McLeod Group blog, April 23, 2018

Outdated regulations at the Canada Revenue Agency and Treasury Board are undermining Global Affairs Canada’s goal of supporting local women’s organizations in developing countries, but easing the restrictions isn’t a government priority. What should Minister of International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau do about it?

In announcing its new Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP), Global Affairs Canada (GAC) said it will “advance a more flexible, innovative and integrated approach toward achieving gender equality”. A key part of ...

McLeod Group blog by Laura Macdonald and Megan Pickup, April 19, 2018

Justin Trudeau rushed home early from the Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru on Saturday to attend what was for him a more politically relevant summit – the one between Alberta premier Rachel Notley and B.C. premier John Horgan on the Kinder Morgan pipeline. Simultaneously, the summit in Lima was also overshadowed internationally, in this case by the decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to bomb Syria in ...

McLeod Group blog by Stephen Brown, April 16, 2018

The preliminary aid statistics for 2017 are now out. What do they tell us about global trends and Canadian foreign aid?

Globally, official development assistance (ODA) from traditional donors has held steady. The total amount, US$147 billion, is down slightly compared to 2016, but only because the amount spent on resettling refugees in donor countries has dropped. (Accounting rules allow donor countries to count certain forms of assistance to refugees ...