In terms of funding for groups and evaluation of results, the most recent program evaluation took place two years ago. It dealt with the 2006 to 2010 period.
At that time, the department had a slightly different approach in terms of calls for proposals. At the time, we would tend to wait until we were presented with the material. That caused enormous problems when we attempted to identify trends and measure results. As you pointed out, the evaluation clearly shows that. There are signs of success in terms of the assistance we are providing to create partnerships. The scope of the program is good and there is great demand for it. However, there are certainly shortcomings.
Our work over the past three years will better support the next program evaluation in 2017. We have changed our approach and we now do targeted tendering twice a year. This will provide us with a sampling of similar projects throughout the country, using the same recipe or different recipes, but with the same theme. That will allow us to identify the truly successful recipes, what is working and what is giving better outcomes. We hope that our current approach will provide us with more rigorous quantitative results. In terms of qualitative results, all is proceeding relatively well.