Opaque Transparency & Canada’s Foreign Aid Program

Stephen Brown (University of Ottawa) and I have written a short comment on issues of transparency in Canada’s foreign aid program for The McLeod Group.  Our thoughts in the piece stemmed from discussion during a panel at the recent Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) meetings.  Hopefully Canada can do even more to … Read more

From “Gender Equality” to “Equality between Women & Men”

  The shift in language about women and gender equality witnessed at the former CIDA under the former Harper government provoked significant concern and discussion at the time.  The prime concern here was that eschewing talk of gender equality was likely to have a negative effect on the prioritization of these issues in Canada’s aid program. … Read more