Activities of Enrique GUERRERO SALOM related to 2012/2248(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Special Report No 13/2012 (2011 discharge): ‘European Union Development Assistance for Drinking-Water Supply and Basic Sanitation in Sub-Saharan Countries’
Amendments (5)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recalls that sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation has been recognized as a universal human right, and is of fundamental importance for human health and well-being, that ensuring such access is a long-standing objective of development assistance, that halving the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation is part of the Millennium Development Goal 7, but that the UN's 2012 MDG reports forecasts that 600 million people will still lack access to safe drinking water in 2015 and that in Sub-Saharan Africa, progress towards this target is hugely insufficient, with serious consequences for millions of people, being the most vulnerable women and children under 5 years of age;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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2. Considers that more resources should be mobilised, including by the EU, especially to improve sanitation, where unmet needs are particularly big; stresses that determined efforts must be made to obtain maximum benefits from all projects, to eliminate recurring quality problems and to strengthen the EU Water Facility financially as well as in terms of management capacity and efficiency in building local capacity; requests the Commission to ensure that the EU Water Facility is properly funded in the next MFF, in order to allow the Union to meet our development and sustainability commitments after 2015.
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
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4. Finds it remarkable that the Commission did not make good use of its own management procedures covering sustainability; considersTakes note of the Commission's reply, notably that most of the projects were approved before the establishment in 2005 of quality support groups, unsatisfactory;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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7. Regrets the scarcity of data on many of the projects in the Court of Auditors Special Report and the absence of ex-post evaluation by the Commission of all but two of these projects; Encourages the Commission to improve the traceability and follow up mechanisms of all programming and projects with a significant impact on access to water and sanitation.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
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