CIDA receives hundreds, if not a couple of thousand, applications every year. Many of them are very good projects. Many of them work in different areas and actually have to be weighed. We have to then make a judgment with the resources we have to support projects that will maximize the impact and also to ensure that we are distributing our funds where the money is needed; we have projects in many countries. In many of the countries listed we have other projects. So there are many factors that are considered at the same time.
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