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Table 5: Horizontal Initiative-Global Peace and Security Fund (GPSF)
Name of Horizontal Initiative: Global Peace and Security Fund (GPSF)
Name of Lead Department(s): Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
Lead Department Program Activity: Diplomacy and Advocacy
Start Date of the Horizontal Initiative: Initiated October 3, 2005; operationalized September 18, 2006
End Date of the Horizontal Initiative: March 31, 2013
Total Federal Funding Allocation (start to end date): Overall DFAIT spending through the Global Peace and Security Fund in 2008-09 totalled $148.9 million (vote 10 only), including horizontal funding to non-DFAIT entities (see below). Total GPSF funding since September 2006 totals $496 million.
Description of the Horizontal Initiative (including funding agreement): Funded from the Peace and Security Pool of the International Assistance Envelope, the GPSF fills a funding gap by providing dedicated resources for activities to provide timely, focused, effective and accountable international assistance in response to critical peace and security challenges. Leadership in this area is not properly the responsibility of the Department of National Defence (DND) and is outside Canada's traditional official development assistance program. Examples of GPSF activities include supporting peace operations and peace processes, facilitating justice and security system reform, enhancing transitional justice and reconciliation, and improving the peacekeeping capacities of military and police in Africa and the Americas. Major recipients of funding are Afghanistan, Sudan and Haiti.
DFAIT works closely with a range of government departments-including the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), RCMP, DND, Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), Canada Border Services Agency and Department of Justice-in addressing the peace and security challenges presented by fragile states. Cooperation with these partners is particularly important in providing critical expertise in the area of justice and security system reform to the civilian components of UN peace operations. In 2008-09, the GPSF entered into arrangements with several major implementing federal government departments. Of particular note was support to peace operations in Sudan through the Canadian Commercial Corporation and the support provided by the RCMP, DND and CSC for the implementation of stabilization and reconstruction projects in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, as well as in Haiti.
Shared Outcome(s):
Rapid, integrated and well-coordinated Canadian responses to international requirements for short- and medium-term conflict prevention, stabilization, peacebuilding and reconstruction initiatives.
Timely, effective and accountable Canadian contributions for responses to natural disasters and complex emergencies and initiatives aimed at the restoration of peace, security, the rule of law and legitimate government in fragile states.
Strengthened capacity of multilateral and regional organisations for peace operations.
Governance Structure(s):
The GPSF is managed by the Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force (START) Secretariat, located in the International Security Branch of DFAIT. START convenes an interdepartmental advisory board comprising representatives from several domestic and internationally mandated departments to encourage whole-of-government coherence in the development of policy and of integrated conflict prevention, crisis response and stabilization initiatives with respect to fragile states; and to serve as a platform, when appropriate, to coordinate inter-agency responses to significant crises. Chaired by the Director General of START, the advisory board includes representatives from CIDA, DND, the Privy Council Office, the Department of Justice, the Department of Public Safety and some of its portfolio agencies (RCMP, CSC). START also convenes the Interdepartmental Task Force on Natural Disasters Abroad and manages the annual fragile states review exercise.
The GPSF is governed by two senior-level committees: the interdepartmental ADM committee, comprising five ADMs (three from CIDA and two from DFAIT), and the DM-level committee, comprising the DMs of CIDA and DFAIT. Other departments may be invited to these meetings, as appropriate.
| Federal Partners | Federal Partner Program Activity | Names of Programs for Federal Partners1 | Total Allocation (from start to end date) |
Planned Spending 2008-2009 |
Actual Spending for 2008-09 |
Expected Results for 2008-09 |
Results Achieved in 2008-09 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) | PA 2: Diplomacy and Advocacy | Global Peace and Security Program; Global Peace Operations Program; Glyn Berry Program for Peace and Security | 496.02 | 150.03 | 148.93 | Timely, coordinated and cost-effective whole-of-government responses to natural and human-made crises abroad | See TPP table |
| Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) | PA 1: Federal and International Operations | Canadian Police Arrangement and International Police Peacekeeping (IPP) | 52.3014 | 11.45 | 19.88 | Implementation of RCMP international police peacekeeping projects | Supported the deployment of over 100 serving police officers to fragile states, including Haiti and Afghanistan |
| Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) | PA: N/A | Peace Support Operations in Sudan | 97.4322 | 0.0 | 32.5 | Logistical support to Sudan peace operations (AMIS/UNAMID) | Provided logistical support to AMIS/UNAMID |
| Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) | PA 1: Correctional Interventions | Operations in Afghanistan and Stabilization and Reconstruction in Haiti | 4.14 | 1.5 | 1.9 | Implementation of GPSF projects in Afghanistan and Haiti | Supported the deployment of correction advisers to the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan and to Haiti |
| Department of National Defence (DND) | PA 1: Contribute to Canada and the international community | Operations in Afghanistan | 13.32 | 8.4 | 6.3 | Supporting the Provincial Reconstruction Team and implementation of projects in Kandahar | Supported the implementation of projects in Kandahar |
| Justice Canada | PA 1: Justice policies, laws and programs | Operations in Afghanistan and peace building support in Sudan | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | Implementation of GPSF projects in Afghanistan and Sudan | Trained members of the Uganda Law Society in International Criminal Law. |
| Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA) | PA 1: Security | Operations in Afghanistan (Pakistan-Afghanistan border); Canada's support to the Middle East Pease Process; and Stabilisation and Reconstruction in Haiti | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | Supporting the Provincial Reconstruction Team and Implementation of projects in Kandahar. | No disbursements made. |
| Total | 173.0 | 209.58 | |||||
Comment on Variance: Where significant variance exists between planned and actual disbursements, it is due to difficult programming environments, as the GPSF operates in contexts characterized by high degrees of volatility and insecurity. Further, the level of spending of the GPSF through federal partners varies in response to the size of appeals by partner countries and multilateral agencies, which may fluctuate over short periods of time. As such, planned levels constitute notional estimates.
Results to Be Achieved by Non-Federal Partners (if applicable): The GPSF works with a wide variety of implementing partners, including international and regional organisations, such as the United Nations and its bodies, as well as with non-governmental organisations, academic institutions, foreign governments and other legal entities. Expected and actual results achieved by these partners are outlined in their respective appeal documents and in the corresponding project and annual reports. The scope of their results and the degree to which they realize them will be conditioned by the specific environments in which they work.
