WHAT PRIORITIES SHOULD THE AGENCY PURSUE?

WHAT IS CIDA? The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is Canada’s lead agency for development assistance. It has a mandate to support sustainable development in developing countries in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world.

HOW MUCH DO WE SPEND? The Government will support “a more effective use of aid dollars.” (Speech from the Throne 2006.)

MDG’s –Make it Happen video The Millennium Development Goals are to: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, and develop a global partnership for development—all by Millennium Development Goals

LITERACY RATES

113 million children—nearly two thirds of them girls—don't have access to a formal education. Of all students who do start school, one third drop out before the fifth grade. Again, most are girls. Yet investment in girls' education is the single most effective way to reduce poverty. Educated girls marry later. They have fewer and healthier children. They are better able to care for their children and to provide for their families and themselves. They are more likely to send their own children to school. GIRLS AND EDUCATION

The widest gender gaps in education exist in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. In rural Bangladesh for example, more than 85 per cent of of children are illiterate. people are illiterate GIRLS AND EDUC ATION ONLY 21% OF SUB-SAHARAN GIRLS WHO ATTEND PRIMARY SCHOOL GO ON TO SECONDARY SCHOOL

EDUCATION: DID YOU KNOW? Did you know? Every year of schooling a girl receives means a reduction in poverty for her family, and a dramatic increase in child survival. Source: UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children 2008The State of the World’s Children 2008 Almost two thirds of the world’s 774 million illiterate people are women. Source: UNESCO, Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2008Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2008 “Education can be the difference between a life of grinding poverty and the potential for a full and secure one; between a child dying from preventable disease and families raised in healthy environments; between orphans growing up in isolation, and the community having the means to protect them; between countries ripped apart by poverty and conflict, and access to secure and sustainable development." Source: Nelson Mandela and Graca MachelNelson Mandela and Graca Machel

A 14-year-old Indian boy is in despair—he has just been diagnosed as HIV-positive. He is among the 3.2 million boys and girls under the age of 15 living with HIV/AIDS around the world. A 14-year-old African girl is also burdened by sadness. She has lost both her parents to HIV/AIDS and has had to drop out of school, find a job and take care of her younger brothers and sisters. She is among the 13 million children around the world who have become orphans because of the disease. HIV/AIDS EVERY HOUR 31 CHILDREN DIE OF THE AIDS VIRUS

% OF ADULT POPULATION LIVING WITH AIDS

AIDS: DID YOU KNOW? Did you know? Life expectancy in Southern Africa has fallen from 61 to 49 years over the last 20 years as a direct result of HIV/AIDS. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects: The 2006 RevisionWorld Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision “The situation of people living and dying with AIDS in parts of Africa is so desperate that even the most basic help will bring solace and hope. We know how to defeat this pandemic. We have all the knowledge we need. But to do it, there must be a quantum leap in financial resources.” Source: Stephen Lewis, The Stephen Lewis FoundationThe Stephen Lewis Foundation Globally, the number of children living with HIV increased from 1.5 million in 2001 to 2.5 million in Source: UNAIDS UNAIDS BABIES BORN IN BOTSWANA IN 2010 WILL NOT LIVE PAST 27

WATER Water = Life Humans need between 20 and 50 litres of water every day for their basic needs. There is quite a difference in the amount of water used around the world. For example, a person living in sub- Saharan Africa uses between 10 and 20 litres of water a day. Compare that to Canada, where the average person may use as much as 326 litres of water every day. More than 5,000 children under the age of 5 die each day due to lack of access to clean and safe drinking water

WATER Over 450 million people today in 29 countries, mostly in Africa and the Middle East, are suffering from chronic water shortages. That translates to roughly one- fifteenth of the world's population. By 2050, it is estimated that as many as two-thirds of the people in the world will be affected by water shortages. A child dies every 15 seconds from disease attributable to unsafe drinking water, deplorable sanitation and poor hygiene.

WATER: DID YOU KNOW? A child born in a developed country consumes 30 to 50 times as much water resources as a child in the developing world. Source: UNESCO Safe, clean water is key to good health. In 2004, only 54% of the world’s population had access to a secure piped water supply at home. Source: World Health Organization and UNICEF, Meeting the MDG Water and Sanitation Target: The Urban and Rural Challenge of the Decade, The percentage of people worldwide who have access to improved sanitation facilities has risen from 49 percent in 1990 to 59 percent in This means that more than 1.2 billion people gained access to these facilities in just 15 years. Source: World Health Organization and UNICEF, Meeting the MDG Water and Sanitation Target: The Urban and Rural Challenge of the Decade, 2006.

% OF POPULATION BY REGION

POPULATION UNDER 16 YEARS OLD

DID YOU KNOW? Did you know? If the world were a village of 100 people, this is what it would be like!this Almost 1.5 billion people in the world today are between the ages of 10 and 25. More than half of all youth— about 525 million young people—survive on less than $2 a day. Source: (UNFPA, Framework for Action on Adolescents and Youth, 2007 ) Worldwide, the average number of children per woman has decreased. In developing countries, fertility levels fell from 6.0 children per woman ( ) to 2.7 children per women ( ). Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision World population is expected to reach 9.2 billion in Source: (United Nations, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision)

INFANT MORTALITY RATES IN 2008, 20% OF BABIES BORN IN ANGOLA DIED

HEALTH: DID YOU KNOW Did you know? In sub-Saharan Africa, 1 in every 6 children dies before the age of five. Only about 50 percent of children in sub-Saharan Africa are immunized during their first year of life. Seven out of 10 childhood deaths in developing countries can be attributed to a few main causes: acute respiratory infections, diarrhea, measles and malaria. The number of children under 5 worldwide dying from diarrhea is estimated at almost 2 million per year. Source: (UNICEF, The State of the World’s Children 2008 )

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Global environmental sustainability depends on intact and healthy ecosystems. However, many of the Earth’s ecosystems have been stressed or degraded, some to the point where they cannot recover. CIDA not only systematically integrates environment in all its decision-making processes, focuses its efforts on climate change, land degradation, freshwater supply and sanitation, and addresses the environmental impacts of urbanization

Global Carbon Emissions

The Millenium Development Goals were adopted in the year We are now halfway to the goal of How are we doing???