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1) Strategic Outcome: CANADA'S INTERNATIONAL AGENDA – the international agenda is shaped to Canada's benefit and in accordance with Canadian interests and values.

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: Anti-Crime Capacity Building Program

4) Start date: December 9, 2009

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: Provision of assistance to enhance the capacity of key beneficiary states, government entities, and international organizations to prevent and respond to threats posed by international criminal activity.

7) Expected results:

• Increased capacity of beneficiary states and government entities to prevent and respond to criminal activity in the Americas

• Increased capacity of international organizations responsible for supporting states' anti-crime efforts

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: Commonwealth Secretariat

4) Start date: September 28, 1965

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: Canada's assessed contribution to the regular budget of the Commonwealth is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of Canada's membership is to further the Government of Canada's foreign policy goals related to international peace, security and development and, to this end, to enhance relationships among the 53 Commonwealth member countries. For further information, see www.thecommonwealth.org.

7) Expected results:

• Much of the regular budget is directed to supporting and implementing the decisions of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings and a large web of regular meetings of Commonwealth sectoral ministers including, for example, the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group and Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Finance, Health and Education

• Results include diplomatic interventions in the form of good offices and public pressure by the Secretariat and/or coordinated action by Commonwealth ministers to support democratic institutions and procedures; programs to build capacity in democratic and human rights procedures; and enhanced cooperation among Commonwealth countries related to economic, social and political development

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions under the Global Partnership Program for the Destruction, Disposal and Securing of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction and Related Expertise

4) Start date: August 12, 2003

5) End date: March 2013

6) Description: To implement Canada's commitment to the G8 Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction, launched at the 2002 Kananaskis Summit, through projects for the destruction of chemical weapons, the dismantlement of nuclear submarines, the enhancement of nuclear and radiological security, the employment of former weapons scientists, and the prevention of biological weapons proliferation. Canada committed up to $1 billion over 10 years to implement the goals of the Global Partnership, initially in the former Soviet Union, where the threat was most acute. The justification for the Partnership was based on an assessment of threats to Canadian and international security following the terrorist attacks of September 2001. Evaluations at the G8 level have identified the continuing seriousness of the terrorist and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats and the ongoing value of the Global Partnership, an international cooperative threat reduction approach. Twenty-three countries are engaged in projects, and an amount close to US$20 billion has been pledged.

7) Expected results:

• A reduction in the threat from WMD for Canadians and a more secure national and international environment, as a result of material safely and securely stored, facilities secured and expertise redirected

• A strengthened international non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament regime and achievement of Canada's domestic and international security objectives

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program (CTCBP)

4) Start date: September 26, 2009

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: Provision of assistance to enhance the capacity of key beneficiary states, government entities and international organizations to prevent and respond to threats posed by terrorist activity, in a manner consistent with international counterterrorism and human rights obligations, norms and standards.

7) Expected results:

• An increased capacity of beneficiary states and government entities to prevent and respond to terrorist activity

• An increased capacity of international organizations responsible for supporting states' counterterrorism-related efforts

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

4) Start date: July 1982

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: Canada's annual assessed contribution to the FAO is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of membership is to further the Government of Canada's foreign policy goals related to agricultural development and provide it with a voice in the international community. For further information, see www.fao.org.

7) Expected results: Achieving food security for all is at the heart of FAO efforts:

• to make sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. FAO's mandate is to raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity, better the lives of rural populations and contribute to the growth of the world economy

FAO's objectives, as set out in its constitution, are:

• to promote the common welfare by furthering action for the purpose of: raising levels of nutrition and standards of living of the peoples within member nations

• to secure improvements in the efficiency of the production and distribution of all food and agricultural products, including fisheries, marine products and forestry products

• to better the condition of rural populations

Thus contributing toward an expanding world economy and ensuring humanity's freedom from hunger.

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: Global Commerce Support Program (GCSP)

4) Start date: December 11, 2008

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: Approved under the new Transfer Payment Policy, the GCSP is a contribution program that harmonizes three previously existing programs under one umbrella mechanism:

• Invest Canada-Community Initiatives (ICCI) (formerly CISP)

• Going Global Innovation (GGI) (formerly Going Global Science and Technology Fund)

• Global Opportunities for Associations (GOA) (formerly PEMD-A)

The objective of the program is to build a stronger and more competitive Canadian capacity to compete in the global economy.

7) Expected results:

• Attract foreign direct investment

• Increase Canadian science and technological innovation and commercialization opportunities

• Increase Canadian business's involvement in international business development

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: Global Peace and Security Fund (GPSF) and its component programs: the Global Peace and Security Program, the Global Peace Operations Program, and the Glyn Berry Program for Peace and Security

4) Start date: October 3, 2005; operationalized September 18, 2006

5) End date: March 31, 2013

6) Description: The GPSF is a critical component of the Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force (START) portfolio. Funded from the Peace and Security Pool of the International Assistance Envelope, the GPSF fills a funding gap by providing dedicated resources for activities that are necessary for a timely response with respect to countries in or at risk of crisis, but that are not properly the responsibility of the Department of National Defence (DND) and are outside Canada's traditional official development assistance program. Examples of these activities are supporting peace operations and peace processes, supporting justice and security system reform, enhancing transitional justice and reconciliation, and improving the peace enforcement and peace operations capacities of military and police forces in Africa and the Americas. Major recipients of funding are Afghanistan, Sudan and Haiti.

The GPSF is both a responsive and a directive program, established to provide timely, focused, effective and accountable international assistance in response to critical peace and security challenges. DFAIT works closely with a range of government departments including the Canadian International Development Agency, Public Safety Canada, the RCMP, DND, the Correctional Service of Canada, the Canada Border Services Agency and Justice Canada. Among other assistance, these partnerships provide critical expertise in the area of justice and security system reform to the civilian components of UN peace operations.

7) Expected results: The long-term expected results are:

• Safer and more secure environments conducive to stabilization, recovery and long-term reconstruction

• Greater protection of the rights and safety of individuals and populations

• Improved global and regional response to crisis situations

The ultimate result of the GPSF and its component programs is an improved Canadian contribution to the peace and security and the safety and well-being of beneficiaries living in targeted areas.

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: Grants in Aid of Academic Relations

4) Start date: January 1, 1989

5) End date: March 31, 2011

6) Description: Grants and contributions in aid of academic relations support the following initiatives:

• understanding Canada (formerly Canadian Studies)

• international scholarships and fellowships

• international education, including provincial and territorial participation in multilateral activities in the area of education

• all other international education activities

These programs advance departmental priorities by:

• supporting public diplomacy and advocacy through fostering partnerships, cooperation and linkages in the area of education between Canadian and international individuals and institutions; establishing a network of international experts on Canada to advance Canada's interests abroad; and promoting public discussion of key issues through networking, exchanges and conferences

• advancing Canada's global citizenship (in support of the International Assistance Envelope) through scholarships and other programs that promote academic cooperation and mobility with developing countries

7) Expected results:

• Creating and expanding a network of well-informed foreign professionals and leaders with a sustained interest in Canada

• Establishing and strengthening links and exchanges between Canadian and foreign partners (academics, researchers, students, young people)

• Providing informed and relevant policy advice on education-related issues

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

4) Start date: December 19, 1989

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: Canada's annual assessed contribution to the IAEA is a legally binding obligation of membership. Payment is made to ensure that membership is in good standing and to maintain influence and credibility in a key international body, the aims of which Canada supports. The IAEA is the world's centre for nuclear cooperation and it works to further the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technology, in particular by verifying that states adhere to their commitments to use nuclear energy only for peaceful purposes. Canada has significant interests at the IAEA, based on our belief in the importance of the Agency's role in advancing the goals of nuclear non-proliferation, safety and security, our advanced and extensive nuclear energy and radioisotope production industries, and our important uranium sector.

7) Expected results:

• Develop nuclear safety standards and, based on these standards, promote the achievement and maintenance of high levels of safety in applications of nuclear energy, as well as the protection of human health and the environment against ionizing radiation

• Verify through its inspection system that States comply with their commitments, under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, to use nuclear material and facilities only for peaceful purposes

• Assist Member States, in the context of social and economic goals, in planning for and using nuclear science and technology for various peaceful purposes, including the generation of electricity, and facilitates the transfer of such technology and knowledge in a sustainable manner to developing Member States

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: International Criminal Court (ICC)

4) Start date: April 1, 2005

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: This is an assessed contribution transfer payment.

7) Expected results:

• Through its support to the ICC, Canada has provided leadership in promoting accountability for the most serious criminal acts known to humankind. Canada was a key player in the creation of the ICC and has been successful in strengthening its role as an instrument in the global fight against impunity. There are currently 110 states parties to the Rome Statute. This is a relatively new international organization; therefore, budget increases are anticipated. In 2009, two trials began and charges in two other cases were confirmed. Eight arrest warrants are outstanding. The prosecutor has seven further situations under analysis

• The planned payment for 2010-2011 includes a one-time payment for Canada's share of the cost of the design and construction of the Court's permanent premises. By paying in one instalment, Canada will avoid paying interest charges over the term of repayment of the project

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: International Labour Organization (ILO)

4) Start date: January 1, 1989

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: Canada's annual assessed contribution to the ILO, a UN specialized agency, is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of membership is to further the Government of Canada's foreign policy goals related to international labour and social policy issues and provide it with a voice in the international community.

7) Expected results:

• Development and effective supervision of international labour standards and realization of fundamental principles and rights at work

• Targeted action against child labour, giving priority to the urgent elimination of its worst forms

• Contributions to poverty reduction through promotion of coherent economic and social policies that support employment creation

• Assistance to constituents in the development of skills and employability policies and programs for decent work

• Better instruments and tools for policy analysis and formulation that support good governance and the extension of social protections to vulnerable workers

• Strengthened social dialogue on labour and social policy issues at national and international levels

• Improved organizational effectiveness, transparency and accountability

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF)

4) Start date: March 9, 1972

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: As a member of the OIF, Canada is required to contribute to the operational fees of the organization.

7) Expected results:

• Continuation of cooperation programs and activities undertaken by the organization

• Continued promotion of Canadian interests

• Consistency with the political and economic objectives that Canada has set for itself for the Francophonie

1) Strategic Outcome: International Services for Canadians: Canadians are satisfied with commercial, consular and passport services.

2) Program Activity: International Commerce

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: Investment Cooperation Program

4) Start date: January 4, 2010

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: This program assists private sector firms registered in Canada with the cost of exploring investment opportunities in developing countries in order to reduce poverty and create sustainable employment and economic growth. The program does not finance the actual investment; rather, it provides support for activities surrounding an investment. Specifically, the program contributes up to 75% of the cost of studying the viability of an investment, demonstrating and adapting appropriate technologies, and undertaking activities aimed at making investments, including public investments, more sustainable. The program is part of Canada's official development assistance for developing countries.

7) Expected results: The program promotes:

• Sustainable, long-term private sector-led growth and development in the local community, leading to poverty reduction

• Implementation of good business practices by recipient firms and local business partners

• New and/or upgraded infrastructure in the developing country, leading to enhanced services to local businesses and the general public

• Improved capability of recipient firms to connect to global commercial opportunities

• Transfer of developmentally beneficial technologies and/or methodologies to developing countries

* Note: As per Treasury Board instructions, DFAIT will be amending its Program Activity Architecture and associated Performance Measurement Framework to reflect the Investment Cooperation Program's objective of furthering economic growth to reduce poverty in developing countries. The program will be added to DFAIT's three-year Transfer Payment Program Plan as of April 1, 2010.

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Civil Administration

4) Start date: January 1, 1989

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: Canada's annual assessed contribution to NATO is a legally binding obligation of membership based on the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty. Canada's contribution furthers its foreign policy goals by funding the administrative budget of NATO, an international organization vital to Canadian defence and security interests. NATO was designed to promote the stability of the North Atlantic area and to safeguard the freedom and security of its people by political and military means, based on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and international law. The NATO civil budget, structured along "output based" lines in response to objectives set annually by the North Atlantic Council, covers the activities of the NATO Secretary General, the NATO headquarters and the NATO international staff. The NATO civil administration supports the process of consensus building and decision making among alliance members and manages NATO's relations with its partners. The NATO civil budget also supports the work of various NATO agencies with specialized responsibilities. An effective and efficient NATO civil administration assists alliance members in promoting security and stability in the North Atlantic area and in responding effectively to current security challenges, particularly in Afghanistan. The NATO accounts are subject to annual audit by the International Board of Auditors for NATO.

7) Expected results: The NATO civil budget enables the operations of the NATO Secretariat and agencies. The results achieved include:

• Effective decision making by the alliance in pursuit of the NATO objectives of stability and security in Afghanistan, the North Atlantic region and beyond

• Support to NATO operations

• Timely implementation of decisions taken by the North Atlantic Council

• Appropriate response to current and emerging defence and security challenges

• Enhanced relations with NATO partners and cooperation with other international organizations

• Proper management of the alliance's resources

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

4) Start date: March 20, 1975

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: To pay the assessed contribution required of Canada for its participation as a member of the OECD. The contribution pays for the Secretariat (professionals and support staff who provide high-quality research and analysis) and maintenance of the headquarters, located in Paris.

7) Expected results:

• Implement OECD work programs and policy positions that reflect input from across government and support domestic priorities

• Find solutions to common economic problems by working cooperatively with members (soft law, guidelines, agreements)

• Influence the policy development of other members and of non-members to improve the functioning of the international economic environment

• Analyze new and emerging issues, both domestic and global, that affect our economy and standard of living

• Continued sound management of the OECD

• Institutional reforms to improve the OECD's ability to cope with new issues and power dynamics

• OECD enlargement

• Improved engagement with non-members, reflecting Canadian priorities to increase the long-term effectiveness of the organization

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

4) Start date: January 1, 1993

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: Canada's annual assessed contribution to the OSCE is an obligation arising out of Canada's commitments as one of the 56 participating states of the organisation. Canada's contribution furthers its foreign policy goals by funding programs implemented by the OSCE's institutions and field operations in priority foreign policy areas for Canada related to regional and international security.

The OSCE is a focused regional forum with a comprehensive and cooperative approach to security. Canada's contribution to the organisation's unified budget covers the costs associated with the implementation of the organisation's work programs and activities in three dimensions: political and military aspects of security; economic and environmental cooperation; and cooperation in humanitarian and other fields. This integrated approach allows the OSCE to make a significant contribution to furthering European security and transatlantic cooperation through non-coercive measures. Canada's contribution also supports stronger partnership with Canadians in developing and implementing Canada's international security policy, through the involvement of members of Parliament in the work of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the deployment of Canadians to OSCE field operations, and the contribution of Canadian experts to the organisation.

The OSCE unified budget, based on a programmatic approach, is approved by the OSCE Permanent Council on a yearly basis. The OSCE accounts are subject to an annual report by external auditors as well as an internal oversight annual report, which are made available to participating states.

7) Expected results: The OSCE budget supports the programs of the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna, as well as the OSCE institutions (Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Representative on Freedom of the Media, and High Commissioner on National Minorities) and the organization's 18 field missions. The results include:

• Effective and timely implementation of the decisions of the OSCE Permanent Council

• Continuous monitoring of the security and stability situation in Europe

• Concerted programming to actively contribute to conflict prevention, conflict resolution and post-conflict institution building

• Proper management of the organization's resources

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: Organization of American States (OAS)

4) Start date: May 31, 1990

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: To pay Canada's annual assessed contribution to the OAS, a charter obligation of membership.

7) Expected results:

• Strengthening of the OAS as the key political forum through which Canada promotes its hemispheric interests

• Promotion and consolidation of democracy, and strengthening of human rights, governance and the rule of law

• Enhanced regional multilateral cooperation on security issues in the Americas

• Increased effectiveness of Canada's contribution on integral development and technical cooperation

• Increased effectiveness and efficiency of the OAS through improved accountability and transparency

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: Payments in Lieu of Taxes on Diplomatic, Consular and International Organizations' Property in Canada

4) Start date: January 18, 1979

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: The purpose of this memorandum of understanding is to outline the relationship between Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada and Public Works and Government Services Canada, National Capital Area, under the Diplomatic, Consular and International Organizations' Property Grants Order (P.C.1979-59, January 18, 1979), the Municipal Grants Act, and successor Orders and Acts. It establishes responsibilities and procedures governing the provision of services related to the payment of grants in lieu of real property and frontage or area taxes with respect to diplomatic and consular property. These procedures are designed to ensure fiscal and operational accountability, while promoting efficient program delivery and optimal reciprocal conditions for the Government of Canada abroad.

7) Expected results:

• Fulfillment of Canada's international obligations with respect to foreign diplomatic missions and consular posts pursuant to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: Projects and Development Activities Resulting from Francophonie Summits

4) Start date: March 9, 1979

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: This fund provides funding to cooperation programs and activities undertaken by the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF). It also provides financial support to the Government of New Brunswick to foster its participation in international Francophonie activities. This fund helps to promote Canadian interests and is consistent with political and economic objectives that Canada has set for itself for the Francophonie. It also promotes active participation by the Government of New Brunswick in summits, ministerial conferences and other related Francophonie activities.

7) Expected results:

• The OIF is active in all the areas identified in the contribution agreement, in accordance with the overall guidance provided by member states of the organization

• Active participation by the Government of New Brunswick in all significant activities of the OIF

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

4) Start date: January 1, 1988

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: Canada's annual assessed contribution to UNESCO is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of membership is to further the Government of Canada's foreign policy goals related to culture, science and education, and provide it with a voice in the international community.

7) Expected results:

• Universal primary education in all countries by 2015

• Gender disparities in primary and secondary education eliminated or greatly reduced in most member states

• Preparation, launch and implementation of a 10-year UN Literacy Decade and Plan of Action in order to reach the target of achieving a 50% improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015

• Comprehensive and broad-based HIV/AIDS education and prevention campaigns conducted, particularly among the 15-24 age group in Africa and South Asia

• Impact of HIV/AIDS pandemic on educational capacities assessed

• Implementation of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

• Implementation of the International Convention Against Doping in Sport

• Protection of world cultural and natural heritage through the implementation of the World Heritage Convention

• Increased scientific cooperation to improve management of the planet's water resources

• Development of free, independent and pluralistic media

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations

4) Start date: October 5, 2000

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: Canada's assessed contribution to UN peacekeeping operations is a legally binding obligation of membership. For further information, see www.un.org.

7) Expected results:

• Enhanced peace and security for the countries and regions concerned

• Increased levels of security, basic services and levels of governance provided in affected areas, promoting advanced prospects for peace as well as enable reconstruction and development activities

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: United Nations Organization

4) Start date: March 27, 1980

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: Canada's assessed contribution to the regular budget of the United Nations is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of membership is to further the Government of Canada's foreign policy goals related to international peace, security and development and provide it with a voice in the international community. Assessed contributions are used to finance the organization's programs toward attainment of the UN's objectives, as set out in its Charter. For further information, see www.un.org.

7) Expected results: Efforts to maintain international peace and security and promote sustained economic growth and sustainable development in accordance with the Millennium Development Goals. In particular:

• Progress in the development of Africa

• The promotion of human rights

• Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance efforts

• Promotion of justice and international law

• Progress toward disarmament

• International cooperation for drug control, crime prevention

• The combating of international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: World Health Organization (WHO)

4) Start date: January 1, 1990

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: Canada's annual assessed contribution to the WHO is a legally binding obligation of membership. The purpose of membership is to further the Government of Canada's foreign policy goals related to health and provide it with a voice in the international community.

7) Expected results:

• Enhanced global health security (maintaining a comprehensive outbreak alert and response mechanism supported by new international health regulations; responding rapidly and effectively in crisis situations)

• Accelerated progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (reducing maternal mortality, improving child survival, addressing the global pandemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, promoting healthy environments, increasing access to essential medicines)

• Promotion of equity in health (strengthening health systems to reach the poor and disadvantaged)

• Ensured accountability, by improving organizational effectiveness, transparency and accountability

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

2) Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy

3) Name of Transfer Payment Program: World Trade Organization (WTO)

4) Start date: January 1, 1995

5) End date: Ongoing

6) Description: The purpose of this program is to pay the assessed contribution for Canada's membership in the WTO.

7) Expected results:

The WTO provides the only multilateral forum for negotiating market access and other trade rules. It also provides the best forum for monitoring the implementation of obligations and commitments under various trade agreements, reviewing members' trade policies and practices, and discussing trade-related issues that inhibit the free, fair and predictable flow of trade. The WTO is the only organization offering a state-to-state dispute settlement system whereby trade disputes are settled based on commonly agreed-on rules, rather than political or economic power. Through these agreements, 153 WTO members operate a non-discriminatory trading system that spells out their rights and obligations. Each country receives guarantees that its exports will be treated fairly and consistently in other countries' markets. Each promises to do the same for imports into its own market. As a trade-dependent country, Canada has been actively involved in all areas of the current round of WTO negotiations, known as the Doha Development Agenda, and continues to work with other WTO members to advance these negotiations. We are seeking an ambitious outcome to the negotiations to provide a more level playing field for Canadian exporters competing in global markets, while increasing Canadian and global economic growth, prosperity and development. Canada is also seeking an outcome to the round that strikes a balance between development objectives, developing countries' concerns and Canadian commercial interests that would lead to better integration of developing countries into the world trading system. Beyond the Doha negotiations, Canada participates in the accession negotiations for all countries seeking to join the WTO, as well as in the reviews of all WTO members, and is itself reviewed every four years (most recently in March 2007). Canada is also one of the most active participants in the WTO dispute settlement system.