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". – No, to the first part of the question. I do not see that anything we are suggesting here would actually endanger our capacity for quick action. We are not moving towards creating a rigid system and the special character, the ability to act and the identity of ECHO as such, are all something I find important in order to avoid ECHO, as a humanitarian relief organisation, becoming involved in the very cumbersome decision-making machinery of the Commission in general. We are not heading toward the kind of problems that you ask about here.
Regarding Sierra Leone, it is very difficult to say. The main thing is to what extent it is possible to mobilise enough donors; it is not just what we do ourselves. There must be a critical mass of donors who are willing and able to make a more long-term effort in a given country, so coordination is extremely important here. We have to be able to deliver our share of it and phase out crisis-based ECHO presence, replacing it with the post-conflict presence of a more long-term character of our development resources.
If others do not participate, it will not work, so part of the answer to what we have to do now is to be more active in the discussion from case to case – within groups of friends of Sierra Leone, to take one example – trying to organise a more coordinated response to moving away from the immediate crisis demands.
One case that illustrates where we should be careful not to end up is that the UNHCR is still today funding and managing primary education in Rwanda. Nobody else is ready to pay for it and that is why they are there. They are doing a respectable job but it shows that the international system and who does what becomes distorted if the normal donors do not demonstrate a readiness to play their traditional role. This is where we hope to be able to push the international discussion in a better direction than hitherto."@en1
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