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"en.20120420.21.5-246-000"2
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"The report takes the view that decentralising the management of external aid has improved the availability of funds, and makes recommendations with which we generally agree: more permanent staff and fewer contract agents; reduced bureaucracy for distributing funds; and promotion of local consultation. The rapporteur makes an important warning: the crisis must not be used to justify a ‘doing more with less’ approach that involves containing or reducing external aid or the expenditure required for its delivery. Attention is drawn to what remains to be done in the area of the Millennium Development Goals. However, we would distance ourselves from some aspects of the report – for example, the comments on the European External Action Service – and there are some omissions that we consider important. As we stated during the debate, the country, and its authorities, institutions and civil society organisations need to be closely involved in making and implementing policy if they are really to take ownership of development aid. The European Union must support and not direct. It must build capacities and not impose. It must respect the uniqueness, choices and sovereign will of developing countries, whilst keeping in mind the bad example of imposing the so-called economic partnership agreements on countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States in the face of their resistance."@en1
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