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Afghanistan committee  I'd add a couple of things. I might just add one comment to the end of Françoise's answer to your earlier question. Among the things we've done is that we've provided to the Afghan Minister of Justice a technical expert on legislative drafting, an expert on women's rights and Islamic law, so they can draw on that expertise in their own work.

November 24th, 2010Committee meeting

Gordon Venner

Afghanistan committee  No. I think that covers it. Just to link back to the previous question, though, on support for women, I think 27% of the members of the current Parliament are female.

November 24th, 2010Committee meeting

Gordon Venner

Afghanistan committee  Maybe I can just add one point. In addition to work being done in terms of substitute crops, there is also work being done in terms of better enforcement with respect to counter-narcotics. We had a really interesting example recently. Pakistani authorities seized 15.8 tons of precursor chemicals that are used in the production of heroin.

November 24th, 2010Committee meeting

Gordon Venner

November 24th, 2010Committee meeting

Gordon Venner

Afghanistan committee  I just have a couple of points. We have actually had a fair number of specific initiatives dealing with corruption in the last little while. I can just run through them. Most of them are still under way. Canada provides anti-corruption training to justice officials in Afghanistan.

November 24th, 2010Committee meeting

Gordon Venner

Afghanistan committee  I'm not aware of a specific method for measuring that, but we provide direct training for Afghan officials, the national security forces, and police officers, for example, as an element of the overall training package.

November 24th, 2010Committee meeting

Gordon Venner

Afghanistan committee  Well, all of our aid benefits from external and internal monitoring. There are external and internal audits. There's the application of standardized fiduciary practices. There are multi-donor evaluations and there's regular financial reporting.

November 24th, 2010Committee meeting

Gordon Venner

Afghanistan committee  The other thing I would note is that in October of 2009 Canada signed a $1.5 million grant with the United Nations Development Programme to support accountability and transparency in Afghanistan's Ministry of Education. That was another initiative. I'll turn to my colleagues for your specific question on the signature projects and the Dahla Dam.

November 24th, 2010Committee meeting

Gordon Venner