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Name of Recipient: Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

Start Date: March 31, 2005

End Date: Ongoing

Total Funding: $50 million

Description: The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, created by an Act of Parliament in 1984, is an independent, not-for-profit think tank on Canada's relations with Asia. The Foundation provides research, analysis and information on Canada's trans-Pacific relations. It promotes dialogue on economic, security, political and social issues related to Canadian interests in Asia Pacific. The Foundation also provides grants to support research on Canada's relations with Asia Pacific. The Foundation is funded primarily by the proceeds of an endowment of $50 million from the Government of Canada.

Strategic Outcome(s): CANADA'S INTERNATIONAL AGENDA—The international agenda is shaped to Canada's benefit and advantage in accordance with Canadian interests and values.

Summary of Results Achieved by the Recipient:

• Launched the National Conversation on Asia, an initiative aimed at encouraging Canadians to better understand the rise of Asia and its implications for Canada.
• Completed a series of papers on the Canadians Abroad Project.
• Strengthened Canada’s university research capacity on Asia with the establishment of the Chanchlani India Policy Centre, a joint initiative with the University of Waterloo and the Canada India Foundation.
• Launched the Asia Pacific Opinion Panel, a survey of over 600 Canadians involved in Canada-Asia affairs that deals with Canada-Asia relations.

Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy
($ millions)

2008-09 Actual Spending	2009-10 Actual Spending	2010-11 Planned Spending	2010-11 Total Authorities	2010-11 Actual Spending	Variance(s)
0	0	0	0	0	0

Comments on Variance(s): N/A

Significant Evaluation findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: N/A

Significant Audit findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: N/A

Name of Recipient: Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Start Date: January 30, 2003

End Date: Ongoing

Total Funding: $30 million

Description: CIGI supports world-leading research in the area of global governance, particularly in the area of global economic and financial governance, and furthers Canada's interest in having a stable and well-governed global economic system by bringing together academics, policy analysts and researchers from around the world to discuss and carry out research on current topics and trends.

Strategic Outcome(s): CANADA'S INTERNATIONAL AGENDA—The international agenda is shaped to Canada's benefit and advantage in accordance with Canadian interests and values.

Summary of Results Achieved by the Recipient: CIGI’s research interests focused on international economic and financial governance; the role of the G-20 and the newly emerging powers in the evolution of global diplomacy; Africa and climate change; and other issues related to food and human security. CIGIs Nuclear Energy Futures Project, completed in April 2010, offered recommendations for safe management of the global industry to 2030. CIGI produces 50 to 100 publications annually, hosts high-level conferences and public events on global governance issues and maintains a dynamic web presence at www.cigionline.com. CIGI also partnered with DFAIT in a number of events, including at the International Studies Association annual convention in Montreal as part of the department's open policy approach to engaging stakeholders to better inform Canada's international agenda. Following recommendations of a federal evaluation completed in 2008, the new CIGI strategic plan for 2010–15 was adopted and is being implemented. CIGI’s endowment investment policy was approved by the Department of Finance and adopted by CIGI’s Operating Board in May 2011.

Program Activity:
($ millions)

2008-09 Actual Spending	2009-10 Actual Spending	2010-11 Planned Spending	2010-11 Total Authorities	2010-11 Actual Spending	Variance(s)
0	0	0	0	0	0

Comments on Variance(s): N/A

Significant Evaluation findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: The next evaluation is scheduled for 2013.

Significant Audit findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: N/A

Name of Recipient: Forum of Federations

Start Date: April 1, 2005

End Date: March 31, 2011

Total Funding: $20 million

Description: The conditional grant provided by DFAIT to the Forum of Federations provides concrete help to the Forum in its efforts to promote programs of mutual cooperation and assume an international leadership role on work related to governance and federal political systems. The programs are designed to help develop best practices by providing expertise and promoting exchanges with other countries interested in federal approaches. The Forum's independence, and its ability to draw on both Canadian experience and international resources, responds to the Canadian government's priorities of promoting better governance and greater democracy both at home and abroad and is the best existing mechanism to provide an exploration of comparative federalism. This grant also covers Canada's annual $50,000 contribution as a member of the Forum's Strategic Council, an advisory body to the Forum's Board of Directors consisting of partner governments that have signed a framework arrangement with the Forum.

Funding of Forum activities reaffirms Canada's commitment to the Forum to the world, thus encouraging other governments to partner with the Forum and further promoting its internationalization. The drawdown nature of the grant anticipates an increase in funding from other partners that will diminish Canada's financial commitment in the future as the sole or principal source of funding, while concurrently sending a clear message to foreign governments that Canada supports the important work of the Forum and is committed to its becoming a global organization. The pursuit of internationalization will help to further the Forum's reputation and prominence by integrating a broader base of federal experiences and continuing to attract high-quality international personnel.

On the domestic front, the Forum reflects a core value of our national political identity: Canada's commitment to open federalism. Now that the Forum has established its credibility on the international stage, its neutral status and its expertise could continue to pave the way for further activities in the domestic arena, including as a source of ideas on flexible federalism through its Canada Program.

Strategic Outcome(s): CANADA'S INTERNATIONAL AGENDA—The international agenda is shaped to Canada's benefit and advantage in accordance with Canadian interests and values.

Summary of Results Achieved by the Recipient:

Governance Programs: The Forum hosted a broad range of thematic programs, conferences, country-specific events and Global Dialogue workshops in 2010–11. Forum events contributed to improving governance through cross-cutting themes such as internal markets, immigrant integration, public security, benchmarking, oil and gas, metropolitan and local governance, joint service delivery, fiscal federalism, and the impact of conflict on federalism and constitutional processes, in particular. Highlights include:

• The Forum organized or contributed to more than 50 governance activities, including six conferences, seven round tables, 24 workshops and seminars, and 14 consultations.
• The Forum worked with 28 partner organizations, including 18 governments.
• More than 1,200 participants from 18 countries participated in events.
• Four volumes were published as part of the Forum’s ongoing publications program: Access to Property Rights: Integrating Indigenous Communities into the Federal Scheme—International Experiences; Fiscal Federalism: A Comparative Introduction; Diversity and Unity in Federal Countries; and Intergovernmental Relations in Federal Countries. Thematic publications on sub-national tax autonomy, oil and gas, immigrant integration, and internal market integration were completed.

The Fifth International Conference on Federalism was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in December 2010. The first conference of its kind to be held in Africa, the conference brought together approximately 600 practitioners of federalism and numerous African leaders. Experts, practitioners and academics presented 45 papers related to the conference theme, Equality and Unity in Diversity for Development. The Forum worked closely with the Government of Ethiopia to identify advisers, develop the conference themes and format, and produce the pre- and post-conference publications.

Development Assistance: The Forum maintained an active development assistance program in 2010–11, centred on existing country programs in Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Ethiopia. Activities were varied, ranging from the provision of technical assistance and training support to the conduct of comparative research, thematic workshops, and the production and dissemination of educational materials. Overall, 38 development assistance events were organized, which involved more than 2,000 participants, 17 partner organizations and eight governments.

Public Information and Education: In response to feedback from its partners, the Forum has placed greater emphasis on web-based material and its online database. The organization has streamlined its annual report to provide greater analysis and explanation of the nature of the Forum's work. Two issues of Federations magazine were published: one focused on Africa (volume 10, no. 1) and a special Arabic-English issue focused on Sudan.

Operations: The secondments of senior officials from Switzerland and Germany to the Forum were extended through partnership agreement negotiations.

Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy
($ millions)

2008-09 Actual Spending	2009-10 Actual Spending	2010-11 Planned Spending	2010-11 Total Authorities	2010-11 Actual Spending	Variance(s)
0	0	0	0	0	0

Comments on Variance(s): N/A

Significant Evaluation findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: At the direction of the Office of the Inspector General, a planned Summative Evaluation of the conditional grant provided to the Forum was not conducted in 2010–11 due to the decision not to renew the organization’s core funding.

Significant Audit findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: No audits were required by the grant agreement in 2010–11.