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Many Canadian government departments are already engaged in international cooperation activities...however, this change has come about by accident rather than by design, with little thought given to the coherence of these... activities with overall foreign policy or ODA objectives.
6 DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE ODA for a borderless world 59 Canadians are a generous people, both in our self-image and in the real world. We believe in helping those less well off than ourselves. As a middle-sized economic power, and a strong advocate of cooperative welfare programs, Canada has always sought to use some of its national wealth to help the people of less developed countries through official development assistance (ODA). Unfortunately, at a time of budget restraint, we have been forced to curb our ambitions to match the resources available to meet them. This has been a frustrating task. One result is that Canada’s ODA as a share of GNP has declined sharply. From a high of 0.49% in 1991-92, the share fell to about 0.29% in 1998-99, the lowest in almost 30 years. In that time, Canadian ODA to Asia fell more than 40%. It is unlikely that the government will reach its commitment of allocating 0.7% of GNP to ODA any time soon, even though it has pledged more resources to international assistance in the 2000 budget. At the same time, there is a new challenge emerging for our international assistance program which affects not only how much we spend on ODA, but what it is we spend it on and how we deliver the aid. In the globalized economy, there are new needs to meet and alternate ways of addressing them. This has seen a variety of government departments and agencies become newly involved in international assistance programs. It has reached a point where we must develop a partnership approach to the delivery of aid so that different arms of the Canadian government do not overlap or compete in the planning and delivery of projects. Today, borders mean less than ever to the flow of goods and money. This applies to ODA as much as it does to commerce. It means that Canada is sometimes helping developing economies as a group or across a region rather than as individual countries, which are the traditional focus of ODA. Cross-border needs that hardly existed a decade ago are now attracting attention. To meet these new needs, Canada’s aid delivery has become more diffuse, with many government departments and agencies increasingly involved in international projects. Asia is at the centre of this evolution. The emergence of the cooperative, if unfocused, approach of APEC to regional development has been the catalyst for much of this change. Government departments which until a few years ago had a purely domestic mandate are becoming involved in overseas cooperation projects, driven by their participation in APEC working groups or reacting to international regulatory requirements set out in agreements like the Kyoto Convention. One result is a growing concern about overlapping commitments by different arms of government.
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