Foreign Affairs committee  I think it's clear for anybody who is looking at the COVID pandemic and particularly its impact in the most fragile and most vulnerable places around the world that this is a really critical moment. As Professor Audet mentioned, the immediate health impacts are not what was feare

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm sorry; you cut out a little bit. When you're talking about a group, do you mean domestically or do you mean internationally?

Foreign Affairs committee  I believe you're referring to comments I made in writing about our lack of a global health strategy.

Foreign Affairs committee  Just to be transparent, I did work at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada as a senior global health adviser. I just want to make sure the committee knows that. I think one of the things I have experienced in my dealings with Global Affairs Canada in more recent years

Foreign Affairs committee  That is a very good question. Thank you very much for that. Development finance isn't my area of expertise, so I'm hesitant to put a number on it. What I will say is that I think that, obviously, we need to commit to increases in our official development assistance budget. I kno

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak today. I will discuss the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic in conflict-affected settings and Canada’s role in that response. I will conclude with recommendations for how Canada can better exe

Foreign Affairs committee  There has been small-scale research that has looked at including men and boys in efforts to reduce the incidence and prevalence of gender-based violence. It was research that was undertaken in Côte d'Ivoire. It was spearheaded by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Foreign Affairs committee  In terms of the health care sector, there's a lot of financial information and resources that are provided to the health sector in particular areas—and they reflect the millennium development goals—maternal health, HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, etc. What tends to happen is that do

Foreign Affairs committee  That's an interesting question. The UN Security Council original resolution on women, peace, and security in 2000 didn't really talk about health services at all. It was only introduced I believe in 2009. The women, peace, and security agenda has a focus on providing health ser

Foreign Affairs committee  That is a really good question, and it's something that shocked me when I came to Mozambique. If you look at some of the scores in the gender equality indexes, Mozambique ranks very well. As you mentioned, almost 40% of MPs are women, and you had a significant engagement of women

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not the ambassador, sadly. The current ambassador is also leaving, and I'm not sure who the replacement is. I'm going back to teach at Carleton University, so I'll be in the same city in a couple of months.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. The idea of decentralization is that you want to ensure that communities are empowered to take decisions on health care and to direct health care resources towards the issues that are most important within their community. This is a really important principle, and it's one t

Foreign Affairs committee  Okay. Definitely the examples of social media being used for bullying and exploitation and potential incitement of violence, particularly against women and girls, exists and is there, and it is a double-edged sword. I'm not sure whether any members of the committee are familia

Foreign Affairs committee  That's a very good question, and it's also a very big question. In an immediate post-conflict setting, humanitarian organizations come in, they implement health services through direct delivery by non-governmental organizations, and then there's a transition period to national h

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. It is a really timely moment to be in Mozambique. I've been here for two and a half years. When I arrived, Mozambique was seen as the development success story.