Carleton University

After winning the Canadian federal election in 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proclaimed that ‘Canada is back’ – a message to citizens and the international community alike that Canada has regained its “compassionate and constructive voice”.

Yet as we approach the final year of this government’s four-year mandate, a common criticism is the lack of concrete action to accompany the government’s perceived good policy intentions.

Register for the CCIC 2018 Annual Conference

This year’s CCIC conference is organized in partnership with the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) and hosted at Carleton University. The two-day event will welcome approximately 250 stakeholders from international development and humanitarian civil society organizations (CSOs), academics and researchers, key government officials, and policy makers.

Objective: Shared learnings and actions towards change

The goal of this year’s conference is to engage our audience, participants, and presenters to share learnings, actions, and practices with the potential for change. Our thought-provoking plenary sessions and interactive workshops, led by international and national keynote speakers, will challenge the international development sector to consider new and innovative strategies, learnings, and opportunities in the context of our current policy environment. Participants will be invited to share, explore, and generate ground-breaking practices that will enhance the sector’s capacity to leverage promising policies and intentions into progressive and transformative change. In accordance with the partnership between CCIC and CASID, the conference will be enhanced by a commitment to explore modalities of collaboration between scholars, scholar/practitioners, and development practitioners.