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| The cornerstone of CIDA's development assistance program is to support sustainable development in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable and prosperous world. Canada, like other industrialized countries, provides development assistance in the form of goods, services, the transfer of knowledge and skills, and financial contributions. Working with partners in the private and public sectors in Canada and in developing countries and with international organizations and agencies, CIDA supports foreign aid projects in more than 100 of the poorest countries in the world. The objective is to work with developing countries and countries in transition to develop the tools to eventually meet their own needs. To do this, CIDA concentrates it's efforts on six priority areas:
Canadian aid is helping the more than one billion people who live in absolute poverty in developing countries around the world to realize their full human potential.
(Note: the information above has been borrowed from "The Agency" page of the Canadian International Development Agency web site. |
          
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