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". – In the context of the 2002 budget, the Commission has supported a benchmark that 35% of spending in Development Assistance Committee Group 1 countries, including macroeconomic assistance with social sector conditionality, is allocated to social infrastructure, mainly education and health. This recognises that the Community contribution must be seen as part of the overall donor support in a given country and that a degree of flexibility must be the norm. The Commission is committed to work towards meeting this benchmark in assistance to the social sectors in all its programmes, including Asia and Latin America.
With a view to honouring this commitment, a number of initiatives will be undertaken. In particular, these will include, first, improved emphasis on the social sector in all Commission programmes, in line with the priorities in the Community's development strategy. Second, the establishment during 2002 – and I know this is a point on which the honourable Member has himself laid great emphasis – of a solid statistical basis allowing DAC sectoral classification of programmes and projects from 2002.
A reclassification exercise of all 2001 commitments will be undertaken with a view to enabling comparison to be made.
Third, we want to make available to Parliament all approved country strategy papers, including multiannual programmes and associated financial envelopes.
Finally, the continuation during 2002 of work on the definition of internationally agreed performance indicators and implementation of sector-wide programmes in the social sector. The Commission is in contact, as the honourable Member knows, with Parliament's Committee on Development and Cooperation, on the organisation of a seminar in the spring of this year, where the Commission will report on progress made in these areas and, I hope, continue to gain from the experience and enthusiasm and commitment of the members of the Development Committee, including, of course, the honourable Member."@en1
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