Activities of Pierre SCHAPIRA related to 2008/2048(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Follow-up of the Paris Declaration of 2005 on Aid Effectiveness (debate)
Amendments (24)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the EU supplies more than half of all Official Development Assistance (ODA) in the world and, has the capacity to become the most effective donor and should therefore assume an international leadership role to promote the reforms which are necessary in order to improve aid effectiveness,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas environmental protection is among the EU's priorities and whereas the Commission must therefore take this objective into account in all the policies it pursues towards developing countries,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas between 2006 and 2007 the percentage of European GNP devoted to public development aid fell for the first time since 2000, from 0.41% to 0.38%, and whereas the EU must therefore redouble its efforts to attain the objective set in the Millennium Development Goals of devoting 0.7% of Europe's GNP to public development aid in 2015,
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas there is a risk that the ambitious objectives of the European Consensus for Development, including other political ones like migration and trade, could diffuse a focus on development and undermine the consensus achieved in the international aid agenda on poverty reduction as a result of lack of consistency between the various EU policies, and whereas in this context Paragraph 35 of the European Consensus for Development states, 'it is important that non-development policies assist developing countries' efforts in achieving the MDGs',
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas a large number of studies have shown that effective accountability for the use of aid involving citizen participation is one of the main indicators of aid effectiveness but still, aid is suffering from lack of transparency and openness; whereas this lack of transparency hampers access to information for governments, local authorities and civil society in the recipient countries and in this sense constitutes a major obstacle to better appropriation of aid,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S a (new)
Recital S a (new)
Sa. whereas local authorities are essential players in development policies, as their expertise and knowledge of local needs enable them to pass on, on a daily basis, the expectations of the people and to bridge the gap between the latter and the State,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S b (new)
Recital S b (new)
Sb. whereas the Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI) provides for no more than 15% of the thematic credit line for non-State actors and local authorities to be assigned to the latter and whereas this favourable trend, which is likely to render aid more effective, should be accompanied by greater recourse to decentralised cooperation on the part of Member States,
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States and the Commission together to make every effort to ensure that the EU speaks with one voice, to align aid delivery and to make their actions more harmonized, transparent, predictable and collectively effective;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to help integrate new members into the increasingly coordinated, international approaches to development policy and delivery with the appropriate mechanisms and to explore the way forward for possible joint programming exercises; recalls in this context that the new Member States have committed themselves to public development aid targets of 0.17% of GNI by 2010 and 0.33% by 2015, while their future contributions must reinforce the role of the EU in development cooperation;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission and the Member States jointly to identify performance indicators geared to the MDG indicators, in particular with regard to budgetary aid, so that national parliaments, local authorities and local civil society, as well as the European Parliament, can trace back the results of EU contributions;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Commission to devise a matrix of all the financial instruments from which it has awarded funds for good governance, whether from the EDF, the DCI, the EU-Africa Strategy or the funding allocated to African governments for good governance, in order to check the consistency of policies and the sound management of these funds;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls that corruption, by diverting the funds intended for development, is a major obstacle to greater aid effectiveness; calls on the Commission to improve monitoring of the allocation of development aid and to encourage aid recipients to ratify and apply strictly the international and regional agreements applicable in this field;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission also to encourage regular contact and shared work between its delegations and civil society and local authorities, in order to take better account of the needs and priorities of the partner countries and thus promote better appropriation of aid, which is the prime objective of the Paris Declaration;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses the need for developing guidelines and methodology for monitoring the Paris Declaration in order to improve collective understanding of the Paris agenda and ensure the consistent aggregation of information on indicators across the main countries receiving aid; stresses therefore the need to use precise indicators for interim assessments, the results of which will permit the readjustment and/or intensification of the actions necessary to attain the objectives set for 2010;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission and Member States, in accordance with the commitment given at the world summit on social development in Copenhagen in 1995, to comply with the call by civil- society organisations for at least 20% of development aid to be devoted to improving basic public services such as education, health, access to water and sanitation;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to respect real democratic ownership of the development process by phasing outeliminating economic policy conditionality; calls in particular for the 'aid to trade' strategy to be allowed to assist all developing countries and not only those which consent to greater opening of their markets, particularly under economic partnership agreements;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses the need for the international financial institutions and donor countries to publish the conditions for granting development aid, so that genuine democratic control can be exercised by parliaments, local authorities and civil society;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recognises the need to intensify the Commission's consultations with civil society partners in headquarters and in the field through better structured meetings on policy, strategic programming and aid effectiveness issues; reaffirms the need to fully involve civil society and local authorities in the formulation, implementation and assessment of development policies;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses the need to involve Local Authorities of both Members States and EU partners in the process of achieving the goals of the Paris Declaration, particularly at all stages of the formulation, implementation and assessment of development policies;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Commission and the Members States to make progress in this area by supporting the establishment of accounting standards for disclosure requirements of external assistance and by working with civil society organisations, national parliaments, local authorities and international organisations to set out good practice in recording aid flows in national budgets;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Stresses that technical assistance planned in the light of the needs expressed by recipient countries and civil- society organisations rather than the priorities of donor countries should make it possible to increase both the capacities of the EU's partners and local appropriation;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Notes that Aid reform is only one of the steps that the EU must take along with making its trade, security, migration, agriculture and other policies coherently work to benefit developing countries and promoting a fair international financial and trade system in favour of development; recalls in this connection Paragraph 35 of the European Consensus for Development, which states, 'it is important that non-development policies assist developing countries' efforts in achieving the MDGs';
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Recalls the commitments given by countries which are signatories to the Paris Declaration to perform strategic environmental assessments at sectoral and national level; calls on the Commission, therefore, to respect this objective with a view to assessing the impact of its policies, particularly on climate change, desertification and biodiversity in developing countries;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Stresses that efforts to render aid effective should be accompanied by better information of the citizens of donor countries regarding the aims, methods of implementation and recipients of development aid;