Giving Compass' Take:
• More than 1 billion people live in extreme poverty around the world. Foreign aid from countries like Canada works to lift them out of poverty through education, health services, and more.
• How can other countries follow suit and give back to help our global poverty crisis? What can high net worth donors do to aid the poor?

Canada is trying out a new approach to delivering foreign aid — by providing cash to people most in need in developing countries, according to information obtained by CBC.

CBC spoke with two anonymous senior officials with Global Affairs Canada who confirmed the government has been providing cash directly to people in over 35 countries.

“Direct cash transfers have become a key element of humanitarian response and development in the last two to three years," one senior aid official told CBC. "It is much more efficient to deliver assistance this way. There is no middleman to decide what the needs are. In humanitarian projects, it is being considered the default approach now."

Read the full article about Canada's direct cash transfer by Jackie Marchildon at Global Citizen.