In terms of the local communities, in my initial trip, I had a meeting with all of the leaders from the five or six villages. Their traditional leader came, and we had a very long and interesting conversation. They talked a lot about the positives, the fact that members of their villages have employment and how that's a very positive thing for them. They spoke a bit—these were male traditional leaders—about the changing roles of women who are now employed in the wage workforce at Bisha.
They talked about, as I mentioned before, their expectation for ongoing dialogue. I think this gets to your point that these people would represent some sort of local governance. They want to feel that they're in dialogue. They said they felt that to date there has been an open and back and forth dialogue that has been able to address issues informally. They want to ensure that proceeds. There were certain requests—I reflected a few of them in my report—around literacy, training for adults, older members of the community being able to take advantage of job opportunities, and so on. That's the traditional leadership at the village level.
There was also something that I noted in the most recent report from the Government of Eritrea to the UN Human Rights Council. They listed some recent reforms that are going to decentralize decision-making on some regional development activities to what's called the zoba level. That would be kind of a—I don't know if province is the right analogy—subdivision level. I recommended to Nevsun to continue its dialogue with the government and the sub-regional level about implementation of what they call the community assistance program. Then through a process of dialogue with these people, they could target programs that may provide further benefits to the communities.