Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. Normally there is an in-kind contribution. The organization puts it in and we usually cost-match it up to a one to three ratio.

Foreign Affairs committee  No, it wasn't, sir.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, I think as the minister said, the agency did recommend the project to the minister. She has indicated that. But it was her decision, after due consideration, to not accept the department's advice. This is quite normal, and I certainly was aware of her decision. The inclusi

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. The document that was quoted in the newspaper is actually referring to an appendix in a document that was released under access to information. It was not advice that we provided to the minister. It was quoting--

Status of Women committee  Yes, that's correct. It was a background brief. It contained factual information. It included an appendix that you're referring to there. That refers to the global consensus on maternal and child health.

Status of Women committee  That was an appendix that was a piece of background information; it was not written by CIDA officials. I can show you; it was included as a piece of background information. Those are the words of the global consensus on maternal and child health.

Status of Women committee  It's not my role to advise the committee on the advice that we give to ministers. I can confirm that the information is widely available and that, as the minister made very clear, background information is always supplied to the government and to ministers, and the government mak

Public Accounts committee  Whether or not the responsibilities are at headquarters or decentralized in the field, it is the same issue. It is a hypothetical question. I don't believe it's a question we've ever faced. These issues are usually aligned in the context of a health system, not on specific aspect

Public Accounts committee  I'm going to ask my colleague, David Moloney, to speak to this. He's leading our work on decentralization and business modernization.

Public Accounts committee  Sustainable has two meanings. First, it's sustainable in the sense that it's going to be self-sustaining in terms of being private sector led and inclusive in terms of making sure that the economy isn't just being fuelled by assistance dollars but that it is going to be self-gene

Public Accounts committee  Chair, thank you very much for the opportunity to come back and take you through our action plan and the steps that we've been able to accomplish since we met in December. In December, I believe I tabled with you an interim report card, if you will, from the OECD on the steps tha

Public Accounts committee  I do believe that to be effective, and as the Auditor General's report indicates, development is a long-term process. It's not something you can stop and start. It doesn't happen in a couple of days or weeks or even a couple of years. So you do need to stay with it and you do nee

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I would agree with you, sir. In our country programs we would look to do programming that aligns very specifically with the objectives and the targets, results that we've identified in a country to achieve, and then we would pick the very best means we can to achieve those

Public Accounts committee  In our country programs we have identified children and youth as a thematic area of focus in a number of our 20 countries of focus, and within that, maternal and child health specifically are areas of focus. We would primarily be focusing on building the country systems required

Public Accounts committee  I don't have that information.