Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for the question, Chair. We are always evolving the projects that we do. We do that both in response to the countries we're working with, making sure we're responding to their needs and what they're looking for, and also, particularly in the cases where we work with Ca

Foreign Affairs committee  On the first part of your question, the grants and contributions transformation project just got under way this year. I understand that these are issues that have been identified for some time. We have a clear commitment to move forward now and to roll up all of those issues with

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair, for the question. When the Auditor General's team met with us, we identified proactively with that team that we were looking to address information management challenges. We proactively raised the issue. Regarding the request for information from the Auditor G

Foreign Affairs committee  There was one project related to Ukraine for which the documents were in Ukraine; therefore, we were not able to provide the information to that one project.

Foreign Affairs committee  It is a separate area. We look at our results reporting on multiple levels. We have projects that have fulsome results frameworks. They have particular indicators that look at activities, but for each project, we are able to look at the actual outcomes of that project. The chall

Foreign Affairs committee  To answer directly, no, it's not acceptable, and we recognize it, but we're working very hard at it. We have a huge volume of grants and contributions. We know that our systems are cumbersome. We have multiple old systems that don't fit well together. This simply doesn't meet our

Foreign Affairs committee  With regard to the issues that you raised, there are multiple factors that influence what is affecting, for instance, our ability to look at not only projects that we received and capabilities of our staff but also some of our systems that we're looking at. For the grants and co

Foreign Affairs committee  Of course, it is always possible to provide examples. I would say that a good chunk of our projects are focused on issues of equity and direct support to women and girls, which are central to our priorities. If I seem a bit hesitant, it is because we currently have 1,500 project

Foreign Affairs committee  What's happening in Uganda is very concerning to us. We have many of our Canadian partners that have been working with people on the ground to help them as they face a backlash on their rights and restrictive laws. We are working in tandem with them now to see how we can still pr

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. We have been operating within a policy framework of the feminist international assistance policy for the last five years. Within that we have really been looking at how can we address some of the underlying issues that are at the core of some of the development challe

Public Accounts committee  Certainly. To clarify, on the database we've committed to implementing, we're working on that immediately to make sure that we can find all the documents and they can be tracked. That's our interim solution. In terms of our longer-term approach, immediately, we've already starte

Public Accounts committee  As an example, the deputy mentioned that I'll be following up on the action items for the recommendations in this report. I'll be leading a team that looks at those, and we'll be tracking progress. When we reach particular milestones, we will bring that to this international assi

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. Maybe I'll refer to one that's not health-related, because we've had a few examples of that. In the area of economic empowerment, one area that we've been working on in Bolivia is aquaculture, helping women fishers to feed their communities and to build some capabili

Public Accounts committee  I can give you some specifics. Productivity has increased by a factor of 6% in these communities. There are 254 loans, for instance, in this project that would never have existed before. The diets of targeted communities toward fish have increased by 20%, to 30% to 40%, depending