Moving Our Common Agenda Forward

The recommendations in 2016 to advance the humanitarian assistance and CCIC’s brief represented opportunities for the international development agenda - in line with the government to make early and easy advances around mandate letter to the Minister of International an agenda of interest to CSO stakeholders and Development. [...] The government has engaged the contributor to global cooperation, and that the broader international development and humanitarian government is committed to a new and robust community, and CCIC in particular, in dialogue and partnership with civil society. [...] CCIC and Global Affairs Canada have engaged constructively over the past year Given the significance of the relationship between on a range of different activities of strategic Global Affairs Canada and CCIC, the Council still importance to both Global Affairs Canada and the firmly believes that a less ad hoc and more strategic Council, leveraging the engagement and expertise of and formal partner [...] Beyond the consultations held as part of the International Assistance Review, none of which focused specifically on the private sector and development, there have been no multi-stakeholder III discussions that the Council is aware of to explore the relationship between the private sector and development, and no visible progress toward a new PRIVATE SECTOR AND DEVELOPMENT government strategy on thi [...] Canada appears to within the Department and across other Departments, be providing positive leadership in the Committee’s driven by policy coherence for sustainable thinking around financial and development development – with the SDGs, the ODAAA and core additionality, and the importance of transparency and humanitarian principles at the heart of this work.