Foreign Affairs committee  I'd like to understand this: Do we have some types of measures to decide the impact of that investment? What are the measures that we use to say we're giving x number of dollars to Afghanistan and y number of dollars to Haiti? How do you measure the impact of that money?

Foreign Affairs committee  On those countries that are big spends, was that a decision taken at the political level or just something that percolated up through the demands that came to your department, and your department decided this is a priority area? Is it top-down or bottom-up? How is it that Afghani

Foreign Affairs committee  It's not a political decision that says, “We want x amount of the money being spent in Afghanistan, or y amount.”

Foreign Affairs committee  It comes from the bottom up, then.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm trying to get my finger on the idea of how we are measuring that impact. I can see what you're saying within the silos. For example, Afghanistan has asked for this, Ethiopia has asked for that and Haiti has asked for a third thing. One asks for health, education, I don't know

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, you have x amount of dollars.

Foreign Affairs committee  To simplify, you know that if you're going to give money here in Canada, they have these measures to ask. Is this a charity where 90% of its money is going through the system, or is only 50% making its way to the beneficiary? There are certain criteria that I would use when I'm a

Foreign Affairs committee  A number?

Foreign Affairs committee  A comparable number. It had 50% effectiveness here, 77% there.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you.