Canada's humanitarian assistance

Canada remains a major donor that helps to shape the humanitarian policy landscape. Humanitarian aid is at the top of Canada’s ODA spending, representing 22.3% of its total ODA bilateral commitments on average in 2015-16, well above the DAC average. Based on solid whole-of-government co-ordination, already praised in the last peer review, Canada has further strengthened its integrated response to major crises, such as in the Middle East its humanitarian budget has kept increasing in recent years and the Peace and Stabilisation Operations Programme is a good tool to help address the factors that create violence and humanitarian needs.