Urge your MP to ensure women peacebuilders are well funded in 2022/23 Budget
The Canadian government made an important promise in 2021.
That promise, if fulfilled, will help to effectively address urgent challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and conflict that affect us all, nationally and globally.
In the 2021 Throne Speech, the government promised to increase Canada’s foreign assistance budget each year, and invest in sustainable, equitable, and feminist development that benefits the world’s most vulnerable and promotes gender equality.
For years KAIROS has joined hundreds of civil society organizations and countless Canadians in urging the government to increase its overseas development assistance to match the international standard of 0.7 percent of national wealth. That is less than one penny for every dollar.
It’s a smart investment, and integral to global recovery.
Canada has policies in place. But we need more resources and political will to make this happen. Here’s how. We have a world-class Feminist International Assistance Policy that is inadequately funded. It is high time that Canada fulfills its promise.
That means ensuring that funding reaches grassroots women’s rights and peacebuilding organizations, especially now in their recovery and transformation efforts in response to the pandemic.
Women are impacted particularly by the climate crisis as well. They are also the ones at the forefront of climate action, thanks to their local knowledge, relationship with the environment and regenerative practices.
We know that women are the key to building back better.
We ask the government to increase its overseas development assistance to reach the international standard by 2030, meet its international climate commitments and ensure that funding reaches grassroots women’s rights and peacebuilding organizations.
Take action now!
Write to your Member of Parliament
Simply fill out your contact details and submit this letter to your MP. A copy of it will automatically be sent to the Ministers of Finance, International Development, Foreign Affairs, and Women and Gender Equality and Youth.
We are hoping to send at least 500 letters to the government. Please send your letter today.
As well as this letter, you can participate in the federal online pre-budget consultations by answering a questionnaire (anticipated time commitment is 5 minutes)
This is your opportunity to let the government know what you feel its budget priorities should be. Please urge them to increase ODA funding to support women peacebuilders. Please respond by the February 25 deadline.
To assist you, the following are our asks for Budget 2022/23 in relation to International Development Assistance:
- Fully fund and implement the Feminist International Assistance Policy by increasing its International Assistance Envelope (IAE) by $1.5 billion above the current 2020-21 financial commitments to reach $9 billion in Budget 2022. This must also include a commitment to predictable and sustained increases to Canada’s IAE every year towards 2030 to reach the international standard of 0.7.
- Ensure this funding reaches grassroots women’s rights and peacebuilding organizations, including to support their recovery and transformation efforts in response to the pandemic.
- Support mechanisms to ensure that this funding is flexible, predictable, and long-term.
- Commit at least $1.8 billion annually in bilateral climate finance for the Global South that is gender-responsive, addresses both mitigation and adaptation, responds to the pandemic, supports the leadership of women in climate decision-making, and prioritizes funding for grassroots women’s organizations through grants-based, non-multilateral funding mechanisms.
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Current funding levels do not do justice to Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy. Canada’s Overseas Development Assistance is at 0.28 of national wealth, less than half the international standard of 0.7 percent. (That is less than one penny for every dollar.)
As a rich nation, Canada can afford to meet this standard. It’s not only a moral imperative, it’s a wise investment in our global efforts to recover from the pandemic, address the climate crisis and end war.
