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For an overview of Canada's Official Development Assistance, please click here.   

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  The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is the federal agency responsible for planning and implementing most of Canada's international development cooperation program. CIDA administers 80% of the Canadian aid budget, while the Department of Finance and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade are in charge of the remaining 20%. CIDA cooperates with partner countries, Canadian organisations, institutions and businesses, and international organisations and agencies.

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   Target Countries:  <back to top>
  Canada's list of countries eligible for Official Development Assistance is based on the DAC compilation. These countries can be supported through the various programmes of the ODA budget. Nevertheless Canada might consider them as ineligible due to a country's situation concerning human rights, or its relations with Canada.

Africa and Middle East
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic, United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Palestinian Authority, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

America
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Asia
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kiribati, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Nepal, Niue, Palau, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Viet Nam, Samoa.

Central and Eastern Europe and Newly Independent States
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia-Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. [1]

For overviews on CIDA's thematic emphases and activities in the regions Africa and Middle East, Americas, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe please check the respective webpages:
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca > English/ French > Regions and countries > Africa and Middle East/ Americas/ Asia/ Central and Eastern Europe.

In order to find information about CIDA's activities in the individual countries see http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca > English/ French > Regions and countries, then click on a continent, choose again "regions and countries" at the page bottom, and finally click on the country in question.

Recipient countries that have highest priority for CIDA are the "Category 1 countries", belonging to the "Country Development Programming Framework". This category comprises 28 countries and territories, 12 in Africa, nine in America and seven in Asia including Mali, Mozambique, United Republic of Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Guyana, Nicaragua, Honduras, Peru, Lee and Windward, Bolivia, Jamaica, Guatemala, Brazil, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Viet Nam, Philippines.

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   Development priorities:  <back to top>
  Canadian assistance has the following development priorities centred around the core objective poverty reduction: basic human needs, gender equality, infrastructure services, human rights, democracy and good governance, private sector development, environment.[2]

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   Priority sectors:  <back to top>
  In September 2000 CIDA defined four Canadian priority sectors for the following five years: health and nutrition, basic education, HIV/AIDS and child protection.

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   Donors' Approaches:  <back to top>
  CIDA uses both terms, "SWAp" and "Sector Approach". CIDA defines a SWAp as a long-term joint financial commitment of recurrent costs and capital investment by the recipient country and the donors. The emphasis is on local ownership, a coherent programming framework, donor arrangements under domestic leadership. Capacity building of the recipient country is the intended outcome.

Canada plans to move the main emphasis from the project approach to programme-based approaches such as SWAps. SWAps and budget support provided as long-term assistance are seen as tools to strengthen the ownership of recipient countries.

Canada supports general budget support. A prior condition to general budget support is a recipient government's commitment to reform.

The project approach looses its relative importance. Still project support will continue as large part of aid in SWAps for a short to medium term.

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   Technical assistance:  <back to top>
  CIDA plans to reduce technical assistance in the education sector, and instead intends to increase it in the sectors of environment, capacity building and management.

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   NGOs:  <back to top>
  Through its partnership fund for Canadian NGOs working in developing countries "Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Project Facility" CIDA supports more than 125 Canadian NGOs.

CIDA extends financial support to NGOs within SWAps.[3]

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   Submission:  <back to top>
 
  • "A Guide to CIDA's Bilateral Responsive Mechanism (Unsolicited Proposals)", including a matrix for the required "Results-based Logical Framework Analysis": This paper contains information on how to (1) determine availability of funding for the envisaged initiative, familiarizes with (2) the procedural direction to follow when submitting proposals, (3) proposal content requirements and (4) proposal assessment criteria used by CIDA
    (http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca > English > Search [use the search function]: Guide to CIDA's Bilateral Responsive Mechanism);
  • "Your guide to working with CIDA": A guide directed to Canadian firms, consultants, voluntary organisations and institutions, providing basic information about the contracting process with CIDA.

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   Documents:  <back to top>
 
  • "Canada in the world", Canada's Foreign Policy Review, 1995, informs about international assistance: its mandate, countries eligible for Canadian aid, a list of documents by countries, development policies, management policies, strategies, official publications;
  • "Sustainable Development Strategy 2001-2003: An Agenda for Change" (Chapter on Effective Development Programming Approaches);
  • "Government of Canada Policy for CIDA on Human rights, Democratization and Good Governance";
  • CIDA, "CIDA's Policy on Agriculture"
  • CIDA, "CIDA's Policy for Environmental Sustainability";
  • CIDA, "CIDA's Policy on Gender Equality";
  • CIDA, "CIDA's Policy on Meeting Basic Human Needs";
  • CIDA, "CIDA's Policy on Poverty Reduction";
  • CIDA, "CIDA's Policy on Private Sector Development";
  • CIDA, "Social Development Priorities Framework", including "Action Plan on Health and Nutrition", "Action Plan on Basic Education", "HIV/AIDS Action Plan", "Action Plan on Child Protection";
  • CIDA, "CIDA's strategy on knowledge for development through information and communication technologies (ICT)";
  • CIDA, "Strategy for Health".

All these documents are accessible here: http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca > English > Resources > Publications > Policies / Strategies.

Documents on TVET and skills development
  • "CIDA's Policy on Private Sector Development",

http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca > English > Resources > Publications > Policies > CIDA's Policy on Private Sector Development and http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca > English > Private Sector Development;

  • "Supporting Entrepreneurship and Information and Communication Technologies in Africa", one of the "New Canadian Initiatives for Africa",

http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca > English > Canada fund for Africa > Canada helps build new Partnerships with Africa.

Documents concerning Africa
  • "Building a new Partnership on Africa's Development": a programme developed at Kananaskis, Alberta (Canada) G8 Summit in June 2002:
    http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca > English/ Français > CIDA, Africa & the G8,
  • Supporting Entrepreneurship and Information Communications Technologies in Africa;
  • Creating an e-Policy Resource Centre for Africa and a Centre for Connectivity in Africa;
  • Developing a Project Preparation Facility for Africans http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca > English/ Français > CIDA, Africa & the G8 > Canada helps build new partnerships with Africa

The documents concerning Africa are accessible here:
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca > English/ Français > CIDA, Africa & the G8 > Canada helps build new partnerships with Africa.

IT enabled development

Programme "Digital Opportunities for All"
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca > English/ Français > CIDA, Africa & the G8 > Canada helps build new partnerships with Africa > Digital Opportunities Task (DOT) Force, Report Card.

Evaluations

  • Review of Canada's Development Cooperation: OECD Development Assistance Committee, Peer Review of Canada (> English, German, French):
    http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca > English/ Français > OECD Development Assistance Committee, Peer Review of Canada (> table and graph).

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   Contact:  <back to top>
 
Name Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Street Address   200 Promenade du Portage
Gatineau, Quebec
K1A 0G4
Phone [+1] (819) 997 5006
Fax [+1] (819) 953 6088
E-Mail info@acdi-cida.gc.ca
Website (languages) http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca (English, French)
Atlantic Canada Regional Office
Street Address 1045 Main Street, Unit 103
Moncton, New Brunswick
E1C 1H1
Phone [+1] (506) 851 6605
Fax [+1] (506) 851 6429
Prairies Regional Office
Street Address 725 Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
T5J 4C3
Phone [+1] (780) 495 7529
Fax [+1] (780) 495 4507
Pacific Regional Office
Street Address 300 West Georgia Street, Suite 2000
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6B 6E1
Phone [+1] (604) 666 5697
Fax [+1] (604) 666 0954

For the hearing and speech impaired only (TDD/TTY): [+1] (819) 953 5023;
Toll free for the hearing and speech impaired only: (800) 331 50

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   Footnotes:  <back to top>
 
[1] http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca > English/ French > Regions and countries. <back>
[2] http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca > English/ Français > What we do > CIDA priorities. <back>
[3] http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca > English > NGO Project Facility. <back>

  Information in this section about CIDA is taken from the following sources, if not indicated otherwise:
CIDA's website: http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca, access: 23 July 2003;
Hasegawa 2002, pp. 42-48;
Riddell 2002, pp. 17, 22 and 32.

 
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