Thank you, gentlemen, for being here. I want to add my thoughts to the chair's comments about the contribution that certainly you two have made, and that I'm sure Scott will make, in this absolutely essential organization, and the good work that you do around the world.
I want to continue my colleague's line of questioning and focus on the human rights. I know that you have four strategic paths in the 2017-22 plan, and one of them is human rights and gender equality.
I'm looking at some of the larger recipients, countries such as Burundi, DRC, South Sudan, all three of which we've either studied or are going to be studying in our human rights subcommittee, and we know the challenges. We know the human rights challenges that are faced on the ground in those countries. We know the precariousness for civil society and human rights defenders operating in those environments.
It is such a tall order, where there is instability, to do what you do. How do you deal, in particular in countries such as Burundi, DRC, and South Sudan, with moving the plan forward and finding partners that can lend some protection and allow the work to be done?
Could you speak to that?