Small and Medium-Sized Canadian Civil Society Organizations as Development Actors

Again SMOs are a primary resource in reaching Canadians in these provinces, with 50% of small organizations and 43% of medium organizations located in cities and towns in Ontario and Québec outside the Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto metropolitan areas. [...] All 20 evaluations highlight the importance of long-term sustained partnerships for effective development cooperation on the part of SMOs, including the use of flexible core institutional support in the case of one SMO. [...] The decision to exclude all of the latter distorts the total revenue picture for development and humanitarian CSOs, and in particular the exclusion of $413.5 million in revenue by World Vision Canada, one of the largest humanitarian and development organization in Canada. [...] Since the selection of these charities is based on the degree of concentration of expenditures in foreign activities, it is not surprising that the proportion of their revenue devoted to these activities is consistently high across the different sizes of organizations: ➢ Small organizations: 84.3% of revenue devoted to foreign activities; ➢ Medium size organizations: 64.2% of revenue devoted to fo [...] Similar comments were made about the programs of the Agricultural Institute of Canada, the Nova Scotia Gambia Association, In the case of the Canadian Network for International Surgery, “by facilitating the creation of independent African organizations, CNIS promotes ownership and principles of.