Yes, thank you. I'm going back to my former work with the Canadian Public Health Association. It was a CIDA-funded program that also received funding from the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization. This was the strengthening of public health associations program in which we helped nurture the creation and organizational capacity development of non-governmental public health associations.
Over the 25 years that we received funding for that program, we helped create 32 public health associations around the world. Some of these are now leading public health associations in their own right. For example, the Ethiopian Public Health Association, which was founded in the late 1980s, has done an incredible job of advocacy on different health issues with its own government, and actually convinced the Government of Ethiopia in the early 1990s to create a women's directorate within the Ministry of Health. It was the first time that had ever happened.
When they achieve things like that, I think it's a feather in their cap that we have to applaud. It takes time. In Ethiopia, the public health association is now one of the leading organizations in that country and has sought to partner with UNICEF and other organizations. When we have this happen, this is the type of thing we want. We want to build that local capacity. It's not CPHA or CSIH being there; it's their being there, but we're giving them the support to help make it happen.