In addition, we call on the government to take steps to: Recommendation 2: Commit that international assistance to Ukraine will be additional to stable or growing assistance to the rest of the world, and track international assistance investments that respond to the war and resulting crisis in Ukraine by launching an Eastern Europe Assistance Tracker. [...] Ongoing reverberations from the pandemic, the impacts of the climate crisis, global inflation, rising armed conflict and hostilities, the rise of authoritarian and anti-democratic forces, and attacks on women’s and children’s rights are disrupting the global order as we know it. [...] Canada should also leverage its Feminist International Assistance Policy and expand on its leadership on gender equality through new and additional humanitarian and development programming to support the rights of women and girls in humanitarian emergencies and protracted crises and conflict. [...] In the context of crack downs on human rights and democracy around the world, and the rise of authoritarian and regressive movements and forces, Canada should increase its support for human rights, civil society and democracy. [...] It should also actively promote within the OECD-DAC the establishment of a dedicated Eastern European Assistance tracker, specifically designed to monitor and coordinate humanitarian and development support for Ukraine and other regions impacted by the war in Ukraine.13 This would be similar to the separate designation for support to former USSR states in the 1990s.
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