Development Finance & Policy Policy Brief & Highlights What Issues Are Driving the Changing Priorities in Canadian ODA? – Highlights of the 2025 Canadian Aid Trends Report Explore key trends in Canadian ODA, including shifting priorities, refugee costs, Ukraine, climate finance, humanitarian assistance and poverty reduction. / Resource Centre / What Issues Are Driving the Changing Priorities in Canadian ODA? – Highlights of the 2025 Canadian Aid Trends Report Canada’s official development assistance (ODA) is being reshaped by competing priorities. Looking beyond fluctuations in overall ODA levels, this analysis draws on disaggregated data to examine how growing allocations to in-Canada refugee costs, support for Ukraine and climate finance are changing where Canadian aid goes and what it supports. It explores the implications of these shifts for resources available for long-term development, humanitarian assistance and poverty reduction.