Funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC), the Technical Assistance Partnership (TAP) project invites Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents to apply for specific technical assistance roles. In 2019, GAC announced TAP as part of its Expert Deployment Mechanisms approach. Alinea International is pleased to be working with GAC as its implementing partner for this initiative.
TAP highlights the commitments in the Feminist International Assistance Policy to adopt more flexible approaches to deliver Canada’s technical assistance. Two of Alinea’s key strengths are its flexibility and responsiveness. Through multiple aspects of this project, Alinea will work with GAC to enhance Canada’s leadership role in the world.
Through TAP, leaders from a diversity of sectors, backgrounds, gender, cultural identities and regions across Canada will share their expertise with partner countries around the world. Working with Canadian diplomatic missions abroad, national governments have already identified ways in which Canadian experts can help strengthen their national policies and programs, increase institutional performance, public service accountability and capacity, and develop new and more inclusive and sustainable ways of doing the business of good governance. Alinea is now recruiting for TAP placements in multiple areas aligned with the six action areas of the Feminist International Assistance Policy , such as sexual and gender-based violence, cooperative development, natural resources management, gender equality mainstreaming, and inclusive governance.
Over the next four years, Canadian experts will work with national entities in countries eligible for Canada’s official development assistance in Asia, Africa, Eastern and Central Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Alinea’s project team of development professionals will support the TAP experts with logistics, training, and work planning.
A key component of TAP is increasing the awareness and engagement of Canadians as partners and global citizens in support of Canada’s international assistance efforts. TAP experts will share their placement experiences with Canadians through extensive public engagement opportunities, including conference appearances, speaking opportunities, and media appearances.
Interested technical experts who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents can view current opportunities on the Alinea website, as well as submit their CVs to become part of the TAP project roster of technical experts. Through their work, they will ensure sustainable development results with GAC and our national government partners abroad. The TAP project team is especially interested in recruiting experts from a diversity of ethnicities, race, geography, sexual orientation, gender expression and those who are differently abled.
Le nouveau projet canadien de Partenariat d’assistance technique commence à recruter des experts canadiens pour réduire la pauvreté dans le monde
Financé par Affaires mondiales Canada (AMC), le projet de Partenariat d’assistance technique (PAT) invite les citoyens canadiens et les résidents permanents à postuler pour des rôles d’assistance technique internationale. En 2019, AMC a annoncé que le PAT était une nouvelle composante de ses mécanismes de déploiement d’experts. Alinea International est heureux de travailler avec AMC en tant que partenaire de mise en œuvre dans le cadre de cette initiative.
Le PAT met en évidence les engagements pris dans la Politique d’aide internationale féministe du Canada quant à l’adoption d’approches plus flexibles pour offrir l’assistance technique canadienne à l’international. Deux des principaux atouts d’Alinea sont sa flexibilité et sa réactivité. À travers les multiples aspects de ce projet, Alinea travaillera avec AMC pour renforcer le rôle de leader du Canada dans le monde.
Grâce au PAT, des leaders issus d’une diversité de secteurs, de milieux, de sexes, de genres, d’identités culturelles et de régions du Canada partageront leur expertise avec des pays partenaires du monde entier. En collaboration avec les missions diplomatiques canadiennes à l’étranger, les gouvernements nationaux ont déjà identifié les moyens par lesquels les experts canadiens pourront contribuer au renforcement de leurs politiques et programmes nationaux, à l’amélioration de la performance institutionnelle, de la redevabilité et de la capacité de la fonction publique et au développement de nouvelles approches plus inclusives et durables en matière de bonne gouvernance. Alinea recrute actuellement pour des affectations dans de multiples domaines alignés sur les six champs d’action de la Politique d’aide internationale féministe, tels que la prévention de la violence sexuelle et sexiste, le développement coopératif, la gestion des ressources naturelles, l’intégration de l’égalité des sexes et la gouvernance inclusive.
Au cours des quatre prochaines années, des experts canadiens travailleront avec des entités gouvernementales nationales dans des pays admissibles à l’aide publique au développement en Asie, en Afrique, en Europe centrale et orientale, en Amérique latine et dans les Caraïbes. L’équipe de projet d’Alinea, composée de professionnels du développement, accompagnera les experts du PAT en matière de logistique, de formation et de planification de leur travail d’assistance.
Un élément clé du PAT est de promouvoir et de favoriser l’engagement des Canadiens en tant que partenaires et citoyens du monde pour soutenir les efforts d’aide internationale du Canada. Les experts TAP partageront leurs expériences en affectation avec les Canadiens par le biais d’activités d’engagement public, y compris des conférences, des allocutions et des apparitions dans les médias.
Les experts techniques intéressés détenant la citoyenneté canadienne ou la résidente permanente peuvent consulter les opportunités actuelles sur le site web d’Alinea, et soumettre leur CV pour être considérés en tant qu’experts techniques du projet PAT. Grâce à leur travail, ils assureront des résultats de développement durable avec AMC et nos partenaires gouvernementaux nationaux à l’étranger. L’équipe du projet PAT souhaite recruter des experts qui représenteront une grande diversité au niveau ethnique, géographique, sexuelle, d’expression de genre, ainsi que des personnes vivant avec un handicap.
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