National Defence committee  Thank you, ambassador. To make sure everyone is on the same page, I want to point out that there are both migrant workers and refugees, two completely different groups. Most of those in neighbouring countries are in fact migrant workers. According to IOM, some 685,000 to 700,000

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. There are some Canadian NGOs noting their interest in becoming involved. At this time, we are not funding any of the Canadian NGOs for the humanitarian response, and that's because the approach we take is we will fund organizations that are already w

National Defence committee  Thank you very much. As noted by the ambassador, at the beginning of September the UN did re-establish its presence. They also stood up what they call a humanitarian country team, which assisted the UN in identifying humanitarian needs, and they did so through a 30-day action pl

Foreign Affairs committee  First, they are temporary houses, so they can be moved. The Canadian Red Cross committed to build 30,000, but they have not built 30,000 yet. They've built 1,400 to date.

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't know, but I can tell you that 3,130 have been built to date with CIDA's assistance. We have three key partners: the Canadian Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross, and World Vision. Within the humanitarian community, on the recovering and reconstruction s

Foreign Affairs committee  In order to address the lack of protection in the camps, CIDA provided funding to the United Nations Population Fund and UNICEF, since these two UN organizations address violence issues.

Foreign Affairs committee  I would just add a couple of things. Sorry, I was expecting about three questions from you. That's why we sort of paused. I'm used to getting many questions at once, not just one. We don't have immediately available the percentage of ODA that's committed to disaster risk reducti

Foreign Affairs committee  I would just follow up on that by saying it's not always about money. Oftentimes, it's about how you do your programming. When we started speaking about gender 15 or 20 years ago, we had to make sure that gender was mainstreamed or integrated within our development work. It's now

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am accompanied today by my colleagues, Lise Filiatrault, CIDA's Regional Director General for the Americas and Isabelle Bérard, Director General of the Haiti Program. Building on the presentation by my colleague, I will be highlighting the role of CIDA i