One of the main issues is really the funding. The $8 billion that I've indicated, as the chairman has mentioned, is based on data that are collected on a daily basis by all our staff in 130 countries. Therefore, it's an objective assessment and a prioritization of the needs of the refugees in terms of their access to health, to education, to decent shelter, to livelihood opportunities, access to cash and safe shelter for SGBV survivors and so on and so forth. As long as we do not have the entire amount of money that we need to address their needs, those people will remain at risk of being forced to continue moving. The first solution is definitely through the funding.
Canada is one of our top 10 donors. We have received, as we speak, something like $73 million American. I am always speaking in American dollars; sorry about that. We have received approximately $73 million American, but we need more money.
What we need also to do is to engage other actors. We need to engage the World Bank and the regional development banks in providing loans or different financing mechanisms for the host country to be able to develop the infrastructure that is necessary for those refugees and the host communities, which are often the poorest within those countries, to cope with the added demographic pressure on the water system, electricity, school, and so on and so forth.
We need also to engage the private sector. I think there is a lot of potential with Canadian private businesses; a number of them have businesses abroad. We need to engage them beyond just corporate social responsibility in a philanthropic manner of viewing the refugees as economic agents who can be recruited and therefore become economically self-reliant and not need to depend anymore on the UN and the NGOs to get food and water. I think we need to engage the private sector in Canada to also invest in refugees abroad.
We should also look at finding opportunities for some of those enterprises who have a deficit in certain skills to see whether they could, through the economic pathways to Canada, get some of the refugees to Canada.