Partnerships and organizations
Find out about the organizations and partnerships that help advance Canada’s international priorities.
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:
- Arctic Council
- Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
- Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
- European Union (EU)
- La Francophonie
- G7
- G20
- International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
- International Criminal Court
- Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN)
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
- Open Government Partnership
- Order of Malta
- Organization of American States (OAS)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
- Pacific Alliance
- United Nations (UN)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
Key multilateral partners
We support 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.
- African Development Bank (AfDB)
- Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity (APEP)
- Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Asian Infrastructure Development Bank (AIIB)
- Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)
- Commonwealth
- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
- Development Finance Institution
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
- Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (RCM)
- UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS)
- UNICEF
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- World Bank Group (WBG)
- World Food Programme (WFP)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
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