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A foreign policy that is in place to encourage trade internationally, lead development and humanitarian assistance efforts, and manage diplomatic relations.
What is Canada's Foreign Policy on Development Assistance?
This was the cost of Canada’s contribution to the Advanced Market Commitment (AMC) for COVID-19 vaccines, part of the COVAX public–private partnership.
What is $220,000,000?
Who decides what assistance is provided (ex// supplies)?
What is Global Affairs Canada (GAC), guided by the Minister of International Development.
Canada's Development Assistance provides armed troops for countries when they are at war to help fight their wars (true or false)
What is False
Canada does NOT provide armed troops for countries as aid/assistance. But they can deploy PEACEKEEPERS as humanitarian assistance.
This is what GAC stands for
What is Global Affairs Canada
A tool for continuing colonial power structures under the guise of "global health".
What is Medical Dominance?
COVAX aimed to secure enough COVID-19 vaccines to cover what portion/percent of each participating country’s population in order to end the acute phase of the pandemic.
What is 20%?
This global vaccine initiative, called a "super-PPP", aimed to coordinate the worldwide distribution of COVID-19 vaccines
What is COVAX?
The approach Canada's Development Identity is shaped by, and who it is named after
What is the Pearsonian Approach, named after former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson
What kind of aid did the Advanced Market Commitment (AMC) provide in response to COVID-19?
What is Monetary aid.
A nation that exerts influence through diplomacy, peacebuilding, and international partnerships
RATHER THAN through military or economic dominance.
What is Canada as a middle power?
This period saw Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) emerge as the dominant model for organizing global health funding and activities.
What are the early 2000s?
Focuses on gender equality, health, education, and poverty reduction to improve social justice outcomes worldwide.
What are the Feminist International Assistance Policies (FIAP) prioritizing aid?
Through a multilateral and state-centered framework led by Global Affairs Canada, working with organizations like the UN, World Bank, and IMF to support sustainable development, humanitarian aid, and peacebuilding.
What is How Canada Provides Development Assistance
What country did Canada deploy Peacekeepers to during conflict (1991-1993)?
What is Yugoslavia!
Practice of a individual country getting "preferential access" to vaccines for its own population.
Related to COVID vaccine
What is Vaccine Nationalism?
This decade saw Canada deploy peacekeepers to Yugoslavia, revealing the need for long-term development after military missions
What are the early 1990s?
Historically, these federal leaders have shaped Canada’s development assistance, balancing multilateral commitments with strategic ties to the United States.
Who are the Prime Minister and the Cabinet?
The lead agency responsible for designing and delivering Official Development Assistance (ODA), humanitarian aid, and foreign policy programs
What is Global Affairs Canada (GAC)?
A group of countries that COVAX represents when negotiating vaccine prices with pharmaceutical companies
What is the "buyers club"?
The growing focus on using financial tools, investments, and money-driven strategies to solve global health problems
What is Financialization of Global Health?
Before any COVID-19 vaccines were approved, high-income and upper-middle-income countries had already reserved this many doses and held options for this many more, showing how vaccine nationalism limited COVAX’s efforts.
Name the two numbers.
What are 3.8 billion and 5 billion doses?
This dominant model of global health governance, since the early 2000s, brings together private actors like pharmaceutical companies and major donors with public institutions such as the WHO, the UN, and national governments
What are Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs)?
Development Assistance is Delivered through (blank) channel(s). What are they?
1. Multilateral Partnerships
2. Bilateral Programs
3. Civil Society Collaborations
Give an Example of Two Key Development-Oriented initiatives discussed
Two of the following:
1. (What is) Canada's United Nations Engagement
2. (What is) Artic Council Collaboration
3. (What is) UNDRIP Implementation through NRCan
4. (What is) Peacekeeping in Yugoslavia
5. (What is) Palestinian Development & Peacebuilding Assistance