EU funding may support building and rehabilitating health care facilities, training of health personnel, providing equipment, essential medicines and supplies as well as providing technical assistance and policy advice to governments in support of national health strategies.

27. Commends the initiatives to provide gender-related training to staff deployed on ESDP missions and in the corresponding headquarters, and the considerable effort made by the Commission to train its staff, particularly within delegations; reiterates that all staff at every level of the planning, programming and implementation of the EU's external policies should be adequately trained; asks the Commission and the Member States to ensure that compulsory training is provided for all staff in missions and delegations, including the management, and that they are given guidance on gender issues and women's empowerment;

27. Commends the initiatives to provide gender-related training to staff deployed on ESDP missions and in the corresponding headquarters, and the considerable effort made by the Commission to train its staff, particularly within delegations; reiterates that all staff at every level of the planning, programming and implementation of the EU's external policies should be adequately trained; asks the Commission and the Member States to ensure that compulsory training is provided for all staff in missions and delegations, including the management, and that they are given guidance on gender issues and women's empowerment;

27. Commends the initiatives to provide gender-related training to staff deployed on ESDP missions and in the corresponding headquarters, and the considerable effort made by the Commission to train its staff, particularly within delegations; reiterates that all staff at every level of the planning, programming and implementation of the EU's external policies should be adequately trained; asks the Commission and the Member States to ensure that compulsory training is provided for all staff in missions and delegations, including the management, and that they are given guidance on gender issues and women's empowerment;

10. Points out that asylum service staff training is of essential importance to implementation of the common European asylum system and stresses the need for Member States to provide staff responsible for considering asylum applications with training in gender mainstreaming and gender issues and the specific issues inherent in the persecution of women and children; draws attention to the importance of providing asylum seekers, both male and female, with legal aid and assistance in a language they are able to understand, in order to ensure that asylum procedures are conducted in a proper manner and that the information received is of a f ...[+++]itting standard;

i ) support team-based clinical, epidemiological, operational and social studies, so as to enable health-related research to be conducted on a sounder basis; where appropriate, teams shall be encouraged also to include personnel from the developing countries as a way of contributing to the training of such personnel;