CIDA's mandate is to reduce poverty in order to promote sustainable development. Through our feld projects— in Bolivia and Peru, it's mostly in the mining and oil and gas sectors —, we work directly with the governments of the host governments, for example with the ministry of energy and mines in Peru and Bolivia, to increase the ability of those governments to ensure that companies from Canada and elsewhere that are working in their country act take responsibility.
We strengthen their ability to put in place, for example, transparent legislative and regulatory frameworks in order to establish mechanisms for dialogue between governments, companies and communites and to create tax systems that make it possible to collect revenue from those companies for social programs. That is our mandate.