Our organization has been receiving funding from CIDA since 1987, when it was called the Fonds délégués AQOCI-Haïti. At the time, CIDA funding represented $700,000 a year. The cost-sharing ratio was 9 to 1. That was the period following the fall of Duvalier. The situation was considered catastrophic enough to justify support for Canada-Haiti agencies wishing to help Haiti.
As regards the contribution we're currently receiving from CIDA, we have a three-year agreement, which has been extended. That organization pays us $300,000 a year, and our matching ratio is 3 to 1. In 1987, when an organization like that of Mr. Barthélus wanted to carry out a project and provided $10,000 for that purpose, it received a matching amount that could help it carry out a $100,000 project. Today, that same $10,000 contribution could help carry out a $40,000 project. So conditions have been tightened.
As a result, Canada-Haiti organizations are less able to intervene. However, they do their best with what they have.