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Appendix B — Written Response From The Office of the Auditor General
In response to a question during the hearing, the Office of the Auditor General provided the following information.
Additional Information From the Office of the Auditor General on Audited International Assistance Projects
I would like to take this opportunity to clarify what we examined at the project level regarding outcomes. At the project level, we reviewed documents from a sample of 60 bilaterally funded projects out of the 619 projects launched after 1 April 2017 for which the department had at least 1 year of reporting. As part of the approval process, Global Affairs Canada required all project proposals to include a logic model that defined associated outputs and outcomes. The project documentation we reviewed demonstrated that project officers were monitoring and approving payments as projects achieved milestones. For all of the projects we reviewed, we found that recipient organizations reported on project results, which included a mix of outputs and outcomes, to the project officers in the department. We do not have a further breakdown of information at the project level.
We looked to see whether all of these project results were rolled up at the department level and linked to the indicators that were used for external reporting. We found that Global Affairs Canada used data from 35 of the 60 projects to report externally on corporate results. For the remaining 25 projects, we saw no evidence that data was included in corporate reporting. Attached you will find a list of the 60 projects we reviewed.
Table 1—List of 60 projects we reviewed and their inclusion in corporate reporting
Project title as provided by Global Affairs Canada (OAG translation of project title in brackets) |
Global Affairs Canada provided evidence that project data was reported at the corporate level |
1. Strengthening recovery response on gender-based violence post cyclone in Mozambique |
No |
2. Building a baseline for sexual and reproductive human rights data in Mozambique, COVID-19 |
Yes |
3. Reaching the poorest: quality sexual and reproductive health services in Mozambique |
Yes |
4. Humanitarian Response Plan 2018: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for West Bank and Gaza |
No |
5. Technical support for education strategy |
No |
6. Reducing sexual and reproductive human rights gaps, Central America |
Yes |
7. Humanitarian Response Plan 2019: protecting the dignity of female heads of households in the Gaza Strip (AISHA: association for woman and child protection) |
No |
8. Rights and Economic Development for Nepal’s Empowered Women) |
No |
9. Support to electoral process in Tunisia |
No |
10. Protective learning and nurturing environments (PLANE): bringing young and adolescent girls to new heights |
Yes |
11. Support to inter-agency network for education in emergencies for girls and women |
No |
12. No to gender-based violence in Sri Lanka |
No |
13. Inspiring action: Manitoba Council for International Cooperation |
No |
14. United Nations verification and inspection, Yemen |
Yes |
15. Making trade work for women in Africa: Lesotho, Uganda, Madagascar, and Ethiopia |
Yes |
16. Abolition de mutilations génitales de filles, Bénin (abolition of genital mutilation of girls, Benin) |
No |
17. Community resilience to climate change, Senegal |
Yes |
18. Inspiring action: Alberta Council for Global Cooperation |
No |
19. Improving sexual and reproductive human rights for women and girls in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa (She Decides) |
Yes |
20. Strengthening resilience in Rohingya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh |
Yes |
21. Girls education in Tanzania: girls retention and transition initiative |
Yes |
22. Women’s economic empowerment in Mongolia |
Yes |
23. Securing women’s economic empowerment in Donbas, Ukraine |
No |
24. Humanitarian Response Plan 2019: World Food Programme |
No |
25. Empowering civil society for women and girls |
Yes |
26. Sharing her voice on air (Voix de Femme) (woman’s voice) |
Yes |
27. Women’s rights and gender-sensitive justice |
Yes |
28. Women’s voice and leadership, Ukraine |
No |
29. Reaching girls everywhere: increasing youth access to family planning and contraceptives, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mali—support to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and supplies |
Yes |
30. Small and medium organizations: capacity-building and knowledge (Spur Change) |
No |
31. Women’s voice and leadership, Colombia |
Yes |
32. Women’s voice and leadership, Peru: Cuso International |
No |
33. Renforcement santé reproductive, Bénin (Passerelle) (improving reproductive health, Benin (Passerelle)) |
Yes |
34. Livelihood support and women’s empowerment, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh |
Yes |
35. Strengthening federalism and inclusive governance in Myanmar |
Yes |
36. Adaptation des populations côtières et économie bleue, Afrique de l’Ouest (adaptation of coastal populations and the blue economy, West Africa) |
Yes |
37. WEE Ghana: Empowering women in non-traditional trades for Northern Ghana |
Yes |
38. Improving access to education in tribal districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan |
Yes |
39. Women’s rights, action, and advocacy project, Philippines |
No |
40. Accès équitable à l’éducation, Cameroun (equitable access to education, Cameroon) |
Yes |
41. 2019 election observation mission, Ukraine |
No |
42. Beyond borders: safe spaces for girls |
No |
43. Women and youth entrepreneurs leading change, West Bank and Gaza (OBADER project) |
No |
44. Support to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) supplies 2018–2020: increasing access to family planning and contraceptives |
Yes |
45. Emergency appeal: United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), 2018, West Bank and Gaza |
Yes |
46. Food security and empowerment of women in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh |
Yes |
47. Advancing sexual and reproductive human rights in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique (SPARC) |
Yes |
48. Strengthening audit institutions |
Yes |
49. Plan for girls: improved realization of the rights and well‑being of adolescent girls in Benin and Cameroon |
No |
50. Combat absenteeism and barriers to education in Mozambique |
Yes |
51. Femmes Agriculture Résilience (FAR), Sénégal (resilient women and agriculture, Senegal) |
Yes |
52. Santé sexuelle et reproductive au Mali (sexual and reproductive health in Mali) |
Yes |
53. Natural Infrastructure for Water Security (NIWS) |
Yes |
54. Global financing facility phase II |
No |
55. Municipal services and social resilience (infrastructure) in Jordan |
No |
56. Renewable energy in small island developments |
No |
57. Strengthening national sexual and reproductive health services in Mozambique |
Yes |
58. Accès aux services de santé à Kinshasa, République démocratique du Congo (access to health services in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo) |
Yes |
59. Delivering for girls and women in multiple countries |
No |
60. Family health houses for Afghanistan |
Yes |
Table 2—Total of Projects
Totals |
|
No |
25 |
Yes |
35 |
Total number of projects |
60 |