We need to focus at the same time within the bilateral programme on areas such as sustainable development, good governance, public sector reform, capacity building and fostering private enterprise. We must also help partner Governments to tackle the growing crisis in HIV-AIDS. The Ireland Aid programme seeks to address all these key issues. To tackle such a wide range of issues risks spreading resources too thinly and diluting the quality and effectiveness of our aid. Accordingly, Ireland Aid concentrates its efforts on a small number of least developed countries in sub-Saharan Africa. By narrowing the geographical focus of the programme, we retain the capacity to tackle in a co-ordinated and coherent way the multiple dimensions of poverty and the many obstacles to sustainable development. This multifaceted approach in a limited geographical context enables us to bring about real progress in some of the world's least developed countries and, most importantly, have an impact on the lives of some of the poorest people on earth.