The Minister of International Development of Canada, Ahmed Hussen, announced $ 272.1 million in new funds on Sunday for foreign aid projects in Bangladesh and the Indo-Pacific region.
“Canada continues to strengthen our lasting friendship with Bangladesh and the widest region of the Indo-Pacific with our long data ties to people,” Hussen said in a statement. “By supporting the health services of vulnerable communities, empowering women and addressing climate change, we are creating a brighter tomorrow for the global community.”
The money, which will be spent together with the contributions of other foreign partners and donors, will provide new funds for 14 different projects in Bangladesh and other countries in the Indo-Pacific region.
The measure of the Federal Liberal Government highlights a dramatically different Canadian approach for foreign development assistance compared to the government of the US Republican President Donald Trump, which stopped financing through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Trump and his new government efficiency tsar, businessman Elon Musk, froze the foreign aid of the United States for 90 days after taking power, closing help programs worldwide and causing problems of thousands of employees within the government and among their contractors.
Trump and their appointed Republicans see foreign aid programs as a waste of taxpayers money, arguing that they support liberal political agendas. His detractors say that such expense increases the US position in the world and counteracts the foreign interference of other countries.
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The workers and supporters of the American foreign aid have challenged Trump's movements in the Court, saying that the president exceeded his legal and constitutional authority when he effectively dismantled a federal agency whose expense was authorized by the United States Congress.
The details about the different projects of several years that Canada is the financing can be Found in this background of Global Affairs Canada.
Canada is supporting projects that will focus on gender equality, health and sexual and reproductive rights for women and girls, along with better access to education and training of inclusive skills.
Other projects are designed to help communities strengthen their resistance to climate change, boost civic commitment and reduce poverty.
A project was described as “empowering women in the nursing sector.” It includes a financing impulse of $ 6.3 million for three years to the Canadian company Cowater International, the government said.
The help of the Canadian government was personally announced by Hessen and the liberal member of British Columbia of Parliament Parm Bains in a Vancouver event attended by leaders of the Bangladesh community, only weeks before the liberal government could call a spring election with a new leader.
The Bangladesh-Canadian community now includes more than 100,000 people, estimates the federal government.
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