Afghanistan committee  I can speak to the humanitarian development side of things, which was a program of about roughly $220 million this year--$633 million over the last three years--and it is estimated to be roughly $100 million in the years coming. On the programming that we've funded in the last year, about half was to Kandahar province.

Afghanistan committee  The national solidarity program is actually a program delivered by the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, to which Canada contributed. A lot of it went into education, and that may be one of the tools as we move forward with education. It's a multi-donor project.

Afghanistan committee  The NSP? Well, we'll have to work that through. We're still in the planning stages. But part of what the NSP provided was local projects around education, so we wouldn't rule that in or out at this point.

Afghanistan committee  Just on the Dahla Dam, 80% of the people of Kandahar live along the Dahla Dam and the irrigation waterways the Dahla Dam feeds. We are well on the way to meeting that target. We've de-silted canals. We've worked with local communities in establishing their ownership of the various gateways and waterways in the irrigation systems and in reclaiming that land.

Afghanistan committee  I think Ms. Bossenmaier has covered it well, but the numbers are fairly staggering. On the micro-credit loans, 66% of those have been provided to women. We've been forwarded results as to what impact that has had. On issues of education in particular, one-third of the six million students are girls and now have access to education, whereas they had none in 2001.

Afghanistan committee  Which is why we're building the capacity--

Afghanistan committee  Absolutely. I can provide that.

Afghanistan committee  Sorry, Mr. Chair. We do have oversight on the moneys that we spend. There's an accounting system. On a lot of the education and capacity-building projects, we work largely through the Afghan Reconstruction Trust Fund, where we can account for all of our funding. On other projects, including the polio eradication, we can account and provide accountings for the funding that goes to those projects as well.

Afghanistan committee  --and channelling the money through other sources.

Afghanistan committee  Just on the issue of building capacity, as well, with a view that we can't provide budgetary support, which is indeed the case--we do not provide direct budgetary support--we have provided, though, several technical advisers to build capacity in various ministries, including the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Finance.

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, as I said earlier, about 50% of Canadian programming is directly targeted at Kandahar, but there are other national programs throughout, including some with the ministry of education and with other programs as well. We conduct MISFA, giving small credit loans throughout the country in various provinces.

Afghanistan committee  Mr. Chair, we have those numbers. I don't have them off the top of my head, but we can provide them—

Afghanistan committee  —in writing. The literacy rate in Kandahar—I'm speaking from memory—is about 8%, I understand, among men. It's even lower among women. I'd have to check those numbers and get back to you. We operate literacy training throughout, including in Kandahar. I don't mean to suggest that we only have literacy training where there is no instability, but we do it throughout the country as well.

Afghanistan committee  We have set up a process also of working with community schools in areas, including unstable areas. Literacy training would be a component of that as well. I can certainly get you those numbers, if you request them.

Afghanistan committee  Well, Canada is active throughout the country. We have 50% of our programming done through Kandahar and targeted directly at Kandahar, but the other 50% of the programming is national in scope, through the various programs. We cover several provinces beyond Kandahar.