There are. Just in terms of Canada, we're working in 25 countries in Africa right now, through funding from the Government of Canada and the Government of Germany.
One of our top priorities when we go in to speak to the minister of foreign affairs, the minister of the interior responsible for the police, and in fact, the head of the police forces, is to talk to them about increasing their participation in peacekeeping. In particular, we encourage the participation of women in peacekeeping. In several of these countries we went to in Africa, it's a big issue. It's a big problem, because they don't even have women in their organizations. So how can they deploy them on peacekeeping operations?
We have been successful, in several cases, in having police institutions change their regulations and start hiring women for the first time in over 100 years. So that's a step in the right direction. We continue to pursue that and to work with countries to try to encourage that and to in fact increase their participation.
There are some tremendous examples out there of countries that are contributing close to 30% of women. I think of Nigeria. I think of Ghana. They come to mind. These are significant contributors. South Africa is another one. But I'll tell you that for the most part, the numbers are very, very poor. They are the exceptions. There are not very many that in fact are contributing over 20%.