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BEYOND THE MARCH: SUPPORTING WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS GLOBALLY

BEYOND THE MARCH: SUPPORTING WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS GLOBALLY

McLeod Group Blog, January 30, 2017

The organizers expected about 800 people to show up for the Ottawa Women’s March on Saturday, January 21st. Instead, between 6,000 and 8,000 people converged on the Human Rights Monument –women, men, and children, many wearing versions of the now iconic pink pussy hat and carrying clever signs playing on Trump’s vulgar comments about how to treat women. In cities and towns across Canada, people came for many different reasons, but there was a clear ...

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REFUGEES: BRIDGING THE HUMANITARIAN-DEVELOPMENT GAP

REFUGEES: BRIDGING THE HUMANITARIAN-DEVELOPMENT GAP

Guest Blog by James Milner and Kevin Dunbar, January 11, 2017

Events in Europe and elsewhere over the past year have again highlighted the many deficiencies of the “global refugee regime.” Established in the aftermath of World War II, this regime has two core functions: to ensure protection for refugees and to find a solution to this plight.

By any objective measure, the global refugee regime is not working – and there have been growing demands from the public and politicians of ...

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THE WAR ON TERROR vs. THE WAR ON POVERTY

THE WAR ON TERROR vs. THE WAR ON POVERTY

McLeod Group Blog by Ian Smillie, January 4, 2017

In a recent New York Review of Books article, William Easterly argues that by conflating the ‘war on terror’ with the ‘war on poverty’, Western donor governments have made a big mistake.

Easterly, Professor of Economics at New York University and author of several powerful critiques of foreign aid (The White Man’s Burden, The Tyranny of Experts) says that Western donors, making a correlation between poverty and terrorism—for which there is little ...

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The International Assistance Review: What They Heard

The International Assistance Review: What They Heard

McLeod Group Blog by Stephen Brown, December 19, 2016

After completing its large-scale consultations as part of its International Assistance Review, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) recently published online a summary entitled “What we heard”. The review was a welcome opportunity for interested parties across Canada and around the world to express their views. GAC engaged over 15,000 people and organizations in 65 countries and received over 10,000 contributions. The task of collating all the information they received was colossal—and it ...

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PARLIAMENT’S BLURRY REPORT ON ‘FOCUS’

PARLIAMENT’S BLURRY REPORT ON ‘FOCUS’

McLeod Group Blog, December 13, 2016

In early November, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development issued a report titled ‘Development Cooperation for a More Stable, Inclusive and Prosperous World: A Collective Ambition.’  Unfortunately, the contents don’t quite live up to the title. The committee has missed an opportunity to make an important contribution to the process of preparing a new international assistance strategy for Canada, a process which is expected to produce a policy ...

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GETTING YOUR GOAT

GETTING YOUR GOAT

McLeod Group Blog, December 2, 2016

It’s the time of year when our media overflow with requests for funding – with the implication that buying a goat or sponsoring a child will ‘save’ a family.  The fact that these fundraising efforts are so ubiquitous and so successful shows that Canadians badly want to do something about global poverty and to contribute to sustainable development. But these appeals, based on the engaging image of a goat (or chickens, or bed nets, or ...

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Whatever Happened to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda?

Whatever Happened to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda?

McLeod Group blog by Stephen Brown, November 29, 2016

In the early 2000s, Western donors finally recognized that they were partly to blame for foreign aid’s often disappointing results. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, adopted in 2005, was the result of that soul-searching.

The Declaration was based on five core principles, including recipient countries’ ownership of their poverty reduction strategies, donors’ alignment with this vision and harmonization among donors. A total of 138 countries (donors and recipients), 28 international ...

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REFUGEES: FLEETING FEELINGS OF ACCOMPLISHMENT

REFUGEES: FLEETING FEELINGS OF ACCOMPLISHMENT

McLeod Group blog by Hunter McGill, Sept. 23, 2016

The week of September 19 occasioned the usual cluster of high-level meetings in New York, as the United Nations begins its autumn sessions. Of particular importance for the international community of humanitarian organizations were the United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants and the Leaders’ Summit on Refugees, hosted by President Barack Obama and co-hosted by Canada, among other countries. Both events were marked by hand-wringing, reminders of how many ...

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CANADIAN AID PRIORITIES: WHY ETHIOPIA?

CANADIAN AID PRIORITIES: WHY ETHIOPIA?

Guest blog by Yohannes Berhe, July 29, 2016

One cannot help a nagging feeling of déjà vu, given the recent appeal for help to feed Ethiopia. For almost 30 years now, the government of Ethiopia has been the darling of donor countries as reflected in the unprecedented annual flow of billions of dollars in development assistance and debt forgiveness. The foreign policy statements of donor countries, Canada included, suggest that they are strongly committed to helping Ethiopia extricate itself from ...

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THE ODA ACCOUNTABILITY ACT: WHAT HAPPENED?

THE ODA ACCOUNTABILITY ACT: WHAT HAPPENED?

McLeod Group Blog by Ian Smillie, July 26, 2016

When Canada’s Official Development Assistance Accountability Act became law during the first minority government of Stephen Harper, there was hearty applause from the international development community. Introduced as a private member’s bill by Liberal MP John McKay, Bill C-293 won the support of all parties and received Royal Assent at the end of May 2008. According to Global Affairs Canada (GAC), ‘Its purpose is to ensure that all Canadian official ...

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