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- Title
Improving Canadian Foreign Aid: A critique of Canada's Aid Bureaucracy.
- Authors
Bronson, Amy
- Abstract
The following paper considers the question of how to improve the delivery of Canadian foreign aid from a perspective within the domestic aid bureaucracy. Beginning with an analysis of the 2011 incident where the former International Minister for Cooperation, Bev Oda, was able to undo a departmental decision and defund the NGO, KAIROS, the following critique investigates how the bureaucratic structure of CI DA inhibits Canada's aid effectiveness agenda. Addressing critiques of CI DA by organizations such as the OECD and the C.D. Howe Institute, this paper proposes that structural reform similar to an organization such as DFID in the UK is a way to improve Canadian aid effectiveness. Alongside structural reform, however, the paper calls for Canadians to consider the power consolidated in the position of International Minister for Cooperation, especially as the newly appointed Julian Fantino assumes the position, to encourage behavior within this position that promotes, rather than hinders, aid effectiveness.
- Subjects
CANADA; INTERNATIONAL economic assistance; BUREAUCRACY; NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations; COOPERATION; FANTINO, Julian
- Publication
Undercurrent, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 2, p6
- ISSN
1712-0934
- Publication type
Article