Partnerships and organizations

Find out about the organizations and partnerships that help advance Canada’s international priorities.

• Organizations, summits and forums
• Key multilateral partners

Organizations, summits and forums

Canada takes an active role in multilateral forums, demonstrating our commitment to peace, security, sustainability and prosperity.

We work to advance these global priorities through our support for the following organizations, summits and forums:

• Canada and the Arctic Council
• Canada and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
• Canada and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
• Canada and the European Union (EU)
• Canada and La Francophonie
• Canada and the G7
• Canada and the G20
• Canada and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
• Canada and the International Criminal Court
• Canada and the Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN)
• Canada and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• Canada and the Open Government Partnership
• Canada and the Order of Malta
• Canada and the Organization of American States (OAS)
• Canada and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• Canada and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
• Canada and the Pacific Alliance
• Canada and the United Nations (UN)
• Canada and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• Canada and the World Trade Organization (WTO)

Key multilateral partners

The Government of Canada supports a number of multilateral development institutions, global initiatives and international humanitarian assistance organizations to fulfill its international development mandate of helping people living in poverty. Working closely with these partners, Canada can respond quickly to humanitarian crises and pressing global development challenges. Canada works to ensure that these institutions and the multilateral system function effectively, deliver strong results, and remain viable mechanisms for building consensus on important global issues.

The Government of Canada is committed to making its assistance more effective, more focused and more accountable. This includes multilateral aid. More than one third of Canada's official development assistance is channelled through trusted multilateral organizations.

• Asian Infrastructure Development Bank (AIIB)
• Canada and the African Development Bank (AfDB)
• Canada and the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• Canada and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)
• Canada and the Commonwealth
• Canada and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
• Canada’s Development Finance Institution
• Canada and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
• Canada and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
• Canada and the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
• Canada and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
• Canada and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
• Canada and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• Canada and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Canada and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (RCM)
• Canada and UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS)
• Canada and UNICEF
• Canada and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Canada and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• Canada and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
• Canada and the World Bank Group (WBG)
• Canada and the World Food Programme (WFP)
• Canada and the World Health Organization (WHO)