To thrive in this new era, Canadian civil society will need strong advocacy to protect and promote an enabling environment for its work, bold leadership to coordinate and advance the voice of our sector, and creative thinking to inspire and support innovative approaches to enhance our sustainability and impact. [...] Just as important, it acknowledges and advances the inherent opportunities: to enhance our sector’s engagement with local, domestic, and global actors in a spirit of inclusion and solidarity; to lead and inform our sector in maximizing our impact as development actors; and to catalyze new and dynamic approaches to programming, policy, and organization. [...] Through an intersectional and gender-transformative approach that addresses structural barriers to inequality, we must put gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls at the heart of the work of the Canadian global development and humanitarian assistance sector for decades to come. [...] In this context, we need to reassert and affirm the value of a global multilateral system, and of shared values, norms, principles and rights through which to advance a transformative and visionary agenda for people and the planet. [...] As the national independent coalition for international co-operation, now is the time for CCIC to build on the positive opportunities inherent in Agenda 2030 and the Grand Bargain, and in the signals outlined above, to catalyze action around a set of shared values and vision, foster greater connectedness and solidarity, and make the work of Canadian civil society more locally relevant, effective a
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