Public Accounts committee  I'm going to give you a very tangible example of a good situation. For 15 or so years, the centre provided research funding for community-based approaches to natural resource management. Despite being very conducive to success, the initiative was carried out on what I would call

Public Accounts committee  We will. The point is very well taken. My apologies. This is the first time I've appeared in front of public accounts. You know, I have nothing to hide, and neither does our board. We will correct this deficiency, Mr. Chair.

Public Accounts committee  That's a very good question. I'm going to be very humble and honest. Now that we have targets and indicators, it's always a challenge on how to establish that. I can tell you with all our board of governors, we have numerous conversations with our staff. Because there was no base

Public Accounts committee  It has been done.

Public Accounts committee  Okay. These are very good questions. The parallel agreement means that we have a common program or project, we're putting both our resources on the table, and we have mechanisms to track this, but the money is not blended. The Tim Hortons case I brought up in my presentation is

Public Accounts committee  Well, you know, this is something we are doing. A project can be evaluated in various ways. At the project level, we are providing support for self-evaluation as well as funding evaluation with expertise that is present at the national level in these countries, expertise that ID

Public Accounts committee  They travel around the world to deliver the services. They use technology in order to meet with people on a very regular basis, and they provide capacity at the technical level to guide the research, and at the networking level to make those connections—south-south, north-south,

Public Accounts committee  I could not answer that specifically now, but I will provide you with the answer.

Public Accounts committee  It's not our role to change the country. Our role is to fund the research that brings evidence that other things can be done. Then it's for the Indian researchers and the public authorities to take that information and move it the way they want in order to correct the situation.

Public Accounts committee  India still needs funding from organizations like ours.

Public Accounts committee  May I add to my answer? I'll give you an example of why we still need to provide support. Small millet is a cereal that was almost eliminated in India after the green revolution and introduction of dwarf wheat and maize. About four or five years ago, we started working on new cr

Public Accounts committee  The research from India is now being used in Africa.

Public Accounts committee  On a small scale, through a grant of $200,000, we helped Mexico get DDT eliminated from their malaria control program through the parallel agreement of NAFTA on the environment at the end of the 1990s. The model we used in Mexico that worked with the researcher there was translat

Public Accounts committee  The budget currently is $138 million. From the parliamentary allocation, there is $100 million that goes straight into research grants.

Public Accounts committee  The money that flows through IDRC is accountable to the IDRC board and through the Parliament of Canada. It's in our annual report.