Thank you.
Let me start. I'm just conscious of crowding my partner here.
There are some things we know we can do that are just fundamental to sound public administration. It's helping them have a budget process, making that budget process transparent, helping Parliament deal with the budget process, having a procurement system that is fair, having a procurement system that is overseen, and having a procurement system that can meet an international standard. There are direct things that deal with how you can build capacity at an individual level.
We see some interesting progress happening. Some ministries—Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education—have done very well and are starting to meet really strong standards here of accountability and transparency. But it requires a continuous focus of Afghan leadership, and also continuous support from the international community and Canada in building the technical, managerial, and leadership capacity to be able to keep this push forward.
So, one, we need to focus on fundamentals both at the national level and in Kandahar, the sub-national level. Two, as I mentioned, we have to be very careful in being able to select the areas, the programs, and the ministries and institutions where you can make progress and you can demonstrate that results can happen, and then you can show those results. It tends to have a snowball effect on how you build it. So being able to be clear about building capacity, being able to be clear about demonstrating results, being able to be clear about focusing on those things that really matter to make further progress--I think those are the basic elements of what we need to focus on regarding corruption accountability as we go forward. We can see noteworthy progress being made in some areas, but we also know that it is a long-term effort and that we're going to need to stick with it for quite some time.