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Foreign Affairs committee  You'll have it very soon. The document has been drafted and is ready. We expect it will be available in the next few weeks.

June 9th, 2016Committee meeting

Sylvia Cesaratto

Foreign Affairs committee  I would just reiterate that's it true, at the moment, the way the fund is rolled out, it's on an initiative basis. One of the main objectives of the fund is also to help build capacity within these smaller NGOs. We do have program coordinators within our embassy, or sometimes working with our embassy, to help build that technical knowledge within the local NGO population, which will help them to then seek other funding from perhaps bigger donors to help the core funding issue.

June 9th, 2016Committee meeting

Sylvia Cesaratto

Foreign Affairs committee  I was going to add that, in addition to that type of support is the strengthening of institutions and capacity building that we do on the justice side and on the policing side as well. To answer your question with respect Berta Cáceres, for example, programs are being put into place in Central America, where we're working to increase the capacity of the police in terms of their investigative techniques.

June 9th, 2016Committee meeting

Sylvia Cesaratto

Foreign Affairs committee  My colleague gives me the hard questions to answer. Thank you for the question, Ms. Laverdière. We are monitoring the situation in Venezuela very closely. We are certainly concerned with what we observe in economic, political and humanitarian terms. Politically and diplomatically, we would like the two parties involved in the situation, the government and the opposition, to sit down at the same table to have a real discussion and to find a solution in the interests of the citizens of Venezuela.

June 9th, 2016Committee meeting

Sylvia Cesaratto