Thursday, February 10, 2022 – This International Development Week (IDW), international cooperation advocates and organizations called on the government to invest $1.5 billion to end the pandemic, take faster action on the fight against climate change, and help build peace around the world. In their largest number of meetings with parliamentarians in IDW history, members of Cooperation Canada and the Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health (CanWaCH), emphasized the need to build back a more equitable, healthy, and resilient world.
The Honourable Harjit Sajjan, Minister of International Development, kicked off the week with a sector-wide event where he outlined his priorities for the year ahead and spoke of the incredible impact Canadian organizations are having around the world. While stressing that collaboration will be essential for finding solutions to shared global problems, he also made clear the importance of celebrating the successes of hard-working human rights defenders and sector champions.
On February 9, Cooperation Canada recognized these efforts at their annual awards ceremony, acknowledging Rita Morbia for her outstanding leadership and commitment to the promotion of women’s equality with the Karen Takacs Award. The Innovation & Impact Awards, presented in collaboration with World University Service of Canada (WUSC) and the Trustees of the Lewis Perinbam Award, were awarded to Vinod Rajasekaran for developing Future of Good, a digital tool for publishing stories, news, analysis, and commentary about the development sector, and to CAUSE Canada for its innovation test project, “Mi Small Wef” No More: Eradicating Child Marriage in Sierra Leone by Working with Men in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
“We are proud to honour feminist innovators and leaders in our sector. Our winners embody the inclusive, collaborative, and unabashedly feminist approaches that underpin our sector’s contributions to a better world,” said Shannon Kindornay, Cooperation Canada’s Interim CEO.
“As we collectively strive to urgently vaccinate the world and stop the spread of COVID-19 variants, it remains important to take a moment to celebrate Canadians’ long history of working in partnership with low- and middle-income nations to advance their citizens’ health and rights,” said Julia Anderson, CanWaCH CEO. “By marking these accomplishments, we fuel our resolve to continue on, redoubling our efforts in international cooperation to combat the setbacks this pandemic is inflicting on billions.”
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Manitoba Council for International Cooperation
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February 10, 2022
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