Global Affairs
How Global Affairs spent its budget in fiscal year 2015-16, shown as net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II.
Department Spending
In FY 2015-16,
$6.27B
was spent by Global Affairs
In FY 2015-16,
2.1%
of federal spending was by Global Affairs
How did Global Affairs spend its budget in 2015-16?
Spending by entity, FY 2015-16
Foreign Affairs,Trade and Development
International Development Research Centre
Canadian Commercial Corporation
International Joint Commission (Canadian Section)
Export Development Canada (Canada Account)
$6.07B
$183.5M
$8.9M
$6.6M
$3.7M
Global Affairs’s share of federal spending
Percentage of federal spending, 1995–2025
Line items
Every transfer-payment (grant and contribution) program, in dollars. These are the named programs behind the transfer-payments object in the chart above. Search, sort, and download the full table.
| Category | Description | Amount ▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Grants | Grants for Multilateral Programming: Grants in support of development assistance, humanitarian assistance or disaster preparedness, for global operations, programs, projects, activities and appeals for the benefit of developing countries or territories or countries in transition | $1,940,967,993 |
| Contributions | Contributions for Bilateral Programming: Contributions in support of development assistance, contributions for cooperation with countries in transition and contributions in support of regional or country specific development assistance programs, projects and activities for the benefit of developing countries or territories or countries in transition | $704,536,880 |
| Contributions | Payments of assessed contributions to International Organizations: United Nations peacekeeping operations (US$244,482,704) | $323,932,304 |
| Other transfer payment | Payments to International Financial Institutions—Direct payments | $287,539,955 |
| Contributions | Contributions for Partnership with Canadians Programming: Contributions for development assistance programs, projects and activities intended to support development for the benefit of developing countries or territories or countries in transition or to enhance the awareness, understanding, and engagement of Canadians with respect to development | $238,795,161 |
| Contributions | United Nations Organization (US$96,006,434) | $107,815,896 |
| Contributions | Global Peace and Security Fund | $58,161,626 |
| Grants | Grants in support of the Global Peace and Security Fund and its sub-programs | $44,581,736 |
| Contributions | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)—Civil administration (27,766,230 Euro) | $36,637,479 |
| Contributions | Contributions under the Global Partnership Program for the destruction, disposal and securing of weapons and materials of mass destruction and related expertise | $29,968,958 |
| Grants | Grants for Partnerships with Canadians Programming: Grants for development assistance programs, projects and activities intended to support development for the benefit of developing countries or territories or countries in transition or to enhance the awareness, understanding, and engagement of Canadians with respect to development | $22,397,552 |
| Contributions | Food and Agriculture Organization (US$8,067,064) (5,930,956 Euro) | $19,022,922 |
| Grants | Global Partnership Program for the destruction, disposal and securing of weapons and materials of mass destruction and related expertise | $18,286,083 |
| Contributions | World Health Organization (US$7,138,726) (6,696,125 Swiss Francs) | $17,853,723 |
| Contributions | Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (8,110,260 Euro) | $17,792,563 |
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Global Affairs figures are net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II, and will not match the Volume I consolidated headline totals. See the methodology for details.
