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"Mr President, we in the Group of the Party of European Socialists have been genuinely pleased with the Commission’s initiative to define and strengthen the role of non-state actors, both European and from recipient countries, in the Community’s development policy.
I would like to congratulate Mr Howitt, because his report was approved unanimously within the Committee on Development and Cooperation. Furthermore, he did significant work by means of a questionnaire aimed at ascertaining the situation with regard to the participation of NGOs.
It is a fact that NGOs have had a decisive influence on the current configuration of a more open international society and on the democratisation of a system of international relations which until very recently was restricted to states and intergovernmental organisations.
We believe that the active participation of NGOs in the implementation of the Community’s development policy represents the principal added value of European cooperation, since it provides a degree of effectiveness which development policies do not have when they are implemented solely within an intergovernmental context.
Nevertheless, this is not a round trip, although there is no doubt about the need for development processes to be participatory if they are to be effective and sustainable. Only in a minority of cases do non-governmental organisations and civil organisations in the countries receiving aid participate in the creation and implementation of the development actions benefiting them. As Mr Howitt’s report points out, we will ask the Commission for data on the participation of non-state actors in the production of strategy documents by region and country.
It should be pointed out that programmes and projects drawn up in this way are mainly financed by means of the EDF, to which, unfortunately, the non-state actors do not have direct access. The other source of funding, the decentralised cooperation line B7-6002, involves very small amounts – 3% of the amount provided for NGOs.
The structuring of civil society, including companies, NGOs, local organisations and the like, is essential to development processes and cooperation relationships. We therefore trust that the Commission – despite the fact that it has expressed some reservations in relation to the report – will stipulate our requirements as soon as possible in this regard and respond to the commitment made with the international community by means of the millennium declaration – to which end the United Nations adopted an agenda for action which involves 1 300 non-governmental organisations – to create a mechanism for permanent consultation with non-state actors and improve open and integrated dialogue, which the rapporteur, Mr Howitt, calls participatory development. There must be permanent consultation with non-state actors in order to combat extreme poverty in the world."@en1
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