Global Affairs Canada: Departmental Results Report 2021–22 - Supplementary Information Tables

Table of Contents

• Reporting on Green Procurement
• Details on transfer payment programs
  • Transfer payment programs with total planned spending of $5 million or more
    • Anti-Crime Capacity Building Program
    • Canada Fund for Local Initiatives
    • CanExport Program
    • Commonwealth Secretariat
    • Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
    • Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program
    • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
    • Global Arctic Leadership Initiative (Formally known as Canadian International Arctic Fund)
    • Grants and Contributions in Aid of Academic Relations
    • Grants in Lieu of Taxes on Diplomatic, Consular and International Organizations’ Property in Canada
    • International Atomic Energy Agency
    • International Criminal Court
    • International Development Assistance
    • International Financial Institutions
    • International Labour Organization
    • International Organisation of La Francophonie
    • North Atlantic Treaty Organization Civil Administration
    • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
    • Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
    • Organization of American States
    • Pan American Health Organization
    • Peace and Stabilization Operations Program
    • Projects and Development Activities Resulting from La Francophonie Summits
    • United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
    • United Nations Organization
    • United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
    • Weapons Threat Reduction Program
    • World Health Organization
    • World Trade Organization
  • Transfer payment programs with total planned spending of $5 million or less
    • Annual Voluntary Contributions to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and to the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission
    • Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat
    • Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
    • Canada’s annual host country grant to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
    • Canadian International Innovation Program
    • Commonwealth Foundation
    • Commonwealth Youth Programme
    • Convention on Biological Diversity
    • Diplomatic Supplement Retirement Benefit
    • Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
    • International Agency for Research on Cancer
    • International Civil Aviation Organization
    • International Energy Agency
    • International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission
    • International Maritime Organization
    • International Renewable Energy Agency
    • International Seabed Authority
    • International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
    • Non-proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament
    • Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
    • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Centre for Educational Research and Innovation
    • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Steel Committee (formerly called International Commodity Organizations)
    • Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
    • Payments under the Diplomatic Service Superannuation Act
    • Peace Implementation Council
    • Permanent Court of Arbitration
    • Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission
    • Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade
    • Secrétariat technique permanent des conférences ministérielles de l’éducation, de la jeunesse et des sports des pays d’expression française
    • Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
    • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
    • United Nations Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues
    • United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture
    • Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
    • Wassenaar Arrangement
    • World Customs Organization
    • World Intellectual Property Organization
• Gender-based analysis plus
  • Section 1: Institutional GBA Plus Capacity
  • Section 2: Gender and Diversity Impacts, by Program
• Response to parliamentary committees and external audits
  • Response to parliamentary committees
  • Response to audits conducted by the Office of the Auditor General of Canada (including audits conducted by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development)
  • Response to audits conducted by the Public Service Commission of Canada or the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages
• United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals

Reporting on Green Procurement

This supplementary information table supports reporting on green procurement activities in accordance with the Policy on Green Procurement.

Context

GAC (GAC) is bound by the Federal Sustainable Development Act and was required to develop a 2020 to 2023 Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy (DSDS). GAC has developed its corresponding 2021-22 DSDS Report, including applicable reporting on green procurement activities. This report can be found on GAC’s website.

Details on transfer payment programs

Transfer payment programs with total planned spending of $5 million or more

Anti-Crime Capacity Building Program

Start date: December 2009

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant and Contributions

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12 (amended); 2015-16 (amended); 2018-19 (amended); 2019-20 (amended)

Link to departmental result(s): 3.4 Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 26. Anti-Crime and Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The Anti-Crime Capacity Building Program (ACCBP) provides assistance to enhance the capacity of key beneficiary states, government entities and other international and non-governmental organizations to prevent and respond to threats posed by international criminal activity in a manner consistent with international human rights obligations, norms and standards, with a global mandate and a focus on the Americas.

Results achieved:

• Reduced security threats from international crime for Canadians, and affected populations, particularly women and girls, in countries where Canada engages
• Enhanced inclusive and gender-responsive reactions to international crime by security institutions in countries where GAC offers programming
• Improved inclusive and gender-responsive development and compliance of anti-crime legal instruments, controls or frameworks by states in countries where GAC offers programming
• Improved inclusive and gender-responsive engagement of communities and civil society in anti-crime efforts in countries where GAC offers programming

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: None

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: There were no program evaluations conducted during the reporting period, however a corporate program evaluation is currently under way with results expected in early 2023.

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: ACCBP delivers programming via Government of Canada departments and agencies, selected multilateral institutions, foreign governments, non-governmental organizations and private entities. During the reporting period, ACCBP continued to work with implementers to improve their understanding and ability to undertake and include appropriate gender-based analysis in their proposals, which will then guide subsequent programming design.

Canada Fund for Local Initiatives

Start date: April 1, 2012

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2021-22

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributed to a just and inclusive world
• 3.1: Improved physical, social and economic well-being for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where Canada engages
• 3.2: Enhanced empowerment and rights for women and girls in countries where Canada engages
• 3.3: Reduced suffering and increased human dignity in communities experiencing humanitarian crises

Link to the department’s Program Inventory:

• Program 9. Geographic Coordination and Mission Support
• Program 22. Humanitarian Assistance
• Program 28. Canada Fund for Local Initiatives

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) is a contributions program delivered through Canadian embassies and high commissions in approximately 130 countries. CFLI supports projects that are comparatively modest in scope, scale and cost, and that are usually conceived and implemented by local authorities or organizations.

The program is guided by three core objectives:

1. To contribute to the achievement of Canada’s thematic priorities for international assistance, with special emphasis on the themes of advancing democracy, protecting and promoting human rights, and ensuring security and stability;
2. To assist in the advocacy of Canadian values and interests and strengthening Canada’s bilateral relations with foreign countries and their civil societies; and
3. To provide small-scale financing to local organizations to respond to natural disasters and other emergencies.

The CFLI Thematic Priorities are approved annually by a Program Management Board. For 2021-2022, they are:

1. Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
2. Inclusive governance, including diversity, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
3. Peace and security, with a focus on conflict prevention and building peace.
4. Human dignity, covering health, education and nutrition.
5. Growth that works for everyone, including women’s economic rights, access to decent jobs and entrepreneurship, investing in the poorest and most vulnerable, and safeguarding economic gains.
6. Environment and climate action focusing on adaptation and mitigation, as well as on water management.

Results achieved:

Increased capacity of local organizations, institutions and governments to deliver projects that address local development challenges in a gender-sensitive manner.

• In 2021-22, the CFLI program was managed by 69 Canadian missions abroad to support 690 projects in 124 countries and in the West Bank and Gaza.
• In 2021-22, local civil society organizations (CSOs), academic institutions and local governments implemented 88% of CFLI projects. This represents an 8% increase when compared to last year’s results. The majority of CFLI funding is directed toward local CSOs, which is a core objective of the program; CSOs are best-placed to understand and respond to the particular development challenges in their local country context. Many CFLI recipients don’t qualify for funding from most international donors, given their relatively small size and limited experience in implementing development projects. For many of these local organizations, the CFLI program offers them a rare opportunity to receive international funding and strengthen their ability to respond to local needs.
• Although lockdowns and restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic still limited the ability of certain missions to deliver formal capacity-building training to local CSOs in 2021-22, some missions were able to offer workshops to their CFLI recipients. The trainings touched upon various topics including managing finances, how to use social media, budgeting, how to complete a gender-based analysis, and project monitoring and reporting. In some instances, after the completion of successful projects, missions assisted CFLI recipients in obtaining financial support from other sources by providing them with the necessary tools to submit a project proposal, introducing them to donors and providing references.
• In 2021-22, in alignment with the Feminist International Assistance Policy, the CFLI program continued to advance Canada’s objectives in terms of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. For example, CFLI projects aimed at promoting and protecting women’s rights by addressing sexual and gender-based violence, including child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation (79 projects), by advancing women’s economic rights and leadership (69 projects), and by promoting women’s involvement in mediation and peacebuilding processes (35 projects). Nearly 96% of all CFLI projects consulted with women and girls prior to implementing the project activities and 95% incorporated a gender-based analysis into project designs. The CFLI program also provided funding to 291 women’s rights organizations to support their work in bringing transformative change for gender equality and the rights and empowerment of women and girls. Meanwhile, 482 partner organizations were human rights and inclusive governance organizations that received CFLI funding in 2021-22; this represents an increase of 68 organizations compared to 2020-21.
• In 2021-22, the CFLI program continued to support the local efforts to prepare for, respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic by providing funding to 74 COVID-19-related projects around the world. For example, in Belize, a CFLI project worked closely with the Belizean government to create and develop employment opportunities for the population following COVID-19.

Increased access to, and influence with, key local decision makers and change makers to raise awareness and promote Canada’s values and interests.

• The CFLI program enables Canadian embassies and high commissions to build networks and relationships with local governments, local populations and local CSOs. In 2021-22, 87% of missions indicated that their CFLI program created meaningful opportunities for interactions with local stakeholders, including CSOs and civic leaders, representing an increase over 2020-21. In Jordan, for example, the CFLI program funded a project that worked with 20 women to increase their capacity to participate in the public sphere through workshops on citizenship, local governance and digital outreach. As a result of this project, 3 of the women ran successful election campaigns and were elected in March 2022 as council members in their respective districts.
• The CFLI program not only gives missions the opportunity to expand their networks through new partnerships, but it can also be leveraged to re-enforce existing relationships. Missions also gain greater access to local populations and local decision makers through CFLI projects by engaging directly with CSOs in various geographic locations such as rural and remote areas or in countries where Canada has no permanent diplomatic presence. Missions reported obtaining valuable information and insights from past and present CFLI recipients regarding the local context or important developments in countries or areas where Canada has limited access. Most notably, the CFLI program was an essential tool leveraged by the Embassy of Canada to Poland to strengthen its network with local CSOs in Belarus and with the Belarusian diaspora in Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. The CFLI program in Belarus is also considered one of the most effective ways for Canada to receive independent and reliable information on the increasingly hostile situation in Belarus.
• As an important advocacy tool for Canada, the CFLI program provides a platform for Canadian diplomats to raise awareness and foster discussions with local decision makers on issues of importance to Canada, including climate change (33 projects), freedom of speech/press (32 projects) and human rights including diversity and inclusion, disability rights, Indigenous rights and 2SLGBTQI+ (formerly known as LGBTQI+) rights (178 projects). For example, the Embassy of Canada to Kazakhstan, in Nur-Sultan (NSLTN) supported the creation of a regional network of 2SLGBTQI+ community members in Central Asia and the development of tools designed to promote the engagement and participation of 2SLGBTQI+ persons in leadership positions within civil society and non-profit organizations in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The project challenged social norms and practices by contributing to the elimination of systemic discrimination against the 2SLGBTQI+ community and by improving socioeconomic outcomes for 2SLGBTQI+ community members through capacity-building training. In 2021-22, 93% of Canadian diplomats managing the CFLI overseas indicated that the program meaningfully increased their mission’s level of influence in advancing Canada’s values and interests in their countries of accreditation.

Increased capacity of local organizations to deliver humanitarian assistance that responds to sudden onset natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies in a gender-sensitive manner.

The CFLI program is also an effective tool used to respond to sudden onset natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies in developing countries. The CFLI humanitarian and emergency response reserve is designed to provide quick, small-scale funding (maximum $50,000) to local organizations in the immediate aftermath of natural disasters and other emergencies. CFLI humanitarian projects are implemented in complementarity with other Canadian support delivered through regular humanitarian channels. In 2021-22, $1.13 million was disbursed in humanitarian funding in response to various crises around the world. For example, CFLI projects provided vital support to populations affected by natural disasters such as wildfires in Algeria and Argentina, volcano eruptions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, flooding in Guyana and the Super Typhoon Odette in the Philippines. Seven other projects supported the efforts of local communities to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, a number of projects were implemented in the aftermath of armed conflicts to respond to the immediate needs of vulnerable communities and internally displaced persons. In total, the CFLI program provided direct humanitarian assistance to 49,839 individuals through 23 initiatives across 21 countries.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: By program design, the CFLI is intended to respond to local needs and engage closely with recipients, many of whom are small organizations with modest resources. Applicants are solicited mainly through broad calls for proposals, which clearly identify a contact person who is responsible for responding to queries. Many Canadian high commissions and embassies hold information sessions for interested applicants. Once projects are selected for funding, recipients and mission personnel communicate frequently throughout the implementation and reporting process. Mission personnel often visit project sites to monitor projects. Additionally, recipients may be offered the opportunity to participate in group experience-sharing workshops or training, including on financial reporting and record keeping.

CanExport Program

Start date: December 11, 2008

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grants and Contributions

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2008-09 (updated 2013-14 to add the Foreign Trade Zones Marketing Program [FTZ-MP], 2015-16 to add the CanExport Program, 2017-18 amendments to program terms and conditions including name change of program from Global Markets Support Program to Trade and Investment Support Program, 2018-19 additional funding ($50 million over 5 years) in response to Budget 2018 to increase Trade Diversification, and 2019-20 additional funding (100 million over 5 years) in response to the Fall Economic Statement, changes to Program Terms and Conditions and name change of program from Trade and Investment Support Program to the CanExport Program), Approved October 21, 2020, changes to incorporate measures in accordance with Government of Canada’s COVID-19 response.

Link to departmental result(s):

• 2.2: Canadian exporters and innovators are successful in their international business development efforts
• 2.3: Foreign direct investment is facilitated, expanded or retained

Link to the department’s Program Inventory:

• Program 14. International Business Development
• Program 15. International Innovation and Investment

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The purposes and objective of the program is to build a stronger and more effective Canadian capacity to compete in the global economy. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

CanExport Community Investments

Enhance the capability and effectiveness of Canadian communities to attract, retain and expand foreign direct investment (FDI), as measured by analysis of recipient performance reports and surveys.

• 2,222 leads were generated from program-funded activities.
• 80% of respondents indicated that their knowledge of investment opportunities has improved.
• 88% of respondents indicated that funded projects resulted directly or indirectly, in attracting serious investment prospects for their community (e.g., advanced information requests, site visits and actual investment proposals).
• 75% of respondents claimed the activities funded resulted directly or indirectly in FDI leads and 74 is the average number of estimated FDI leads generated from relevant projects.
• 68% of respondents indicated that relevant projects contributed to retaining FDI.
• 78% percent of respondents indicated expansion of FDI among existing investors.
• 93% of respondents clamed funded projects that still generate FDI today have created and/or retained jobs.

CanExport Associations

Stimulate the engagement of Canadian industry associations, their members and non-member firms in international markets, in order to expand commercial linkages and facilitate future successes abroad, as measured by analysis of recipient performance reports and surveys.

• 81% of respondents claimed there are more Canadian companies in their industry involved in international business as a direct or indirect result of the relevant projects.
• 68% of respondents stated that the relevant projects resulted in foreign sales or contracts.
• 91% of respondents indicate their association’s knowledge of international business development opportunities improved.
• 91% of respondents indicated their Canadian participants’ international competitiveness and/or ability to conduct international business improved.

CanExport Innovation

Increase Canadian science and technological innovation and commercialization opportunities, as measured by analysis of recipient performance reports and surveys.

• 9% of respondents claimed funded projects resulted in ongoing R&D collaborative partnerships and 8% of respondents indicated funded projects resulted in new R&D partnership agreements.
• Approximately $4 million in commercial sales was reported by recipients.
• 7% of respondents indicated signing letters of intent and 5% of respondents signing memorandums of understanding (MOUs).
• 68% of respondents claimed development of one or more products or technologies with foreign partners.
• 91% of respondents indicated their organization’s knowledge of R&D opportunities increased as a result of this project.
• The majority of respondents (91%) indicated that CanExport Innovation played an important role in advancing their pursuit of R&D opportunities with foreign partners.
• 75% of respondents claimed their CanExport Innovation-funded projects hired new employees, while 53% generated commercial sales.

CanExport SMEs

Provide direct financial assistance to Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) seeking to develop new markets, especially in high-growth emerging markets.

In 2021-22, CanExport SMEs approved $30,939,228.79 in funding for 1134 projects supporting companies’ international business development. The projects targeted 123 markets around the world.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: None (last program audit completed in 2017).

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: None (the evaluations planned for 2018-19 and 2019-20 have been rescheduled to take place in 2023-24).

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: The CanExport Program administers an annual recipient questionnaire, allowing recipients to provide direct feedback to program management. Although the questionnaire does not cover CanExport SMEs, final reports and annual snapshots are submitted by CanExport SME recipients to provide feedback and data on the results associated with their individual projects. The CanExport Program also seeks feedback from applicants and recipients through proactive outreach and ongoing communications related to program delivery.

Commonwealth Secretariat

Start date: September 28, 1965

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2006-07

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s assessed contribution to the regular budget of the Commonwealth is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of Canada’s membership is to further the Government of Canada’s foreign policy goals related to international peace, security and development and, to this end, to enhance relationships among the 56 Commonwealth member countries. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved: The most recent Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting occurred in June 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda. Canada was represented by the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. The Commonwealth Secretary-General’s term was extended for two years, and a package of reforms was approved to help streamline and modernize the work of the Secretariat.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization

Start date: February 1998

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: December 2011 – extended indefinitely by the Minister of Foreign Affairs

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1 Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), which is responsible for provisionally implementing the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

Results achieved: Canada’s assessed contributions to the CTBTO were paid, as per obligations.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program

Start date: September 2005

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant and Contributions

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12 (amended); 2015-16 (amended); 2018-19 (amended); 2019-20 (amended).

Link to departmental result(s): 3.4 Improved peace and security in controls and regions where Canada engages

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 26. Anti-Crime and Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program (CTCBP) provides assistance to enhance the capacity of key beneficiary states, government entities and other international and non-governmental organizations to prevent and respond to terrorist activity in a manner consistent with international counter-terrorism and human rights obligations, norms and standards.

Results achieved:

• Reduced security threats from transnational terrorism for Canadians and affected populations, particularly women and girls, in countries where Canada engages.
• Enhanced inclusive and gender-responsive prevention and response to terrorism by security institutions in countries where GAC offers programming.
• Improved inclusive and gender-responsive development and compliance of counter-terrorism legal instruments, controls or frameworks by states in countries where GAC offers programming.
• Improved inclusive and gender-responsive engagement and resilience of communities and civil society in counter-terrorism in countries where GAC offers programming.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: There were no program evaluations conducted during the reporting period; however, a corporate program evaluation is currently underway with results expected in early 2023.

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: The CTCBP delivers programming via Government of Canada departments and agencies, selected multilateral institutions, foreign governments, non-governmental organizations and private entities. During the reporting period, the CTCBP continued to work with implementers to improve their understanding of and ability to undertake and include appropriate gender-based analysis in their proposals, which will then guide subsequent programming design.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Start date: 1945

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s annual assessed contribution to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of membership is to further the Government of Canada’s foreign policy and international development assistance goals related to agricultural development and food systems, and to provide Canada with a voice in the international community on global efforts to eradicate hunger and all forms of malnutrition. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

• Contributed to the alleviation of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition
• Increased and improved provision of goods and services from agriculture, forestry and fisheries in a sustainable manner
• Reduced rural poverty
• Enabled more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems
• Increased the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crisis
• Contributed to climate action through agricultural systems
• The Programme Implementation Report (PIR) 2020-21 informs the membership about the Organization’s initiatives, areas of work and results achieved during the 2020-21 biennium as planned in the Programme of Work and Budget 2020-21 and subsequent adjustments. The PIR has been aligned around the structure of the latest FAO Strategic Framework 2022-31. The PIR reports on key achievements and results under the established results framework, as well as expenditures, resource mobilization and lessons learned with regards to both FAO’s technical work serving UN members at global, regional and country levels, and the internal enabling environment.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Global Arctic Leadership Initiative (Formally known as Canadian International Arctic Fund)

Start date: November 5, 2020

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant and Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2020-21

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1 Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2 Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3 Canada helps build strong institutions and respect for international law
• 1.4 Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 5. Europe, Arctic, Middle East and Maghreb Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To strengthen Canada’s global leadership in the Arctic. It supports the achievement of key objectives of the International Chapter of Canada’s Arctic and Northern Policy Framework (2019), namely to:

• bolster Canadian leadership in multilateral forums where polar issues are discussed and decided upon; and
• enhance representation and participation of Arctic and northern Canadians in relevant international forums and negotiations.

Results achieved:

• GAC invested $4million in 2021-22 through over 20 small and larger Global Arctic Leadership Initiative (GALI) projects to promote and protect Canada’s values and interests in the circumpolar Arctic. GALI promotes and protects Canada’s values and interests in the circumpolar Arctic. Through its funding in five key programming pillars, GALI seeks to address some of the gaps and opportunities identified by stakeholders during the Arctic and Northern Policy Framework co-development process, including: strengthening our engagement in the Arctic Council; establishing a Canadian-based permanent secretariat for the council’s Sustainable Development Working Group; supporting the participation of Indigenous Northerners in the Arctic Council and its work; increasing the University of the Arctic’s activities and programming in Canada’s Arctic; and providing opportunities and meaningful engagement for Northern youth to engage in international Arctic affairs and Arctic issues.
• GAC signed a contribution agreement with Laval University to host the international secretariat for the Sustainable Development Working Group, which will bolster the council’s work on the human dimension.
• Canada enhanced the engagement of Arctic and Northern youth on international Arctic issues and priorities, including on climate change innovation, through 4 projects under GALI.
• GALI also supported the three Canada-based Indigenous permanent participants to increase their ability to engage in international decision making in the Arctic Council and in international Arctic forums, with contributions of up to $650,000 each per year.
• Additionally, Canada increased the ability for Arctic and Northern Canadians, including Indigenous peoples, to participate in UArctic collaborative field research programs and the North2North mobility program, allowing Arctic and Northern Canadians to build capacity and engage internationally through 3 contribution agreements.
• Through diplomacy, international cooperation and international advocacy, Canada continued to champion the integration of diversity and gender considerations, for example by doing gender-based analysis plus in projects and initiatives, guided by Canada’s feminist foreign policy.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Grants and Contributions in Aid of Academic Relations

Start date: January 1, 1989

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grants and contributions

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2015-16

Link to departmental result(s): 2.2: Canadian exporters and innovators are successful in their international business development efforts

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 14. International Business Development

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The objective of Grants and Contributions in Aid of Academic Relations is to support international education by using learning, scholarship, research, academic relations cooperation and dialogue to improve awareness of Canada’s international policies and priorities (e.g. democracy, the rule of law and human rights) and facilitate Canada’s economic prosperity. Recipients are not required to repay grant funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

• Highly skilled and qualified international students/researchers/professionals in Canada: 562 scholars selected Canada as a study destination through program-funded activities.
• Canadian students/researchers/professionals abroad: There were 54 Canadian faculty and 1 Canadian student who undertook research abroad.
• Circulation of ideas and research to the benefit of Canadian and international individuals, as well as the public and private sectors: 20 new collaborative linkages were established between foreign and Canadian institutions; there were 104 new joint publications of academic articles of research; and 20 new collaboration opportunities with the international education sector program-funded activities.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: Engagement of applicants and recipients was achieved through promoting the program and announcing competitions on the EduCanada website and social media channels (Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram); by providing information and responding to requests directly via email; by leveraging the networks and promotional efforts of Canadian missions abroad; and by delivering tailored webinars to applicants and recipients with the support of Canada’s scholarship administrator and immigration colleagues.

Promotion and engagement were also done through participation at education conferences, including the annual Canadian Bureau for International Education Conference, Colleges and Institutes Canada Conference, Conference of the Americas on International Education (presentation made), EURIE-Eurasia Higher Education Summit, a virtual study tour for select Emerging Leaders of the Americas Program scholars, and a virtual collaboration mission with delegates of universities and colleges from Latin America and Caribbean countries for which the theme was innovative learning and collaboration opportunities. These activities allowed for direct interaction and engagement with prospective applicants and recipients.

Grants in Lieu of Taxes on Diplomatic, Consular and International Organizations’ Property in Canada

Start date: January 18, 1979

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grants

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 1978-79

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 4. The Office of Protocol

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: This transfer program aims to operationalize the Diplomatic, Consular and International Organizations’ Property Grants Order (P.C.1979-59, January 18, 1979). The related Memorandum of Understanding between GAC and Public Services and Procurement Canada establishes responsibilities for the provision of services related to the payment of grants in lieu of real property and frontage or area taxes with respect to diplomatic and consular properties.

Results achieved: Canada’s international commitments were met, as measured by:

• the timely and accurate administration of payments to taxing authorities in Canada with respect to properties of foreign states entitled to realty tax exemptions; and
• the maintenance and expansion of the most favourable property tax exemption opportunities for Canadian missions abroad.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

International Atomic Energy Agency

Start date: December 19, 1989

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s annual assessed contribution to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is a legally binding obligation of membership. Payment is made to ensure that membership remains in good standing and to therefore allow Canada to vote and participate in the Agency’s activities, including as a member of its Board of Governors. The IAEA is the main UN organization responsible for furthering the safe, secure and peaceful uses of nuclear technology.

Results achieved:

• Effective and efficient implementation of the IAEA’s major programs, as reflected in the Agency’s biennial program and budget, and effective participation for Canada in the Agency’s activities
• Direct and indirect technical and commercial dividends to the Canadian nuclear industry
• IAEA actions and decisions reflect Canadian interests and priorities.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A – No evaluation conducted based on a low-risk exemption.

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

International Criminal Court

Start date: April 1, 2005

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2021-22

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 3. International Law

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To support the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the first permanent, treaty-based, international criminal court established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. The Court’s expenses are funded primarily by assessed contributions from states parties. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program. Canada’s support for the ICC is directly related to article 10(2)(j) of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act, according to which the Minister of Foreign Affairs is required to “foster the development of international law and its application in Canada’s external relations.”

Results achieved:

• The ICC continued to carry out preliminary investigations, investigations and prosecutions. To date, 31 cases have been brought before the court and 17 different situations are under investigation. A further three preliminary examinations are under way.
• From April 2021 to March 2022, one suspect was remanded into the ICC’s custody. The Pre-Trial Chamber confirmed charges in three cases and authorized the opening of an investigation in the situation in the Philippines. Two trials commenced. One additional trial opened in April 2022 and another one is scheduled to open in September 2022. The ICC Trial Chambers delivered a sentence in one case, and the Appeals Chamber heard one appeal, with a decision forthcoming in due course.
• Following referrals from Canada and many other states parties, the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) opened an investigation into the situation in Ukraine. The OTP sought authorization to resume its investigation into the situation in Afghanistan. It concluded its preliminary examination of the situation in Colombia and decided not to proceed but did conclude a Cooperation Agreement with the Government of Colombia in support of domestic efforts to advance transitional justice. The OTP opened an investigation into the situation in Venezuela and concluded an MOU with the Venezuelan government.
• The ICC engaged in continued outreach to promote accountability for serious international crimes and advance the interests of justice. It created an outreach strategy and published a report for the UN General Assembly. The court also reported on its outreach activities to the Assembly of States Parties (ASP).
• Internal controls were maintained by the ICC Registrar, as well as through the Office of Internal Audit. The ASP also appointed an external auditor and created the Committee on Budget and Finance for the budgetary and financial review and monitoring of the ICC’s resources. The court’s reports to the ASP contain detailed performance measures and performance indicators for its various activities. All proposed ICC budgets, Committee on Budget and Finance reports, financial statements, external audit reports, and resolutions are available on the ICC website.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: Through its resolution in December 2019, the ASP tasked an external auditor “to conduct an evaluation of the oversight bodies of the ICC as part of its work in 2020, replacing the performance audit, and to recommend possible actions on their respective mandates and reporting lines, while fully respecting the independence of the Court as a whole” (Resolution ICC-ASP/18/Res.1). External Auditor: Final Report on the International Criminal Court Governance Oversight was released in October 2021.

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: In response to increasing challenges and calls for reforms, in December 2019, the ASP adopted a resolution that established the Independent Expert Review (IER) to identify ways to strengthen the court and the Rome Statute system. The IER final report concluded with a set of 384 recommendations (short and long term, 76 of which are “prioritized recommendations”) and was adopted by ASP during its 2020-21 session. Canada was supportive of the IER and provided comments to experts during its review.

At the ASP in 2020, states parties agreed to create a review mechanism to turn the IER report into a concrete plan, tasking individual working groups and bodies with carrying out specific actions. This mechanism is made up of focal points from New York and The Hague, supported by three regional group representatives. The ICC has appointed its own focal points to draft a similar document for action by the court.

The review mechanism and court focal points released an action plan for implementing the IER recommendations, with the court and specific working groups tasked with various actions. Work is under way to review and implement the IER recommendations.

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: The Embassy of Canada to the Netherlands is in regular direct contact with Court officials and, together with the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations in New York, participates in working groups dealing with governance and finance issues affecting the ICC. Canada, together with the six other largest contributors to the ICC’s budget, continues to press for budget efficiencies.

International Development Assistance

Start date: 2001-02

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grants and Contributions

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2012-13

Link to departmental result(s):

• 3.1: Improved physical, social and economic well-being for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where Canada engages
• 3.2: Enhanced empowerment and rights for women and girls in countries where Canada engages
• 3.3: Reduced suffering and increased human dignity in communities experiencing humanitarian crises
• 3.4: Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages
• 3.5: Canada’s international assistance is made more effective by leveraging diverse partnerships, innovation and experimentation

Link to the department’s Program Inventory:

• Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy
• Program 22. Humanitarian Assistance
• Program 23. Partnerships and Development Innovation
• Program 24. Multilateral International Assistance
• Program 25. Peace and Stabilization Operations
• Program 28. Canada Fund for Local Initiatives
• Program 29. Europe, Arctic, Middle East and Maghreb International Assistance
• Program 30. Americas International Assistance
• Program 31. Asia-Pacific International Assistance
• Program 32. Sub-Saharan Africa International Assistance

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: In 2017, the Minister of International Development and La Francophonie launched the Feminist International Assistance Policy. The policy outlines how Canada will refocus its international assistance on helping the poorest and most vulnerable people and build a more peaceful, inclusive and prosperous world. The policy implementation is focused on six action areas (Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls, Human Dignity (Health, Education and Humanitarian Assistance), Growth That Works for Everyone, Environment and Climate Change, Inclusive Governance and Peace and Security) while recognizing that promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is the most effective approach to eradicating poverty and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Official development assistance (ODA) activities contribute to poverty reduction, take into account the perspectives of the poor, and are consistent with international human rights standards, as per the Official Development Assistance Accountability Act (the Act). ODA may also be provided for the purposes of alleviating the effects of natural disasters or other emergency events occurring outside Canada. GAC is the lead department responsible for Canada’s ODA. The majority of the department’s international assistance activities meet the requirements of the Act. However, GAC’s transfer payment program does not preclude activities falling outside the scope of the Act. Most of recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved: In 2021-22, GAC continued to advance international assistance priorities and commitments and make progress toward expected results, as well as contribute to the Government of Canada’s and international efforts in COVID-19 recovery.

The program contributed to the achievement of the departmental outcome under the core responsibility Development, peace and security programming: Improved physical, social and economic well-being for the poorest, most marginalized and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where GAC engages, via programming that is aligned to the expected outcomes identified in FIAP Action Area Results Frameworks, namely:

• Enhanced enjoyment of human rights for women and girls and gender equality for all women and men, girls and boys, particularly the poorest, most marginalized and most vulnerable;
• Enhanced equal learning outcomes for girls and boys and equal employability of youth, women and men, particularly the poorest, most vulnerable and most marginalized, in developing countries, Conflict-affected and fragile situations and humanitarian settings;
• Improved health and well-being for the poorest, the most marginalized and the most vulnerable populations, particularly women and girls;
• Reduced suffering and increased human dignity in communities experiencing humanitarian crises;
• Improved state of the environment and climate resilience for marginalized and vulnerable populations and future generations, particularly women and girls;
• Improved equality and enjoyment of human rights for the poorest, most marginalized and most vulnerable people, particularly women and children, and youth in countries and online spaces where GAC engages;
• Improved peace and security.
• In addition, Canada’s international assistance was made more effective by leveraging diverse partnerships, innovation and experimentation.

For more details on international assistance results and disbursements, please refer to GAC’s Report to Parliament on the Government of Canada’s International Assistance and Statistical Report on International Assistance, respectively, both of which are published online.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: In 2021-22, GAC completed the Audit of Grants and Contributions - Oversight and Monitoring.

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: In 2021-22, GAC completed program evaluations of the following programs and portfolios:

• Evaluation of the Partnerships for Development Innovation Branch, 2015-16 to 2019-20
• Summative Evaluation of Five Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Projects in Haiti
• Diplomacy, Trade and International Assistance Coherence in the Asia-Pacific Branch, 2015-16 to 2020-21
• Evaluation of Diplomacy, Trade and Development Coherence in the Latin American and Caribbean Region

Formative Evaluation of the Women’s Economic Linkages and Employment Development (WE-LEAD) and Launching Economic Achievement Program in Jordan

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: Consult the core responsibility Development, peace and security programming of the Departmental Results Report 2021-22.

International Financial Institutions

Start date: N/A

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Statutory Authority (Payments to International Financial Institutions – Direct payments)

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: N/A

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1 Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2 Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3 Canada helps strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 1.4 Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened
• 3.1 Improved physical, social and economic well-being for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where Canada engages
• 3.2 Enhanced empowerment and rights for women and girls in countries where Canada engages

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 24. Multilateral International Assistance

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: International financial institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund and regional development banks (including the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Caribbean Development Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank) provide technical assistance and financial services that focus on country-specific development solutions. Payments to IFIs are made in accordance with sections 3(a), 3(c) and section 12 of the International Development (Financial Institutions) Assistance Act. These include direct payment to the institutions to enable the IFIs to finance their concessional facilities and funding windows for assistance to the poorest developing countries, as well as the purchase of shares of the institutions to provide them with increased capital in order to expand their financing activities. There is no expectation for recipients to repay funds provided under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

• Increased effectiveness of Canadian development cooperation through engagement with, and investment in, multilateral and global organizations to address humanitarian and development challenges, including: progressed in global food security, health, education, women’s economic empowerment, governance, climate mitigation and adaptation and infrastructure development, and supported inclusive, sustainable economic growth in developing countries
• Engaged to support IFI responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including through access to vaccines, therapeutics and testing; strengthening health systems; protecting the poor and vulnerable; and maintaining economic stability, supporting business continuity and minimizing job loss
• Continued playing a leadership role in encouraging:
  • greater mainstreaming and integration of gender equality in the strategies, policies and operations of regional development banks and the International Fund for Agricultural Development
  • the regional development banks and the International Fund for Agricultural Development to expand climate change adaptation and mitigation, particularly in the area of climate finance
  • the IFIs to strengthen their operational efficiency and effectiveness, including improving their results-based management and evaluation systems and optimizing the use of their existing capital

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: The IFIs regularly conduct audits of their programming that are shared with GAC in its capacity as shareholder and member of the governing body of these institutions.

There was no internal audit conducted by GAC for any IFIs in 2021-22.

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: All IFIs have independent evaluation units that conduct systematic project and program evaluations, which are published on their websites.

External evaluations by MOPAN are also carried out from time to time. In 2021, MOPAN initiated evaluations of the African Development Bank (AfDB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the World Bank (IDA-IBRD). Assessments are expected to be published in 2022.

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: Recipients of IFIs programming are mostly developing country governments that must request the programming. Multilateral development banks (MDBs) work closely with the governments to ensure that their programming is in line with each government’s development priorities and that project beneficiaries are consulted in project design.

Canada sits on the board of the MDBs and engages regularly with them, including through annual conferences, bilateral meetings and donors’ meetings, and provides input on important issues such as general capital increases and replenishment discussions.

All IFIs have in place environment and social safeguard policies to reduce and mitigate negative environmental and social consequences of the projects.

International Labour Organization

Start date: 1919; Canada has been a member since inception

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s annual assessed contribution to the International Labour Organization (ILO)is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of membership is to further the Government of Canada’s foreign policy goals related to international labour and social policy issues and provide it with a voice in the international community. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

• Development and supervision of international labour standards and realization of fundamental principles and rights at work
• Targeted action against forced labour and child labour, giving priority to the urgent elimination of its worst forms
• Contributions to COVID-19 pandemic recovery, just transition, care economy and poverty reduction through promotion of coherent economic and social policies that support employment creation
• Assistance to constituents in the development of skills and employability policies and programs for decent work
• Better instruments and tools for policy analysis and formulation that support good governance and the extension of social protections to vulnerable workers
• Strengthened social dialogue on labour and social-policy issues at the national and international levels
• Improved efficiency, effectiveness and accountability of the organization
• The ILO’s program and budget, which sets out the strategic objectives and expected outcomes for the organization’s work, is approved every two years by the International Labour Conference. Additional details on results and plans are available online: Programme and Budget of the ILO.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

International Organisation of La Francophonie

Start date: March 9, 1972

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s assessed contribution to the regular budget of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (IOF)is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of Canada’s membership is to promote Canadian values (e.g. gender equality, cultural and linguistic diversity, democracy, human rights, and good governance) and interests; to further the Government of Canada’s foreign policy objectives related to international peace, security, development and prosperity; and to enhance relationships among the 87 other La Francophonie states and governments. The IOF is not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved: Through the 25 flagship projects it implemented in 2021, the OIF supported its 4 main missions:

• promoting the French language and cultural and linguistic diversity;
• promoting peace, democracy and human rights;
• supporting education, training, higher education and research; and
• supporting sustainable economic development and solidarity.

In 2021, IOF projects, as well as the 823 partner projects that received IOF funding, benefited 394,402 people throughout the Francophone space.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: The OIF's internal audit department carried out 8 missions, divided into 5 audit missions and 3 advisory missions. The audit plan for 2021 focused on the OIF’s support processes. The missions were conducted with the objective of creating new dynamics or challenging the status quo. Priority risk areas assessed included risk management, staff recruitment, utilization of experts, budgeting of operating expenses, development of ethics and anti-fraud policies, development of integrated scorecards, and implementation of the SAP ERP system.

The implementation of the recommendations made by the Internal Auditor, the External Auditor and the Audit Committee remains weak. Only 30% of the 106 recommendations they issued have been implemented. The Internal Audit Department has urged management to define and adopt an integrated implementation and monitoring framework to address all the recommendations issued by the Organization's internal and external boards. In addition, to ensure greater ownership of this framework, the managers of the operational units directly responsible for implementing the recommendations should be informed and trained on the key provisions of the framework.

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

North Atlantic Treaty Organization Civil Administration

Start date: January 1, 1989

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12 (amended)

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened
• 3.4: Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s annual assessed contribution to NATO flows from its membership in NATO under the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty. Canada’s contribution furthers its foreign policy goals by funding the administrative budget of NATO, an international organization vital to Canadian defence and security interests. NATO was founded to promote the stability of the Euro-Atlantic area and to safeguard the freedom and security of its people based on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and international law.

Results achieved: NATO is vital to Canadian defence and security interests. Funding the Civil Administration budget of NATO supports the overall operations of the organization, which helps to advance Canadian foreign policy priorities.

• Effective decision making at NATO in pursuit of stability and security in the Euro-Atlantic area, in response to the rapidly changing international security environment, particularly in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and North Africa region as measured by, for example, commitments to augment and expand NATO’s enhanced forward presence and decisions to bolster the Alliance’s defence and deterrence posture on the eastern flank
• Linked to above, provided direct support to prime ministerial and ministerial engagement in NATO decision-making processes (e.g. summits, foreign and defence ministerial meetings)
• Supported NATO operations, as measured by progress with respect to ongoing NATO operations and activities, including in Eastern and Central Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Kosovo and Iraq
• Supported the withdrawal of Resolute Support Mission forces from Afghanistan and the evacuation and resettlement of NATO-affiliated Afghan contractors
• Enhanced relations with NATO partners, as measured by the development and implementation of policies aimed at enhancing these relationships
• Continued to implement the NATO 2030 agenda, which was agreed by Canada and other leaders in 2021
• Contributed to appropriate responses to current and emerging defence and security challenges, as measured by, for example, ongoing progress on NATO cyber defence and cyber security and by bolstering the alliance’s deterrence and defence posture on the eastern flank
• Promoted proper management of the Alliance’s resources, as measured by ongoing reform and transformation initiatives, which include increasing NATO’s transparency and accountability and ensuring appropriate value for money

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Start date: March 20, 1975

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12 (amended)

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 1. International Policy Coordination

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to develop and promote evidence-based policies and standards that will improve the economic and social well-being of its 36 member countries and people around the world. The OECD works primarily with governments to understand what drives economic, social and environmental change, measures productivity and global flows of trade and investment, analyzes and compares data to predict future trends, and sets international standards on a wide range of areas, from agriculture and tax to the safety of chemicals. The OECD’s biennial planning and budgeting are governed by an outputs-based management framework, delivered through the Programme of Work and Budget, which is approved by members, based on their priorities. Outputs are tracked by the Secretariat and each of the OECD’s committees, whose members assess the activities’ quality and impact through the Programme Implementation Report, with a view to improving performance. Impact effectiveness and efficiency of committees are also assessed through in-depth evaluations on a five-year basis. Financial operations and expenditures are externally audited annually and reported to members; external auditors also undertake performance audits. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

Find solutions to common economic and social problems by working cooperatively with members toward the development of evidence-based international policies, standards, models, guidelines and agreements:

• Canada worked with the OECD and member countries to ensure a recovery that is sustainable, green and inclusive, and enables the international community to build back better from the COVID-19 crisis. Canada cooperated with other members to highlight and strengthen the OECD’s core values, including democracy, rule of law, human rights, gender equality, and commitment to open and transparent market-economy principles.
• Canada participated in the several OECD-convened ministerial and other high-level meetings to discuss the recovery and develop coherent positions, policies and guidelines on other global challenges that require collective action, including climate change, digitalization and addressing rising inequalities.
• Canada supported the OECD council’s rapid and unequivocal response to denounce Russia’s large-scale aggression in Ukraine and its move to immediately suspend the participation of Russia (and Belarus) in all OECD activities.
• Canada engaged with other OECD members at the 2021 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting with the theme “Shared values: Building a Green and Inclusive Future.” The meeting was divided into two parts: the first was held virtually from May 31 to June 1, 2021; the second took place in hybrid format on October 5 and 6, 2021.
• The OECD contributed evidence and analysis to other global forums, including the G7, G20 and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and provided statistics, analysis and policy options to foster stronger, more inclusive and more sustainable growth.
• Canada worked with other members on setting standards and supporting policy reforms, advancing critical agreements on taxation and the digital economy, delivering on climate change commitments, supporting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, championing multilateralism, and advancing inclusive growth, environmental sustainability, and gender and social equality.

Implement OECD work programs and policy positions that reflect input from across the Canadian government and support domestic priorities:

• Canada’s whole-of-government engagement at the OECD is coordinated through GAC, which manages an interdepartmental network of departments and agencies involved in OECD work. This ensures that Canada’s positions and statements across the OECD are aligned to and informed by domestic priorities.

Influence the policy development of other members and of non-members to improve the functioning of the international economic environment:

• Encouraged effective policy development by supporting evidence-based policy advice, analysis, comparative data and policy expertise to inform policy development, program management and governance.

Analyze new and emerging issues, both domestic and global, that affect Canada’s economy and standard of living:

• The OECD performed analysis and produced reports on economic factors, trends and issues that may impact Canada’s economic and social fabric, including:
  • The Economic Benefits of Air Quality Improvements in Arctic Council Countries (April 2021)
  • Improving the well-being of Canadians (May 2021)
  • Preventing Harmful Alcohol Use: Key Findings for Canada (May 2021)
  • “OECD Skills Outlook 2021: How does Canada compare?” (June 2021)
  • OECD Employment Outlook 2021: How does your country compare? Key findings for Canada (July 2021)
  • Canada 2022 Energy Policy Review (February 2021)
  • Multi-level governance for migrant integration - Policy instruments from Austria, Canada, France, Germany and Italy (February 2021)
  • Career Guidance for Adults in Canada (February 2021)
  • Northern and Arctic Air Connectivity in Canada (January 2021)

Improve engagement with non-members, reflecting Canadian priorities to increase the long-term reach and global impact of the organization’s standards:

• The OECD provided advice, data and standards to non-member countries to support recovery efforts and provide policy options on the reforms needed to eventually become OECD members.
• The OECD also strengthened engagement with non-member countries through country programs, regional approaches, work with Key Partners (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa) and consistent support for the membership enlargement process.
• Canada supported the January 2022 decision by the OECD council to open accession discussions with the five candidates that applied for membership in 2017 (Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Peru, Romania). Enlargement is a primary means of increasing the OECD’s reach and impact.

Implement institutional reforms to improve the OECD’s ability to cope with new issues and power dynamics:

• Canada continued to support an independent external evaluation of the OECD’s governance framework.
• Canada advocated for transparent, effective governance and financial efficiency.

Ensure sound management of the OECD:

• Canada continually pushed for effective governance, sound management and organizational efficiency, notably through ongoing Budget Committee discussions on the OECD’s program of work and budget, to ensure the member-driven nature of the organization.
• Canada engaged with the new OECD Secretary-General to advocate for Canada’s priorities at the OECD, including expectations for the transparent, effective and efficient management of the organization

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Start date: January 1, 1993

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2012-13

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened
• 3.4: Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s annual assessed contribution to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is an obligation arising from its membership in what has become the world’s largest regional security organization, with 57 participating states from North America, Europe and Eurasia. Canada’s contribution furthers its foreign policy goals related to human rights, fundamental freedoms, democratization, fragile states, conflict prevention, crisis management, mediation, post-conflict development, and arms control. This is achieved by funding OSCE operations; Permanent Council meetings and working groups; policy conferences and expert workshops; and on-the-ground mediation, social betterment and capacity-building programs implemented by the OSCE Secretariat, autonomous institutions and field missions.

Canada’s OSCE contributions also include payments made to administer and implement two legally binding conventional arms control regimes to which Canada is a state party: the Treaty on Open Skies (for which Canada is a treaty co-depository, together with Hungary) and the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, as well as the politically binding Vienna Document. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

• Canada used the OSCE Permanent Council and other OSCE forums to hold Russia to account for its illegal and unjustifiable war against Ukraine. The Canadian delegation countered Russian disinformation and advocated for support to Ukraine as it defends itself.
• Canada assumed the 2022 OSCE Security Committee chair to support the Polish chair and advance Canadian policy priorities through relevant political-military meetings. Early planning had to be adapted due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
• Canada, along with 44 other OSCE participating states, invoked the OSCE Moscow Mechanism, a human rights reporting tool of the OSCE, to establish a fact-finding mission to Ukraine to report on the human rights and humanitarian impacts of Russia’s invasion.
• The fact-finding mission report, released on April 13, 2022, concluded that Russian forces are committing atrocities and human rights violation in Ukraine, including war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: Canada maintains a permanent delegation to the OSCE, headed by an Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the OSCE, in Vienna, Austria.

Organization of American States

Start date: 1990; Canada has been a member since inception.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 6. Americas Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Assessed contributions are mandatory dues to fund the core functions of the Organization of American States (OAS) and are calculated according to member states’ gross national income and relative size of their economy, in line with the scale of assessments used at the OAS.

The OAS is the region’s premier multilateral forum for cooperation and dialogue on issues of importance to the hemisphere, including democracy, human rights, security and development. The OAS is an important partner for advancing Canada’s foreign policy priorities and objectives in the Americas.

Through its membership, diplomatic engagement and financial support, Canada ensures the implementation of projects in areas of key Canadian interest, complementing and leveraging the impact of Canada’s bilateral interventions in the hemisphere.

Results achieved:

• In 2021-22, Canada made significant multilateral contributions across the four pillars of the OAS: democracy, human rights, security and integral development. This included strategic advocacy and support to the key priority areas of human rights, gender equality, diversity and inclusion through the promotion and sponsorship of progressive text in negotiated resolutions, the organization of thematic meetings and events, leadership of and interventions before its various bodies, and in its relations with other member states and secretariats.
• Canada influenced the inter-American agenda by serving as vice-president of the Executive Committee of the Inter-American Commission of Women and pro tempore chair of the OAS LGBTI Core Group, chairing the Budget Committee, and led other member states in defending gains on inclusion and diversity through leadership in the informal Group of Friends of Inclusion and at the General Assembly.
• On human rights, Canada continued to support and engage with the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, and consistently advocated for the integration of a human rights perspective and the prioritization of the needs of groups in the most vulnerable situations in the region’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including women and girls, migrants and refugees, Indigenous peoples, 2SLGBTQI+ communities, journalists and human rights defenders.
• Canada played a leading role in the OAS’s response to various democratic crises in the region, notably assisting it to maintain pressure on the Maduro regime in Venezuela, co-chairing the Permanent Council Working Group on Nicaragua, participating in the OAS Good Offices Mission to Haiti, and contributing to several key OAS’ electoral observation missions: in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Grenada, Honduras, Mexico (recall election) and Peru. Canada also took on leadership roles and contributed constructively to multidimensional security and defence, including through its vice-chairmanship of the Committee on Hemispheric Security and its significant voluntary contributions to key regional programs on cybersecurity, terrorism and transnational organized crime.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: Canada maintains a Permanent Mission to the OAS, headed by an Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the OAS, in Washington, D.C.

Pan American Health Organization

Start date: 1971; Canada has been a member since inception.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2013-14

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 6. Americas Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program:

• Assessed contributions are mandatory dues to fund the core functions of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) and are calculated according to member states’ gross national income and relative size of their economy, in line with the scale of assessments used at the OAS.
• PAHO serves as the specialized organization for health in the inter-American system. It also serves as the Regional Office of the World Health Organization for the Americas and enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system.
• Membership in PAHO enables Canada to expand its multilateral and bilateral relations with its 34 member countries and be an active hemispheric partner on health-related issues, including on sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR). Through its membership, Canada contributes to PAHO’s mission “to promote equity in health, to combat diseases, and to improve the quality of life and well-being of the peoples in the Americas.”

Results achieved: In 2021-22, PAHO remained an authoritative voice for health in the region, providing strategic and technical guidance in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic at the highest levels of government, with non-state actors and within the UN and inter-American systems. PAHO continued to call for unity and solidarity in addressing the impact of the pandemic and providing equitable access to COVID-19 response tools, while simultaneously advocating for continuity of essential health services to save lives and mitigate the devastating effects of the pandemic on hard-earned regional public health gains. Through its technical cooperation, and consistent with Canadian foreign policy and international assistance policy, PAHO continues to be a catalyst to improve the health and well-being of the peoples of the Americas.

• Throughout 2021-22, Canada remained a leading supporter of PAHO as a trusted partner in the Americas region. In line with Canadian priorities and interests, Canada supported the organization’s COVID-19 pandemic response by providing $50 million in voluntary contributions to provide access to COVID-19 vaccines for vulnerable populations in the Americas. The department’s contribution funded the purchase and delivery of over 895,000 COVID-19 vaccines to the region, along with critical support to the region’s health systems to prepare for and deliver on their national vaccination campaigns. In addition, in 2021-22 Canada provided support to PAHO through a four-year, $15-million project to improve the health of vulnerable women and adolescent girls in 6 countries in the region (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Honduras and Peru). This project supports the expansion of access to and coverage of sexual and reproductive health, and maternal, adolescent girls and women’s health services, including by supporting the empowerment and leadership of women and girls related to their health care and rights.
• GAC works in close collaboration with Canada’s Health Portfolio in its relationship with PAHO, and Canada remains committed to ensuring that the Organization promotes good governance, transparency and accountability. In 2021-22, Canada championed the importance of improving policies related to sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment in governing body meetings. Although Canada is not currently a member of the Executive Committee, it continues to actively participate in all PAHO governing body meetings to advance Canada’s health and development priorities in the Americas. Furthermore, as a trusted member of the OAS, Canada is consulted on an ongoing basis by PAHO’s senior management and is able to influence strategic issues.
• In 2021-22, led by the Office of International Affairs for the Health Portfolio in collaboration with GAC, Canada actively participated in meetings of PAHO’s Directing Council, Executive Committee and Sub-committee on Programming, Budget and Administration, advocating for Canadian priorities related to building resilient health systems in the pandemic recovery, building a comprehensive approach to address health threats related to human, animal and environmental health, and setting the regional agenda for digital health and the use of data and science in public health using emerging technologies.

Throughout the 2021-22 governing body meetings, Canada was also able to successfully advance its positions on key program, budget and administrative issues, with the aim of further strengthening the organization’s governance and accountability, which includes stressing the continued importance of gender parity within PAHO’s human resource management.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: In June 2021, PAHO’s auditor, the National Audit Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, provided an unqualified audit opinion for 2021, which means that PAHO’s financial statements are considered fairly and appropriately presented. The external audit report noted that this unqualified opinion represented “a significant achievement” in light of the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: As a PAHO member state, Canada participates in the Directing Council as a voting member, thereby influencing the direction of PAHO’s work, as well as the use of its budgets. Although not currently a sitting member, Canada also actively participates in PAHO’s Executive Committee and Subcommittee on Planning, Budget and Administration meetings.

Peace and Stabilization Operations Program

Start date: 2016

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grants and Contributions

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2018-19

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 3.2: Enhanced empowerment and rights for women and girls in countries where Canada engages
• 3.4: Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 25. Peace and Stabilization Operations

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The Peace and Stabilization Operations Program (PSOPs) is the Government of Canada’s platform for conflict prevention, stabilization and peacebuilding. It engages in fragile and conflict-affected states leveraging resources of, and partnerships with, multilateral institutions and like-minded nations. It affects its work through policy expertise, support to multilateral institutions, programming and deployments.

PSOPs core responsibilities are: 1) to provide policy leadership on peace and stabilization, including strategic coordination of Government of Canada responses to complex political crises on an as-needed basis; and 2) to deliver gender-responsive conflict prevention, stabilization, and peacebuilding initiatives through both programming (in the form of grants and contributions) and deployments.

Per the PSOPs Terms and Conditions, contributions supported by PSOPs programming are not repayable.

Results achieved:

Improved inclusive and gender-responsive prevention of violent conflict, response to crisis, and peacebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected areas where PSOPs engages:

• PSOPs programming included county-specific stabilization initiatives in Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Mali, Myanmar, South Sudan and Ukraine. Programming also included targeted funding for cross-cutting thematic areas of intervention, including women, peace and security; the Elsie Initiative for Women in Peace Operations; and support to peace operations, conflict prevention, mediation and peacebuilding. Key examples include:
  • In Mali, Canada funded Search for Common ground to work against disinformation. 14 group dialogue sessions were organized, allowing 764 people (280 women and 484 men) including community leaders and local authorities to discuss the circulation of rumors, false information and hateful messages to teach them about the role they can play in preventing disinformation and identifying participative solutions and actions.
  • In Colombia, there was a noted increase in recognition of the impacts of the conflict on 2SLGBTQI+ persons as a result of a project implemented by Inter Pares with Canadian funding. There has also been increased engagement of 2SLGBTQI+ victims of the conflict with state institutions, including the Transitional Justice Mechanism, and 30 2SLGBTQI+ persons have agreed to include their cases in reports to the Truth Commission and Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
  • In Haiti, the rights of vulnerable migrants, victims of criminal acts/human rights abuses and/or victims of trafficking were enhanced through increased access to protection mechanisms and securing the border area through increased cooperation between Haitian and Dominican border authorities as the result of funding to the International Organization for Migration.
• PSOPs has also supported Justice Rapid Response and UN Women to deploy experts to investigate and document crimes of sexual and gender-based violence. In 2021-22, ten women gender justice experts were deployed to 8 conflict contexts, helping to bring perpetrators to justice.

Enhanced inclusive and gender-responsive prevention of and response to national and transnational threats by security institutions in fragile and conflict-affected areas where PSOPs engages:

• PSOPs increased the capacity of security institutions to prevent and respond to national and transnational threats in a gender-responsive manner in multiple countries where PSOPs engages. For example:
  • In Ukraine, prior to the Russian invasion in February 2022, Canada was supporting over $10 million per year in programming focused on a number of priorities including security sector reform, with a strong focus on advancing Ukraine’s Women Peace and Security National Action Plan. Following the invasion, such programming was adapted to the significantly changed context and new initiatives rapidly developed, with the overarching aim to enhance Ukrainian resilience and resistance in the face of Russian aggression.
  • In Nagorno-Karabakh, Canada funded 2 mine action projects, one on each side of the dividing line of the Nagorno-Karabakh region, to reduce the risk for civilians by surveying, removing and disposing of explosive remnants of war and providing mine risk education following the 2020 agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan to end the latest round of violent conflict.

Enhanced inclusive and gender-responsive multilateral prevention, mitigation and response to violent conflict, threats, insecurity and fragility in the world.

Key examples include:

• At the 2021 UN Peacekeeping Ministerial held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, Canada announced new pledges aimed at strengthening peacekeeping in line with the UN Secretary-General’s Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative and its implementation strategy, A4P+. Pledges included predictable, scaled-up multi-year support of $70 million over 3 years for the UN Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund in support of peacekeeping transitions and conflict prevention, a renewed and expanded Elsie Initiative for Women in Peace Operations, as well as continued multi-year support to specialized training and to international implementation of the Vancouver Principles on Peacekeeping and the Prevention of the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers.
• In 2021-22, Canada’s large-scale advocacy resulted in an additional five UN member states endorsing the Vancouver Principles, bringing the total number of endorsees to 105 UN member states.
• Canada continued to implement the Elsie Initiative for Women in Peace Operations. Troop and police contributing countries that have undergone the Measuring Opportunities for Women in Peace Operations barrier assessment are using these findings to make substantive changes to their institutions to promote the meaningful participation of women. As a result of funding from the Elsie Initiative Fund, the first two gender-strong police units from Senegal were deployed. Gender-strong units include substantial representation of women overall and in positions of authority, provide gender-equity training to all unit members and have adequate equipment to ensure parity of deployment conditions for women and men peacekeepers.
• Thanks to the deployment of a Canadian civilian expert, NATO produced a new Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security. This action plan will advance gender equality and integrate gender perspectives in all that NATO does, including in innovation and new technologies, climate change and resilience.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: No audits were completed in 2021-22 as an audit with positive findings was conducted in 2019-2020 in accordance with GAC’s approved Risk-based Audit Plan. In response to the audit, PSOPs developed the Management Response and Action Plan, which was presented and approved at the Departmental Audit Committee in October 2020 and is being implemented.

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: No evaluation was completed during the 2021-22 fiscal year. In accordance with the rolling five-year evaluation plan, an evaluation of PSOPs will be conducted in 2023-24.

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: The PSOP’s website is the key tool through which PSOPs communicates with the public and potential applicants. It includes key information on applying for funding, and applicants may submit concept papers, whether unsolicited or in response to a call for concepts, through the website.

PSOPs undertakes formal and informal discussions with partners to inform its strategy, to facilitate understanding of PSOPs priorities and the funding process, and to solicit feedback to improve how the program works. For example, an independent PSOPs program monitor gathered feedback from PSOPs project partners working in Colombia through virtual meetings in the winter of 2021. PSOPs engages regularly with multilateral recipients including those in the UN system to identify funding gaps and opportunities, and to discuss global priorities on peace, stabilization and conflict prevention.

PSOPs relies on Canadian representatives abroad to engage regularly with potential recipients and partners. As projects are being implemented, PSOPs officers regularly monitor PSOPs-funded projects, including through regular contact with implementing partners and monitoring visits. These visits not only allow PSOPs to monitor project progress and results, but also allow officers to engage directly with beneficiaries and local implementing partners, including women’s groups, to understand the gender dynamics in the target country and ensure that programming addresses the needs of women and girls.

In July 2021, PSOPs created the Canadian Peacebuilding Partners Network (CPPN) as a central platform for Canadian peacebuilding partners, inside and outside of government, to come together to exchange ideas, share lessons and identify opportunities for deeper engagement. The CPPN aims to facilitate policy dialogue on conflict prevention, stabilization and peacebuilding between Canadian civil society and GAC and to exchange knowledge, encourage collaboration and ultimately enhance Canada’s collective efforts.

Projects and Development Activities Resulting from La Francophonie Summits

Start date: March 9, 1979

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2010-11

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 24. Multilateral International Assistance

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: This program provides funding to cooperation programs and activities undertaken by the International Organisation of La Francophonie (IOF). It also provides financial support to the Government of New Brunswick to foster its participation in summits, ministerial conferences and other related La Francophonie activities. This program promotes Canadian interests and is consistent with Canada’s development, political and economic objectives for La Francophonie.

Results achieved:

• Canada is heavily involved in the OIF's institutions and bodies, which allows it to influence the organization's action, strategy and programming.
• Canada has distinguished itself as a leader in the development of the political, economic and cooperation mandates of the Francophonie.
• Canada stands out in particular for its action in favour of gender equality, for example to ensure that it is integrated in a transversal way in the actions of the OIF and taken into account in the various resolutions and declarations of the OIF.
  • This was notably the case for the new Declaration of La Francophonie on the French Language and Linguistic Diversity, which includes, thanks to Canada's efforts, commitments to gender equality.
• Canada has continued to make a significant contribution to improving the governance, sound management, efficiency and transparency of the organization.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Start date: 1945; Canada has been a member since inception.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s annual assessed contribution to the United Nations is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of membership is to further the Government of Canada’s foreign policy goals related to international peace, security and development and provide it with a voice in the international community. Assessed contributions are used to finance the organization’s programs toward attainment of the UN’s objectives, as set out in its Charter. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

• Progress in the implementation of the Education 2030 Agenda by focusing on sector-wide policy and planning, literacy, teachers and skills development for the world of work
• Reduced gender disparities in primary and secondary education in member states, and strengthened global commitment to education for girls and women, including for refugees and displaced persons
• Strengthened education system responses to contemporary challenges with emphasis on universal values based on peace, mutual understanding and respect for human dignity, education for sustainable development, including education for disaster preparedness
• Implemented the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
• Implemented the International Convention against Doping in Sport
• Protected cultural and natural heritage through implementing UNESCO’s culture conventions, in particular the World Heritage Convention and the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property
• Established effective early warning systems for tsunamis and strengthening scientific knowledge in support of sustainable ocean management
• Improved management of the planet’s water resources through increased scientific cooperation
• Developed free, independent and pluralistic media, and civic participation
• Freedom of expression, freedom of the press, safety of journalists, and access to information were more broadly integrated into policies in member states
• Protected and digitalized the world’s documentary heritage
• Protected Indigenous languages
• UNESCO’s program and budget, which set out the strategic objectives and expected outcomes for the organization’s work, are approved every two years by the UNESCO General Conference. For further information, visit the UNESCO website.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

United Nations Organization

Start date: 1945; Canada has been a member since inception.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s annual assessed contribution to the United Nations is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of membership is to further the Government of Canada’s foreign policy goals related to international peace, security and development and provide it with a voice in the international community. Assessed contributions are used to finance the organization’s programs toward attainment of the UN’s objectives, as set out in its Charter. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

• Promoted peace and security
• Progressed toward achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
• Promoted and protected human rights
• Effectively coordinated humanitarian assistance efforts
• Promoted justice and international law
• Progressed toward disarmament
• Cooperated internationally on drug control and crime prevention
• Cooperated internationally to combat terrorism

The UN’s program and budget, which set out the strategic objectives and expected outcomes for the organization’s work, are approved each year by the UN General Assembly. For further information, see Annual Report of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

United Nations Peacekeeping Operations

Start date: 1945; Canada has been a member since inception.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations help countries torn by conflict create the conditions for lasting peace. In addition to maintaining peace and security, peacekeepers are increasingly charged with assisting in political processes, reforming judicial systems, training law enforcement and policy forces, disarming and reintegrating former combatants, and supporting the return of internally displaced persons and refugees. Canada’s assessed contribution to UN Peacekeeping Operations is a legally binding obligation of membership.  

Results achieved:

• Enhanced peace and security for the countries and regions concerned
• Contributed to increased levels of security, protection of civilians, support to humanitarian activities, basic services and governance provided in affected areas, promoting advanced prospects for peace as well as enabling reconstruction and development activities
• Maintained multilateral relationships with key UN organizations and bilateral relationships with key allies and other troop-contributing countries
• Ensured alignment of UN-assessed contributions with peacekeeping priorities (including increasing women’s participation in peacekeeping), enhanced efficiency and sound resource management and supported the UN as a cornerstone of the rules-based international order

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Weapons Threat Reduction Program

Start date: June 7, 2018

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grants and Contributions

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2017-18

Link to departmental result(s): 3.4: Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 27. Weapons Threat Reduction

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The Weapons Threat Reduction Program (WTRP) implements Canada’s commitments to the G7-led, 31-member Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction (the Global Partnership). In 2018, the WTRP was renewed on an ongoing basis at reference levels of $73.4 million per annum to address ongoing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation threats globally, corresponding with the G7’s decision to expand the Global Partnership’s geographic focus. The WTRP implements cooperative threat reduction projects in the following priority areas: nuclear and radiological security, biological security, support for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (to counter WMD proliferation), and chemical security. The WTRP also provides support for the universalization and national implementation of conventional arms control regimes, such as the Arms Trade Treaty and the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention.

Results achieved: In 2021-22, the Weapons Threat Reduction Program achieved the following results:

• Reduced threats to Canadians and the international community from weapons and materials of mass destruction, and conventional weapons such as small arms and light weapons, land mines and cluster munitions
• Strengthened detection, prevention and response capacities of partner states, and regional and international organizations to the proliferation of such weapons and related materials
• Reduced access to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear-related materials by non-state actors and states of proliferation concern
• Improved legal and policy instruments and frameworks of partner states that meet international security and threat reduction standards and best practices

Specific highlights:

• Supported the Africa Centres for Disease Control (CDC) to implement its Biosafety and Biosecurity 5-year Strategic Plan. A particular emphasis in 2021-22 was on enhancing Africa CDC’s in-house capacity and supporting capacity-building initiatives related to biosafety and biosecurity across Africa.
• Delivered over 46 workshops and training sessions to strengthen the capacity of states in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia to implement UN Security Council Resolution sanctions to address North Korea’s proliferation activities. These workshops engaged over 5,000 experts from both the government and private sectors, and focused on counter-proliferation financing, cybersecurity and illicit shipping, as well as promoting open-source information on North Korean sanctions evasion networks to strengthen states’ capacity to identify, interdict and respond to illicit North Korean activities that support the country’s WMD programs.
• Supported the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) as the global lead for the research, development and licensure of COVID-19 vaccines. This support helped to ensure that multiple COVID-19 vaccines in the CEPI portfolio (such as Moderna and AstraZeneca) were approved for manufacture and distribution, thereby enabling the COVAX Facility to make up to 2 billion doses available to the international community by the end of 2021. As of March 31, 2022, COVAX had delivered over 1.4 billion doses to 145 countries and economies around the world.
• Strengthened Kazakhstan’s ability to provide secure physical protection measures for nuclear and radiological materials. In 2021, construction was completed on a long-term storage facility for disused sealed radioactive sources at the Institute of Nuclear Physics. This facility, designed and constructed in accordance with international security standards, will provide the required capacity to consolidate all such radioactive sources from the city of Astana and neighbouring regions.
• Continued engagement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat to support a customized global early warning system for disease surveillance. ASEAN member states are actively using an application developed by Toronto-based BlueDot (the first surveillance platform in the world to detect the novel coronavirus in China in December 2019) to assess the risks of importation and spread of COVID-19, and to develop national mitigation, preparedness and response measures.
• Supported the Gender and Disarmament Programme of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in helping develop and systematically apply gender perspectives in multilateral conventional arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament. In 2021, UNIDIR produced the report Women Managing Weapons and the UN Peacekeeping article “Eight ways to support women’s participation in technical arms control.”

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: No formal program-level audits were completed in 2021-22.

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: There were no program evaluations conducted in 2021-22. A program evaluation is planned for 2023.

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: The WTRP delivers programming through project implementers including international organizations, foreign governments, civil society and other Government of Canada departments and agencies. A significant proportion of its WMD threat reduction programming activities are brought forward and developed through the Global Partnership Working Group, which serves as a coordinating and priority-setting body for the Global Partnership’s 31 members.

During the reporting period, the WTRP continued to work with implementers to improve their understanding of and ability to better incorporate considerations of results-based management and gender-based analysis in the development of project proposals.

World Health Organization

Start date: 1948; Canada has been a member since inception.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2016-17

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s annual assessed contribution to the WHO is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of membership is to further the Government of Canada’s foreign policy goals related to health and provide it with a voice in the international community. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

• Enhanced global health security through:
  • operationalization of a unified WHO emergency program, including implementation of lessons learned from COVID-19;
  • establishment of a Global Health Emergency Network;
  • contribution toward International Health Regulations (2005) (IHRs) core capacities and improvements to the IHRs; and
  • support for the implementation of the Contingency Fund for Emergencies.
• Accelerated progress toward achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by:
  • reducing maternal mortality;
  • improving child survival;
  • addressing the global burden of non-communicable diseases and their main risk factors;
  • promoting healthy environments; and
  • increasing access to essential medicines.
• Promoted health equity by:
  • strengthening health systems to reach the poorest and most vulnerable.
• Strengthened global norms and standards in health by:
  • developing, implementing and monitoring global norms and standards; and
  • promoting safety of food, water, and medical products and devices.
• Continued progress to implement WHO institutional reform by:
  • supporting ongoing efforts to enhance organizational efficiency, effectiveness, accountability and transparency.

The work of the WHO is guided by its 13th General Programme of Work, put in place for 2019 to 2025. In addition, the WHO has biennial program budgets that set out the strategic objectives and expected outcomes for the organization’s work; these are approved every two years by the World Health Assembly. For additional details on results and plans, please consult the WHO’s Budget.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

World Trade Organization

Start date: January 1, 1995

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2009-10

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law.
• 2.1: Canada helps to build and safeguard an open and inclusive rules-based global trading system

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 12. Trade Policy, Agreements, Negotiations, and Disputes

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s contribution to the World Trade Organization (WTO) budget reflects Canada’s commitment to safeguarding the multilateral trading system. It is based on our share of world trade and determined on an annual basis. The WTO is a cornerstone of Canada’s trade policy, providing a common set of rules, rights and obligations for the trade policies of its 164 members and a forum for Canada to advance its trade interests on the broadest possible basis. The WTO provides Canada with the opportunity to build alliances, influence rules and secure concessions on issues where it may otherwise have less leverage. Issues such as agriculture subsidies and regulatory concerns (e.g. sanitary and phytosanitary measures) are more effectively addressed multilaterally. The WTO also has a robust dispute settlement system, of which Canada is a regular user. Through the ongoing work of its many committees, the WTO provides a forum for Canada to raise and resolve a range of trade irritants and market access issues. Finally, the WTO is also an active forum for trade policy monitoring and surveillance.

Results achieved: As a trade-dependent country, Canada has been actively involved in all areas of the WTO negotiations:

• Canada’s key interests are protecting the integrity of the WTO agreements and institutions; pursuing disciplines on domestic support for agriculture; advancing negotiations on eliminating harmful fisheries subsidies; and ensuring that the WTO remains relevant to the realities of 21st century economies, including, for example, by delivering outcomes in negotiations on contemporary economic issues such as electronic commerce, trade and gender, and trade and environmental sustainability.
  • In the lead up to the twelfth WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) in June 2022, Canada worked with likeminded partners, including the Ottawa Group, to achieve targeted outcomes and advance progress across key WTO issues.
  • Progress in these areas will be measured by WTO reports (including committee reports) and developments in WTO negotiations (for example, outcomes of MC12). Given the challenges in the WTO’s multilateral negotiations, Canada has been participating in open-ended plurilateral discussions with a subset of WTO members in a number of areas (e.g. investment facilitation, e-commerce, and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises).
  • Negotiations on the Joint Initiative on Services Domestic Regulation (JSI DR) concluded in December 2021. The JSI DR proposes trade rules that provide greater transparency and predictability in the regulatory environment for services. For example, it would provide micro, small and medium-sized Canadian enterprises with expected requirement procedures where no free trade agreement exists.
• Continued work with WTO members to advance discussions on issues facing the global trading system:
  • Canada has promoted forward-thinking at the WTO to better position the organization’s response to future pandemics, environmental crises and global trade disruptions.
• Continued leadership on WTO reform:
  • Canada convened a representative group of WTO members (the “Ottawa Group”) committed to supporting and modernizing the rules-based multilateral trading system. Ottawa Group discussions are intended to complement reform efforts by other WTO members. Discussions focus on three main themes: immediate actions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the WTO; safeguarding and strengthening the dispute-settlement system; and reinvigorating the WTO’s negotiating function.
  • Building on the June 2020 Ottawa Group Joint Statement focusing on COVID-19, Canada continued to work with like-minded partners to seek multilateral outcomes, such as the Canada co-sponsored plurilateral declaration on trade and health.
  • Ottawa Group ministers met several times in 2021-22.
• Continued participation accession negotiations for all countries seeking to join the WTO, in the review of the trade policies of each WTO member, as well as preparing for its own review (every five years).
• Continued participation in the WTO dispute settlement system
  • Canada is one of the most active participants in the WTO dispute settlement system, as measured by the number of disputes in which Canada is a participant as either a direct or intervening party. The WTO’s dispute settlement system is the world’s preeminent body for discussing and resolving international trade disputes. Canada continued to work with all WTO members to find interim and long-term solutions to the impasse in new appointments to the WTO Appellate Body, which has been unable to hear new appeals since December 2019.
  • Helped to lead the establishment of the Multi-Party Interim Appeal-Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA). The MPIA ensures that participating members continue to have access to an effective dispute settlement system that provides appellate review of panel decisions in disputes between them upon demand, and which leads to binding, enforceable decisions.
• The governance mechanisms of international organizations include oversight services. GAC will rely upon these oversight regimes to assist in monitoring the WTO’s accountability for achieving objectives agreed to by its members and for stewardship of its funds, which are contributed by member states, including Canada.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: WTO external auditors conduct an annual performance audit of the WTO that is based on standards set by the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions. The 2021 performance audit is expected to be released in September 2022.

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: Findings for the 2021 performance audit were not available at time of publication.

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Transfer payment programs with total planned spending of $5 million or less

Annual Voluntary Contributions to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and to the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission

Start date: December 1999

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contributions

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12 (amended); 2015-16 (amended); 2018-19 (amended); 2019-20 (amended).

Link to departmental result(s): 3.4: Improved peace and security in countries and regions where Canada engages

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 26. Anti-Crime and Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To manage the Annual Voluntary Contributions (AVCs) to the Organization of American States Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (OAS-CICAD) and to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). With an annual amount of $3.45 million, governed by three Treasury Board authorities, the AVCs have three primary objectives:

1. to financially assist UNODC to fulfill its mandate in the fight against drugs and international crime at global levels;
2. to financially assist the OAS to fulfill its mandate in the fight against drugs at hemispheric levels; and
3. to help enable Canada to maintain a visible and influential role in UNODC and the OAS.

Results achieved:

Establishing Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanisms for Impact Evaluation of the Drug Treatment Court Model 

• # of trained participants in training sessions surveyed who report or demonstrate increased knowledge of the core concepts and practices in the drug treatment courts (DTC) Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) manual in participating member states, (disaggregated by gender):
  • the target, set to 18 out of 22 (80%), was surpassed with a result of 54 out of the 62 (87.1%), which included 38 out of 44 women (86.4%), and 16 out of 18 men (88.9%).  
• # of trained participants in training sessions surveyed who report or demonstrate increased knowledge on how to incorporate gender and human rights considerations in DTC M&E practices (disaggregated by gender):
  • the target, set to 18 out of 22 (80%), was surpassed with a result of 55 out of 62 (88.7%), which included 40 out of 44 women (90.9%), and 15 out of 18 men (83.3%). 

Early Warning Systems (EWS) in Response to Opioids and New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) in Latin America and the Caribbean 

• Antigua and Barbuda, and Brazil officially launched their EWS during the reporting period bringing the total of member states having a permanent and on-going national EWS or drug information networks (DINs) to 14 out of 20 over the reporting period ending December 31, 2021.

UNODC – World Customs Organization (WCO) Container Control Programme (CCP) 

• Cocaine: 136,785 kg. seized in 216 cases
• Marihuana: 180 kg. seized in 3 cases
• Firearms and ammunition: 13 cases of firearms 
• Intellectual Property Rights: 78 cases with goods infringing IPR
• Contraband: 19 cases of contraband
• Undeclared goods: 126 cases of undeclared goods
• Chemical Precursors: 2 seizures of chemical precursors
• A total of 457 seizures reported by the CCP Units in Latin America and the Caribbean

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat

Start date: 1989

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: N/A

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 18. Asia-Pacific Trade

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s assessed contribution to the APEC Secretariat serves to sustain our influence on economic integration and cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region (e.g. trade liberalization and facilitation, economic development, human security). Active engagement in APEC ensures that Canada maintains the necessary visibility and credibility to be a valued Asia-Pacific partner and provides Canada with a valuable platform to promote Canadian priorities and interests in the region. APEC is the only Asia-Pacific regional body that meets at the leader-level of which Canada is a member.

Results achieved:

• The Asia-Pacific region remains a priority for Canada in terms of post-pandemic economic recovery and regional economic integration. In 2021-2022, Canada was active in all areas of APEC during the conclusion of New Zealand’s APEC host year and the beginning of Thailand’s host year, including priority areas such as:
  • Advancing discussions on Indigenous Economic empowerment within APEC, including signing onto the Indigenous Peoples Economic and Trade Cooperation Arrangement with APEC members New Zealand, Australia, and Chinese Taipei;
  • Progressing discussions on voluntary removal of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies as well as renewed discussions on the APEC environmental goods list;
  • Ensuring Canada’s values and priorities were integrated into the Aoteara Plan of Action, the implementing tool for APEC’s forward looking vision, the Putrayaya Vision 2040;
  • Ensuring sustainable growth continues to remain a focus in APEC by offering support for Thailand’s (APEC host 2022) efforts to integrate the bio-green-circular economy across APEC fora;
  • Advocating for meaningful discussion on next generation trade and investment issues in the context of renewed discussions on an aspirational Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific.
• Canada was also active across dozens of APEC sub-fora, measured by the number of Canadian representatives in attendance at APEC meetings throughout the year. Canada actively supported APEC hosts through co-sponsorship of dozens of APEC projects and furnished expert speakers.
• In the early onset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Canada took a leadership role among like-minded members to ensure Russia was held to account and that it would not be ‘business as usual’.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal

Start date: 1992

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution under the Basel Convention to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects of hazardous wastes. The scope of application of the Convention covers a wide range of wastes defined as “hazardous wastes” based on their origin and/or composition and their characteristics, as well as three types of wastes defined as “other wastes:” household waste, incinerator ash, and, as of January 1, 2021, plastic waste. Canada’s assessed contribution to the Basel Convention is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

• Development of technical guidelines on environmentally sound management practices for many types of waste, to provide direction to states parties and others;
• Clarification of the scope of the Basel Convention (waste lists) and work on hazard classes;
• Harmonization of the OECD and Basel Convention control systems;
• Preparation of manuals and guidance to improve legal clarity and implementation of provisions; and
• National reporting.

For more information about Canada’s involvement, visit Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Canada’s annual host country grant to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Start date: November 6, 1992

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 24. Multilateral International Assistance

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To support activities related to the permanent establishment in Canada of the Secretariat.

Results achieved:

• Canada showed ongoing support for the advancement of the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the ongoing difficult context of a pandemic, while the work of the CBD to develop the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework falls behind its planned timeframe for adoption. The first part of COP-15 (virtual format) essentially addressed an interim budget for the operations of the Secretariat and included a high-level segment where parties to the CBD committed to negotiate an post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Between January and July 2022, the CBD hosted a series of webinars to update parties and stakeholders on aspects of the resumed sessions of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, the third meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation and two hybrid meetings of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (WG2020-3 in Geneva and OEWG-4 in Nairobi).
• The location of the CBD Secretariat in Montréal makes an important direct contribution to the city’s economy, and that of Quebec and Canada, through direct employment of approximately 110 staff and hosting multilateral conferences. The renewed grant arrangement supports the office accommodation costs of the recipient and contributed to the renovation of the video conference.
• The second part of COP 15 will be held December 7 to 19, 2022, at the location of the CBD Secretariat. This important meeting, where the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is expected to be adopted, will directly contribute to the city’s economy, and that of Quebec and Canada, and will align with Canada’s high ambition to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.
• Hosting the CBD underscores the importance that Canada places on the substantive issues covered by the CBD and reflects the amount of confidence by the UN and the wider membership in the stability of and relationship with Canada.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Canadian International Innovation Program

Start date: April 1, 2006

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: Amended 2017-18

Link to departmental result(s): 2.2: Canadian exporters and innovators are successful in their international business development efforts

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 15. International Innovation and Investment

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: The Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP) fosters and supports collaborative industrial research and development projects with high potential for commercialization between Canada and partner countries. It also stimulates bilateral science and technology networking and matchmaking activities to further new partnerships and accelerate the commercialization of research and development. Although CIIP has authority to deliver the program in all countries with which Canada has a bilateral science, technology and innovation agreement, in practical terms, the small amount of funding dedicated to the program is made equally available for engagement with five priority partners: Brazil, China, India, Israel and South Korea.

Results achieved:

• A 30% increase in knowledge of international partnerships and global markets were reported by CIIP recipients.
• CIIP recipients reported a 40% increase in their innovation capacity.
• 43% of the recipients reported increase in sales of products and/or services in the years following their R&D projects.
• CIIP recipients reported a 64% increase in technical personnel and total personnel in the years following their project.
• No data on increases in sales of products and/or services in international markets have yet been reported by CIIP recipients.

CIIP has not fully completed its data collection for 2021-22. Numbers provided are based on 50% of the partnership development activities (PDA) participants. Data on increased sales of products and/or services in international markets were expected from CIIP project recipients in August 2022, after this report was drafted.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: Engagement of applicants and recipients was achieved jointly by GAC’s CIIP management team and the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program through the promotion of program opportunities for PDAs and call for proposals (CfPs) on the CIIP webpage. Applicants are also invited to register to the database to receive the latest news on the program; to provide information and responding to requests directly via email; and to leverage the networks and promotional efforts of Canadian missions abroad when PDAs and CfPs are launched.

Promotion and engagement were also done throughout the application process, PDAs preparatory and coaching meetings and during the delivery of PDAs, which allowed for direct interactions with applicants and recipients. Furthermore, once PDAs were completed, individual follow-up meetings were organized to gather additional input and data from the recipients.

Commonwealth Foundation

Start date: 1966

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2006-07

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 3.1: Improved physical, social and economic well-being for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where Canada engages

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s assessed contribution to the regular budget of the Commonwealth Foundation demonstrates Canada’s commitment to inclusive governance, by promoting transparency and the active participation of civil society in Commonwealth countries. Engagement also reinforces Canada’s relationships with other Commonwealth members.

Results achieved: Most recent Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) occurred in June 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda. The Commonwealth Foundation convened civil society activists at the People’s Forum. Notably, LGBT rights were also discussed, continuing a trend since the CHOGM in Malta in 2015.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: Engagement with civil society organizations affiliated with the Commonwealth is done directly by the Commonwealth Foundation. The High Commission of Canada in London also engages with civil society in the context of their regular outreach on Commonwealth issues.

Commonwealth Youth Programme

Start date: 1973

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2006-07

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 3.1: Improved physical, social and economic well-being for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where Canada engages

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Canada’s support to the Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) promotes and contributes to youth development in the Commonwealth, and to enhancing Canada’s relationships with other Commonwealth countries on youth issues. The CYP advocates for the effective participation of young women and men in the development process and for social transformation and values their full engagement at all levels of decision making. Engagement with youth is undertaken by the Commonwealth Youth Foundation. However, Heritage Canada funded the participation of one Canadian to attend the Youth Summit during Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Rwanda.

Results achieved: The Youth Forum took place during the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in June 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda. Convened by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth Youth Council, youth delegates, including one Canadian, addressed a series of youth themes including climate change, countering violent extremism and youth employment and entrepreneurship.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: While engagement with youth is undertaken by the Commonwealth Youth Foundation, Heritage Canada funded one Canadian to attend the Youth Summit during CHOGM in Rwanda.

Convention on Biological Diversity

Start date: 1992

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the CBD in support of its three objectives: the conservation of biological diversity; the sustainable use of the components of biological diversity; and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources. Canada’s assessed contribution to the CBD is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

• Continued to contribute to the development of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), the UN CBD’s program of work for next decade. In this era of environmental crises, the key international effort is to halt and reverse biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse globally; without the GBF, major drivers such as land-use change and invasive alien species would continue unchecked.
• Contributed to the development of the associated GBF monitoring framework, which will increase the efficiency and accountability of the CBD and its parties’ actions—especially regarding the development of methodologies and reporting processes for targets that span a number of UN monitoring frameworks (for example, that of the GBF and the Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs]) through collaboration between a number of federal departments and agencies.
• Canadian leadership in the seat of the co-chair of the Open-Ended Working Group for the development of the Post-2020 GBF and succeeded in ensuring effective international cooperation and collaboration throughout the period Canada held the seat.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Diplomatic Supplement Retirement Benefit

Start date: 1985

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant

Type of appropriation: Statutory Authority: Diplomatic Service (Special) Superannuation Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. D-2)

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2013-14

Link to departmental result(s): 5.1: Sound management and delivery of resources, infrastructure and services enables Canada’s presence abroad

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 48. Financial Management

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To provide superannuation benefits for senior appointees of the Department serving outside Canada.

Results achieved: Continued payment of superannuation benefits for senior appointees of the Department.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

Start date: 1972; Canada has been a member since inception.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2010-11

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 6. Americas Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Assessed contributions are mandatory dues to fund the Organization’s core functions and are calculated according to member states’ gross national income and relative size of their economy, in line with the scale of assessments used at the OAS.

The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) is the specialized agency for agriculture in the inter-American system. It focuses on designing and delivering agricultural projects to improve food security, trade and prosperity in the hemisphere.

Canada’s membership in the IICA permits it to participate in the work of the Organization in the areas of trade development, food safety and sustainable production. The IICA is a forum through which Canada works to promote Canadian expertise and agri-business, and to improve and build new linkages for Canada in the Americas.

Results achieved: In 2021-22, as the specialized agency for agriculture in the inter-American system, the IICA remained an authoritative voice for agriculture cooperation in the region, supporting states in the Americas to achieve agricultural development and rural well-being through strategic and technical guidance and training. Through its technical cooperation services, and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and threats to food security in the region, and consistent with Canadian foreign policy and international assistance policy, the IICA continues to work to provide innovative solutions to the main challenges posed by agricultural and rural development in the Americas.

• In April 2021, Canada participated at the Third Hemispheric Meeting of Ministers and Secretaries of Agriculture of the Americas, at which Canada maintains engagement with the IICA through GAC’s Inter-American Affairs Division and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). Canada outlined its position that responding to the food security challenges posed by COVID-19 will require a commitment to open and predictable trade. Canada also shared its views on the importance of addressing climate change challenges, investing in innovation and new technologies, supporting the most vulnerable and ensuring more inclusivity to support the sustainable growth of agri-food systems.
• Also that month, Canada participated in the IICA’s Special Advisory Committee on Management Issues meeting and discussed the management and operations of the IICA.
• In July 2021, Canada participated in the First Forum of Female Ministers and Other Senior Female Officials of Agriculture in the Americas to share Canada’s position on the critical role women play in achieving sustainable and resilient agricultural growth.
• In September 2021, Canada participated at the Twenty-first Regular Meeting of the Inter-American Board of Agriculture, the IICA’s highest governing body.
• In January 2022, Canada joined the IICA’s Living Soils in the Americas initiative. This partnership will help advance the soil health agenda and transform the region’s food systems to be even more sustainable.
• In February 2022, GAC and AAFC officials participated in a meeting of the IICA Advisory Group to discuss IICA Canada’s work plan and share Canada’s priorities and interests for future collaborations with the IICA. Canada also participated in several webinars covering different sectors, including organic agriculture, grains and oilseeds, and livestock. The IICA provided a number of technical cooperation projects in bioeconomy and innovation, natural resources and risk management, trade, territorial development and family agriculture, and agricultural health and food safety across countries in the Americas.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: Canada maintains engagement with the IICA through Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and GAC’s Inter-American Affairs Division.

International Agency for Research on Cancer

Start date: 1965; Canada joined in 1981

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2016-17

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization. Its mission is to conduct and promote international collaboration in cancer research with the objective of improving health through a reduction in the incidence of and mortality from cancer throughout the world. Canada’s assessed contribution to the IARC is a legally binding obligation of membership. Assessed contributions are used to finance the organization’s research program toward attainment of IARC’s objectives, as set out in its statute. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved: Contributed to and worked with international partners to support IARC activities:

• Continued to elucidate the causes of cancer and studied approaches for early detection and prevention
• Reported on the burden of cancer worldwide and continued to monitor geographical variations and trends over time
• Contributed evidence to be translated into timely policies for cancer control
• Coordinated a biobank (with more than 6 million samples) to study the causes, early detection and prevention of cancer
• Continued to contribute to the education and training of cancer researchers worldwide
• Continued to disseminate findings to the widest possible audience

For further information, visit the IARC web site.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

International Civil Aviation Organization

Start date: 1946

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to ICAO, a specialized agency of the UN that works with the Convention on International Civil Aviation’s 193 member states and industry groups to reach consensus on international standards and recommended practices and policies, which states use when developing their legally enforceable national regulations. Canada’s assessed contribution to the ICAO is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved: The ICAO Assembly approves the Budget every three years. The budget sets out the priorities to guide the activities of the organization to enable member states to attain safe, secure, efficient, economically viable and environmentally responsible air transport. For additional details, visit Budget of the Organization 2020-2021-2022 and Annual Reports of the ICAO Council.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

International Energy Agency

Start date: Not applicable. Assessed contributions to international organizations.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: Not applicable. Assessed contributions to international organizations.

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 1. International Policy Coordination

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution as a member of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the leading global authority on energy policy, market analysis and cleaner technologies. The IEA is an autonomous organization that works to ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy for its 30 member countries and beyond. The IEA has four main areas of focus: energy security, economic development, environmental awareness and engagement worldwide.

Results achieved:

• Effective and efficient implementation of the IEA’s major programs, as reflected in the Agency’s biennial program of work and budget, and effective participation for Canada in the Agency’s activities
• IEA actions and decisions consistent with Canadian foreign policy priorities

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission

Start date: November 20, 1990

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2021-22

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3 Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 3. International Law

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC), which is the only permanent international fact-finding body mandated to investigate violations of international humanitarian law. Seventy-six states members of the Geneva Convention’s First Additional Protocol (as well as the Palestinian Authority) have recognized the competence of the commission. IHFFC conducted its first investigation in 2017 by finalizing an independent forensic investigation in Ukraine in 2017 at the request of the OSCE. Canada has been a state party to the IHFFC since 1990 and promotion of the IHFFC reflects Canada’s role in the international rules-based order, particularly related to international humanitarian law.

Results achieved: The IHFFC conducted activities to try to increase the number of countries accepting its jurisdiction and offered its services to conduct enquiries and provide good offices in the context of conflict. The Commission was not mandated to conduct enquiries or to perform its good offices in 2021.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: An audit was conducted by an independent auditor, PWC Switzerland. In their opinion, the financial statements for the year that ended December 31, 2021, were prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with the “Financial Procedures for the administrative expenses of the Commission dated 9 September 1994 and the accounting policies described in the notes to the financial statements.

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: The Embassy of Canada to Switzerland in Bern is the point of contact with the IHFFC. It participated in the election of new commission members in 2021.

International Maritime Organization

Start date: 1948

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a specialized agency of the UN that is responsible for measures to improve the safety and security of international shipping and to prevent pollution from ships. It is also involved in legal matters, including liability and compensation issues and the facilitation of international maritime traffic. Canada’s assessed contribution to the IMO is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

• Promoted safe, secure and environmentally responsible international shipping
• Reviewed, developed and implemented compliance with IMO instruments to identify and address emerging issues
• Progressed toward achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

For more information, visit the International Maritime Organization.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

International Renewable Energy Agency

Start date: Not applicable. Assessed contributions to international organizations.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: Not applicable. Assessed contributions to international organizations.

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 1. International Policy Coordination

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution as a member of International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). IRENA’s mandate is to promote and support the widespread deployment and sustainable use of renewable energy in the pursuit of sustainable development, energy access, energy security and low-carbon economic growth and prosperity.

Results achieved:

• Effective and efficient implementation of IRENA’s major programs, as reflected in the Agency’s biennial program of work and budget, and effective participation for Canada in the Agency’s activities
• IRENA’s actions and decisions consistent with Canadian foreign policy priorities

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

International Seabed Authority

Start date: November 7, 2003

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution (annual, assessed)

Type of appropriation: Estimates.

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: N/A

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 3. International Law

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s annual assessed contribution under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) for the operation of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for budget years 2021, 2022, 2023.

Results achieved:

• Exercised leadership role at the ISA to fulfill Canada’s obligation as a party to UNCLOS and the 1994 Implementation Agreement, which is to participate in the development of regulations for activity related to the non-living resources in the “Area”, and related mechanisms for the equitable sharing of benefits derived from such activities
• Extended Canada's influence and expertise o to ensure that the regulation of these activities is consistent with Canadian interests, including the ISA’s duty to also preserve and protect the marine environment
• Preserved and advanced Canada’s interests in hydrocarbon-related activities on the extended continental shelf in the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador offshore area, where such activities are subject to UNCLOS Article 82 payments to the ISA

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: The 2021 audit report by Ernst and Young was completed and reviewed by the ISA Finance Committee on July 13 and 14, 2022. The Report of the Finance Committee will be discussed at the ISA Assembly on August 3, 2022.

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

Start date: 1996

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: N/A

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 3. International Law

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s annual assessed contribution under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea for the operation of International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for budget years 2021, 2022, 2023.

Results achieved:

• In 2021, the tribunal worked on the Dispute concerning delimitation of the maritime boundary between Mauritius and Maldives in the Indian Ocean (Mauritius/Maldives), Preliminary Objections. The Special Chamber delivered its judgment on January 28—rejecting the five preliminary objections presented by Maldives—with some judges attending in-person and others through video link.
• The tribunal also worked in the hybrid format for its fifty-first (March 15-26) and fifty-second (September 20 to October 1) sessions, which deal with legal and judicial, as well as organizational and administrative matters.
• On March 25, 2021, during its fifty-first session, the tribunal amended its rules to render them gender-neutral.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Non-proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament

Start date: Ongoing

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: Varies

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contributions as a state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the Convention on Anti-Personnel Landmines, the Arms Trade Treaty, and the Seabed Arms Control Treaty

Results achieved: Canada’s assessed contributions to these treaties were paid, as per obligations.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Start date: 1975

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2020-21

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the OECD’s Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in order to meet its financial obligations as an NEA member. Membership in the NEA furthers the Government of Canada’s domestic nuclear policy goals and provides Canada with access to an international forum to discuss the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Results achieved:

• Effective and efficient implementation of the OECD NEA’s program of work
• Direct and indirect technical and commercial dividends to the Canadian nuclear industry
• OECD NEA actions and decisions reflect Canadian interests and priorities

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A – No evaluation conducted based on a low-risk exemption

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Centre for Educational Research and Innovation

Start date: 1968

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2012

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 1. International Policy Coordination

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay the assessed contribution for Canada’s participation in the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) to further the provincial/territorial and federal government’s development, analysis and understanding of activities, policies and innovations in the area of education and learning

Results achieved:

• Contributed to supporting participating OECD members and partners to achieve high-quality, lifelong learning for all and set a forward-looking and innovative agenda for an evolving education landscape
• Provided and promoted international comparative research and analysis that emphasized accumulating statistical evidence and developing key indicators to solidify CERI research work and international benchmarking
• Explored forward-looking and innovative approaches to education and learning through data-driven studies and analytical reports
• Facilitated bridges between educational research, innovation and policy development

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Steel Committee (formerly called International Commodity Organizations)

Start date: 1978

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Annual

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2019-20

Link to departmental result(s): 2.1: Canada helps to build and safeguard an open and inclusive rules-based global trading system

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 12. Trade Policy, Agreements, Negotiations, and Disputes

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: Support the activities of the OECD Steel Committee that provides participants with a forum to exchange views on commercial and policy developments in their domestic and global steel markets. The Committee also provides participants with regular statistical and analytical reports on such developments.

Results achieved:

• Through its participation in the Steel Committee, the department received valuable information on the capacity of and trade developments in the steel sector and exchanged information with other steel producing nations and regional steel associations.
• Provided ongoing participation in the work of the committee to foster best practices regarding support to the steel industry.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22:  The Steel Committee met in September 2021 and March 2022.

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

Start date: April 29, 1997

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation:Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions:

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution under the Chemical Weapons Convention. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) comprises over 190 member states that share the collective goal of preventing chemistry from ever again being used for warfare, thereby strengthening international security. To this end, the convention contains four key objectives: destroying all existing chemical weapons under international verification by the OPCW; monitoring the chemical industry to prevent new weapons from re-emerging; providing assistance and protection to states parties against chemical threats; and fostering international cooperation to strengthen implementation of the convention and promote the peaceful use of chemistry.

Results achieved: Canada’s assessed contributions to the OPCW were paid, as per obligations.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Payments under the Diplomatic Service Superannuation Act

Start date: 1985

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant

Type of appropriation: Statutory Authority - Diplomatic Service (Special) Superannuation Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. D-2)

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2013-14

Link to departmental result(s): 5.1: Sound management and delivery of resources, infrastructure and services enables Canada’s presence abroad

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 48. Financial Management

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To provide superannuation benefits for senior appointees of the Department serving outside Canada.

Results achieved: Continued payment of superannuation benefits for senior appointees of the Department serving outside Canada.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Peace Implementation Council

Start date: July 1, 1996

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2012-13

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 5. Europe, Arctic, Middle East and Maghreb Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to support the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) and its Steering Board, of which Canada is a member. The PIC Steering Board advises the Office of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (OHR) on political, economic and security matters. The Steering Board members share the cost of OHR operations.

Results achieved:

• Provided the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina with guidance and advice on political, economic and security matters
• Contributed to facilitating the development of Bosnia and Herzegovina into a functioning state
• Contributed to further implementing the Dayton Peace Agreement

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Permanent Court of Arbitration

Start date: 1994

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2021-22

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 3. International Law

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To support the key role that the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) plays in resolving international disputes in a peaceful manner and in the successful resolution of both public and private disputes between states. Canada’s support for the PCA is directly related to article 10(2)(j) of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act, according to which the Minister of Foreign Affairs is required to “foster the development of international law and its application in Canada’s external relations.”

Results achieved:

• Enabled the PCA to carry out its role of facilitating arbitration, conciliation, fact-finding and other dispute resolution proceedings among various combinations of states, state entities, intergovernmental organizations and private parties. The PCA’s International Bureau is administering 4 interstate disputes, 105 investor-state arbitrations and 65 cases arising under contracts involving a state or other public entity. Details can be found on the PCA’s website.
• Engaged in outreach to promote better understanding and greater use of arbitration and conciliation procedures to resolve international disputes. The PCA publishes an annual report on its activities, which includes a section on its outreach activities to the arbitral community. The PCA’s reports can be downloaded from Annual Reports.
• Carried out all other activities required and expected of a judicial body functioning in accordance with international standards
• Carried out activities in accordance with the PCA’s oversight mechanisms. The PCA’s Administrative Council, composed of diplomatic representatives of the contracting parties accredited to The Hague, is responsible for the general governance and oversight of the PCA through 2 specialized committees. The first is the Financial Committee, which comprises three independent financial experts, who work pro bono for a renewable term of 3 years and advise on financial documents submitted to the Administrative Council. The second is the Budget Committee, where all contracting parties may participate to review the financial or budgetary documents prior to consideration by the Administrative Council.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: Canada is an active participant in the annual discussions in the Budget Committee via the Embassy of Canada to the Netherlands. In addition, GAC and Justice Canada collaborate to ensure that the Canadian National Group—comprising the four members of the Court, which each contracting party is entitled to nominate as potential arbitrators—is staffed with one member from the Supreme Court of Canada, one member of the private bar, one legal academic and the legal adviser to GAC. These members are selected to reflect the geographic and linguistic realties of Canada, for a term of 6 years.

Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission

Start date: 1964

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2016-17

Link to departmental result(s): 1.1 Canada builds and maintainss constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 6. Americas Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: As required by the 1964 agreement between Canada and the United States, the 2 nations share equally in the costs of development, operation and maintenance of the Roosevelt Campobello International Park, site of the summer home of former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The park is located on Campobello Island, New Brunswick (in the Bay of Fundy), and is a lasting symbol of the close relationship between Canada and the United States.

Results achieved:

• In 2021-22, the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission (RCIPC) used the lower visitor numbers due to the COVID-19 pandemic to catch-up on deferred maintenance, an initiative laid out in its five-year Strategic Plan. These investments in infrastructure improved the facility’s rating from poor/unsatisfactory to satisfactory/good.
• The RCIPC continued to offer exceptional outdoor experiences and programming for the public, despite the pandemic and associated international border travel restrictions.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: As part of its annual report for 2021 posted on the park’s website, an independent auditor confirmed that the financial statements presented fairly, in all material aspects, the financial position of the RCIPC.

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: GAC was in frequent contact with the RCIPC and the park superintendent, particularly regarding the appointment of two new Canadian members for the RCIPC.

Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

Start date: Canada ratified the Rotterdam Convention in 2002. The Convention came into force in 2004.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution under the Rotterdam Convention, which promotes shared responsibility and cooperative efforts among parties in the international trade of certain hazardous chemicals in order to protect human health and the environment from potential harm. It also contributes to the environmentally sound use of those hazardous chemicals by facilitating information exchange about their characteristics, providing for a national decision-making process on their import and export and disseminating these decisions to parties. Canada’s assessed contribution is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

• Provided scientific support, technical assistance and capacity development to facilitate implementation and compliance with the convention
• Provided support to the Chemical Review Committee responsible for reviewing notifications of Final Regulatory Actions and making recommendations to the Conference of the Parties on candidate substances to be subject to the Prior Informed Consent Procedure (PIC)
• Parties shared decisions to refuse imports of industrial chemicals or pesticides they have banned domestically when those substances were subject to the PIC procedure
• Shared information on the risks and hazards of substances subject to the PIC procedure.
• Shared information with the importing party on the risks and hazards of industrial chemicals and pesticides not subject to the PIC procedure but banned or severely restricted by the exporting party.

For more information about Canada’s involvement, visit Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Rotterdam Convention website.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Secrétariat technique permanent des conférences ministérielles de l’éducation, de la jeunesse et des sports des pays d’expression française

Start date: N/A

End date: Canada’s voluntary contributions ended on December 31, 2012. Assessed contributions continue.

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s):

• 1.1: Canada builds and maintains constructive relationships that advance Canada’s interests
• 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world
• 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law
• 1.4: Canada’s global influence is expanded and strengthened

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the Conference of Ministers of Youth and Sport of French-Speaking Countries (CONFEJES), whose goal is to promote youth and sport among La Francophonie member states, and to the Conférence des ministres de l’Éducation de la Francophonie (CONFEMEN), whose mandate is to promote education, and professional and technical training.

Results achieved:

• CONFEJES continued to support its member states and governments in improving their national policies and strategies for teaching physical education and sports in order to promote the inclusive development of sports as a means of promoting the French language, peace, solidarity and people’s health (through various virtual workshops, webinars, official visits and meetings).
• In accordance with its various missions, CONFEMEN continued to support member countries in improving the quality of their education systems through the Programme d’analyse des systèmes éducatifs de la CONFEMEN (PASEC) [CONFEMEN’s educational systems analysis program] and the Observatoire de la Qualité de l’Education (OQE) [education quality observatory] in 2021.
• In 2021, CONFEMEN also adopted its new 2022 to 2026 strategic plan, which focuses its activities on 3 strategic areas: reinforcing the output of evidence to support decision-making, strengthening support for education policies aimed at transforming education systems, and improving the Secretariat’s strategic positioning and governance.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Start date: 2004

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3 Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution under the Stockholm Convention to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants. Canada’s assessed contribution is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

• Reduced levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) entering the environment as a result of controls to eliminate or restrict releases
• Assessment of candidate POPs for addition to the convention through a technical committee
• Continued global monitoring of POPs to evaluate the effectiveness of the convention

For more information about Canada’s involvement, visit Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Persistent organic pollutants: Stockholm Convention website.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Start date: Canada ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on December 4, 1992; the UNFCCC entered into force on March 21, 1994.

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada`s assessed contribution under the UNFCCC, which promotes shared responsibility and cooperative efforts among parties to help stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous human-induced interference with the climate system. Canada’s assessed contribution to the UNFCCC is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

• Canada continued to play an active and constructive role in the UNFCCC negotiations and was a strong voice in the negotiations toward the establishment of the Paris Agreement.
• Canada’s nationally determined contribution is to reduce its economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2030.
• Canada continued to work with its international partners both under the UNFCCC and in other forums to implement its commitments.

For more information, visit Environment and Climate Change Canada’s UNFCCC’s website.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

United Nations Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues

Start date: Ongoing

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2018-19

Link to departmental result(s): 1.2: Canada’s leadership on global issues contributes to a just and inclusive world

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To advance Indigenous issues and enable the participation of Indigenous peoples in discussions in the areas of economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights, through the provision of expert advice and recommendations, integration of indigenous issues in the UN system, dissemination of information on indigenous issues, and promotion of respect for and full application of the provisions of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Results achieved: Over 2,400 representatives of Indigenous peoples from 90 countries have benefited from the fund since its establishment in 1985. This active participation in key United Nations decision-making processes by Indigenous peoples has had a positive impact for the recognition of their human rights. (Status of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples: Report of the Secretary-General – July 2020).

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: This UN fund has its own engagement strategy.

United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture

Start date: 1983

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Grant

Type of appropriation: Main Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2019-20

Link to departmental result(s): 3.1: Improved physical, social and economic well-being for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for women and girls, in countries where Canada engages

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 11. International Security Policy and Diplomacy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To provide financial assistance to non-governmental organizations that deliver medical, psychological, legal and social assistance to victims of torture and their families.

Results achieved:

• Provided direct assistance to victims of torture and their families (including medical, physiological, legal and social assistance), and institutional capacity building.
  • 46,000 victims and their families in 92 countries around the world have so far benefited from the fund in 2022, including through 170 direct assistance grants and 7 capacity-building grants.
  • In addition, the fund allocated over US$775,000 for emergency grants to be awarded on an as-needed basis throughout 2022, to respond to human rights and humanitarian crises. (United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture: Fact sheet on 2022 activities).

The List of 2022 Grants includes one Canadian organization, the Vancouver Association for the Survivors of Torture.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: This UN fund has its own engagement strategy.

Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

Start date: 1988

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Assessed Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2011-12

Link to departmental result(s): 1.3: Canada helps build strong international institutions and respect for international law

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 2. Multilateral Policy

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution under:

1. the Vienna Convention, which promotes cooperation between parties by means of systematic observations, exchange research and information on the effects of human activities on the ozone layer, and adopts legislative or administrative measures against activities likely to have adverse effects on the ozone layer; and
2. the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, which mandates the phase-out of ozone-depleting substances and certain greenhouse gas alternatives. Canada’s assessed contribution is a legally binding obligation of membership. Recipients are not required to repay funds obtained under this transfer payment program.

Results achieved:

• Eliminated the production and consumption of the majority of ozone-depleting substances, resulting in a reduction in their abundance in the atmosphere
• Continued assessment, monitoring and communicating the state of the ozone layer and the effects of ozone depletion
  • The ozone layer is on a path to recovery and expected to fully recover by the middle of the 21st century.
• Reduced emissions of greenhouse gases

For more information about Canada’s involvement, visit Environment and Climate Change Canada websites on Ozone layer protection: Vienna Convention and the Ozone layer depletion: Montréal Protocol

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

Wassenaar Arrangement

Start date: 2012

End date: Ongoing, under Ministerial authorization

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2012

Link to departmental result(s): 2.1 Canada helps to build and safeguard an open and inclusive rules-based global trading system

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 13. Trade Controls

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay assessed contributions demanded of all nations that are Wassenaar Arrangement participating states. This organization contributes to regional and international security and stability by promoting transparency and greater responsibility in transfers of conventional arms and dual-use goods and technology. Canada’s participation in the Wassenaar Arrangement furthers both its security and commercial trade interests.

Results achieved: Canada continued participation in the Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) by:

• actively contributing to the review and amendment of control lists established under the WA to ensure they reflect current levels of technology
• updating Canada’s Export Control List to include items on the control lists established under the WA
• ensuring full compliance with reporting obligations in a timely manner
• supporting the overall functioning of the WA
• promoting information-sharing on export control policies and practices related to the transfer of conventional arms and dual-use and military technologies

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: There were no program audits held in 2021-22.

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: There were no program evaluations held in 2021-22.

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: Despite the persistent restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of in-person and virtual meetings took place in 2021-22. The number of overall interactions between participating states significantly increased in comparison with the previous year.

World Customs Organization

Start date: 1971

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: N/A

Link to departmental result(s): 2.1: Canada helps to build and safeguard an open and inclusive rules-based global trading system

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 12. Trade Policy, Agreements, Negotiations and Disputes

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the World Customs Organization (WCO), an independent intergovernmental body whose mission is to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of customs administrations. As a member of the WCO, Canada has taken a key role in areas such as trade facilitation, revisions to the Harmonized System, capacity building, combatting counterfeiting and the development and implementation of the Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade. As a member of the WCO, Canada is able to help set the international customs cooperation agenda through high-level participation at key WCO committees. Attendance helps the Government of Canada stay abreast of current and emerging customs issues, which helps to define Canada’s international footprint. Membership at the WCO advances Canada’s interests internationally, particularly given the importance of international trade for the Canadian economy.

Results achieved:

• As the only customs-focused multilateral organization, the World Customs Organization brought together 184 member countries to discuss relevant issues such as capacity building, performance measurement, nomenclature and classification of goods, valuation of goods, border enforcement and compliance, and trade.
• In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WCO shifted its focus in 2020-21 and into 2021-22 to its COVID-19 Action Plan as a temporary and overarching priority for the organization, which included facilitating vaccines and related medical supplies across borders. As of June 2022, all actions were completed with the single exception being preparing the Staff Resilience and Stress Management workshop material, to be completed by end of 2022.
• 2021-22 was also the opportunity for Canada to participate in the multiple consultations that helped shape the WCO Strategic Plan 2022-25, namely through discussions on topics such as technologies and innovation, green customs, and governance and accountability, which will constitute focus areas for the WCO in the next three years.
• Canada remained an active member of various working bodies and committees dedicated to key areas of customs, such as harmonized systems, revised Kyoto Convention, advanced passenger information, and capacity building. Canada was also elected as the Chair of the Working Group on Performance Measurement.
• As a member of the WCO Finance Committee, Canada helped to ensure effective financial management of the organization, noting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on activities and operations.
• Through Canada’s active participation in the Policy Commission, Canada proposed revisions to the WCO’s governance, focussing on electoral reform, to ensure greater transparency, accessibility and accountability.

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: N/A

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: N/A

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: N/A

World Intellectual Property Organization

Start date: 1970

End date: Ongoing

Type of transfer payment: Contribution

Type of appropriation: Estimates

Fiscal year for terms and conditions: 2021-22

Link to departmental result(s): 2.1: Canada helps to build and safeguard an open and inclusive rules-based global trading system

Link to the department’s Program Inventory: Program 12. Trade Policy, Agreements, Negotiations and Disputes

Purpose and objectives of transfer payment program: To pay Canada’s assessed contribution to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to ensure Canada’s interests are represented, and to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world through cooperation among Member States and, where appropriate, in collaboration with any other international organization.

Results achieved: Canada supported the maintenance of the multilateral intellectual property framework including the development of international norms that are necessary, balanced, flexible and evidence-based, and encouraged international cooperation on emerging intellectual property issues. Specifically, Canada:

• promoted and defended Canada’s domestic law and policy, administration and approaches
• advocated for WIPO as the premier international intellectual property forum and encouraged consensus-based decision-making, good governance and financial stewardship
• advanced and encouraged cooperation between intellectual property offices

Findings of audits completed in 2021-22: Not applicable. Assessed contribution to an international organization.

Findings of evaluations completed in 2021-22: Not applicable. Assessed contribution to an international organization.

Engagement of applicants and recipients in 2021-22: Canada maintained its permanent mission to the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland to ensure that Canada’s interests are represented effectively, including at WIPO where officers engage regularly in WIPO affairs. Capital-based officials continued to participate actively virtually in the audit and oversight of WIPO’s program and budget, including through regular reporting. Capital-based officials also continued to participate actively virtually in norm-setting discussions and negotiations.

Gender-based analysis plus

Section 1: Institutional GBA Plus Capacity

GAC has a complex and diverse mandate as it manages Canada’s diplomatic and consular relations, promotes the country’s international trade and leads Canada’s international development and humanitarian assistance. In 2021-22, GAC continued to explore opportunities to enhance its leadership, capacity, training and necessary tools for the implementation of Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) across all its policies, programs and initiatives, throughout the department and its network of missions abroad. GAC also continued to play a leadership role in the whole-of-government implementation of the feminist foreign policy, the Feminist International Assistance Policy, Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, and Canada’s trade diversification strategy, for which GBA Plus is an integral part.

Governance Structure

The following key actions were taken to advance the implementation of GBA Plus governance at GAC:

• Maintained intra-departmental networks of gender equality focal points and GBA Plus champions were appointed across most branches;
• Representatives for the department participated in Women and Gender Equality’s inter-departmental meetings on GBA Plus;
• Discussions of GBA Plus were held at senior management committees;
• GBA Plus action plans were developed or maintained for a number of branches;
• A GBA Plus was carried out for all memorandums to Cabinet, Treasury Board submissions and Budget Proposals, and were submitted to the Corporate Secretariat for confirmation that all mandatory central agency requirements for GBA Plus were met;
• GAC continued to require all international assistance initiatives to be informed by GBA Plus, including supporting the capacity of staff and partners to address gender equality and intersectionality in programming through the provision of guidance, tools and webinars.

GBA Plus departmental capacity

The department continued to expand its horizontal approach to the application of GBA Plus and has adopted a decentralized approach in that regard. There is well-established and dedicated GBA Plus expertise within the department to provide support, including the Gender Equality Division within the Global Issues and Development Branch and expertise within the Trade Policy and Negotiations Branch. GAC is also increasing GBA Plus competencies of subject matter experts in branches working in such diverse areas as peace and security, and investment and trade.

The following initiatives were undertaken in 2021-22 to advance the department’s GBA Plus capacity:

• Subject matter experts had access to advice from colleagues with specialized competencies as well as dedicated GBA Plus resource centres serving the department’s main specific streams and corporate functions.
• GAC-specific tools and resources were developed, and tools developed by Women and Gender Equality Canada were disseminated to assist employees in applying GBA Plus to their work (e.g. checklists, guides, templates, toolkits).
• In 2021-22, Canadian Foreign Service Institute (CFSI) delivered GBA Plus training to 200 department employees (164 Canada-based staff and 36 locally engaged staff). Through ongoing and formal collaboration with Women and Gender Equality Canada and the Canada School of Public Service, CFSI also delivered GBA Plus training to 745 other federal government department and agency employees on a cost-recovery basis.
• Several branches at GAC also developed and implemented a GBA Plus training course specific to their needs, including to support staff delivering international assistance programming.
• GAC also helped its Canadian and international partners strengthen their own capacities to integrate GBA Plus into their policies, programs and practices with the delivery of CFSI training to foreign governments, local civil society abroad and international organizations in Bhutan, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mexico, Nepal and Taiwan (313 learners in total).

Section 2: Gender and Diversity Impacts, by Program

Core Responsibility: International advocacy and diplomacy

Core Responsibility: Trade and investment

Core Responsibility: Development, Peace and Security Programming

Core Responsibility: Help for Canadians Abroad

Core Responsibility: Support for Canada’s Presence Abroad

Response to parliamentary committees and external audits

Response to parliamentary committees

House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (FAAE) – Fourth Report of The Human Rights Situation of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China. Tabled in the House of Commons on March 12, 2021

In July 2020, the Subcommittee on International Human Rights (SDIR) of FAAE convened urgent meetings to better understand developments with respect to the plight of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China (Xinjiang). These meetings contributed to a body of evidence SDIR began compiling back in 2018, when it conducted a study on the same topic.

The report was divided into three chapters. Chapter 1, History of Xinjiang, provides a historical overview of the Uyghurs, including their presence in Xinjiang, the evolving approach of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to the region and the link with its increasingly violent efforts to repress Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims. Chapter 2, Mechanisms of Suppression, outlines the different ways in which the government of the PRC is repressing Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. Chapter 3, International Obligations, lays out why SDIR is convinced that the treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang meets the definition of genocide under the Genocide Convention. It also considers Canada’s international obligations under the convention and addresses the issue of crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.

SDIR made 15 recommendations, five of which were directed toward GAC. GAC agreed with four of the recommendations and took note of one recommendation.

Overall, the response to the subcommittee reiterated the Government of Canada’s commitment to upholding human rights and international labour standards. Responses also detailed GAC’s coordinated efforts with international partners condemning the human rights situation in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and calling on the government of the PRC to allow independent observers unfettered access to the XUAR to evaluate the situation of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims. It was also noted that, in January 2021, GAC published detailed information under the title Measures Related to the Human Rights Situation in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

SDIR recommended that GAC use all tools at its disposal to secure the release of Huseyin Celil, to which the response underscored the importance of Mr. Celil’s case and emphasized that Canada continues to raise his case with Chinese authorities.

Committee Report and Government Response Links: Report 4, The Human Rights Situation of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China and the Government Response.

House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (FAAE) – Third Report: Part 1 of a Study on the Aftershocks of the COVID-19 Pandemic–The Humanitarian Burden: Ensuring a Global Response and Reaching the Most Vulnerable. Tabled in the House of Commons on February 26, 2021

The interim report draws from the evidence heard and documents received during the first phase of the study, which addressed humanitarian needs and humanitarian assistance in the context of the pandemic. It begins by presenting witness perspectives on the global humanitarian burden that has increased as a result of the pandemic through an analysis of the pandemic’s direct and indirect affects in conflict, crisis and fragile situations. It then presents recommendations for the Government of Canada, with the view to ensuring that the heightened level of humanitarian need and vulnerability does not become entrenched in 2021, and that there is equitable and affordable access to COVID‑19 vaccines, including in humanitarian settings.

FAAE made ten recommendations in the report, that touched on the following: the humanitarian burden and excess mortality associated with COVID-19 in humanitarian situations, poverty resulting from global economic shock, food insecurity, access to health care, vulnerabilities created and exacerbated by some population groups, and ensuring vaccine accessibility and affordability.

The Government Response (GR) agreed with five of FAAE’s recommendations and took note of those remaining. In particular, the GR highlighted the key leadership role that Canada played in responding to the pandemic in line with its Feminist International Assistance Policy, noting that Canada’s pandemic response was focused on the poorest and most marginalized individuals.

Committee report and government response links: Report 3, Part 1 of a Study on the Aftershocks of the COVID-19 Pandemic—The Humanitarian Burden: Ensuring a Global Response and Reaching the Most Vulnerable and the Government Response.

House of Commons Special Committee on Canada-China Relations (CACN) – Second Report: The Breach of Hong Kong’s High Degree of Autonomy: A Situation of International Concern. Tabled in the House of Commons on February 25, 2021

The committee’s study was conducted, and the report was prepared, with consideration to the urgency given the risks posed to Canadian and Hong Kong people highlighted in the report. In particular, the report outlines defensive concerns and the need to pursue measures that can prevent the complete erosion of Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy and distinct character. The committee expresses that Canada should play a leading role as part of a long-term multilateral effort to support the freedoms that were supposed to have been guaranteed in Hong Kong. The report also emphasizes a clear and immediate need to help the people who have taken great risks for the sake of their liberties and their desire to live under the rule of law.

The Standing Committee made 12 recommendations for the government to consider. In responding to the committee, the government agreed with eight recommendations and took note of the remaining four. The GR noted numerous actions that the government had undertaken in response to events in Hong Kong, including the suspension of the Canada-Hong Kong extradition treaty, updating Canada’s travel advisory for Hong Kong, working with international partners to support the fundamental rights and freedoms of Hong Kong residents, new immigration pathways aimed at attracting Hong Kong youth to Canada, and raising the human rights situation in Hong Kong at the UN on multiple occasions.

Committee report and government response links: The Breach of Hong Kong’s High Degree of Autonomy: A Situation of International Concern (Second report) and the Government Response.

Response to audits conducted by the Office of the Auditor General of Canada (including audits conducted by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development)

There were no audits in 2021-22 requiring a response.

Response to audits conducted by the Public Service Commission of Canada or the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages

There were no audits in 2021-22 requiring a response.

United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals

Descriptions of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are available in Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in the UN Global Indicator Framework.