) sectors to the dissemination of the values of the Francophonie is valued.
• The participation of women and girls alongside men and boys is strengthened in the JSL sectors.
• CONFEJES' influence within the Francophonie and with other key partners promotes the inclusion of youth and sports in national and international commitments.

For CONFEMEN, they are as follows:

• The operation of CONFEMEN's Programme for the Analysis of Education Systems (PASEC) is carried out effectively and efficiently. 
• The Observatory on the Quality of Education is extended to other countries.
• CONFEMEN's expertise in the field of education is strengthened.
• The partnership between CONFEMEN and the other bodies of the Francophonie is strengthened.

Note that Global Affairs does not lead the performance management strategy of CONFEJES and CONFEMEN. This said, the Department receives narrative reports every two years that describe the activities implemented.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Start date: 2004

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3 Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada`s assessed contribution under the Stockholm Convention to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants. Canada’s assessed contribution is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results: Under the Stockholm Convention, key results expected include:

• Reduced levels of POPs entering the environment as a result of controls to eliminate or restrict releases;
• Assessment of candidate POPs for addition to the Convention through a technical committee
• Continued global monitoring of POPs to evaluate the effectiveness of the Convention

The Programme and Budget are approved biennially by the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention.

For more information about Canada`s involvement, visit: Environment and Climate Change Canada

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Start date: Canada ratified the UNFCCC on 4 December 1992, and it entered into force on 21 March 1994.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada`s assessed contribution under the UNFCC Convention, which promotes shared responsibility and cooperative efforts among parties to help stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous human-induced interference with the climate system. Canada`s assessed contribution to the UNFCCC is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Expected results: Under the UNFCCC, key results expected include:

• Canada plays an active and constructive role in the UNFCCC negotiations and was a strong voice in the negotiations towards the establishment of the Paris Agreement.
• Canada’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) is to reduce its economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2030.
• Canada will continue to work with its international partners both under the UNFCCC and in other fora to implement our commitments.

For more information, visit: Environment and Climate Change Canada

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

United Nations Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues

Start date: Ongoing

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2018-19

Link to departmental result(s): 1.2: Canada's leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To advance Indigenous issues in the areas of economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights, through the provision of expert advice and recommendations, integration of indigenous issues in the UN system, dissemination of information on indigenous issues, and promotion of respect for and full application of the provisions of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Expected results: N/A

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: 2014-15

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International and indigenous communities and representative organizations worldwide

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture

Start date: 1983

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant

Type of appropriation: Main Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2019/2020

Link to departmental result(s): 3.1: Improved physical, social and economic well-being for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where Canada engages.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To provide financial assistance to non-governmental organizations that deliver medical, psychological, legal and social assistance to victims of torture and their families.

Expected results: The projects supported by the UN Torture Fund aim to assist victims of torture and their family members to rebuild their lives, providing immediate and accessible remedies. Nearly 50,000 torture survivors each year in about 80 countries benefit from the Fund.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: 2014/2015

Decision following the results of last evaluation: No record of decisions

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: None

General targeted recipient groups:

• Not-for-profit organizations and charities
• International (non-government)

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: This UN fund has its own engagement strategy.

Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

Start date: 1988

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada`s assessed contribution under the Vienna Convention, which promotes cooperation between parties by means of systematic observations; exchange research and information on the effects of human activities on the ozone layer, and adopts legislative or administrative measures against activities likely to have adverse effects on the ozone layer. Canada’s assessed contribution is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program

Expected results: Under the Vienna Convention and its Montreal Protocol, key results expected include:

• Protecting the ozone layer through the adoption of legislative or administrative measures;
• Phasing out the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances and hydrofluorocarbon (HFCs) in order to reduce their abundance in the atmosphere;
• Ensure the state of the ozone layer and the effects of ozone depletion are continually assessed, monitored and communicated.

For more information about Canada’s involvement, please visit the web pages on the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

Wassenaar Arrangement

Start date: 2012

End date: Ongoing, under Ministerial authorization

Type of transfer payment: Contribution.

Type of appropriation: Estimates.

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2012

Link to departmental result(s): 2.1 Canada helps to build and safeguard an open and inclusive rules-based global trading system.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 13 – Trade Controls

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay assessed contributions demanded of all nations that are Wassenaar Arrangement participating states. This organization contributes to regional and international security and stability by promoting transparency and greater responsibility in transfers of conventional arms and dual-use goods and technology. Canada’s participation in the Wassenaar Arrangement furthers both its security and commercial trade interests.

Expected results: The control lists established under Wassenaar are dynamic and require continual review and amendment in order to ensure that the lists reflect current levels of technology. Canadian controls over the export of arms, as well as sensitive dual-use items, emanate from Canada’s participation in Wassenaar. The controls are implemented through the Export and Import Permits Act which provides the legal authority to include items on Canada’s Export Control List, which is updated annually. Items can only be placed on the Export Control List for a limited number of purposes enumerated under the EIPA. Most items contained on the Export Control List are listed pursuant to the purpose described in s. 3(d) of the EIPA, ‘to implement an intergovernmental arrangement or commitment’. Canada’s participation in the Wassenaar Arrangement thus provides legal authority to include all of the dual-use and munitions list items enumerated within the Wassenaar Arrangement’s Control Lists in Canada’s Export Control List.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: Not applicable; ongoing funding under Ministerial authorization. Note that due to the Strategic Review carried out by DFAIT in 2009, it was determined in 2010 that DFAIT would not need to review its continued membership in international organizations in 2011. However, should another review be required at some point in the future GAC will undertake to execute the review in consultation with central agencies and other government departments.

Decision following the results of last evaluation: Not applicable.

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: See above.

General targeted recipient groups: International (non-government)

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: The Secretariat of Wassenaar tables annually its proposed work program to Participating States at the December Plenary, for adoption. Canada is committed to ensuring that best practices and policies under which the Secretariat operates are consistent with modern management practices as appropriate for the international environment.

World Customs Organization

Start date: 1971

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions:  N/A

Link to departmental result(s): 2.1: Canada helps to build and safeguard an open and inclusive rules-based global trading system.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 12. Trade Policy, Agreements, Negotiations and Disputes

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the WCO, an independent intergovernmental body whose mission is to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of customs administrations. As a member of the WCO, Canada has taken a key role in areas such as trade facilitation, revisions to the Harmonized System, capacity building, combatting counterfeiting and the development and implementation of the Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade. As a member of the WCO, Canada is able to help set the international customs cooperation agenda through high-level participation at key WCO committees. Attendance helps the Government of Canada stay abreast of current and emerging customs issues, which helps to define Canada’s international footprint. Membership at the WCO advances Canada’s interests internationally, particularly given the importance of international trade for the Canadian economy.

Expected results: N/A

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International Organizations

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: N/A

World Intellectual Property Organization

Start date: 1970

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2020-2021

Link to departmental result(s): 2.1: Canada helps to build and safeguard an open and inclusive rules-based global trading system.

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: 12. Trade Policy, Agreements, Negotiations, and Disputes

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to ensure Canada’s interests are represented, and to promote the protection of intellectual property (IP) throughout the world through cooperation among Member States and, where appropriate, in collaboration with any other international organization.

Expected results: Canada supports the development of international norms that are necessary, balanced, flexible, and evidence-based and encourages international cooperation on emerging intellectual property (IP) issues.

Canada will continue to:

• promote and defend Canada’s domestic law and policy, administration and approaches;
• advocate for WIPO as the premier international IP forum and encourage consensus-based decision-making, good governance and financial stewardship;
• advance and encourage cooperation between IP offices.

Fiscal year of last completed evaluation: N/A.

Decision following the results of last evaluation: N/A

Fiscal year of next planned evaluation: N/A

General targeted recipient groups: International (non-government)

Initiatives to engage applicants and recipients: Canada maintains a permanent mission to the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland to ensure that Canada’s interests are represented effectively, including at WIPO where officers engage regularly in WIPO affairs. Capital-based officials also actively participate in the audit and oversight of WIPO’s program and budget, including through regular reporting. Capital-based officials also actively participate in norm-setting discussions and negotiations.

Gender-based analysis plus

Institutional GBA+ Capacity

Governance Structure

Global Affairs Canada (GAC) has a complex and diverse mandate as it manages Canada’s diplomatic and consular relations, promotes the country’s international trade and leads Canada’s international development and humanitarian assistance. In this context, Global Affairs Canada continues to explore opportunities to enhance its leadership, capacity, training and necessary tools for the implementation of Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) throughout the department.

Consistent with direction from Central Agencies the department requires mandatory GBA+ assessments for all submissions to Cabinet, Treasury Board and Central Agencies. Before these proposals can be considered complete, proposal leads must submit their GBA+ assessments to the Corporate Secretariat for confirmation that the mandatory requirements of both Global Affairs Canada and Central Agencies have been met. The offices of the ministers (foreign affairs, international development, and small business, export promotion and international trade) will not accept proposals without this final check. Subject matter experts have access to advice from colleagues with specialized competencies as well as dedicated GBA+ resource centres within the department. Some of the department’s methods and approaches to increase the profile of GBA+ include the following:

• Gender focal points and GBA+ Champions appointed at the branch level;
• Tools and resources to assist employees in applying GBA+ to their work (e.g. checklists, guides, templates, toolkits);
• Mandatory GBA+ online course for a number of branches;
• GBA+ action plan for a number of branches;
• Annual GBA+ challenges to mark GBA+ Awareness Week;
• Corporate Secretariat representation at the annual Breakfast of GBA+ Champions, a venue to highlight the department’s successes, hosted by the Department for Women and Gender Equality;
• Discussion of GBA+ at senior management committees; and,
• Resources dedicated to the development, delivery and promotion of GBA+ training for employees.

Human Resources

Currently, the department has full time equivalents (FTE) dedicated to supporting gender equality analysis specifically for international assistance policies and programming, including the implementation of the department’s Gender Equality Policy, the Feminist Foreign Policy, and the Feminist International Assistance Policy. FTEs play various support roles associated to GBA+, such as gender focal points, educators and managers as well as human rights advisors across the department. The areas of interest pertaining to GBA+ include; peace and security, foreign advocacy and diplomacy, trade and investment, promotion, trade policy, and negotiations and GBA+ process oversight of submissions to Cabinet and ministers.

More specifically, in recognition of the importance of conducting GBA+ of trade agreements, the Trade Policy and Negotiations branch has a GBA+ Champion at the DG level and a Gender Focal Point at the senior officer/manager level who lead a branch wide network of GBA+ advisors to ensure the effective application of GBA+ to trade policy development and free trade negotiations. Free Trade Agreement chapter lead negotiators are responsible for conducting GBA+ on their chapters on an ongoing basis during negotiations.

Both GBA+ specialists and subject matter experts from across the department contribute to GBA+ through participation on internal and external committees as well as in governance bodies:

• Gender equality international assistance specialists and policy analysts meet regularly to discuss gender equality policy directions and implementation;
• Inter-departmental working groups on proposals being prepared for submission to Cabinet or Treasury Board;
• Peace and Security analysts coordinate the whole-of-government implementation of Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (C-NAP WPS) for which GBA+ is an integral part; and,
• Global Affairs Canada representatives participate in the Department for Women and Gender Equality’s inter-departmental meetings on GBA+.

Highlights of GBA+ Results Reporting Capacity by Program

^* Of note that the information pertaining to the program reporting capacity section are examples of Global Affairs Canada’s use of specific GE-responsive indicators and should not be considered as the only programs to do so. The following represent only a sample of the department’s GBA+ efforts.

Program 10. International Assistance Policy

This program is rooted in Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, which aims to achieve the goals of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. The Feminist International Assistance Policy is focused on six action areas:

1. Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls
2. Human dignity (Health, Education, and Humanitarian assistance)
3. Growth that works for everyone
4. Environment and climate action
5. Inclusive governance
6. Peace and security

This policy and its implementation contributes directly to the Government’s Gender Results Framework’s 6th goal of promoting gender equality to build a more peaceful, inclusive, rules-based and prosperous world, and its associated indicators. Notably, the department modified the key performance indicators (KPIs) for the Feminist International Assistance Policy to strengthen its gender equality commitments in programming implementation, monitoring, reporting, and evidence-based decision-making within the six action areas.

Data collected on the KPIs that have “individuals” as a unit of measure will be disaggregated by gender using male, female and other categories (m/f/o). Gender-disaggregated data will be reported on in public reports and, where required, data limitations will be explained. For more information, please refer to the 2021-22 Departmental Plan under Core Responsibility “Development, Peace and Security Programming” for a full list of disaggregated results.

Additional Context:

Global Affairs Canada continues the implementation of its Feminist Approach Guidance Note launched in 2019. The guidance note anchors intersectionality as a main principle of Canada’s international assistance efforts, which seek to support the voice and empowerment of women and girls in all their diversity and those of others who face discrimination or marginalization. It requires that all project proposals be informed by complementary gender-based and human-rights analyses, evidence of which must be provided. Proposals must also describe who will benefit directly and indirectly from an initiative, disaggregated by sex, age and, where relevant, other identity factors, such as race, ethnicity, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. Due diligence is conducted by internal Gender Equality Specialists on all initiatives as part of the approval process using the Gender Equality Assessment Form. Based on this assessment, a gender equality policy marker is assigned in relation to a project’s intended contribution to advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. Through the Feminist International Assistance Policy, the commitment was made to ensure that no less than 95 percent of Canada’s bilateral international development assistance initiatives will target or integrate gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls by 2021-22. In 2019-2020, Global Affairs Canada had reached 97 percent.

Program 12. Trade Policy, Agreements, Negotiations, and Disputes

The impacts of this program support progress towards the Gender Results Framework pillar of promoting gender equality to build a more peaceful, inclusive, rules based and prosperous world. This program supports Canada’s objective to include more gender related provisions in its trade agreements.

GBA+ is central to delivering on Canada’s inclusive approach to trade and ensuring that the benefits of trade are more widely shared. By conducting GBA+ on each FTA chapter, Global Affairs Canada seeks gender-responsive and inclusive provisions throughout its free trade agreements, complemented by dedicated chapters on small and medium enterprises (SMEs), Trade and Indigenous Peoples, and Trade and Gender. The Trade and Gender chapter is specifically designed to increase women’s economic empowerment and gender equality, and to facilitate the increased participation of women in international trade by removing barriers to their participation. To support this work, in 2021-22, Global Affairs Canada will continue to conduct GBA+ on trade negotiations and agreements in order to identify opportunities for new and innovative gender responsive and inclusive provisions.

The Trade Policy and Negotiations Branch does not collect data but does access data from GAC’s Chief Economist’s Office, Statistics Canada and other reputable sources to guide its GBA+ of FTAs and trade negotiations.

Program 25. Peace and Stabilization Operations Program

This program supports the pillar “Gender Equality Around the World” and collects data to allow for the monitoring and reporting of program impacts by gender and diversity (GBA+).

The Peace and Stabilization Operations Program has developed gender-responsive indicators to measure the results identified in its Performance Information Profile (PIP). Data disaggregated by gender for these indicators is collected on an annual basis and used to demonstrate progress on specific outcomes. Examples of such indicators include:

# / total (and %) surveyed capacity building recipients (F/M) who report increased knowledge, skills or abilities related to preventing, mitigating, and/or responding to violent conflict and fragility.

# of peacekeepers (F/M) trained through GAC-funded deployments and projects to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse.

Program 27. Weapons Threat Reduction Program

The Weapons Threat Reduction Program (WTRP) is consistently working with implementing partners to ensure the application of a gender lens to all relevant projects, through the use of, inter-alia, gender assessments, gender experts, and consultations with local women’s organizations. As part of the Canadian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (CNAP WPS), the WTRP has identified a minimum target of 25% of all projects being at a GE-1 code or higher, which it has surpassed through the employment of GBA+ mechanisms.

Up-front multi-year funding

General information on up-front multi-year funding to Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Recipient information: Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Start date: January 30, 2003

End date: Ongoing

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3 Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.

2.1 Canada helps to build and safeguard an open and inclusive rules-based global trading system.

Link to department’s Program Inventory: Program 1. International Policy Coordination

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The broad purpose of this program is set out in the funding agreement as follows:

5.3 Purpose of the Fund. The purpose of the Fund is to support world-leading research in the area of global governance, particularly in the area of global economic and financial governance and to further Canada’s interest in having a stable and well-governed global economic system in order to enhance the standard of living and quality of life of its population.

Total funding approved (dollars): $30 million

Total funding received (dollars): $30 million

Planned funding in 2021−22 (dollars): N/A

Planned funding in 2022−23 (dollars): N/A

Planned funding in 2023−4 (dollars): N/A

Summary of recipient’s annual plans: CIGI has refocused its research on fundamental issues facing governments around the world. CIGI’s new direction is described in its Strategic Plan for 2020–2025, which puts global digital stability at the forefront of policy making, and focuses on the following three research themes:

1. The data-driven economy. This will examine the role data now plays in all sectors of the economy, and will pursue CIGI’s long-standing goal of establishing a global institutional framework to guide the use and regulation of digital technology.
2. Threats to democracy and security. This research area will explore different facets of protecting governments and citizens from the malign uses of digital technology.
3. The need for global institutions to adapt to the digital era. This area of research will focus on multilateral institutions and their need to revamp and modernize their working mechanisms to be more effective in the digital age.

United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals

UN Sustainable Development Goal 1: End poverty in all its form everywhere

Planned initiatives: Under the Official Development Assistance Accountability Act (ODAAA), all of Canada’s Official Development Assistance is mandated to support the eradication of poverty, thus contributing broadly to SDG 1. All ODA-funded initiatives are guided by Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy.

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: The Policy contributes to:

• Global target 1.1: By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
• Global target 1.2: By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
• Global target 1.4: By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
• Global target 1.5: By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
• Global target 1.a: Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programs and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
• Global target 1.b: Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions.

UN Sustainable Development Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture

Planned initiatives: The Feminist International Assistance Policy action areas on Environment and Climate Action and Growth that Works for Everyone promote climate smart agriculture in developing countries.

Canada supports many Canadian and international organizations that address food security, nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Major programs include the following:

• Eleventh Replenishment of the International Fund for Agricultural Development
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research - Institutional Support
• World Food Programme - Long-Term Institutional Support

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This action area contributes to:

• Global target 2.4: By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality.
• Global target 2.a: Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries.

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Effect: Hope – The Leprosy Mission: Every Child Thrives Project

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This project contributes to:

• Global target 2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons.
• Global target 3.2: By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under‑5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Canadian Foodgrains Bank – Long-Term Institutional Support

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This project contributes to:

• Global target 2.1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.
• Global target 2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons.

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Scaling Up Conservation Agriculture in East Africa

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This project contributes to:

• Global target 2.1: By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year;
• Global target 2.3: By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment;
• Global target 2.4: By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
• Global target 2.a: Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries

And

• Global target 1.4: By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
• Global target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
• Global target 5(b): Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
• Global target 8.2: Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors
• Global target 13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
• Global target 13.3: Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
• Global target 15.3: By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world

UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Planned initiatives: Canada supports many Canadian and international organizations that promote health and nutrition. Major programs include the following:

• Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, helps vaccinate almost half the world’s children against deadly and debilitating infectious diseases. In May 2020, Canada committed $600 million for the third Gavi replenishment (2021-2025). (supports targets 3.2, 3.3)
• Nutrition International is a global organization dedicated to tackling malnutrition; Canada is the leading donor, supporting programs such as Vitamin A, iron and folic acid supplementation. (supports target 2.1, 2.2)
• The Global Financing Facility is a country-led global partnership committed to ensuring all women, children and adolescents can survive and thrive. Canada supports the GFF through its multi-year funding of $150 million (2020-22). (supports all SDG3 targets listed)
• Canada plays a key role in international movements and partnerships such as SheDecides, Family Planning 2020 and the Ouagadougou Partnership all of which promote SRHR. (supports targets 3.7, 5.3, 5.6)

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: These initiatives contribute to:

• Global target 3.1: By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
• Global target 3.2: By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under‑5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births
• Global target 3.3: By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases.
• Global target 3.7: By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes
• Global target 5.3: Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
• Global target 5.6: Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
• Global target 2.1: By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
• Global target 2.2: By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Oxfam: Her Future, Her Choice Project

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This project is contributing to:

• Global target 3.7: By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes
• Global target 5.3: Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
• Global target 5.6: Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences

UN Sustainable Development Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Planned initiatives: Canada supports many Canadian and international organizations that promote education and learning opportunities. Major programs include the following:

• Support to Education Cannot Wait (ECW) ‘Together for Learning/Ensemble pour l’apprentissage’ Campaign on Education for refugee, other forcibly-displaced and host community children and youth
• Support to the initiative Afghan Girls Education (AGE) in Conflict and Fragility
• Support to the Girls’ Education South Sudan (GESS) initiative
• Support to initiative the Improving Girls’ Rights to Education and Training in Niger

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: These initiatives contribute to:

• Global target 4.1: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes
• Global target 4.2: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education
• Global target 4.3: By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university
• Global target 4.4: By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
• Global target 4.5: By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations
• Global target 4.6: By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
• Global target 4.a: Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all
• Global target 4.c: By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and Small Island Developing States

And

• Global Target 5.3: Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
• Global target 5.4: Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
• Global target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
• Global target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children
• Global target 16.6: Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Foundations for Education and Empowerment

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This project contributes to:

• Global target 4.1: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes
• Global target 4.2: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education
• Global target 4.5: By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations
• Global target 4.6: By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
• Global target 4c: By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and Small Island Developing States

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Right to Play: Gender-Responsive Education and Transformation (GREAT)

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This project contributes to:

• Global target 4.1: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes
• Global target 4.2: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education
• Global target 4.5: By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations
• Global target 4.6: By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
• Global target 4c: By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and Small Island Developing States

UN Sustainable Development Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• The Feminist International Assistance Policy has a specific action area on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls.
• Canada supports many Canadian and international organizations that advance gender equality and empowerment of women and girls.

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This policy contributes to:

• Global target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
• Global target 5.2: Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
• Global target 5.3: Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
• Global target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
• Global target 5.c.: Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels

And

• Global target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
• Global target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Continue to advance Canada’s inclusive approach to trade, to ensure that the benefits of trade agreements are widely shared, including with under-represented groups such has women, SMEs, and Indigenous peoples.

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: The inclusive approach to trade contributes to:

• Global target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
• Global target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
• Global target 5.a.: Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
• Global target 5.b.: Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
• Global target 5.c.: Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Equality Fund – with a contribution of $300M from Global Affairs Canada, the Equality Fund

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This funding contributes to:

• Global target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.

And

• Global Target 9.3: Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, in particular in developing countries, to financial services, including affordable credit, and their integration into value chains and markets

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Support to UN Women, UNFPA, UN Habitat and UNODC’s project Eliminating Violence Against Women and Girls in West Bank and Gaza

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This international assistance programming contributes to:

• Global target 5.2: Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking, and sexual and other types of exploitation.

And

• Global target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Engagement and support to Girls Not Brides
• Engagement and support to the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: These initiatives and global partnerships contribute to:

• Global target 5.3: Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

And

• Global target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Women’s Voice and Leadership Program
• Engagement in the Generation Equality Forum, including co-leadership of the Feminist Movements and Leadership Action Coalition

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This international assistance programming and global engagement contributes to all SDG 5 global targets, most particularly:

• Global target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
• Global target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

UN Sustainable Development Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• The Feminist International Assistance Policy action area on Environment and Climate Action promotes sustainable water management.
• For example, the department provides support to United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This program contributes to:

• Global target 6.4: By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity

UN Sustainable Development Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• The Feminist International Assistance Policy action areas on Environment and Climate Action and Growth that Works for Everyone promote sustainable energy.
• Under Canada’s commitment to deliver $2.65 billion in climate finance to developing countries by 2020-21
• Small-scale renewable energy-Sicredi Green Financing Project

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This commitment contributes to:

• Global target 7.1: By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services
• Global target 7.2: By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
• Global target 7.a: By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology

UN Sustainable Development Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• The Feminist International Assistance Policy action area on Growth that works for everyone promotes sustainable economic growth.

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This Policy contributes to:

• Global target 8.5: By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
• Global target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
• Global target 5.4: Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This initiative contributes to:

• Global target 8.3: Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services

And

• Global target 9.3: Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, in particular in developing countries, to financial services, including affordable credit, and their integration into value chains and markets

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Canada’s participation in the Global Partnership in Financial Inclusion (GPFI)

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This initiative contributes to:

• Target 8.3: Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services
• Target 9.3: Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, in particular in developing countries, to financial services, including affordable credit, and their integration into value chains and markets
• Target 5a: Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws.

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Canada’s core funding to the International Trade Centre (ITC) and participation in ITC’s SheTrades Initiative

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This initiative contributes to:

• Global target 8a: Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, including through the Enhanced Integrated Framework for Trade-Related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries
• Global target 8.3: Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Daring to Shift-Implemented by the Digital Opportunity Trust

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This initiative contributes to:

• Global target 8.6: Substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Women in Trade-Implemented by the Trade Facilitation Office

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This initiative contributes to:

• Global target 8.a.: Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, including through the Enhanced Integrated Framework for Trade-Related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Inclusion Financière en Haiti et en RDC-Implemented by FINCA Canada

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This initiative contributes to:

• Global target 8.10: Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all

UN Sustainable Development Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Planned initiatives: Canada supports many Canadian and international organizations and projects that support resilient and sustainable infrastructure. For example:

• Fund for Innovation and Transformation
• Guidance note on Canada’s approach to innovation in international assistance
• The Whistler Principles to Accelerate Innovation for Development Impact

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: These initiatives contribute to:

• Global target 9.5: Enhance research and upgrade industrial technologies - Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending.
• Global target 9.b: Support domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries, including by ensuring a conducive policy environment for, inter alia, industrial diversification and value addition to commodities.

And

• Global target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Innovation Platform for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: The initiative contributes to:

• Global target 9.b: Support domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries, including by ensuring a conducive policy environment for, inter alia, industrial diversification and value addition to commodities.
• It also contributes to: Global target 2.2: By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons;
• Global target 3.1: By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births;
• Global target 3.2: By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births;
• Global target 3.3: By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases;
• Global target 3.4: By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being;
• Global target 3.7: By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programs;
• Global target 3.8: Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all;
• Global target 4.2: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education;
• Global target 6.2: By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations;

UN Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

Planned initiatives: Canada supports many Canadian and international organizations and projects that reduce inequality. For example:

• Canada’s role as a ‘champion country’ for advancing the Global Compact for Migration (GCM)

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: These efforts contribute to:

• Global target 10.7 Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies.

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• LGBTQ2I International Assistance Program

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This Program contributes to:

• Global target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
• Global target 10.3: Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Canada’s engagement in the Global Action on Disability (GLAD) Network and commitments related to disability-inclusive development and humanitarian action

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: These commitments contribute to:

• Global target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
• Global target 10.3: Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Canada’s commitment to protecting the human rights of Indigenous peoples abroad

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: These commitments contribute to:

• Global target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
• Global target 10.3: Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard

UN Sustainable Development Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Planned initiatives: Canada integrates Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) as part of its international climate programming. These programs support a wide range of initiatives that help developing countries, and particularly women, to build resilience to the impacts of climate change. This includes support to:

• Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA)
• Canada-Caribbean Resilience Facility
• Climate Change Action for Gender-Sensitive Resilience Project (UNDP)

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: These commitments contribute to:

• Global target 11.5: By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations.

UN Sustainable Development Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Planned initiatives: Canada supports many Canadian and international organizations and projects that support sustainable consumption and production. For example:

• Canada’s support to the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF)

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This project contributes to:

• Global target 12.2 By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources

Planned initiatives: Major programs include the following:

• Support to UNDP’s Improving Solid Waste Management and Income Creation in Host Communities initiative

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This initiative contributes to:

• Global target 12.5.1: By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse

UN Sustainable Development Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Planned initiatives: This project contributes to:

• The Feminist International Assistance Policy action area on Environment and Climate Action promotes climate action in developing countries.

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This Action Area Policy contributes to:

• Global target 13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
• Global target 13. 2: Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
• Global target 13.3: Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
• Global target 13.a: Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
• Global target 13.b: Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities

And

• Global target 6.3: By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally
• Global target 6.4: By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity
• Global target 6.5: By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropriate
• Global target 6.6: By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes
• Global target 7.1: By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services
• Global target 7.2: By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
• Global target 7.3: By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency
• Global target 7.a.: By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology
• Global target 7.b.: By 2030, expand infrastructure and upgrade technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries, in particular least developed countries, Small Island Developing States, and land-locked developing countries, in accordance with their respective programmes of support
• Global target 11.2: By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons
• Global target 11.5: By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations
• Global target 12.2: By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
• Global target 12.4: By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment
• Global target 12.5: By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
• Global target 12.6: Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle
• Global target 12.8: By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
• Global target 14.1: By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
• Global target 14.2: By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
• Global target 14.4: By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
• Global target 14.5: By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
• Global target 14.7: By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
• Global target 14.a: Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular Small Island Developing States and least developed countries
• Global target 15.1: By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements
• Global target 15.2: By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally
• Global target 15.5: Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species
• Global target 15.7: Take urgent action to end poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna and address both demand and supply of illegal wildlife products
• Global target 15.8: By 2020, introduce measures to prevent the introduction and significantly reduce the impact of invasive alien species on land and water ecosystems and control or eradicate the priority species
• Global target 15.9: By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts
• Global target 15.a: Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems
• Global target 15.b: Mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation
• Global target 15.c: Enhance global support for efforts to combat poaching and trafficking of protected species, including by increasing the capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities

Planned initiatives: This project contributes to:

• Canada’s commitment to deliver $2.65 billion in climate finance to developing countries by 2020-21

Some examples include support to:

• The AU African Risk Capacity (ARC)
• Clean Cook Stoves

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This commitment contributes to:

• Global target 13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
• Global target 13.2: Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
• Global target 13.3: Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

Planned initiatives: This project contributes to:

• Global Affairs’ commitment to align its ODA with the Paris Goals, which includes our engagement with the Like-minded Initiative on Paris Alignment of the Multilateral Development Banks; and guidance to Canadian Executive Directors at the Banks on influencing the path toward low-carbon and resilient growth in developing markets

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This commitment contributes to:

• Global target 13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
• Global target 13.2: Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
• Global target 13.3: Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

Planned initiatives: This project contributes to:

• Community Resilience to Climate Change

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This project contributes to:

• Global target 13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
• Global target 13.3: Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

UN Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

Planned initiatives: Canada’s commitment to advance the objectives of the Ocean Plastics Charter, which includes:

• PROBLUE, the Blue Economy Program at the World Bank
• The Incubation Network
• Global Plastic Action Partnership

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: These Programs contribute to:

• Global target 14.1: By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution.

UN Sustainable Development Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• Forest Carbon Partnership Facility-Forest Carbon Fund
• BioCarbon Fund Plus
• Least Developed Countries Fund

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: These programs contribute to:

• Global target 15.2: By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally
• Global target 15.9: By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• Canada supports global effort to combat desertification, drought and land degradation through its support for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: These efforts contribute to:

• Global target 15.3: by 2030, achieving land degradation neutrality (LDN)

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• Seeds of Survival Scale Up

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This project contributes to:

• Global target 15.4: By 2030, ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, in order to enhance their capacity to provide benefits that are essential for sustainable development
• Global target 15.6: Promote fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and promote appropriate access to such resources, as internationally agreed
• Global target 15.9: By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts

UN Sustainable Development Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• Through its Feminist Foreign Policy, Canada seeks to strengthen equality, diversity and inclusiveness in all of its foreign policy engagements. These components are critical to supporting lasting peace and security; fostering sustainable and inclusive economic growth and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This policy contributes to:

• Global target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children
• Global target 16.3: Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all
• Global target 16.6: Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels
• Global target 16.7: Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels
• Global target 16.8: Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance

And

• Global target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
• Global target 5.c.: Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
• Global target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
• Global target 13.2: Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• The Feminist International Assistance Policy action area on Peace and Security promotes peaceful and inclusive societies.

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This Policy contributes to:

• Global Target 16.1: Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere.
• Global Target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children.
• Global Target 16.3: Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all
• Global Target 16.4: By 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organised crime.
• Global Target 16.7: Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.
• Global Target 16.8: Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance.
• Global Target 16.10: Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreement
• Global Target 16.a: Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime.
• Global Target 16.b: Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development

And

• Global Target 4.7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development
• Global target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
• Global Target 5.2: Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.
• Global target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
• Global Target 5.c: Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
• Global Target 8.7: Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms
• Global target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• The Feminist International Assistance Policy action area on Inclusive Governance promotes peaceful and inclusive societies.

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This Policy contributes to:

• Global Target 16.3: Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all
• Global Target 16.6: Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all level
• Global Target 16.7: Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels
• Global Target 16.10: Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements

And

• Global target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
• Global target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
• Global target 5.C: Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
• Global target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
• Global target 10.3: Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard
• Global target 12.2: By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
• Global target 17.1: Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
• Global target 17.17: Encourage and promote effective public, public-private, and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.
• Global target 17.18: By 2020, enhance capacity building support to developing countries, including for LDCs and SIDS, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data.
• Global target 17.4: Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
• Global target 17.19: Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• Elsie Initiative for Women in Peace Operations

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This initiative contributes to:

• Global target 16.8: Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance
• Global target 16.a: Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime.

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• Anti-Crime Capacity and Counter-Terrorism Building Program

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This program contributes to:

• Global target 16.1: Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere
• Global target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children
• Global target 16.3: Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all
• Global target 16.4: By 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organized crime
• Global target 16.a: Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• Weapons Threat Reduction Program

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This program contributes to:

• Global target 16.a: Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• Support to the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) for realizing inclusive and democratic elections in Myanmar.

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This commitment contributes to:

• Global target 16.10: Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements
• Global target 16.7: Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• Engagement with the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children and support and engagement with the Safe to Learn Campaign to end violence in and through schools.
• Support to UNICEF for Supporting Girls to be Safe to Learn ($5M, 2019-2022).

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: These initiatives and global partnerships contribute to:

• Global target 16.2: Protect children from abuse, exploitation, trafficking and violence.

Planned initiatives: Through the Global Affairs Canada Promoting and Protecting Democracy Fund, support to:

• UNESCO’s Global Media Defence Fund (GMDF)

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This programming contributes to:

• Global target 16.3: Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• The Lifeline Communication to Tackle the Covid-19 Infodemic project, implemented by BBC Media Action

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This project contributes to:

• Global target 16.10: Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements.

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• Oxfam Canada - Creating Spaces to take action on violence against women

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This project contributes to:

• Global target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children
• Global target 16.3: Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all
• Global target 16.4: By 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organized crime
• Global target 16.5: Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms
• Global target 5.c: Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
• Global target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• Federation of Canadian Municipalities - Women’s Empowerment in Local Governance (agreement to be signed soon)

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This project contributes to:

• Global target 16.7: Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels
• Global target 16.8: Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance
• Global target 16.9: By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration (missing from PVP attached table)
• Global target 16.10: Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements
• Global target 16.a: Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime.
• Global target 16.b: Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development

And

• Global target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
• Global target 13.2: Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

UN Sustainable Development Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

Planned initiatives: Canada supports many Canadian and international organizations and projects that support global partnerships for the goals. For example:

• Canada co-chairs the UN Group of Friends on SDG Financing and the initiative on Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This initiative contributes to:

• Global target 17.3: Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
• Global target 17.16: Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
• Global target 17.17: Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This program contributes to:

• Global target 17.14: Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
• Global target 17.15: Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development
• Global target 17.9: Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North–South, South–South and triangular cooperation.

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• Canada’s engagement in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This effort contributes to:

• Global target 17.1 Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
• Global target 17.17 Encourage and promote effective public, public-private, and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.
• Global target 17.18 By 2020, enhance capacity building support to developing countries, including for LDCs and SIDS, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data.

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• Support engaging Canadians as global citizens and capacity building of Canadian international assistance CSOs through the Inter-Council Network’s (ICN) Inspiring Action for Global Citizenship Initiative

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This initiative contributes to:

• Global target 17.1 Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
• Global target 17.17 Encourage and promote effective public, public-private, and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• Global Affairs Departmental Strategy for Implementing the 2030 Agenda (SDG Strategy)

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This initiative contributes directly to:

• Global target 17.14 Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development and will contribute to greater effectiveness and impact of Canada’s international efforts to advance all of the SDGs.

Planned initiatives: Canadian support to the:

• Inspiring Action for Global Citizenship Initiative.

Global or domestic targets and/or global or domestic indicators: This initiative contributes to:

• Global target 17.1: Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
• Global target 17.17: Encourage and promote effective public, public-private, and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.

For questions related to this Supplementary Information Table, please contact the SDG Unit at ESDC: Programme2030-2030Agenda@canada.gc.ca