Activities of Luisa MORGANTINI related to 2008/2048(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Follow-up of the Paris Declaration of 2005 on Aid Effectiveness (debate)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Sa (new)
Recital Sa (new)
Sa. whereas the role of civil society is essential, both as a partner in the political dialogue on aid effectiveness and setting aid priorities, and as “watchdog” for monitoring government spending,
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ua (new)
Recital Ua (new)
Ua. whereas the European Consensus on Development recognises gender equality as a goal in its own right and commits the EU to strengthening its approach to gender equality in all EU development cooperation and whereas the EC Communication on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Development Cooperation commits EU donors to ensure the effective implementation of strategies and practices that genuinely deliver for women,
Amendment 29 #
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 with partner countries' priorities and to make their actions more harmonized, transparent and collectively effective;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the Commission will need to maintain the integrity of the development agenda and a clear focus on the ultimate objective of poverty eradication and emphasise the effective implementation of priority policies, including a clear focus on results;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recognises the importance that better reporting of the results to the European Parliament, civil society and the Member States can help build confidence in Community programmes, increase accountability and permit more strategic forms of oversight; in this respect, calls on the Commission to propose a new indicator (the 'Paris Declaration 13th indicator') to monitor Parliamentary scrutiny;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5d (new)
Paragraph 5d (new)
5d. Supports the choice of the Commission to increasingly use budget support, but at the same time encourages the Commission to further investigate the challenges of this aid modality;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to continue to simplify procedures, including aid delivery processes, to further decentralise responsibility and to provide the delegations with sufficient capacity (staff and skills) and more control or influence over the shape and approval procedure of the thematic and regional budget lines to fulfil their responsibilities; suggests including partner governments, parliaments and civil society organisations in a mapping of cumbersome procedures and possible solutions;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to improve the clarity of the definitions (ODA sectorial allocation) so as to improve consistency of the results and reduce the transaction costs of managing the Commission and Member States data at country level; urges the Commission and the Member States to exclude debt cancellation, particularly cancellation of export credit debts, money spent in Europe on students and refugees from aid figures from ODA;
Amendment 67 #
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 out economic policy conditionality and by aligning to partner countries' priorities as identified by local governments, parliaments and CSOs;
Amendment 74 #
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 including requirements for calls for proposals, disbursement procedures, financial control of projects, monitoring and evaluation processes;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Stresses the need to make a multi-year (3 years or more) aid commitments by the Commission and the Members States based on clear and transparent criteria agreed with partner countries, and the delivery of those commitments on schedule, in a transparent manner; welcomes the MDG contract as one of the possible ways to increase the predictability of aid;
Amendment 91 #
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 with development objectives in order to benefit developing countries and promoting a fair international financial and trade system in favour of development;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Notes that the aid effectiveness debate should not be understood as against the scaling up of aid as both issues are closely interrelated; urges the Commission and the Member States to reconfirm their commitment of achieving its collective target of 0.56% in 2010 and 0.7% in 2015, to scale up aid and to set ambitious multi- annual timetables to measure the gradual rise in aid budgets;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25a (new)
Paragraph 25a (new)
25a. Stresses the importance of including a strong gender perspective at every stage of the programming, implementation, monitoring and evaluation levels;