Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  Of course there is also the accountability on the Ukrainian side, given the government's commitment to these kinds of partnerships. Typically, in most jurisdictions you would have a government department or minister responsible for coordinating these kinds of input. In the Ukrain

Foreign Affairs committee  Given that this particular project is focused on civil service reform, we collaborate with other donors. So we have the Danish government working there and the Irish government, the European Union, and Canada, all covering aspects of and collaborating around civil service reform.

Foreign Affairs committee  In those particular cases working with the others, say the Danish government or the Irish government, it tends to be public servants who come, but not NGOs explicitly.

Foreign Affairs committee  Correct.

Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly we could provide some of the international assessments that have been done. We would be more than happy to do so.

Foreign Affairs committee  I think I'll defer to you, Kristina.

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely. Here I think there are both unique and common elements. If one were to do a comparative analysis of different governments' and different donors' approaches to providing this kind of input and partnership, I think one could categorize them into two groups, one being t

Foreign Affairs committee  To answer your question, we have been active on different continents in different countries, depending on a particular mandate. As Ms. Wittfooth has mentioned, some of it has been driven by technical assistance initiatives, funded by CIDA. Public sector reform is an example. We h

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, there we've maintained relationships. We've also had projects in Africa: Mali, Senegal, and so on.

Foreign Affairs committee  The projects in Africa have recently been completed, so there's nothing we're presently implementing in Africa. But we're also quite active in terms of partnerships in the Middle East through various aspects of our organization. We're not presently involved in Haiti, but we cert

Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. I'll speak from a very practical standpoint in terms of our current project. When we have individual experts or institutional experts such as experts from the Public Service Commission what we as an organization and as a project implementer do is basically prepare an exten

Foreign Affairs committee  That's exactly it, connecting.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. The draft law itself has been a work in progress for the last four to five years. It has been approved by four separate cabinets and been submitted to Parliament three times. Given those 16 changes in government that we mentioned in our initial prese

Foreign Affairs committee  Both for future and existing civil servants.