Thank you.
We can't just spend it willy-nilly. My career has always been in NGOs and I remember 15 or 20 years ago people saying that we needed focus in our international development and in what CIDA was doing, and I do believe that with the focus that has come to DFATD starting with Muskoka, now we're starting to see that it's mutually reinforcing. The focus has been helping what we've been doing and that's been very important in making things better.
As for some of the work on accountability, it is difficult for all of us involved in international development to admit when we fail because you're afraid you're going to lose your support, or your donors, because for us at UNICEF almost 50% of our money comes not from governments but from individuals and businesses. So admitting you failed is a difficult thing to do, but that's when much of the learning happens, and so then we would be investing more.... We see too often the money getting invested in things when it needs to be invested in the people and the capacity-building.
That kind of focus, be it for education or for health, is a vital focus that we need to have and we need to have the accountability as well.