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"en.20120420.21.5-246-500"2
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"A decentralised approach to aid delivery brings the decision-making process closer to the realities of aid delivery and to a more operationally efficient coordination and harmonisation of donors. It is important to ensure that, by devolving power and carrying out a wider reform of the external assistance managed by the Commission, the speed, the thoroughness of financial management procedures and the quality of aid in partner countries is enhanced. 74% of EU external assistance from the EU budget and the European Development Fund is managed directly through 136 EU delegations. I think it is appropriate to enhance coordination between the EU, the Member States and partner countries, as well as to coordinate and harmonise development activities and increase their efficiency and effectiveness. The process of devolution from the Commission to the delegations should be coupled with a mechanism at Member State level. This functional mechanism would provide all relevant information on where agencies are planning to spend their budgets, therefore making aid more targeted and allowing resource gaps and funding opportunities in individual countries to be identified. At the same time, the growing support for official development aid as a means of eradicating poverty and achieving the set development goals is good news. In this regard, I believe it is appropriate to showcase how the impact of aid is improving the lives of poor people, because such a move would greatly help to refute scepticism about the effectiveness of aid."@en1
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