Increase Canada’s international development assistance every year towards 2030 to realize the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Donate at least 200 million vaccine doses to vulnerable populations around the world through COVAX by the end of 2022 and provide additional funding to support enhanced testing and production capacity in developing countries.

Continue to build on Canada’s historic support for education so the world’s most marginalized children have access to the inclusive, equitable and quality education they need and deserve, including new funding for girls’ and refugees’ education.

Double our funding to grassroots women’s rights organizations and continue to make significant investments in comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services as well as the global care economy.

Provide greater assistance to people living with disabilities in developing countries.

Forward. For Everyone., retrieved 2021-09-02

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• Canada’s Conservatives will align international development with Canadian peace and security priorities. We will:
  • Ensure that Canadian development assistance will not advance the Communist Party of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
  • Amend the Official Development Assistance Accountability Act so that aid dollars do not support the interests of hostile regimes.
  • Support young people at risk of radicalization through Canadian leadership that prioritizes justice, democracy, and pro-pluralism education, as a defining feature of promoting development outcomes and improving global security. Canada’s Conservatives will:
    • Proactively advocate for and invest in education programs that emphasize inclusion, pluralism, and human rights, inspired by local narratives and traditions.
    • Defund programs aligned against Canadian values (including those delivered by UNRWA unless it is significantly reformed) and replace them with new education initiatives that uphold universal human dignity, pluralism, and peaceful coexistence.
    • Partner with and scale local civil society to deliver leadership, integrity, and teamwork skills to young people.
    • Support reforms in policing and justice systems that strengthen the rule of law, ensure the provision of justice to the world’s most marginalized, and provide the most vulnerable with the security they require to better their conditions.
• As part of our efforts to advance justice, we will place a significant focus on combating extremism, human trafficking and the use of child soldiers, and abolishing all forms of modern-day slavery.
• We will launch strategic partnerships in international development with regional allies where combined efforts and complementary strengths multiply impact.
  • This will include engagement with the Blue Dot and Clean networks in real and digital infrastructure.
• Canada’s Conservatives will legislate a $250 million allocation from Canada’s annual International Assistance Envelope to build resilience in fragile democracies. This allocation will serve as a Canadian endowment for bilateral democracy programs, offering training, resources, and support to those confronting authoritarians and fighting for the success of their democracies.

— Canada's Recovery Plan, retrieved 2021-08-18

• Strengthen Canadian support for long-term agricultural development through partnerships, technology and information sharing, and training with producers in emerging economies.

• Identify, establish, and build coalitions in strategic locations worldwide that can cooperate on developing a global network of food security infrastructure which Canadian organizations can contribute to building and stocking.

— Canada's Recovery Plan, retrieved 2021-08-18

Canada’s Conservatives will reform onerous “Direction and Control” regulation, ensuring accountability for spending without requiring projects in developing countries to be directly controlled by Canadian charities.

• This change will allow Canadian organizations to develop respectful partnerships with organizations working on the ground in developing countries and reduce aid dependency by transferring administrative and control functions to empower local people and organizations.

— Canada's Recovery Plan, retrieved 2021-08-18

• Build markets and diaspora partnerships for poverty alleviation and economic development.

° Canada’s Conservatives will partner with diaspora communities in Canada in financing and improving development impact. This will involve scaling the development impact of remittances, and the greater use of market-based financing vehicles.

• End the fragmented manner in which the Liberals have managed our development finance institutions and instead consolidate Canada’s development finance by establishing a Canada Development Finance Corporation.

• Implement a “Post-Pandemic Compact for Growth Plan.” As the world emerges from the pandemic, now is the time to leverage investment, innovation and infrastructure around vaccine distribution and long-term health security in the poorest, most disadvantaged regions of the world.

— Canada's Recovery Plan, retrieved 2021-08-18

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