Public Accounts committee  I don't know if I agree with the characterization that you're indicating, though. I'm not sure quite what you are referring to.

Public Accounts committee  Chair, maybe I could clarify. The Government of Canada and CIDA are major contributors to the Global Fund, as an example, and we do not put any caveats or earmarks on that funding, nor will the government do so in the future. We haven't done it and I don't think we will be doing

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I am. Just further to your comments, I think there was criticism of CIDA in the past. The Auditor General made the comment, but the OECD did a peer review in 2007 of CIDA and it said CIDA was spread too thin, as you indicated. Now we have a much greater degree of focus wit

Public Accounts committee  As you indicate, CIDA has three channels to deliver its assistance, all in aid of helping us achieve our mandate, which is poverty reduction. Our country programs are in individual countries, and there, as I said, we are aligned with the plans of those countries. On our multilate

Public Accounts committee  For this year, for 2010-11, as Budget 2010 indicated, there's a further increment, and after that the budget indicated that the international assistance levels would be capped for the time being, until we hear further direction from the budget in terms of the fiscal situation of

Public Accounts committee  I'm not sure exactly which fund you're referring to. I could get back to the committee, Chair, in terms of what the details of that are.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, that's true.

Public Accounts committee  On the thematic priorities, we did have consultations in Canada and we're talking to people in countries all the time. But we did have specific targeted consultations on the thematic priorities late last summer and into the fall. The three thematic priorities were developed as a

Public Accounts committee  I think I understand your question, sir. In our country programs, in our bilateral programs, we look first and foremost at what that country has identified as its priorities and where it is looking for assistance in allowing it to deliver on its objectives. This goes back to th

Public Accounts committee  Yes, we are.

Public Accounts committee  We have a program-based PBA policy now. It gives very clear direction to our agency as to when and how to use PBAs and when to stop them. I would give us a “good” because I think we have to make sure we follow through and it actually takes place--

Public Accounts committee  As I indicated, for all of the items the Auditor General identified, action has either been taken or it is on track. So I would say in terms of where we are right now, we're in very good shape. Further, I would say on program-based approaches the Auditor General noted that althou

Public Accounts committee  Thank you for the question. The performance targets, the results we're looking to achieve, are embedded inside what's called our CDPF, our country development programming frameworks. They are now done and completed. Each country's program—Tanzania, Mali, Vietnam—will have a clea

Public Accounts committee  Yes, to take the decision. The actual administration of those would be done by our officers in compliance with the FAA.

Public Accounts committee  The Auditor General's report didn't actually look at our evaluation and performance function. The Auditor General's report looked at the extent to which the agency had followed through on its aid effectiveness plan from early 2000 or 2002 and whether or not that had been followed