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". – Mr President, since November 2000, the Commission has taken a number of important steps towards strengthening poverty reduction in Community development cooperation. With regard to the EC's own efforts, progress on implementing the poverty focus has been reported through various Commission papers. The Commission is midway through the process of preparing poverty-focussed country-strategy papers for the ACP countries which will implement the Cotonou agreement. Developing countries' own poverty reduction policies are the foundation for these country-strategy papers.
A working paper of the Commission services has been drafted on measures taken and planned to take forward the poverty focus of the EC's development policy and poverty awareness training has been offered to the Commission's development staff. The communication has been produced showing how the Commission is mainstreaming gender equality in development cooperation. Gender inequality is a significant determinant of poverty.
Progress has also been made in developing policy coherence for poverty reduction, for example, a communication has been prepared on core labour standards and social development. With respect to other donors, it should be noted that many EU Member States have already made poverty eradication the main objective of their bilateral development programmes.
The EC is explicitly and financially supporting the poverty reduction strategy papers as the main vehicle for ensuring universal and coordinate donor support for efforts by developing countries to eradicate poverty for their populations.
Regular contact has been established between the Commission, the IMF and the World Bank and with the UN agencies to coordinate our support for the poverty-reduction strategies of developing countries. We strongly endorse the principle of country ownership of development policies which is intrinsic to this PRSP approach.
Finally, it should be highlighted that the Commission has contributed to work by the Development Assistance Committee, the DAC of the OECD, to develop policy guidelines for Member countries. All in all this means that we have never been in a situation where the coordination and consensus among the donors has been better. It is very important that we play our part in this common work. Furthermore, a consolidated report will appear in the annual report on implementation of external aid from the Commission and that annual report will appear later this autumn."@en1
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