Government commitment
Completed - fully metCanada in the WorldCycle 2015· status updated Mar 22, 2019
Create a new policy and funding framework to ensure that Canada's aid empowers people and supports broad-based, sustainable growth in the developing world.
Mandated to: Minister of International Development
What success looks like
A comprehensive, feminist international assistance policy is in place that will reduce global poverty by investing in gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and by focusing on the poorest and most vulnerable.
Government's narrative on progress
After a year of consultations with over 15,000 people in 65 countries, the government released its Feminist International Assistance Policy in June 2017. The government engaged with people online and in person on how Canada's international assistance should be invested and focused.
Note: this is the government's own description, not an independent assessment.