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The following is excerpted from an article by Stephen Brown, author of Struggling for Effectiveness: CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid.
A risk of criticizing the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is that people will conclude that foreign aid is a waste of money and that CIDA itself should be abolished. However, that would be a dangerous overreaction. There is still a strong need for both.
A recently published book I edited, Struggling for Effectiveness: CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid, examines many problems with the agency. During the question-and-answer period at a panel discussion held at the University of Ottawa on October 3, some members of the public seemed to conclude that CIDA was ineffective overall and suggested that foreign aid was somehow passé.
True, several of the book chapters argue that CIDA generally compares rather poorly to many of its counterparts in other donor countries. But that does not mean that it does not do valuable work. Among other things, CIDA helps to educate children, fight malnutrition, provide treatment for people with HIV/AIDS and care for refugees around the world. It also does less visible but no less important things to strengthen developing countries’ own ability to meet long-term development challenges.
Read an interview with Stephen Brown by Embassy Magazine (paid subscribers only)
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