Center for Global Development - Institutional Support - 2021-2024

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the Center for Global Development (CGD). CGD uses these funds along with other donors’ funding to achieve its mandate. CGD’s mandate is to reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative research that drives better policy and practice by the world’s top decision-makers. The project provides institutional support to advance the Center for Global Development’s research activities related to the three following thematic: COVID-19 response and recovery health systems strengthening and sustainable development finance to help bridge the evidence gaps for effective international assistance policies and programming. CGD applies a cross-cutting gender lens to these three streams of work to generate evidence on women and girls’ experiences and inform effective public policy and program development to ensure that they are not left behind. This project supports CGD to produce the Commitment to Development Index CGD’s flagship index ranking donor countries according to the impact of their policies on low-income countries. Project activities include: (1) generating and disseminating research across the priority thematic areas to increase the availability of evidence as a global public good and inform development assistance policies and programs; and (2) producing and publishing policy-oriented knowledge products and holding dissemination events with global stakeholders.

The expected outcome for this project as stated by CGD is the increased use of available research by policymakers donors and other stakeholders to apply a gender lens and inform their decision-making when responding to COVID-19 and preparing for future global health threats. The expected ultimate outcome of Global Affairs Canada’s support is that the global community is better prepared for future threats to global health reducing the potential negative effects on vulnerable populations including women and girls.