I was referring to the lack of evaluation of CIDA's democratic development programs. I looked at the democratic development programs in the 90s: from 1992 to 2002. I got in touch with senior officials at CIDA and asked if there were public evaluations of all these programs. The answer was no.
CIDA is not the only agency that does not evaluate its programs. I looked into it and found that the same is true in Denmark, Sweden and Japan. Nevertheless, this is a problem. How can we determine whether the programs should be continued or changed if we have no evaluations of them? USAID has a number of them, but as I said, there are weaknesses in their program evaluation methods. However, in my opinion, the situation is quite a bit better there than at CIDA, where there are no such programs.