Development Finance & Policy Policy Brief & Highlights Channels for Delivering Canadian ODA: How Is Canadian Aid Delivered? – Highlights of the 2025 Canadian Aid Trends Report Explore how Canadian ODA is delivered through multilateral organizations, civil society, partner-country governments and the private sector. / Resource Centre / Channels for Delivering Canadian ODA: How Is Canadian Aid Delivered? – Highlights of the 2025 Canadian Aid Trends Report How is Canadian international assistance delivered, and through which organizations? Drawing on disaggregated data, this analysis examines the main channels through which Canada’s official development assistance (ODA) reaches its intended beneficiaries, including multilateral organizations, civil society organizations (CSOs), partner-country governments and the private sector. It highlights the dominant role of multilateral organizations, the important contribution of CSOs to poverty-focused assistance, and the relatively limited funding channelled directly through partner-country governments and local CSOs. The analysis also explores how funding modalities shape the distribution of Canadian assistance among CSOs.