A question worth asking: is IDRC wisely spending the $5.274.477 it received from the Gates Foundation to promote tobacco control in Africa?

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A question worth asking: is IDRC wisely spending the $5.274.477 it received from the Gates Foundation to promote tobacco control in Africa?

The Canadian group IDRC manages from Ottawa (since January 2008) a $5 million + budget provided by the Gates Foundation to promote tobacco control in Sub-Sahara Africa. What do YOU think of their performance?

This is a lot of money for a 2 year grant.By far the biggest grant even targeted at this issue in this region.

If you had to invest $5 million in tobacco control in SubSahara Africa what would your program look like? Would it look like IDRC's with its 12 projects?

What is $5 million? It is 50 times the $100K that Bode just received as a Bloomberg Award, or 100 projects at 50K or 500 projects at 10K or 1000 projects at 5K or any combination of them.

How many projects and people is IDRC supporting with $5.274.477?

During the recent world conference in Mumbai only 5 projects were presented: that seems very little for such a budget after more than one year of operation.

What has been really achieved or will be achieved? At what cost? For those 5 projects and with the whole 5 million budget?

Who asks those fundamental questions that involves transparency and accountability?

Have you read one article published in the mainstream media about this $5 million project? Why such silence? Why such a lack of interest and scrutiny?

African Tobacco Situational Analysis: Tobacco Control in Sub-Saharan Africa:

Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Kenya, Mauritius and Nigeria