Global Affairs Canada Aid Program Evaluations, 2014-2020

Evaluation reports from Global Affairs Canada assess the performance of international assistance programs in middle-income countries. The collection includes reports generated from 2014-15 to 2020-21, serving as a management tool for program review. These documents are published under the Open Government License - Canada 2.0.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in aid program performance based on evaluation report findings
• Training NLP models for classifying or summarizing government evaluation documents
• Studying the evolution of development priorities and program design in middle-income countries

Strengths

• Reports cover a defined seven-year period from 2014-15 to 2020-21.
• Documents are official evaluations from a national government department, Global Affairs Canada.
• Data is provided under a permissive open license (OGL-CA-2.0).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and institutional bias inherent to the source department's reporting.

Provenance

Source

Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada

Collection Method

Periodic evaluations conducted by the department.

Time Range

2014-15 to 2020-21

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 13:32:51.630050; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Middle-income countries (specific countries not listed).