Struggling for Effectiveness: CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid

by Brown, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780773540576
• ISBN10: 0773540571
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-30
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) allocates vast sums of money each year, providing vital assistance to countless individuals across the developing world. Yet many observers and insiders have sharply criticized CIDA for its lack of concrete results. Presenting a range of work by scholars and practitioners, this collection offers the most comprehensive examination of CIDA's efforts in over a decade. Contributors explore recent trends in Canadian foreign aid, including topics such as its place in Canadian politics, gender and security concerns, advocacy and public engagement, the complexity of CIDA policies, and CIDA's relationship with non-governmental organizations. The perspectives assembled in Struggling for Effectiveness bring clarity to the issue of foreign aid while judiciously gauging Canada's record and offering concrete suggestions for strengthening CIDA's efforts to help people living in poverty. Extensively researched and comprehensive in scope, Struggling for Effectiveness will be indispensable to anyone interested in Canadian assistance abroad and Canada's place in a rapidly changing world. Contributors include Stephen Baranyi (University of Ottawa), David Black (Dalhousie University), Elizabeth Blackwood (Simon Fraser University), Stephen Brown (University of Ottawa), Dominique Caouette (Universite de Montreal), Adam Chapnick (Canadian Forces College), Denis Cote (Canadian Council for International Cooperation), Molly den Heyer (Dalhousie University), Nilima Gulrajani (London School of Economics), Hunter McGill (University of Ottawa), Anca Paducel (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva), Rosalind Raddatz (University of Ottawa), Ian Smillie (independent scholar and consultant), Veronika Stewart (Simon Fraser University), and Liam Swiss (Memorial University of Newfoundland).

Author Biography

Stephen Brown is associate professor of political studies at the University of Ottawa.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction: Canadian Aid Enters the Twenty-First Century	p. 3
Canada among Donors: How Does Canadian Aid Compare?	p. 24
Improving Canada's Performance as a Bilateral Donor: Assessing, the Past and Building for the Future	p. 53
Aid Effectiveness and the Framing of New Canadian Aid Initiatives	p. 79
Whither Development in Canada's Approach toward Fragile States?	p. 108
Gender, Security, and Instrumentalism: Canada's Foreign Aid in Support of National Interest?	p. 135
CIDA'S Land and Food-Security Policies: A Critical Review	p. 159
Untangling Canadian Aid Policy: International Agreements, CIDA'S Policies, and Micro-Policy Negotiations in Tanzania	p. 186
CIDA and the Mining Sector: Extractive Industries as an Overseas Development Strategy	p. 217
Between Indifference and Idiosyncrasy: The Conservatives and Canadian Aid to Africa	p. 246
Tying up the Cow: CIDA, Advocacy, and Public Engagement	p. 269
CIDA'S New Partnership with Canadian NGOS: Modernizing for Greater Effectiveness?	p. 287
The Politics of Reforming Canada's Foreign Aid Policy	p. 305
Conclusion: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead	p. 327
Contributors	p. 345
Index	p. 351
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