 The aid agencies of the large donor states were also set up at this time.Canada created an "External Aid Office" in 1960, which in 1968 became the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).France was the first country to establish a Ministry for Co-operation to be responsible for assistance to independent, mainly African, developing countries in 1961, the predecessor to the French Development Agency, Agence Française de Développement (AFD).