Foreign Affairs committee  You know, it's crucial to get local communities involved. I don't know if you want to add something to this as well, Doug, but just taking the zinc example, just like here, when children present with diarrheal disease, one of the things is that moms don't always bring them to t

Foreign Affairs committee  It will have a huge impact on our projects if future support from CIDA was somehow compromised. This is due to the sustainability of the work, as my colleague was saying. The goal is to do good programming and then pass it along so you can leave and go somewhere else. One of th

Foreign Affairs committee  I just wanted to say it's about results. It's about ensuring that we're having an impact and making sure that we do in monitoring those. There's a multiplicity of ways to get to that last mile, that woman with those four kids. That's what really matters. So if the best way is thr

Foreign Affairs committee  You know, the price of commodities is so small when you're talking about micronutrients, for example, that really the bulk of the investment is in delivery through health systems and other things, which we do need to be building up. By the way, it's literally two capsules a year-

Foreign Affairs committee  You've hit on something incredibly important, particularly in the area of nutrition, because we know the only way we are going to make progress is for governments themselves to prioritize this and for it not to be siloed. Nutrition has been forgotten and underfunded, in part beca

Foreign Affairs committee  I think so. The best solution to nutritional deficits is a really balanced and healthy multiplicity of foods to eat.

Foreign Affairs committee  Well....

Foreign Affairs committee  Only that with the Micronutrient Initiative, our funding comes from the multilateral branch, so we don't have the same sort of RFP process to go through. I therefore can't comment. We don't have any funding through the partnership branch.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. I'm nervous too. Chair and members of the standing committee, thanks for this opportunity to present some thoughts on this study on behalf of the Micronutrient Initiative. Before I get into some of the meat of the study, I want to say a few words about MI. As a mom,