You have to get on the ground to find out what people need. Whether it's CIDA or other donor agencies, they've decentralized the planning and the decision making, so even if you want to work somewhere, you can go and talk to somebody and get to know them, but you really have to get on the ground and find out what's there.
Right now we're not in Mongolia, but there was a specific interest in our professional training courses, so we went and looked. When we got there, we actually found funding from a German donor agency for the participation of some of the students in our professional training programs. So it's not predetermined where you're going to find the money; you basically have to invest in some areas of interest and see what you get.
In terms of building relations more broadly between Canada and Mongolia or other places, most of our experts are former diplomats and senior practitioners. Much like politicians or any other professionals, if you get them all in a room, no matter where they're from, they have a lot of things in common. I've been to a lot of the same meetings and so on, so you quickly develop a rapport. From that, you start looking at areas of particular interest.
There's a final point. Mongolia would be interested in experts from somewhere like Canada because the same kinds of questions arise. How do you deal with the larger economic powers that surround them physically? How do you develop a strategy to deal with that? So that's where we came in.