12 Amendments of Enrique GUERRERO SALOM related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines, in this context, the need to focus on the health, food, education, water and sanitation, energy, industry, innovation and infrastructure and governance SDGincrease the level of resources allocated to development cooperation in order to implement Agenda 2030 in an integrated and holistic way; emphasises the need to fulfil EU commitments to allocate 20% of its ODA to social inclusion and human development with a focus on education and health; recalls EU commitment to gender mainstreaming in the next MFF and the need to invest in powerful enablers to sustainable human development such as sexual and reproductive health and rights;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines, in this context, the need to focus on the health, food, education, water and sanitation, energy, industry, innovation and infrastructure and governance SDGs; stresses, moreover, the importance of the gender and environmental dimensions of these areas
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points to the crucial role of official development assistance (ODA) in least developed countries and fragile states; notes its potential to facilitate the mobilisation of financing for development from other sources, private and public, domestic and international; supports the EU’s new efforts at stimulating private investment through blending grants and loans and providing guarantees, also in countries where the needs are great, but the risks are high; notes that important funding needs will arise as a result; however, it emphasises that blending should be duly justified and should complement, not substitute, traditional development financing;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the next MFF also to reflect the unprecedented needs for humanitarian aid, caused by natural and man-made disasters driven, inter alia, by climate change, through a higher allocation from the start, the unprecedented needs for humanitarian aid and for disaster risk reduction, disaster and epidemic preparedness and the building of resilience in developing countries; notes, in addition, the upward pressure on these needs stemming from the effects of conflicts and wars, human rights violations, bad governance and corruption, poor provision of basic social services, growing inequality, as well as climate change and competition for scarce resources;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers it necessary to strengthen transparency, accountability and reporting of the resources for the development and humanitarian aid, as well as the financial means for this aid, with rapid approval by the budgetary authority, whenever needed, especially bearing in mind the newly established 2030 Agenda, and with a view to fulfilling the policy coherence for development (PCD) principles;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls for the next MFF to be consistent with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, underlines the need of scaling up financing for climate action in developing countries, supporting climate mitigation and adaptation and the protection of biodiversity; calls for effective mainstreaming of climate change and environment issues in EU external financing instruments;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls the key role played by special instruments in the current MFF, in particular the Emergency Aid Reserve (EAR) to respond to unforeseen events including the most acute humanitarian crises outside the EU;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Stresses that the next MFF should also enable the EU to implement the commitments taken at the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, across the different policy sectors to shrink the needs and improve the delivery of humanitarian aid;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Deplores the EU’s failure to achieve the 0.7 % ODA/GNI commitment for 2015 and draws attention to the ODA commitments entered into by the EU and its Member States, including that of increasing their ODA to 0.7 % of GNI by 2030; recalls that EU-managed ODA contributes towards the honouring of Member States’ commitments and can significantly increase the development effectiveness of ODA expenditure, including through reduced fragmentation and the facilitation of an incentive-based approach with partner countries.
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Requests the Commission to make a proposal on making payments systematically equal to commitments for humanitarian aid actions;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Urges the EU and its Member States to stop inflating aid and to exclude inflated aid items from ODA reporting (e.g. refugee costs, imputed student costs, tied aid, interest on loans and debt relief);
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls for mid-term evaluation of the MFF development programmes.