Activities of Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER related to 2017/2146(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh European Development Funds for the financial year 2016
Amendments (3)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the European Court of Auditors’ special report 11/2017 on the Bêkou EU trust fund for the Central African Republic; recognises that despite some shortcomings the trust fund was a hopeful beginning and observes that setting up a trust fund was, a,nd is, a rapid response to the need to link relief, rehabilitation and development; calls on the Commission to follow the Court’s recommendations to prepare guidance on the choice of aid vehicle (trust fund or other); this guidance must reflect the considerable risks and disadvantage with trust funds and the mixed experience of their use so far; regrets that the fund has not significantly improved general donor coordinationthere is a need to combine security and development initiatives to free up private investment rendered inoperative by the current security situation in the country; regrets that the fund has not significantly improved general donor coordination; asks the Commission to study the proposal by the Government of the Central African Republic to create a platform enabling private investors, public donors and the authorities of the country to interact in putting together holistic security-development projects;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that given the funding gap required to reach the ambitious development goals, the private sector might play a crucial role; notes that blending might be a useful vehicle for leveraging additional resources, provided that its use is duly justified, its added value is demonstrated and it meets development effectiveness principles., and that it is coordinated with public policy in a holistic approach to development, taking into account the security dimension, which is essential in many African countries;