Activities of Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY related to 2017/2052(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the next MFF: Preparing the Parliament’s position on the MFF post-2020
Amendments (12)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph –1 (new)
Paragraph –1 (new)
-1. whereas the primary objective of the EU development cooperation policy enshrined in the TFUE article 208 is the reduction and, in the long term, the eradication of poverty
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the EU’s commitment to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must guide the preparation of the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) and therefore that the EU’s support for such implementation in developing countries must increasemust keep its focus on long term objectives such as the eradication of poverty, tackling inequalities and exclusion, promoting democratic governance and human rights, and enhancing sustainable and inclusive development;;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that development cooperation must be implemented in full respect of the internationally agreed aid effectiveness principles and as such, support partner countries’ national plans and strategies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines, in this context, the need to focus on the health, food, education, water and sanitation, energy, industry, innovation and infrastructure and governance SDGs; increase the current level of resources allocated to development cooperation in order to implement Agenda 2030 in an integrated and holistic way, addressing people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership as agreed in the European Consensus on Development and in full respect of the Development effectiveness principles; emphasises the need to fulfil EU commitment to allocate 20% of its funding to social inclusion and human development as per the new European Consensus on Development; reinstates EU commitment to gender mainstreaming in the next MFF;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Encourages in this context the better use of all programmes under the next MFF headings to complement the EU’ objectives of development cooperation that can support tackling global challenges such as research programme and ensure that through effective policy coherence for development, no EU policy or programme contradict the objectives of poverty eradication, the promotion of sustainable societal, economic and environmental development and of human rights and the reduction of inequalities in partner countries;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points to the crucial role of official development assistance (ODA) in least developed countries and fragile states; notes its potential to facilit and insists thate the mobilisation of financing for development from other sources, private and public, domestic and international; supports the EU’s new efforts at stimulating private investment through blending grants and loans and providing guarantees, also in countries where the needs are great, but the risks are high; notes that important funding needs will arise as a resultEU should honour its commitment under the Addis Ababa Action Agenda to reach 0.20% of ODA/GNI to least developed countries (LDCs) by 2030, in order to leave no one behind;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls that high levels of inequalities remain in a great number of middle-income countries (MICs)and, therefore, calls the Commission to maintain specific funding allocations for those countries; considers that country differentiation in terms of funding allocations and cooperation modalities should be based on a broad range of criteria taking inclusive human development, human rights and level of inequalities as well as the country’s priorities for sustainable development into account;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Notes that development assistance can play an important role in the area of migration, refugees and asylum, in particular in tackling the causes of forced displacement and enhancing the benefits of migration and mobility for development and poverty reduction while using a rights-based approach to protect all people on the move whatever their country of origin or status; considers, however, that ODA should not be used to finance measures related to the reception of refugees and asylum seekers in the EU, the externalisation of reception centres and asylum seekers’ application procedures outside EU borders nor the costs of forced return and readmission to the countries of origin and transit; reiterates that development assistance should be needs driven and as such should not be conditioned upon cooperation of third countries in the field of security and migration;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Recalls that trust funds have been established under this MFF due to lack of flexibility needed for immediate reactions and that this has led for reduced democratic ownership; stresses therefore that the next MFF must clearly be based in coherent programmes that safeguard this democratic ownership and development objectives; Stresses that greater flexibility in development aid shouldn’t come at the expense of the respect of aid effectiveness principles and aid predictability, and that flexibility should be oriented towards responding to changes in the context of developing countries, and not those of the EU, with a view of increasing development impact;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the next MFF also to reflect the unprecedented needs for humanitarian aid, caused by natural and man-made disasters driven, inter alia, by climate change and by the consequences of the EU`s unbalanced trade policy;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasiszes that losses of funds for EU development cooperation caused by Brexit must be compensated for; supports the integration of the European Development Fund (EDF) into the EU budget in the context of an equivalent overall increase the total of EU-managed ODA; recalls however that this integration should only be done on the condition that there is a legal guarantee that it will not lead to the reduction of the current EDF resources or to their diversion for geographic areas or cooperation priorities that are not part of the future agreement(s) between the ACP states and the EU, that resources are ring- fenced in a relevant way to countries’ or regions’ needs and that the principles of co-management and joint programming are guaranteed;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Draws attention to the ODA commitments entered into by the EU and its Member States, including that of increasing their ODA to 0.7 % of GNI by 2030; recalls that EU-managed ODA contributes towards the honouring of Member States’ commitments and can significantly increase the development effectiveness of ODA expenditure, including through reduced fragmentation and the facilitation of an incentive-based approach with partner countries; emphasises the need to apply the development effectiveness principles and policy coherence for development to all funding instruments and financing modalities, including blending facilities and the External Investment Plan.