8 Amendments of Isabel SERRA SÁNCHEZ related to 2024/2019(DEC)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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1. Is very concerned by the increasing number of crises worldwide, the rise in extreme poverty and hunger, and the increasingly frequent and severe consequences of climate change, all of which disproportionately affect the most vulnerable populations and have halted or even reverted progress regarding the sustainable development goals (SDGs), with the SDG financing gap increasing to currently more than 4 trillion USD; highlights the need for more resources and for spending them in a more focused manner in order to tackle structural inequalities, promote debt relief and ensuring a fair redistribution of resources at global level;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
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2. Against this background and worldwide tightening budgets for development, underlines the urgent need to prioritize EU funds for actions that directly combat inequalities, poverty, and climate injustice and stresses that it is of utmost importance to usehat EU funds for development asre allocated and used in a fully transparently, effectively and efficiently as possible, manner, while avoiding unnecessary bureaucratic burdens on local partners, and strictly following established rules and procedures; expresses concern about the continuously high error rate found by the ECA for MFF heading 6 ‘Neighbourhood and the world‘ and the for the 9th, 10th and 11th EDF for the audit year 2023; urges the Commission to take further steps to reduce this error rate, and to strengthen support for local actors to improve compliance with established procedures;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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3. Welcomes that a number of earlier recommendations of ECA were implemented, but notes that an earlier recommendation to ensure that international organisations provide the ECA with complete, unlimited and timely access to documents for carrying out its audit work, is only partly implemented; whilst recognising the Commission’s efforts in this regard, asks the Commission to intensifybe more robust and transparent in its dialogue with the organisations concerned to achieve tangible resultsfull compliance with developments goals and tangible results, ensuring that EU funds are used in a way that prioritizes equity, sustainability, and accountability;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
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4. Given the ongoing battle for narratives in most regions of the world, insists that implementing partners comply with visibility rulshould prioritize promoting the real impact of EU-funded projects on the ground, particularly their contributions to reducing inequalities and improving the living conditions of marginalized communities;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
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5. Welcomes the positive examples provided by the ECA on effective controls implemented by the Commission; regrets, however, in that context, that the ECA found that EU Delegations do not always have enough budget to conduct sufficient field visits for monitoring the implementation of project activities and the achievement of intended results; calls for sufficient budgetary means to conduct such field visitstresses the need to increase financial resources for field monitoring to ensure that project implementation genuinely benefits local populations, aligns with SDGs, and respects human rights and environmental standards;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
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6. Welcomes ECA’s special report 18/2024 on EU financial support for health systems in selected partner countries (Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zimbabwe) and underlines in particular the findings on the sustainability of health systems and maintenance of equipment delivered, to ensure that EU involvement has a lasting effect; points out that the lessons learnt must be extrapolated to other global challenges as far as possible; encourages the ECA to continue to provide special reports relevant to international partnerships, on a regular basis.stresses the need to ensure that EU contributions prioritize strengthening public health systems, universal access to healthcare, and capacity-building for local actors; points out that the lessons learnt must be extrapolated and systematically applied to other global challenges with a focus on addressing inequalities and ensuring long-term sustainability; encourages the ECA to continue to provide special reports relevant to international partnerships, on a regular basis; expresses its concern that the ranking of partner countries drawn up by the Commission according to the needs of their health systems had little effect on bilateral funding, mainly due to programming principles;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
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6 a. Recalls that EUTF for Africa has mobilized over EUR 5 billion, with 88% of contributions (EUR 4.4 billion) coming from the European Development Fund and the EU budget; focusing on three key regions: the Sahel and Lake Chad, the Horn of Africa, and North Africa, supporting a total of 27 African countries; deplores that, despite several requests from Parliament, the process of managing and allocating these funds still lacks transparency and that the adherence of these actions to ODA principles cannot be ensured; recalls that ECA reported that the monitoring and reporting system lacks accuracy;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Underlines that ECA’s special report 17/2024 on the EU trust fund for Africa denounces that despite an innovative approach to identifying human rights risks in a difficult environment, these risks were not comprehensively addressed; deplores that, in particular, it was found that the assessment of potential risks to human rights was not comprehensive and that human rights monitoring and reporting were not sufficiently robust; deplores that the EUTF has already encountered serious human rights violations on numerous occasions; emphasises in particular the support given to the authorities and the Libyan coast guard, which contributed to blatant violations, arbitrary detentions and failure to respect the principle of non- refoulement;