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"Mr President, the Commission has participated actively in the Forum’s preparation process through the ‘Education for All 2000’ evaluation and the regional preparation meetings, particularly the one in Johannesburg in 1999. The Commission will be represented at the Dakar Forum by the director-general for Development.
In line with these international commitments, Community investments in education have primarily targeted basic education and primary education, especially in the context of cooperation with the ACP countries. Thus, a majority of the education programmes financed under the 8th EDF have been devoted to primary education. The funds allocated to this heading represent 80% of the total amount devoted to education.
The Commission has incorporated the recommendations of the Jomtien Conference on Basic Education into its policy and, in the framework of indicative national programmes, 35 ACP countries out of 71 have made education a priority. However, I have to specify that, while a balanced approach means prioritising basic education, as has been said, other levels of the educational system must not be neglected as a consequence.
We agree that the effectiveness of our approach on education requires very close coordination between the Community and the Member States as well as with the other backers. But we believe we must also establish a dialogue with civil society and that will be the Community’s approach to supporting national education action plans in ACP countries. We are also pursuing the target of eliminating disparities affecting people by the year 2005, in line with the OECD Development Aid Committee’s strategy and the conclusions of the European Union’s social affairs summits.
My last point is the question put by Mr Van den Berg on the doubling of the basic education budget in 2001. In our view, the Community and the Member States should all allocate more resources to education overall and to basic education in particular. Nevertheless, we also know this cannot have the anticipated effect unless the recipient countries have the necessary absorption capacity and the resources to ensure the sustainability and durability of the system. Consequently the answer is not ‘no’, but it is not entirely ‘yes’ either. We think the issue needs to be examined country by country to ensure adequate analysis adapted to each case."@en1
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