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"Mr President, now that we are reviewing the Paris Declaration, we can see that the word ‘intentions’ has remained just that, just a word.
Although the Commission is working hard and taking measures to ensure aid arrives at its destination, we cannot make progress if Member States do not contribute what they have promised.
We know that both donors and partner countries are responsible for aid being more effective, but our greatest responsibility is to ensure that aid really contributes to helping developing countries meet the major challenges they face.
We must ensure that we fulfil our part of the bargain and that we do not have to feel ashamed because we are not doing what we promised to do.
Ideally, aid has a positive effect on development and good governance, but aid can also do a lot of harm if it is not distributed properly. Developing countries must therefore take responsibility for implementing their own policies and we donors must respect that, give them our support and provide the space necessary for that to happen, rather than fund our own priorities as some donors do.
Finally, I would like to stress the need to ensure the coherence of our own policies.
All development efforts are a waste of time if the objectives of trade, monetary and other policies undermine or contradict them.
At the moment, we are not practising what we preach."@en1
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