Financial delegation of authority for the International Development Assistance Program

The table below presents the authorities of the minister of international development for the approval of projects, programs and initiatives funded from the grants and contributions budget for each of the programming classes. The amounts exclude all applicable taxes, including GST/HST.

Programming classes	Maximum per project/program/initiative	Exception
Bilateral	$50M	Treasury Board approval for contribution in excess of the maximum
Multilateral:
When the recipient is a multilateral organization that is created and governed by member countries and for food aid through the Canadian Foodgrains Bank	$100M
For all other recipients	$50M
Partnership with Canadians:
Partners for development subclass	$50M
Global citizens subclass:
Funding for development awareness projects	$20M
Funding for all other projects under the global citizens subclass	$50M