This evaluation examines the relevance of the Global Assistance for Irregular Migrants (GAIM) program and performance relative to the intended program outcomes since its launch at Citizenship and Immigration Canada in April 2013 as a component of Canada’s Migrant Smuggling Prevention Strategy. The evaluation also covered earlier program phases dating from January 2012 when first established by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) to respond to a large group of Sri Lankan migrants bound for Canada who were intercepted in Togo.

This report presents the results of the evaluation of Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s (CIC) Reviews and Interventions (R&I) Pilot Project. The evaluation provided information to assist with decision-making with respect to the future of the R&I Pilot and will feed into the horizontal evaluation of the reforms made to the in-Canada asylum system (ICAS).

This report presents the results of the evaluation of the International Student Program (ISP) and focuses on activities undertaken, outputs, and immediate outcomes achieved from 2009 to 2013, as well as the introduction of new regulatory changes in 2014. The findings were grouped into four themes: relevance, performance management, processing, and resource utilization.

As part of the Roadmap for Canada’s Official Languages (2013–2018), this research project was designed to contribute to the integration of immigrants in official-language minority communities (OLMCs). To do this, the research aims to model immigrant reception and integration strategies and practices implemented by NGOs and associations working in Anglophone and Francophone OLMCs in two cities: Edmonton, for Francophone communities, and Sherbrooke, for Anglophone communities.