Does CIDA provide matching grants?
Up until the late 1980’s PWRDF applied to CIDA on a project-by-project basis and we received matching funds on this basis. In the early 1990’s, CIDA acknowledged PWRDF’s managerial and administrative competence and allowed PWRDF to move to program and institutional funding. Currently we apply for an annual program grant that PWRDF then allocates within our own program, as we deem appropriate. We may not apply CIDA dollars in a ratio that is greater than three to one to our ‘donor’ dollar, so the stability in our donor base remains essential to the security of our government funding.
