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Foreign Affairs committee  I'd be happy to respond to that, Mr. Chair. What I would say is that the targets that are included in the policy are about allocation, so it's allocating the resources to certain types of programming—as you note, the gender-targeted and the gender-integrated. I have to say that I'm not aware of the 5% for infrastructure, so there may be just some confusion there.

May 2nd, 2023Committee meeting

Andrew Smith

Foreign Affairs committee  I would say that there are countries in which we can achieve better results in shorter periods. There are countries where the results we achieve are focused more on crisis response and humanitarian assistance. So, the answer to the question of whether we are achieving results really does depend on the nature of the investments we're making.

May 2nd, 2023Committee meeting

Andrew Smith

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd say that we will have to get back to you in with an update on, I believe it's, the Africa economic strategy. Certainly from the context of international development, sub-Saharan Africa is a priority of the government, with the feminist international assistance policy priority given to our programming in sub-Saharan Africa.

May 2nd, 2023Committee meeting

Andrew Smith

Foreign Affairs committee  We can certainly come back to you with an update on where that strategy is.

May 2nd, 2023Committee meeting

Andrew Smith