Global Affairs
How Global Affairs spent its budget in fiscal year 2017-18, shown as net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II.
Department Spending
In FY 2017-18,
$6.77B
was spent by Global Affairs
In FY 2017-18,
2.1%
of federal spending was by Global Affairs
On the consolidated accrual basis (Volume I), this portfolio’s expenses were $8.5B in FY 2017-18 — see the overview and methodology.
How did Global Affairs spend its budget in 2017-18?
Spending by entity, FY 2017-18
Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
International Development Research Centre
Export Development Canada (Canada Account)
International Joint Commission (Canadian Section)
Invest in Canada Hub
$6.57B
$140M
$51.2M
$7.4M
$2M
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 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 | $2,065,734,193 |
| 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 | $789,877,287 |
| Contributions | United Nations peacekeeping operations (US$229,451,187) | $248,147,108 |
| Other transfer payment | Payments to International Financial Institutions—Direct payments | $232,251,950 |
| 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 | $218,805,735 |
| Contributions | Contributions for Multilateral Programming: Contributions 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 | $211,291,248 |
| Grants | Grants in support of the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program | $142,733,211 |
| Contributions | Contributions in support of the Peace and Stabilization Operations Program | $110,127,787 |
| Contributions | United Nations Organization (US$93,973,191) | $91,383,841 |
| Contributions | Contributions under the Global Partnership Program for the destruction, disposal and securing of weapons and materials of mass destruction and related expertise | $47,552,693 |
| Contributions | Contribution for Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program | $27,077,571 |
| Contributions | North Atlantic Treaty Organization—Civil administration (17,163,217 Euro) | $25,615,622 |
| Contributions | Food and Agriculture Organization (US$8,149,050) (5,921,037 Euro) | $18,462,600 |
| Contributions | Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (12,070,516 Euro) | $18,312,763 |
| Contributions | World Health Organization (US$7,709,632) (7,160,240 Swiss Francs) | $17,930,314 |
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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.
