Activities of Miguel URBÁN CRESPO related to 2021/2163(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
New orientations for the EU’s humanitarian action (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on new orientations for the EU’s humanitarian action
Amendments (19)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
— having regard to the EU Common Position 2008/944/CFSP on arms exports,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
— Having regard to UNSC resolution 2286 on the protection of the medical mission,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
— having regard to the UN Global Compact on Refugees adopted on 17 December 2018,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 b (new)
Citation 8 b (new)
— having regard to the UNHCR Report on use of Flexible Funding in 2020 and the updates thereof,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas women and girls are the hardest hit by emergencies. Adolescent girls in conflict zones are 90 per cent more likely to be out of school, 70 per cent of women in humanitarian settings are more likely to experience Gender-Based Violence and they represent more than 70 per cent of people facing chronic hunger;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the greater frequency and intensity in climate-induced disasters; fuels conflicts and locks more people in protracted displacement in ways never witnessed before, while a number of protracted crisis remain unresolved;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the re-commitment by GB 2.0 signatories of ensuring that response is as local as possible and as international as necessary entails the commitment to provide at least 25% of humanitarian funding as directly as possible to local and national actors but this target is far to be met;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas this funding gap makes it imperative to improve the efficiency and effectiveness, visibility, risk sharing, transparency and accountability of the humanitarian system and to ensure that aid meets the needs of the populations affected, as highlighted most recently by Grand Bargain 2.0, which focuses on localisation and quality financunding as key enabling priorities;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas the Covid 19 pandemic highlighted the fragility and unsustainability of an economic system that increases social inequality, which is one of the root causes of conflicts and humanitarian crises;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes with concern the sharp increase in the humanitarian funding gap, as major donors are reducing funding at a time of growing needs and that in many cases it is an issue of political will rather than affordability; underlines the stark differences in contributions both at a global level and from within the EU; calls for the EU to advocate for greater international responsibility-sharing and an increase in humanitarian funding; urges the Member States to lead by example and contribute a fixed share of their gross national incomes to humanitarian aid; calls on the Commission to ensure a more predictable, timely, and flexible revenue for humanitarian action, both for long-term protracted crisis in fragile and conflict affected settings and in order to respond timely to new rapid onset disasters; calls on the Commission to report annually on the amount of humanitarian funding disbursed from within the EU and at a global level;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for the EU to provide a robust annual budget for EU humanitarian aid to guarantee timely, predictable and flexible funding for humanitarian aid from the start of each financial year and to keep a ring-fenced envelope within the Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve (SEAR) for humanitarian crises outside the Union and maintaining the existing capacity to rapidly mobilise additional funds in the case of emerging, escalating or sudden onset emergencies;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include international humanitarian law violations as a criterion for listing individuals or entities in the relevant EU sanctions regimes; notes that sanctions and restrictive measures must comply with international humanitarian law and must not hinder the provision of humanitarian assistance; underlines the need to consistently include humanitarian exceptions in regimes of restrictive measures and to provide the necessary support and guidance to partners to apply these exceptions effectively; recalls that protracted crises are still humanitarian contexts, and while a substantial part of ‘nexus funding’ is channelled through development envelopes and its funding rules, in such contexts, normal development funding rules cannot always apply, and flexibility is key; calls on the EU and its Member States to discuss and find practical solutions for partners operating in these contexts;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for the EU and its Member States to swiftly fulfil the commitments made at the World Humanitarian Summit and as pivotal facilitating member part of the Grand Bargain 2.0; highlights the importance of making humanitarian aid more efficient and effective by increasing flexible funding through unearmarked, softly earmarked, multiannual and multi- country funding, reducing the administrative burden for humanitarian partners and promoting innovative solutions, among other endeavours, particularly in the areas of risk management and risk sharing, where often local actors bear more weight in terms of reputational and administrative risk;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to maintain and foster a realistic risk-sharing dialogue between the relevant departments, and with their humanitarian partners and other stakeholders, building on recent experiences and lessons-learned in order to continuously aim to improve existing funding regulations, making them more efficient and effective particularly in respect to highly volatile humanitarian crisis; risk-awareness has proven to be an effective tool for risk-mitigation;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the particular importance of supporting local actonational and local actors as well as frontline responders and urges the Commission to develop a localisation policy outlining how to provide more and better support for local respondents and crisis affected people’s organisations to enable them to make use of all the instruments available; calls on the Commission to ensure that women’s equal participation and empowerment is integrated explicitly into any new mechanisms to strengthen the role of local actors in humanitarian action;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the need of ensuring equal partnership, strengthening local capacities, promoting access to local partners, especially women-led organisations in decision-making processes, and addressing the issue of mutual accountability and risk sharing;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines the fact that while humanitarian aid seeks to tackle immediate, life-threatening situations, crises are caused by drivers that require long-term solutions; calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service to adopt a communication developing a clear policy on a humanitarian-development-peace nexus in order to bridge the gaps between the individual policy areas;, building an approach based on NGOs practical experience, putting people at the centre of the approach, taking into account the context specificities and respecting the humanitarian principles. calls for the EU and the Member States to swiftly implement this nexus approach, with a particular focus on preventing conflicts, tackling hunger, providing education and livelihood opportunities, and building resilience, while protecting the rights of vulnerable groups; supporting early recovery, enhancing response capacity, building self-reliance and resilience as well as reducing risks at community level, while protecting the rights of vulnerable groups and ensuring that humanitarian actors can work in accordance with the humanitarian principles; ; calls for the Commission and Member States to ensure transparency on how the EU is concretely working towards the operationalisation and to implement complementary, flexible and multi-year programmes, suited to local contexts, need-based and people-centred;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls for a more dedicated focus on health, access and reinforcement of universal and free public health services and efforts to reduce mortality and morbidity, - as well as the need to strengthen epidemics / pandemic preparedness;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Regrets that despite the common position on arms exports, Member States continue to export arms to countries in conflict, responsible for humanitarian crises and repeated violations of international and humanitarian law; Calls on Member States and the Council to enforce an effective ban on arms exports to countries in conflict suffering humanitarian crises and responsible of violations for international and humanitarian law;