Finance committee  My name is Elly Vandenberg, and I'm the director of World Vision Canada's Ottawa office. World Vision is one of the largest international relief, development, and advocacy organizations in Canada. More than half a million Canadians give regularly to support our child-focused comm

Finance committee  Thank you for your question. Through the Canadian Council for International Co-operation, an umbrella coalition of international development organizations, we've been calling for some time for a timetable to be put forward to look at that very issue. There are clear recommendati

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. A reasonable step, I think we would agree, but we would like to see more.

Finance committee  Thanks again for that question as well. We don't have a particular strategy or a particular percentage in mind. We just compare, for example, to political parties and how that's 100%. We think 29% to 100%, somewhere in between there, would be more reasonable, but no, we don't ha

Finance committee  Wow. Thank you very much for your question. I should first say that World Vision's mandate is that we see the fullness of life for each child. It's a humanitarian and development and advocacy organization. So we have humanitarian objectives; but, absolutely, in terms of advocacy

Finance committee  Thank you. It's a similar question to Mr. Dykstra's, I believe. Right now, for us, it's 29%. We would like to see it higher, and I welcome the suggestion from Mr. Dykstra that we come forward with what our ultimate goal for that is, and that we suggest a strategy for how to get

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for providing me with the opportunity to talk about the G8. My name is Elly Vandenberg, and I am the Director of World Vision Canada's Ottawa Bureau. Both myself, from World Vision, and my colleague, Teresa Chiesa, from CARE Canada, will be speaking about the G-8 prio

Foreign Affairs committee  You may want to add to the response to that question. In our brief we've highlighted a number of the ones that we see as high impact based on what evidence shows us around what children and mothers are actually dying from. What the evidence shows, for example, is that two-thirds

Foreign Affairs committee  I know there were a number of consultations that CIDA did when they were figuring out what the new theme should be for CIDA. There was one particularly on children and youth, so all NGOs were consulted for that. Out of that consultation, they gave a sense of a child and youth str

Foreign Affairs committee  Teresa might want to talk more specifically, because she has more specific expertise. The point I wanted to make is that it's not just about their being trained, but also equipped and motivated. All of this is integrated: you can't have health workers who have training but no eq

Foreign Affairs committee  Let me take a stab at this, Mr. Dewar. To underline what you said about meagre resources, we have a consensus around which interventions are effective and also have a low cost and a high impact. We have consensus about them. That's what we join together on. It's not denying any

Foreign Affairs committee  I found the session that you had with Ms. Biggs, from CIDA, very helpful at clarifying that. The CIDA policy has not changed and that's helpful to know that. This particular G-8 initiative is going to focus on certain interventions.

Foreign Affairs committee  What I'm seeing here is a reflection of the fact that we don't have consensus in Canada about this. We have different perspectives as individuals, as organizations, as individuals within organizations, within this coalition that has struggled over 18 months to develop consensus a

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm just pleased that everybody is supportive of this initiative.

Foreign Affairs committee  We get about 3% of our funding from government. Is that your question?