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"Mr President, we must thank Bartho Pronk and the chairman of our committee for speaking about civil dialogue and relations between the Commission and NGOs, because, in the final analysis, the report and other contributions seem to me to be purely administrative and far removed from the practical reality, and this is exactly the impression I had, Commissioner, when you answered Bartho Pronk.
You told us that the Commission was active in meeting the operating costs of NGOs, but what we Members of Parliament want is to ensure that all NGOs, may be supported and funded on the basis of a number of practical projects. For, nowadays, it is the major NGOs which have the opportunity to respond to a number of invitations to tender:
the Red Cross and so on and so forth. That is my first comment.
You must be aware of the problems experienced by a good number of smaller NGOs in being able to respond to a number of invitations to tender. The work they do in terms of relations and competencies is, however, just as important as that of the major NGOs, but some of them do not have the same administrative facilities that some major NGOs have.
Secondly, what we would also like to see is the needs of NGOs being satisfied before a major tragedy occurs. Let me take just one example, the protection of childhood. For four years, a number of Members of Parliament have been fighting for funding for associations working to combat child abuse. Our attempts have been ignored. It was not until the Dutroux case that we were able to obtain a budget line enabling two programmes to be run: Daphne and STOP. Today, regrettably, only one programme is left, the Daphne programme. I can tell you that, as experts on matters to do with small children, a number of NGOs would indeed love to be able to respond to specific invitations to tender.
Finally, I feel it advisable to simplify the procedures and that, in this connection – I do not know if this has to be a fund –, the Commission should, at least initially, make a service available to NGOs, enabling them to obtain information on the work carried out by other parties and, possibly, establish networks on certain topics in order, ultimately, to be able to submit tenders to the Commission when offers come up.
That, Commissioner, is what I wished to say. We shall make progress in the social sector because we know that we have to make progress in terms of cooperation in that sector. We need time for this. This is precisely why, given that social matters are essentially part of the remit of NGOs, we must make progress in the matter of civil dialogue."@en1
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