OTTAWA — Global Affairs Canada is reforming its bureaucratic system for funding foreign-aid initiatives in a bid to approve funding requests faster and eliminate multiple layers of red tape.
Charities say Canada's international aid system is notoriously cumbersome. The system provides more than $6.5 billion a year in development aid for everything from education and climate-change adaptation to gender equality, in addition to humanitarian funding for emerging crises.
The initiative is also meant to change a culture that critics say prioritizes avoiding embarrassment over empowering local groups. Kindornay says the paperwork stems in part from a culture that began under the former Conservative government, where bureaucrats put an emphasis on avoiding any situation that could lead to unflattering media reports that suggest foreign aid is being misused.
Funding the latter can involve"literally briefcases of money being sent over a border to a women's rights organization," she said, making it hard to give Ottawa receipts showing how the money has been spent. The Canadian head of Save the Children says even large, long-standing charities struggle to cope with Ottawa's paperwork."It's a complex system and there are different processes and expectations between branches," said Danny Glenwright.
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