International Development Grant
Support to the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation 2019-2020
Project Number: CA-3-P006888001
Status: Closed
Country/Region: Unknown
Regional Focus:
Maximum Contribution: $700,000.00
Start Date: June 21, 2019
End Date: December 31, 2021
Duration: 2.5 years
Project Description
This grant represents Canada’s support to Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation via the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The UNDP and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) provide secretariat support to the Global Partnership through the Joint Support Team which helps implement the Global Partnership’s Programme of Work. The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) was established in 2012 as a unique multi-stakeholder platform comprising of member states (161 including Canada) and non-state actors (56). It aims to advance the effectiveness of development efforts by all actors and help the delivery of results that are long-lasting and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda. Since 2017 Canada has been a Steering Committee Member of the Global Partnership and represents a constituency that includes Australia New Zealand and the United States. Project activities include (1) supporting the extended 2017-18 Global Partnership Programme of Work including funding for the 2019 Senior Level Meeting; (2) supporting the next Programme Work and outputs of new work streams; and (3) enhancing coordination with the communities of practice known as Global Partnership Initiatives.
Expected Results
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) Advancing effectiveness of cooperation at country level through support to policy and institutional reforms and capacity strengthening; and (2) Improving partnerships and global evidence-based policy dialogues.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of December 2019 include: (1) the Global Partnership monitoring framework is refined strengthened and implemented to support global accountability and mutual learning on effective development cooperation; (2) the data from the third monitoring round of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) was collected and compiled into the 2019 progress report "Making Development Cooperation More Effective" to provide significant evidence to global decision-making and development effectiveness dialogue in 2019 (such as 2019 UN High Level Political Forum; (3) using the data generated by governments and development partners for the 2018 Monitoring Round 86 Individual Country and Territory Profiles were produced in 2019 by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)/UNDP Joint Support Team to complement the 2019 Global Progress Report; (4) the interactive data visualization dashboard was created to share the results from the Global Partnership monitoring round; (5) the design of pilot projects in Bangladesh Cambodia El Salvador Georgia Kenya Malawi Mexico Rwanda and Uganda were supported. The pilots were launched in 2018 in Addis Ababa and implementation continued through April/May 2019. The evidence from the pilot studies resulted in the Global Compendium of Good Practices; (6) a mutual learning and knowledge exchange platform facilitating the sharing of country-level evidence and learning from different modalities of development cooperation was strengthened; (7) the Global Partnership Knowledge Platform was created to provide a one-stop digital portal for information training peer learning and networking around successes bottlenecks and innovation in implementing effective development cooperation commitments; and (8) the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation hosted its first senior-level meeting on July 13 and 14 2019 on the margins of the United Nations High-Level Politica
Key Information
Executing Agency:
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
RFM Strategy Policy and Public Affairs
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Department-Initiated