This brief, submitted to Canada’s International Assistance Review in July 2016, seeks to build a common understanding of feminist approaches to international assistance, to assess the challenges, gaps and opportunities in Global Affairs Canada’s approach, and to develop a set of practical recommendations for implementing a feminist approach.
This document was presented as the keynote address to the “Community Forum on Social Action,” hosted by the Concordia University Institute in Management and Community Development in June 2003, and explores what is at stake in social change activism.
This paper was a contribution to discussions concerning Canada’s role in the world, initiated by the Hon. Bill Graham, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in his call for a “Dialogue on Foreign Affairs” in January 2003. The reflections in this paper emerge from Inter Pares’ direct international experience over almost thirty years.