Translation of "International Shorebird Survey Program " (English → French) :

(1) An internal ex ante evaluation was launched of programming mechanisms for Phare in 2004 and beyond, based on a questionnaire and interview-based survey of stakeholder opinions and a comparison of Phare's programming mechanisms with those in comparable interventions, such as CARDS, ISPA, SAPARD and TACIS.

1. Notes that whilst donor coordination has been demanded by the international community over the past decade, low progress has been made, according to the 2011 Survey on Monitoring the Paris Declaration. Welcomes the opportunity to review the existing mechanisms to further enhance intra-EU coordination in order to achieve better development outcomes and greater value for money; underlines, in this context, the necessity of a coordination mechanism for cross-country division of labour, as well as for better coordination of in-country ...[+++] interventions at EU level. Stresses that the current efforts to implement joint programming of EU and Member States' aid should be stepped up as means to reduce fragmentation, increase its impact and confer a greater visibility to the European development aid).

(Return tabled) Question No. 148 Mr. Bill Casey: With regard to the findings within the May 2007 report of the Auditor General of Canada, entitled “Chapter 3, Human Resources Management—Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada”: (a) what specific actions and programs has the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade undertaken to respond to the Auditor General’s findings in regards to barriers to spousal employment being a disincentive for employees working abroad; (b) what is the percentage of resignations at the d ...[+++]epartment currently attributed to spousal employment issues; (c) has the department been, or is it planning to re-address the spousal employment issues listed in the Auditor General’s report through the National Joint Council; (d) in regards to the department surveying other countries spousal support programs and activities, what has the department thus far learned; (e) in regards to sub-question (d), what programs and activities does the department plan to adopt or emulate; and (f) why does the government not provide as high a degree of spousal support program as is found in other countries?

Initiatives such as the Canadian Hospitals Injury and Prevention Program, the Centres for Excellence for Children’s Well-being, the Health Behaviours in School-Aged Children Survey, the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System, the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program, the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey, the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect, the Enhanced Surveillance of Canadian Street Youth System, the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), New Canadian Children and Youth Survey, the Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Aboriginal Children’s Survey, the Social Development Partnerships Program ...[+++], and the international Child Protection Research Fund combine quantitative and qualitative knowledge development from surveys and statistics with community-based research and the collection and sharing of best practices.