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Mr President, 10% of the world’s population has a handicap, but, as Mr Bowis has just said, the percentage is often much higher in the developing countries. When discussing handicapped people in developing countries, we are talking in terms of people with both physical and mental handicaps, not only the blind but also children traumatised by war, and that adds up to hundreds of millions of people.
Developing countries often lack facilities for handicapped people, who often live isolated lives. UNESCO estimates that 98% of children with a handicap in these countries do not go to school. The figures speak for themselves; policy-makers need to be particularly aware of this group of people. It will, moreover, be all the more difficult to achieve the millennium objectives if such a large segment of the population is left out of consideration. After all, handicapped people do not benefit automatically from programmes to combat poverty, an area in which there is no mainstreaming for them.
The problems were, and are, plain to see; the question is what we are doing about them. As has already been said, it was in 2003 that the Commission produced a guidance note for all delegations and services that gave handicapped people a place in development policy. In view of what the Commission has already said about the priority given to political dialogue, I would like it to tell us whether there is anything more to be said about the results. Is it possible for more action to be taken for the specific benefit of handicapped people? Have practical solutions been found for specific problems, for example in the educational field? Education is, after all, fundamental to the combating of poverty and social exclusion, which affects most handicapped people. Have handicapped people themselves been involved in the design and implementation of programmes? This is what is done in the Netherlands, and the results are very good.
In conclusion, what is the Commission doing about exchanging knowledge and combining learning in this field?"@en1
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