Thank you.
The key element in all of this is that there's general consensus that the Libyans have to lead the process; they have to tell us what it is they need.
They told the international community and the UN mission that they wouldn't do that until victory had been declared. So although the UN mission has been in Tripoli for some time now, they were not able to start the assessment of needs process, because victory had not been declared. Now it has been declared, so the process has started. The way it's organized is that, mostly under the United Nations, a series of assessments is going to be done, in close consultation with the Libyans again.
The UN is leading. I'll give you just some examples. There will be an assessment of social services needs related to health and education; a civil society assessment will be done by the European Union; infrastructure repairs will be done by the World Bank. Such issues as border control will be assessed as well. For disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration, the UN has the lead. And there are public security and the rule of law, electoral and constitutional processes, and so forth. There is a series of ten different areas in which the needs will be assessed.
As I said earlier, there's also a desire to move quickly. These assessments will take some time, frankly. We were hoping they would start earlier, but they are just starting, so I think it will take probably a couple of months to get the results of the assessments.
In the meantime, we are looking at what can be done in coordination with the UN in the short term. Our stabilization and reconstruction task force, my bureau, to start has sent an officer, who has been in Tripoli with our ambassador for the past three weeks speaking to the UN, speaking to the Libyans, speaking to our partners on the ground, to see what it is we could do in the coming weeks and months to get things done.
We have a number of ideas. When Minister Baird was in Tripoli, he met, as you may know, with a group of women activists. The role of women is certainly something we would like to support in the upcoming electoral process.
So we are looking at what we can do. We are speaking to some Canadian NGOs who have an interest. We are hoping.... We have funds available in our global fund for peace and security.