16 Amendments of Gay MITCHELL related to 2008/2128(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23 a (new)
Citation 23 a (new)
- having regard to the signature of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by the European Community as well as by the EU Member States
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas the eligibility criteria for MDG contracts include compliance with Article 96 of the Cotonou Agreement on human rights, democratic principles and the rule of law,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas the Commission envisages that, to be eligible, countries should have achieved satisfactory macro-economic results and budgetary management results when implementing budget support, thereby differing from other aid donors, such as the IMF or the World Bank, which attach many conditions to their aid in order to impose economic policies which have hitherto done more harm than good to the people of the countries concerned,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas the fundamental principle of development aid is to provide aid to those who need it most and to where it can be put to the most efficient use,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital W a (new)
Recital W a (new)
Wa. whereas there are 650 million persons with disabilities, of whom 80% live in developing countries and 1 in 5 lives in extreme poverty; considering that they constitute one of the largest groups of excluded and poor, facing multiple discrimination and rarely having access to education and health care,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital W b (new)
Recital W b (new)
Wb. whereas under the ‘general obligations’, and in particular article 32 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, signatories are obliged to take disability into account in their development cooperation,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital W c (new)
Recital W c (new)
Wc. whereas the MDGs will not be achieved by 2015 without giving due consideration to the inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital W c (new)
Recital W c (new)
Wc. whereas the implementation report of the EU-Africa Strategy of 22 November 2008, notably paragraph 37, identifies the apparent lack of action with regard to the situation of persons with disabilities in efforts to achieve the MDGs,
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reasserts that development aid should be based on need and performance and development aid policy should be geared to itsdesigned in partnership with the recipient countries;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to continue to link its aid to the results achieved in the health and education sectors, and in particular basic health care and primary education, to the results achieved; also calls on the Commission to specify the importance which will be attached to countries' performance in these sectors compared to a wider range of indicators, and how it intends to assess the progress achieved in these fields;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls onAsks the Commission and the recipientbeneficiary countries to ensure thate involvement of their parliaments and civil society are involved, including disabled people's organisations, in every stage of the budget support dialogue, including the formulation, implementation and assessment of the programme established in the MDG contract;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses that donors, rather than imposing strictunilateral conditions on recipients, should seek to find the best means of promotinge good governance, democracy and stability in recipient countries through transparent criteria established in partnership with these countries;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to make its budget support conditional on results achieved with regard not only in the field of good governance and transparency, but also in terms of defending and upholding human rights, particularly of the most poor and marginalised such as persons with disabilities, minorities, women and children, and to ensure that budget support is not provided for sectors other than those specified in the MDG contract;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Recommends that MDG contracts should also be available to countries covered by the development cooperation instrument (DCI) and recommends that the Commission create advantages for countries which are not covered by MDG contracts;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls onAsks the Commission, togetherin collaboration with the partner countries, to ensure thatmatch every draft MDG contract is accompanied bywith a series of performance indicators by which thin order to evaluate progress achieved byin the implementingation of the contract can be measured; The inclusion of persons and children with disabilities should also be measured by these indicators;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Draws the Commission's attention to the fact that it is essential for the Commission toshould ‘imperativement’ continue to link its budget support to the recipient countries' performance with regard to taking the gender dimension into acresults in beneficiary countries related to gender and the promotion of women’s rights, and asks that the performance indicators be strengthened in this area in the MDG count and promoting women's rightracts to expand to other spheres such as women’s rights and the rights of persons with disabilities;