What’s New about Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy and Why ‘More of the Same’ Matters

Rebecca Tiessen
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Rebecca Tiessen: The School of Public Policy

SPP Research Papers, 2019, vol. 12, issue 44

Abstract: Canada’s new Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) will succeed only if it leaves behind its instrumentalist feminist approach and takes on a transformative one. Instrumentalist approaches have been the status quo for such policies in the past, but they are limited in their reach because they confine themselves to relatively easy measurements of progress. These measurements include counting how many women and girls are involved in, or affected by, policy interventions that have broader societal and other goals. A transformative approach, however, goes deeper by working to permanently change the structures and institutions that perpetuate inequality.

Date: 2019
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