Thank you for that question.
As you said, we work with very experienced partners. Indeed, for humanitarian assistance in the midst of a crisis, the last thing you need is someone with the best of intentions but without the experience or capacity to respond, so our efforts are always targeted at trying to find the partners who have the experience and the capacity to respond in a given situation.
You mentioned a number of organizations, and I think all of them are indeed experienced partners. WFP is one of the more important partners for CIDA and is the largest humanitarian partner we have within CIDA. As I mentioned already, there is an allocation of $25 million for food aid. Because of their very significant logistical network, this organization has tremendous capacity in the field to respond to the needs of individuals, to get out into what we call the deep field, the places most organizations can't get to, with the food that's required to respond to the needs of these people.
That said, no organization can actually respond effectively when faced with the kind of conflict that's going on in southern Somalia. Access is very difficult, but since these organizations have the experience and are trusted within the local communities, they have some measure or capacity to try to increase that access to some extent.
You mentioned CFGB, another very strong partner that has another large network on the ground to respond to the very particular needs of this situation.
UNICEF and NGOs such as Oxfam and World Vision have been funded by us in the past or are receiving funding right now. For instance, I can mention that right now Oxfam and MSF are receiving money from us for ongoing programming in Ethiopia. In Somalia we have partnerships with Oxfam and World Vision to deliver a variety of activities, including water and sanitation support and medical services. These are the kinds of things that were required in advance of the crisis, which has been building over time, and they continue to be delivered to the population in need.
As for other partners, I think UNICEF is going to be critical going forward as we look at the particular needs of the population. Right now therapeutic feeding--actually getting to the acutely malnourished--is of critical importance. The children who have been affected by this crisis of course need support, and UNICEF is well placed to provide the kind of therapeutic feeding and the kind of emergency food response and medical intervention that will help them going foward.