47 Amendments of Monika VANA related to 2016/2144(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the Gender Equality Index 2015 - Measuring gender equality in the European Union 2005-2012, published by the European Institute for Gender Equality in 2015, provides a detailed assessment of where the European Union and its Member States stand with respect to gender equality in six core domains (work, money, knowledge, time, power and health) and two satellite domains (violence and intersecting inequalities);
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
D b. whereas the Gender Equality Index 2015 - Measuring gender equality in the European Union 2005-2012, published by the European Institute for Gender Equality in 2015, provides a sound methodology of measuring gender inequality fully aligned with the principle of gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for strong gender budgeting and gender mainstreaming to be taken into account in preparing the post-2020 generation of EU funding programmes, with the aim of determining the following elements: i) identifying the implicit and explicit gender issues; ii) identifying – where possible – the allied resource allocations; and iii) assessing whether the EU funding programmes will continue or change existing inequalities between women and men (and groups of women and men), girls and boys and patterns of gender relations.
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the intended mainstreaming of gender equality as a cross-cutting policy objective of the EU budget in EU funds and programmes as established in Article 8 TFEU;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores, however, the fact that the EU’'s political commitment to gender equality and gender mainstreaming is not yet internalised in the budget allocations and spending decisions of all EU policy areas as part of a gender budgeting methodology;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Notes that gender budgeting is part of an overall strategy on gender equality and stresses, therefore, that the commitment of EU institutions on that area is fundamental; regrets in this context that no EU gender equality strategy 2016-2020 was adopted and, echoing the Council Conclusions on Gender Equality of the 16th of June 2016, calls on the Commission to enhance the status of its Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019 by adopting it as a Communication;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Stresses the importance of the structures and processes involved in budget-making and the need to change the ones which have been shown to underpin, or unintentionally promote gender inequality;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Notes that awareness raising and training on gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting is necessary to develop gender sensitive structures and procedures;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. NotDeplores that gender equality is not recognised as a policy objective in all EU budget titles, and that several of those and, therefore, most of the programmes do not have specific targeted actions with specific budget allocations; regrets that even if targeted actions have been established, several budget titles are not fully transparent in the sense that they do not specify the amount allocated to individual policy objectives and actions;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Notes that collaboration is needed between statisticians and policy makers to understand the type of data policy makers need and for policy makers to be aware of the challenges in collecting sensitive data; stresses the fundamental role of EIGE in closing this gap;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. HighlighStrongly regrets the fact that no clear gender equality strategy with specific objectives, concrete targets and allocations, has emerged from the MFF 2014-2020;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. NotDeplores that the Commission’'s communication on the MFF midterm review published in September 2016 makes no reference to the implementation of gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that ensuring the necessarye important role of public services in promoting gender equality and the impact of ESI funds in ensuring the necessary funding for essential social infrastructure fun, including for quality, affordable and accessible care services for children and the elderly willhich support female participation in the labour market and women’'s economic independence, and thus foster gender equality;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Deplores that women still suffer from inequalities at work such as lower participation rates in employment, pay gap, greater incidence of atypical or part- time employment, poorer pension entitlements, career segregation and poorer levels of progression; stresses the importance of ESF in providing funding opportunities to combat discrimination and promoting gender equality at work;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that it is difficult to have a figure on the spending dedicated to promote gender equality and that, according to the European Commission Staff Working Document for the Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality 2016- 2019, EUR 5.85 billion EUR will be spent in 2014-2020 on measures promoting gender equality, of which 1.6% under the ESF for the specific investment priority ‘'Equality between men and women in all areas including access to employment, career progression, reconciliation of work and private life and promotion of equal pay for equal work’'; deplores, however, the lack of transparency in the budget lines associated to this spending that prevent an accountable planning of the resources dedicated to gender equality;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notes that ERDF funding should also support investment in childcare and other social infrastructure supporting public services;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Stresses the important role of EAFRD in ensuring the necessary funding to support public services and social infrastructure in rural areas and promoting access to land and investment for women;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Calls on the Commission to propose new targeted actions addressed to encourage women's participation in the labour market such as a specific programme financed by the EAFRD in order to support female entrepreneurship;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12 c. Calls on the Commission, the Member States, regional and local governments to make use of the potential of cross cutting financing opportunities under ESI funds to support projects aimed at promoting gender equality; highlights the importance of the partnership principle applied within the ESI funds, which contributes positively to gender mainstreaming at the local level;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Recalls the importance of close monitoring and evaluation of the Operational Programmes ofthe requirement to include gender- disaggregated indicators in the monitoring and evaluation of the Operational Programmes as foreseen in Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 laying down common provisions on the ESI Funds, in order to avoid the downgrading of gender equality in the implementation phase;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Deplores that despite efforts to create a ‘'standard’' in this field, a systematic method for the implementation of gender mainstreaming within the ESFI Funds has not yet been established as well as targeted actions linked to an overall gender mainstreaming strategy; calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase resources for gender equality assessment and to follow consistently the implementation of gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. CRecalls for the creation of permanent gender equality bodies at Member State level, which would provide technical support for gender mainstreaming at the planning and implementation stages, and strongly welcomes, in this context,that ESI Funds are subject to an ex-ante conditionality on gender that requires arrangements for training and for the involvement of bodies responsible for gender equality throughout the preparation and implementation of the programmes; calls on the Commission to ensure that this requirement is fulfilled and to promote the exchange of national best practices such as the Gender CoP network in Sweden;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights the importance of giving special attention and priority to ESIF measures supporting investments in educational, social and healthcare services, given that these services are facing reductions in public funding at national, regional and local level;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Regrets that the budget lines under REC do not specify the resources allocated to each of the objectives of the programme, making it very difficult to analyse the spending dedicated to gender equality and combating violence against women;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Notes that, according to the European Commission Staff Working Document for the Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality 2016-2019, the two objectives related to gender equality and to the Daphne programme for combating violence against women currently account for around 35 % of the REC funds; points out that a majority of funds havewill been allocated under the Daphne objective compared to the gender equality objective;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Calls on the Commission to increase support for European networks on gender equality themes; thereby reinforcing opportunities for greater peer- to-peer learning, notably amongst subnational authorities; in particular, specific support is needed to increase women's participation in decision- making;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls for more clarity on how the objective on combating violence is pursued under the REC programme; highlights the importance of funds reaching grassroots organisations and local and regional governments in order to ensure effective implementation;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. Recognises the need to ensure support for implementation of existing local and regional gender equality initiatives such as the European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Welcomes the fact that applicants have the possibility to include training and specific studies on gender as eligible costs in their proposals;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27 b. Welcomes that gender balance in staff is one of the ranking factors in the evaluation criteria in Horizon 2020 and that the way sex and/or gender analysis is taken into account in a proposal is assessed by the evaluators alongside the other relevant aspects of the proposal;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27 c. Deplores, however, that the criteria to evaluate the grants is oriented in promoting gender equality and not in ensuring gender equality; calls on this regard for a gender equality ex-ante conditionality to apply to all grants under Horizon 2020;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31 a. Welcomes that one of the objectives in 'Science with and for Society' is to ensure gender equality, in both the research process and research content; further welcomes the grants 'Support to research organisations to implement gender equality plans' and 'Promoting Gender equality in H2020 and the European Research Area'; deplores, however, that there are no specific lines in the budget for the specific objectives of this programme;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32 a. Deplores that the European Fund for Strategic Investments does not include a gender perspective and stresses that a successful process of recovery is not possible without addressing the impact of the crises on women;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 b (new)
Paragraph 32 b (new)
32 b. Stresses that natural disasters have a big impact on infrastructures linked to public services and, therefore, women are particularly affected; calls on the Commission to introduce in the EU Solidarity Fund a requirement for a gender sensitive analysis while evaluating the impact on population;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33 a. Stresses that girls and women victims of armed conflict have the right to necessary medical care, including access to contraception, emergency contraception and abortion services; recalls that EU humanitarian aid must uphold the rights of girls and women under international humanitarian law and should not be subject to restrictions imposed by other partner donors as noted in EU's 2016 budget; welcomes EU's approach on this regard and encourages the Commission to maintain its position;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Highlights that gender mainstreaming is also among the founding principles of the recent Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF), and that eligible actions under this funding should; deplores, however, the lack of targeted actions on gender equality despite Parliament's reiterated calls to take into account the gender dimension also within migration and asylum policies by ensureing that special attention is paid to the specific needs of vulnerable persons, in particular women, unaccompanied minors and other groups at riskwomen have access to safe spaces, specific healthcare linked to sexual and reproductive health and rights and specialised attention in case of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants who have suffered violence against women and sexual violence; calls on the Commission to readdress this situation;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Calls for specific funding to support targeted measures involving grassroots organisations, local and regional governments for ensuring that the basichuman rights, safety and security of asylum seeking, refugee and migrant women and girls are protected;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Reiterates its request for gender budgeting to be used at all levels of the EU budgetary procedure;Calls for strong gender budgeting and gender mainstreaming to be used at all levels of the EU budgetary procedure and to be taken into account in preparing the post-2020 generation of EU funding programmes, with the aim of determining the following elements:
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – point i (new)
Paragraph 37 – point i (new)
(i) identifying the implicit and explicit gender issues;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – point ii (new)
Paragraph 37 – point ii (new)
(ii) identifying – where possible – the allied resource allocations; and
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – point iii (new)
Paragraph 37 – point iii (new)
(iii) assessing whether the EU funding programmes will continue or change existing inequalities between women and men (and groups of women and men), girls and boys and patterns of gender relations;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)
Paragraph 39 a (new)
39 a. Recalls that gender budgeting is a methodology that needs to be applied in all EU budget lines, and not only for the programmes where the implications for a gender impact seem most relevant;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 b (new)
Paragraph 39 b (new)
39 b. Notes that gender mainstreaming is not a once-off exercise and that gender budgeting requires an ongoing commitment to understanding gender, which includes analysis and consultation, and ongoing budget readjustments to take account of the changing needs of women and men, boys and girls;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Calls for gender-specific indicators to be applied in the project selection, monitoring and evaluation phases of all actions that receive funding from the EU budget, for mandatory gender impact assessment as a general ex-ante conditionality, and for the collection of gender-disaggregated data with regard to beneficiaries and participants;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 a (new)
Paragraph 44 a (new)
44 a. Recalls, however, that engendering data is more than collecting sex- dissagregated data and calls for the improvement of data collection in order to be able to make a qualitative analysis of women's situation, for example, regarding working conditions;