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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, speaking on behalf of my fellow-Commissioner Mr Nielson, I would like to start by thanking the rapporteur, Mrs Zrihen, for the outstanding and constructive cooperation throughout the whole codecision procedure, and most of all after the vote at first reading last December.
The Commission very much welcomes your recommendation that the Council’s Common Position should be approved, as also should budget funds totalling EUR 9 million for the purpose of promoting gender equality in the context of development cooperation. Parliament’s request for additional budget funds had been the only point on which the three institutions had been unable to reach agreement in December. As regards the others, we were or are in of one mind, as is evident from the fact that the Council and the Commission have taken on board 20 of the 21 amendments proposed by Parliament. As soon as the new Regulation is adopted, we will devote all our efforts to enhancing its function as a catalyst and its strategic role. All development measures funded by the Community should help to promote gender equality horizontally. It is in these areas that the ideal of gender mainstreaming is of the utmost importance.
This Regulation provides us at last with a more broadly drawn concept, which will underpin the current implementation strategy in the best possible way. The Regulation needs to have teeth if we are to be able to step up the promotion of equality and thereby make further progress in combating poverty, which is one of the millennium development objectives. We are aware that some have expressed misgivings about the equality training that Commission staff receive, and so I am glad to be able to announce that we will shortly be mounting a comprehensive training programme intended not only for the Commission’s own staff at home and in the delegations, but also to our partner countries’ own workers. We have already started elaborating a guide setting out the most important principles of gender mainstreaming and guidelines on how to promote it, as well as a range of best practice methodologies.
We will provide, in the annual report on development cooperation, detailed accounts of the measures funded under this Regulation; this will mainly consist of information on relevant experience with projects and on their outcomes. Moreover, and before the expiry of this Regulation, we will be initiating an independent assessment to arrive at recommendations as to how the measures in question can continue to be as efficient as they are now, or even more so, since we want to constantly improve the promotion of gender equality as part of development cooperation.
I am persuaded that, by supporting this Regulation, Parliament will be helping to achieve the international development goals, to promote equality and to give women more rights and a greater role. This is an essential requirement if we are to successfully combat poverty."@en1
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