Development Assistance
Canada's development priorities and policies
As Canada's official vehicle of development assistance around the globe, CIDA is the federal agency charged with supporting sustainable development in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world.
Canada's Official Development Assistance (ODA) program concentrates resources on the following priorities:
Basic human needs: to support efforts to provide primary health care, basic education, family planning, nutrition, water and sanitation, and shelter. Canada will continue to respond to emergencies with humanitarian assistance. Canada will commit 25% of its ODA to basic human needs as a means of enhancing its focus on addressing the security of the individual.
CIDA's Social Development Priorities: A Framework for Action sets out a five-year investment plan to bolster and strengthen resources devoted to programming in four key areas of social development: health and nutrition, basic education, HIV/AIDS, and child protection.
Gender Equality: to support the achievement of equality between women and men to ensure sustainable development.
Infrastructure services: to help developing countries to deliver environmentally sound infrastructure services, with an emphasis on poorer groups and on capacity building.
Human rights, democracy, and good governance: to increase respect for human rights, including children's rights; to promote democracy and better governance; and to strengthen both civil society and the security of the individual.
Private sector development: to promote sustained and equitable economic growth by supporting private sector development in developing countries.
Environment: to help developing countries to protect their environment and to contribute to addressing global and regional environmental issues.
Canada making a difference in the world
CIDA shares a long-term vision of sustainable development with the global development community. Find out more about Canada's development policies:
Sustainable Development Strategy 2004-06
A Framework for Action
Sustainable Development through Agriculture
Action Plan on Basic Education
Expanding Opportunities through Private Sector Development
Child Protection
Gender Equality
Strengthening Aid Effectiveness
Social Development Priorities
HIV/AIDS Action Plan
Health & Nutrition Action Plan
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