Even before the Budget 2025 announcement of $2.7bn in cuts to Canada’s aid budget, there was a recognition Canadian aid needed to change. Partly driven by the destruction of USAID, partly by the election of a very different stripe of government at home, and partly by a longstanding, tacit acknowledgement that Canada’s aid had become…Read more Do Less Things, Do Them Really Well: A Recipe for Canadian Aid
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The Future of Aid
Where next for aid? If we crunch the numbers, about 40% of all Official Development Assistance was eliminated from the development system in the first months of 2025[1]. We’ve faced cuts before, but these are different. They represent a systemic shock, and their effects will ripple for years in both predictable and unpredictable ways. In…Read more The Future of Aid