3 Amendments of Nirj DEVA related to 2011/2073(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Asks for the EU budget to support actions designed to anticipate disasters, prepare for them, avert them and react more quickly to them, as well as those enabling greater flexibility in launching development measures as a means of emerging from crisis situations; finds it regrettable that concrete progress on the link between emergency aid, rehabilitation and development remains limited despite the many political commitments made in recent years; calls therefore for more and better-managed resources to be deployed to guarantee continuity of aid in the transition phase between emergency and development, and for thought to be given to achieving greater flexibility and complementarity of the existing financial mechanisms, including the resources of the European Development Fund (EDF);
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Commends that this transitional, rehabilitation phase between emergency aid and development should primarily focus its attention on the capacity- building of local institutions and a high level of involvement of local NGOs and associations in the phases of planning and implementation in order to facilitate and build the basis for qualitative and effective human development programmes;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the quality of DG ECHO’s partners, achieved by means of an effective selection method and the development of standards and practices applicable in the humanitarian field; stresses also that effective monitoring of the use of funds in the form of audits of the partners carried out by private audit firms is essential and helps to legitimise the humanitarian sector; notecalls, however, in the interests of safeguarding the diversity of the partners and guaranteeing access for small and medium-sized NGOs, for the cosimplexity of theification of the complex administrative access procedures and for the overcoming of the difficulties experienced with undergoing audits, given the lack of human resources, and calls forinstructs that the tools used to be appropriate to the specific requirements of the humanitarian sector;