Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-02-23-Speech-3-200"
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"Mr President, the European development policy is aimed at achieving the Millennium Objectives, central among them the fight against poverty, and those objectives will not be achieved if we continue to work at the current pace and with the current means. That is a generally known fact, but it is also known that if we really put our minds to it, we can still achieve them, and to that we must commit ourselves.
Fighting hunger is one of the most important action points. Every day, some 24 000 people die of starvation and malnutrition. That is 24 000 too many. Our line of approach can only succeed if we adopt coherent policy in the areas of development aid, agriculture and trade, and deliver on our commitments. For that reason, I wholeheartedly back this resolution.
I should like to mention one item that is not explicitly mentioned in the resolution, namely the position of women. Studies have shown that the role of women is crucial to the success of development cooperation policy, yet women are still insufficiently involved in the preparation and implementation of programmes in the countries concerned.
I am impressed with the work that has gone into the Hunger project, concerning which a huge awareness campaign was recently launched in the Netherlands. It is a worldwide organisation that combats hunger in many developing countries. Their formula appears extremely successful, precisely because it is mainly geared towards women via training, the provision of information, micro-credits, and such like. Through these, they manage to bring about a significant and permanent improvement in social circumstances and drive back hunger. Women take up a key position in society in terms of agriculture, education, hygiene in the family, and such like, which are crucial factors in combating hunger.
I hope we manage to adopt more effective policy by means of more decisive and more coherent policy. As the largest donor, Europe should play a pioneering role in working on the Millennium Objectives and should, in this respect, not forget to involve women in the relevant countries."@en1
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