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What can we expect from Addis? A Canadian CSO Perspective | Julia Sanchez, CCIC
What can we expect from the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3)? Julia Sanchez of CCIC gives an overview of key takeaways from the CSO Forum from the perspective of Canadian CSOs.
Message from Julia Sánchez re #DoBetter2015
Invitation from Julia Sánchez, President-CEO of Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC), to actively participate in "We Can Do Better 2015" (http://wecandobetter2015.ca), a campaign in collaboration with Beyond 2015 (http://beyond2015.org). Credit : Future Vision Productions (http://future-vision.tv/)
Statistics hide real fall in Canada’s foreign aid, say critics
Toronto Star, April 15, 2016Online
“If ‘Canada is back;’ if Canada wants to be a leader on the global scene, we need to do more,” says Julia Sanchez, president of the Canadian Council for International Co-operation. “We need to change the downward trajectory that we’ve been on and shift it into a positive direction.”...
Julia Sánchez: An outspoken advocate for Canada’s non-governmental organizations
Inter Pares, June 1, 2016Online
On a rainy May morning in Ottawa, a room crowded with representatives of over 50 international development organizations launched into a discussion about the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) merger. They were being amalgamated and many people felt that this would result in the loss of Canada’s long-standing focus on ending poverty and promoting human rights...
Julia Sanchez: The loss of a think tank shrinks Canada's world view
Ottawa Citizen, September 15, 2014Online
Last week, the North-South Institute (NSI) announced that it is closing down after being a leader of international development thinking, in Canada and abroad, for almost 40 years. The international community in Canada, and many of its partners around the world, are saddened and worried by this development. But why should Canadians care?...
Canada Must Boldly Commit to Defeat Poverty at Home and Abroad
The Huffington Post, October 2, 2015Online
The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not for the faint of heart -- they are bold, broad commitments striking at the core of society's critical social issues. The first goal is as daunting as it is resolute: end poverty in all its forms everywhere...
Canada should close the foreign aid gap: Editorial
Toronto Star, April 18, 2016Online
Granted, “it’s good to see the aid envelope growing” at least nominally, says Canadian Council for International Co-operation president-CEO Julia Sánchez. But “for Canada to really be back as a leader on the global stage, we need to see a timetable of annual and predictable increases” with a focus on developing countries...
Biography
Julia Sanchez, who was appointed in August 2011 as the new President-CEO of CCIC, brings 18 years of experience in top level international development management, including 13 years working in developing countries. Until 2011, she served as Regional and National Campaigns Director for the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA/Tcktcktck.org) and previous to that worked for 14 years at the Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI), one of Canadas oldest and largest international development agencies. She has also worked as a consultant with Oxfam Great Britain, with USAID, and in partnership with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and a variety of other donor agencies such as IDB, ADB, and UNHCR. Throughout her career she has provided leadership to a wide variety of projects in 16 countries - including Bolivia, Guatemala, Nepal, India, Mali, and other countries in Asia and Latin America - in areas such as humanitarian assistance, reconstruction, governance, democratic development, community-based economic development and international volunteering. More recently Sanchez has been involved in climate change policy and campaign work, as well as policy and advocacy work on issues pertaining to international and Canadian civil society. She completed a double major in Political Science and Economics at McGill University (1985) and returned to McGill for an MA in Economics (1996) after doing several years of development work in Bolivia and Guatemala. Her specialization is in development and international economics. Sanchez currently serves on several boards and advisory groups including of Imagine Canada, CIVICUS, CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness, and Community of Democracies.
Recognition/Reconnaissance
CECI volunteer in Guatemala - project technical assistance | Professional
Julia Sanchez supported a local team to implement a repatriation and resettlement program for refugees that were returning to their country after being in Mexico for more than 15 years during an internal conflict. The program focused on social and economic needs of the repatriation process.