International Development Grant

Intercultural Effectiveness: for a Greater Aid Effectiveness

Project Number: CA-3-S063941001

Status: Closed

Country/Region:

Canada 100.00%

Maximum Contribution: $22,000,000.00

Start Date: April 02, 2007

End Date: December 20, 2011

Duration: 4.7 years

Project Description

This program with the Center for Intercultural Learning aims to provide CIDA and its Canadian and international partners with a range of classroom and on-line courses information services and facilitated interventions on international and intercultural effectiveness on an as-needed-and-required basis. It also allows for specialized activities in response to CIDA policies priorities programs and projects such as Countries of Focus Priority Themes and CIDA’s Aid Effectiveness Agenda.

Progress & Results Achieved

Results achieved as of the end of the project (June 2010) include: The Centre for Intercultural Learning designed two new courses for CIDA’s Canadian partners: Advancing Equality Between Women and Men (AEWM) and the Results-Based Management for Intercultural and Multi-Stakeholder Context. Eighteen sessions of these courses were delivered across Canada to 313 participants. These results have contributed to supporting the integration of CIDA’s crosscutting themes of Gender and RBM methodology into program/project design implementation achievement of results and reporting. The Centre delivered intercultural training to an average of 2500 CIDA funded participants each year. These courses supported the increased intercultural and professional effectiveness of Canadians in implementing CIDA-sponsored programs and projects.

Key Information

Executing Agency:
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada

Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada

Program:
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Last Modified:
September 19, 2025

Development Classifications

DAC Sector:

Promotion of development awareness 100%

Aid Type: Development awareness

Collaboration: Bilateral

Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation

Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP

Budget Breakdown
2007-04-01 to 2008-03-31 $22,000,000 CAD
Geographic Information
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Project Number: CA-3-S063941001