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Since 2018, Canada, through its Rohingya Response Strategy in Bangladesh, has been providing targeted assistance to the impoverished Bengali host communities and Rohingya refugees living in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Under Canada's Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP), gender equality and gender-responsive humanitarian action constitute some of the core priority areas for the Canadian government. In Cox's Bazar, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) funds programmes to empower women and girls through skill-based and livelihood training and to provide sexual and reproductive health services. However, scholars like Jennifer Cadesky and Rebecca Tiessen caution against the conflation of gender equality and empowerment, arguing that it often leads to short-term, quick-fix solutions without any long-term benefit to women. Canada needs to go beyond funding recovery assistance programmes at a surface level. Without understanding social norms and cultural practices that influence women's participation, mobility, and visibility in public spaces, gender equality in Canada's response strategy will be limited to only checklist goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Covid-19 pandemic requires a review of the working mechanism within the Alliance due to global enlargement and serious consequences. During this difficult period of time, NATO's international assistance demands show that some military structures are able to manage and react quickly even in civil emergencies. In recent years, NATO has played an important role in providing humanitarian and other assistance during major disaster, through civilian and military structures. The Covid-19 pandemic crisis has involved a process of updating NATO's strategy, meaning to design of new entities and tools in order to manage this crisis as efficiently as possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 1950s and 60s, Lester Pearson came to see international assistance as central to Canada's constructive international engagement. Yet how Canada's greatest diplomat became a key architect of, and advocate for, international assistance remains relatively unexplored. This paper aims to chart the evolution of Pearson's thinking regarding international assistance, in a presentation organized chronologically around the major chapters of Pearson's career. It enhances the narrative of a storied political career, consolidates Pearson's thinking on a critical issue and provides historical insight relevant to contemporary official development assistance policy-making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite good intentions, development assistance from donor countries are often underutilized by recipient nations due to weak absorptive capacities. Addressing this issue has become more imperative with recent international accords engendering the rapid influx of massive climate assistance funds into the developing world. Particularly, interventions are focused on addressing exceptional vulnerabilities of developing nations to near-term climate impacts, for example, devastating typhoons and associated hazards. Fundamental to this effort is establishing the necessary technology infrastructure for generating quality climatic and environmental information, which serves as valuable logistical support for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management plans and activities. Efforts to address this in developing countries, however, are often sluggish or met with gridlocks. This is despite following internationally-prescribed best-practice roadmaps, conditioned by access to foreign aid. The Philippines' experience in implementing its technological self-reliance policy provides a possible framework for overcoming this difficulty. Contribution analysis, through dissecting and examining the policy implementation period of 2010-2015, reveals that a more cooperative sociopolitical landscape, engendered by the visibility of a program "championing" the country's drive to break away from technological dependence, can provoke rapid technological catch-up, bringing about the desired transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Japan's decision to discharge nuclear wastewater into the sea on April 13, 2021 has aroused worldwide discussions recently. This paper establishes a tripartite evolutionary game model to explore the evolutionary stable strategies (ESSs) of Japan, other countries, and international environmental protection organization (IEPO). The results show: i) The choice of Japan is closely related to the treatment cost of nuclear wastewater. When Japan chooses the non-discharge strategy, other countries will always choose the acceptance strategy, while IEPO will trade off between its credibility and international assistance. When Japan chooses the discharge strategy, the choice of other countries depends on the difference of litigation compensation and cost, while that of IEPO is determined by the comparison of the litigation compensation and credibility with the litigation cost. ii) The treatment cost of nuclear wastewater, negative externalities of marine environment, litigation compensation, international assistance from IEPO, and the proximity coefficient between Japan and other countries are critical factors influencing both evolutionary results and trajectories, while the international assistance from other countries and initial willingness only affect evolutionary trajectories. This paper also puts forward policy implications for the three stakeholders to promote Japan's non-discharge strategy so as to protect the marine environment and human health from the unprecedented damage. [Display omitted] • Japan's choice is closely related to the treatment cost of nuclear wastewater. • When Japan chooses the non-discharge strategy, other countries will always choose acceptance while IEPO will trade off between credibility and international assistance. • When Japan chooses the discharge strategy, other countries' choice depends on the difference of litigation compensation and cost, while IEPO's choice is determined by the comparison of litigation compensation and credibility with litigation cost. • Key parameters affecting evolutionary results and trajectories are identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]