Rethinking Canadian aid / / edited by Stephen Brown, Molly den Heyer and David R. Black.

• Superior document: Studies in international development and globalization
• Author: Stephen Brown
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown, Stephen, 1967-; Heyer, Molly den, 1972-; Black, David R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ottawa, Ontarion : : University of Ottawa Press,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in international development and globalization.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 339 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

This book contributes to a "rethinking" of Canadian aid on four levels. First, by undertaking a collective rethink of the foundations of Canadian aid. Second, through an analysis of how the Canadian government is rethinking Canadian aid, with a greater focus on the Americas as well as specific countries and themes (such as mothers, children and youth, and fragile states); increased involvement of the private sector (particularly Canadian mining companies); and greater emphasis on self-interest. Third, by rethinking where Canadian aid is or should be heading, with recommendations for improved.

In 2013, the government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which had been Canada's flagship foreign aid agency for decades, and transferred its functions to the newly renamed Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD). As the government is rethinking Canadian aid and its relationship with other foreign policy and commercial objectives, the time is ripe to rethink Canadian aid more broadly. Edited by Stephen Brown, Molly den Heyer and David R. Black, this revised edition not only analyzes Canada's past development assistance, it also highlights important new opportunities in the context of the recent change in government. Designed to reach a variety of audiences, contributions by twenty scholars and experts in the field offer an incisive examination of Canada's record and initiatives in Canadian foreign aid, including its relatively recent emphasis on maternal and child health and on the extractive sector, as well as the longer-term engagement with state fragility. The portrait that emerges is a sobering one. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Canada's changing role in the world.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Why Rethink Canadian Aid? -- Section I: Foundations of Ethics, Power and Bureaucracy -- Chapter I: Humane Internationalism and the Malaise of Canadian Aid Policy -- Chapter II: Refashioning Humane Internationalism in Twenty-First-Century Canada -- Chapter III: Revisiting the Ethical Foundations of Aid and Development Policy from a Cosmopolitan Perspective -- Chapter IV: Power and Policy: Lessons from Aid Effectiveness -- Chapter V: Results, Risk, Rhetoric and Reality: The Need for Common Sense in Canada's Development Assistance -- Section II: The Canadian Context and Motivations -- Chapter VI: Mimicry and Motives: Canadian Aid Allocation in Longitudinal Perspective -- Chapter VII: Continental Shift? Rethinking Canadian Aid to the Americas -- Chapter VIII: Preventing, Substituting or Complementing the Use of Force? Development Assistance in Canadian Strategic Culture -- Chapter IX: Why Aid? Canadian Perception of the Usefulness of Canadian Aid in an Era of Economic Uncertainty -- Chapter X: The Management of Canadian Development Assistance: Ideology, Electoral Politics or Public Interest? -- Section III: Canada's Role in International Development on Key Themes -- Chapter XI: Gender Equality and the "Two CIDAs": Successes and Setbacks, 1976-2013 -- Chapter XII: From "Children-in-Development" to Social Age Mainstreaming in Canada's Development Policy and Programming? Practice, Prospects and Proposals -- Chapter XIII: Canada's Fragile States Policy: What Have We Accomplished and Where Do We Go from Here? -- Chapter XIV: Canada and Development in Other Fragile States: Moving beyond the "Afghanistan Model" -- Chapter XV: Charity Begins at Home: The Extractive Sector as an Illustration of Changes and Continuities in the New De Facto Canadian Aid Policy.

Chapter XVI: Undermining Foreign Aid: The Extractive Sector and the Recommercialization of Canadian Development Assistance -- Conclusion: Rethinking Canadian Development Cooperation - Towards Renewed Partnerships? -- Contributors -- Index.