Foreign Affairs committee  Maybe I can start to give an answer, and my colleague can complement the answer. Obviously you've heard about the disaster response, but as you rightly pointed out, we also work on the sustainability and building the capacity of countries to be able to respond to those disasters

Foreign Affairs committee  The one thing I would say is that there are many components to preparing for or preventing disasters. Some are related, for example, to better watershed management or natural resources management, and others are related to building the capacity of institutions that are directly r

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Mr. Chairman, I am accompanied by Leslie Norton, director general of international humanitarian assistance, as well as Isabelle Bérard, director general for the Haiti program in CIDA.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am pleased to have this opportunity to update the committee on the work of the Canadian International Development Agency, CIDA, in Haiti Haiti is one of CIDA's countries of focus and, in each of the past two years, has been the largest recipient of the w

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. If I may add to that, prior to the earthquake, as you pointed out, we were making progress in Haiti. Both foreign aid and investment had reaped some gains, and we were witnessing an economic growth of, on average, 2.3% per year during the period 200

Foreign Affairs committee  The different—

Foreign Affairs committee  Different projects have different requirements, obviously. Depending on the nature of what needs to be done, and the set of rules around them, some projects can start faster; others are not as fast. Obviously, when it relates to humanitarian needs, we have mechanisms to respond

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Leslie Norton, our DG for humanitarian assistance, can address this question.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Good afternoon. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will start in French and then go to English in the middle of this statement. I am pleased to appear before you today, following the testimony of Mr. Neil Reeder and Mr. Jeffrey Marder of the DFAIT at the February 7 subcommittee meeting.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  As I said, as the youth population is so important, it's important to keep up with offering them appropriate services. Education is one, and we've talked about that. Obviously those youth will also have to have economic opportunities in order to contribute to society, and that'

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I mentioned a number of various initiatives that we implement under different programs, under different parts of the agency. Depending on the initiative, the length of the start and end date is different. You referred, in particular, to the justice initiative, the Justice Educati

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The G-16 is one of the vehicles through which.... The G-16 operates both at the ambassador level and at the more technical, donor level. As you can imagine, there are an array of issues and challenges that we can discuss, so that's one of the mechanisms used to allow the actors o

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In the course of the implementation of our activities, we are of course in constant contact with the partners who are implementing the initiatives on the ground. We exchange information with them to make sure the security situation does not impede our activities. It's more fro

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Of course, I can only comment from the CIDA perspective, and I'll address the last part. I mentioned already that our thematic priorities in Honduras are health and education—which is in support of children and youth—and food security. At the same time, we have different mechani

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In Honduras?