Evaluation of the Client Service Fund and the Integrative Trade Strategy Fund https://www.international.gc.ca/gac-amc/publications/evaluation/2018/csf-fsc.aspx?lang=eng
This report provides findings and recommendations from the 2016-2017 evaluation of the Client Service Fund (CSF) and the Integrative Trade Strategy Fund (ITSF). The Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) relies on the CSF and ITSF to fund strategic initiatives, projects and services that help Canadian businesses to participate and expand into global markets. As a proportion of total trade budgets, the CSF and ITSF represent an increasingly important source of funding to Commercial-Economic sections due to a decline in funding from Other Government Departments and partners.
of CSF and ITSF-funded initiatives at 8 missions (see Finding 4), the ability to link