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"Mr President, the key to the development of the less developed countries is that they should have the chance themselves to participate in their own development programmes by identifying the problems themselves and seeking solutions to them. Whenever I have been involved in development work I have observed that this approach has, thankfully, over the past few years been taking the place of the old paternalistic aid-oriented ideology, where the so-called developed countries thought development was a matter of transferring our way of life to the less developed countries. The new paradigm for development cooperation stresses the notion of partnership, in which the so-called donor of aid is a consulting party. It must allow scope for the countries concerned to determine for themselves what their problems are, and let them draw up a plan to improve the situation and find a solution themselves. The most important task aid agencies have is to make themselves unnecessary, all the while ensuring that the work is leading to local action and prosperity.
My colleague, Mr Wijkman, has produced a good report in this respect, one that emphasises this paradigm that is the only successful and morally tenable one. However, at present, this approach is being applied scandalously badly by the EU as far as scientific and technological projects are concerned. The EU’s framework programmes do not extend to developing countries. In other words, our North African partners, for example, cannot become involved in scientific and technological projects concerning the environment. Nothing is actually preventing them from doing research but there are simply no facilities for financing projects, as the developing countries do not have access to the consortia as a party applying for funds. But why not? It has been made easier for Eastern Europe to participate. The matter is even harder to appreciate, when we think of how much we are affected by the problems of desertification in North Africa and the problems that are associated with the Mediterranean area. We must give more responsibility, by way of funding, to local researchers to be able to create development that will be of benefit to the local community and leave the job to them when the financiers have left. We must ensure that no project can be established without input from local researchers."@en1
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