Foreign Affairs committee  The first point is that our resource pool, or roster, as we call it, is slowly increasing. Naturally, there is some level of attrition. We keep increasing, but with the attrition, there's a more gradual increase in the numbers. We're careful of taking too many people onto our ros

Foreign Affairs committee  There are so many development organizations working in Haiti. So that's a good question. I know that in most countries there is some level of donor coordination. All the donors from all countries have periodic meetings to exchange information about work they are doing so they ca

Foreign Affairs committee  In international development, that is the age-old problem or question: the whole idea of all the different countries and agencies working in one country and duplicating each other and competing for aid projects. At the global level, there is the development association, the DAC,

Foreign Affairs committee  In Haiti we have a four-year project that's funded by CIDA, and the organizations are CECI, WUSC, and the Paul Gérin-Lajoie foundation. We work with partners in four areas, four cities in Haiti. Again, there are various aspects. There is an educational aspect, which CECI and th

Foreign Affairs committee  As far as I know from the Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie, they're helping with training teachers.

Foreign Affairs committee  Oh, yes, I do see a role. I have done a bit of reading and I've seen some of the presentations made by the Mongolian officials. The important thing I see is that the Mongolian government is very proactive in promoting the rule of law and effective government and introducing good

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. I was actually very interested when I read that statement by Mrs. Barrados, because I think there are synergies that can be built among Canadian organizations, where we can work together with our different strengths and support each other to come up with a greater whole. Wit

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, first off, I would like to say CESO is interested in starting a dialogue with whoever is interested in working together in a consortium to assist Mongolia. As I said, we have the experience, in that we are doing it now in Haiti with four organizations together. For example,

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. As Phil said before, we look first of all at our history, our strengths, and areas where we can provide a service. We also look at the CIDA countries of focus, because they are based on the overall strategic Canadian foreign policy. We are guided very much by what CIDA promo

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  Usually the shortest is two weeks and the maximum would be two months.

Foreign Affairs committee  Oh, yes. That is where we have a lead VA, but that lead VA first does a needs assessment and comes back to Canada, and then manages the program from Canada. They go back periodically to the country to follow up. During that period, we send different volunteers to implement differ

Foreign Affairs committee  On expenses that are covered, we cover the airfare, medicals, the insurance, and visa costs. I talked about shared accountability and shared responsibility. We usually require the local partner, whether it's a municipality or government agency, to provide for local costs for that

Foreign Affairs committee  This is how we like to work, because we feel that the local partners should invest, should put up some kind of their own financial investment, because that way I think they will ensure that whatever recommendations come out of that project.... They want to see success. They want

Foreign Affairs committee  That's right. Over a two-year program, let's say, we can have the lead VA and then about six or seven different volunteers going to do specialized aspects of that program. But he oversees that they mesh together and they build upon each other and don't duplicate.