It's a good question.
First, it's not, in our organizational view, the be-all and end-all. The work we continue to operate is in fact not an illustration of this model. We are not engaging in this model, because we are, quite frankly, a different kind of organization, and this is something in which the primary actors involved, at least at the first point, are governments.
That being said, our interest in the cash-on-delivery idea has to do with how that fits into a larger conversation about innovation in development aid. This is an example we believe merits further examination, and if it is done it will illustrate that the Government of Canada is investing in and putting its support behind innovative delivery mechanisms for aid.
So an important way to think about this is not that we start diverting significant proportions of our aid financing to cash-on-delivery aid, but instead to say there is a need for risk-taking in foreign aid if we're going to see transformative effects. So let us try this idea, because there is substantial support behind it. There's been a huge amount of discourse on this for the last couple of years and a number of people of great prominence in the international community, to name a few, have supported it. I'm actually forgetting her name, but there is the finance minister from Nigeria, who recently ran for the presidency of the World Bank. She is a big supporter of this idea, as is former Secretary-General Kofi Annan. As well, some of the top brass at USAID have in fact been looking at this as well, as have some other governments around the world.
It's not to say it is the be-all and end-all; it's just to say there is a pilot being done right now, and Canada has an opportunity to get in on this early-stage idea in order to build the evidence base that could then be used to really have an effective new model of aid delivery.