Foreign Affairs committee  It is chip technology.

Foreign Affairs committee  You know, the issue is that you need to start somewhere. The thing that has dominated my response for the World Food Programme is the most dignified response that I can give, particularly for the women and the sense of normality that the voucher gives them. It gives them the oppo

Foreign Affairs committee  Thus far, and I touch wood there, it has been very secure. I have no reason to be concerned at all.

Foreign Affairs committee  What I discussed with our colleagues yesterday was the kind of expertise that socio-economists and vulnerability and assessment mapping consultants can assist us with in assessments. This is something that we will be doing over the next four to six months. So these were just prel

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't have the map.

Foreign Affairs committee  The map that I have here, you'll see that we're looking at the shading of the maps. They're both in an amber colour, a sandy kind of colour. The one here that I have shows how many people we actually reached over the course of January. Then if you go in here, this will show you w

Foreign Affairs committee  Though only parts of it. So when you have a look at the red, that's a place called Hit, where we have not been able to get into but in other areas of the governorate we can reach them.

Foreign Affairs committee  As I said, it depends very much on the situation on any given day. It's not as if every day you can go to Amerli or those places. We give the implementing partner the liberty and the freedom to go when they feel it is safe.

Foreign Affairs committee  In the KRG areas and in the areas south of Baghdad, I'm confident. I know and I monitor that on a regular basis. As for the areas in the centre, the governorate is controlled by ISIL. I am confident that the implementing partner carries out the distributions as and when needed. I

Foreign Affairs committee  Not thus far. At the moment it's quite a small catchment area. It's quite easy for us to monitor it, and we don't see that. But we are, in the next couple of months, moving on to a credit card that we will be using for the voucher program. We're transitioning over to this, and th

Foreign Affairs committee  I think we are all in agreement that the biggest challenge we have is getting access to the people who need us the most. I've been very concerned about the situation of the people in the governorates controlled partially or fully by ISIL. This is a country that has two or three

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not sure it will be entirely self-sufficient. It is a very hot climate, as any of you who have been there in the summer know. They are large wheat and rice producers. I don't expect the rice production to be impacted, because that takes place in the southern governorates, b

Foreign Affairs committee  That was the result of an assessment mission that we sent through these three southern governorates. When we said that the structures were not in place, I think Emmanuel made it very clear earlier that most of the displaced people are not in camps. They're dispersed amongst fami

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. We work very closely with the Food and Agriculture Organization. We are both within the food security cluster. That is, we rely heavily on FAO, particularly for the agriculture. Iraq is mainly a cereal-growing area; it's wheat. Most of the wheat goes into

Foreign Affairs committee  I have not heard of that happening. That is probably something UNHCR could speak to better than I can for the World Food Programme. I have never heard of that, but I bow to Emmanuel on that one.