What is TAP-EDM?

Canada’s Technical Assistance Partnership (TAP) Expert Deployment Mechanism (EDM), brings leaders from a diversity of sectors, backgrounds, gender, cultural identities and regions across Canada to share their expertise with partner countries around the world.

TAP is designed to support poverty reduction in countries around the world according to the Sustainable Development Goals.

The TAP project responds to needs identified by countries eligible for official development assistance, ranging from gender equality and vocational training to governance and natural resource management.

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What we do

Canadian diplomatic missions abroad working with national government entities in 32 eligible countries identify ways in which Canadian experts:

can help strengthen 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.

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