Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2007-11-27 11:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Gregory Graham (Acting Vice-President, Human Resources and Corporate Services Branch (HRCS), Canadian International Development Agency)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"804808\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Generally speaking, contributions are payments that involve conditions. So the majority of CIDA's programming is done through contribution agreements that require the recipients of the contributions to report on progress made in implementing a project and so on. They have to report on the nature and the types of expenditures they incur and obviously the level of expenditures before we then provide them with another advance against the overall contribution.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"804809\" data-originallang=\"en\">A grant, on the other hand, is generally unconditional in nature. Now, that's a basic definition that I think applies across the government. Our grants are unusual in that most of our grants, unlike other departments' grants, are not paid to individuals. Our grants are generally paid to international organizations, such as UN-affiliated organizations or the WHO and so on, organizations that have sterling reputations and have very strong systems of internal accountability and so on.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"804809\" data-originallang=\"en\">In this sense, even though we're paying a grant that is in principle unconditional, in reality our grants I think have quite a bit of accountability associated with them.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"804808\" data-originallang=\"en\">En r\u00e8gle g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, les contributions sont des paiements assortis de conditions. La majeure partie des programmes de l'ACDI est r\u00e9alis\u00e9e au moyen d'ententes de contribution exigeant que les b\u00e9n\u00e9ficiaires fassent rapport des progr\u00e8s r\u00e9alis\u00e9s. Ils doivent faire rapport sur la nature et les types de d\u00e9penses encourues, ainsi que sur le montant des d\u00e9penses, avant que nous leur accordions une autre avance au titre de la contribution globale.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"804809\" data-originallang=\"en\">Une subvention, par contre, n'est g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement pas assortie de conditions. C'est l\u00e0 une d\u00e9finition qui s'applique \u00e0 l'ensemble du gouvernement. Nos subventions sont un peu diff\u00e9rentes dans la mesure o\u00f9 la plupart, \u00e0 la diff\u00e9rence de celles d'autres minist\u00e8res, sont vers\u00e9es \u00e0 des particuliers. Elles sont g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement vers\u00e9es \u00e0 des organisations internationales, par exemple affili\u00e9es \u00e0 l'ONU ou \u00e0 l'OMS, dont la r\u00e9putation est absolument parfaite et qui poss\u00e8dent des syst\u00e8mes internes tr\u00e8s solides de responsabilit\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"804809\" data-originallang=\"en\">Une subvention, par contre, n'est g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement pas assortie de conditions. C'est l\u00e0 une d\u00e9finition qui s'applique \u00e0 l'ensemble du gouvernement. Nos subventions sont un peu diff\u00e9rentes dans la mesure o\u00f9 la plupart, \u00e0 la diff\u00e9rence de celles d'autres minist\u00e8res, sont vers\u00e9es \u00e0 des particuliers. Elles sont g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement vers\u00e9es \u00e0 des organisations internationales, par exemple affili\u00e9es \u00e0 l'ONU ou \u00e0 l'OMS, dont la r\u00e9putation est absolument parfaite et qui poss\u00e8dent des syst\u00e8mes internes tr\u00e8s solides de responsabilit\u00e9.</p>"
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    "url": "/committees/foreign-affairs/39-2/4/gregory-graham-1/",
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    "source_id": "2223055",
    "document_url": "/committees/foreign-affairs/39-2/4/",
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