30 Amendments of Norbert NEUSER related to 2015/2044(INI)
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas eradicating poverty and inequality can only be achieved by mobilising sufficient and appropriate resources for all, and better targeting marginalized groups, such as children, women, elderly people or persons with disabilities; whereas despite a significant reduction in extreme poverty, progress for children has been slower making the need for investing in children - both through domestic resources mobilisation and international public financing- a key factor to create enabling environments for sustained and equitable long-term growth;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas most of the world's poor people are now in middle-income countries; a new development paradigm therefore requires programmes targeted both for poor people and poor countries;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the implementation of the post-2015 agenda requires both financial and non-financial means;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas very few developed countries are fulfilling their commitment of providing 0.7 % of Gross National Income (GNI) as ODA, including 0.15-0.20 % of GNI to Least Developed Countries (LDCs); whereas Member States which joined the EU in 2004 or later have committed to strive to the target 0.33 % of GNI, but none of them has yet reached this target;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the private investment of major direct value for the pursuit of the SDGs has huge potentialsector, when properly regulated, has an important role on the implementation of the SDGs while respecting its global principles and accountability mechanisms, with the objective to tackle poverty, inequality and achieving inclusive and sustainable growth in developing countries; whereas private investment, in particular, has huge potential for the pursuit of the SDGs and can be encouraged in many ways, as reflected in UNCTAD’'s proposal for an Action Plan for SDG investment;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas civil society plays a key role in ensuring a universal and inclusive process, both at national and at global level, and contributes to good governance and accountability;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the EU and its Member States, as the largest donors of development aid, must lead the FfD process and help bring about a credible response to the development finance challenges, ensuring policy coherence for development;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the UN Secretary-General’'s Synthesis Report and its transformative, universal, holistic and integrated approach to an ambitious global partnership; insists that without comprehensive and substantial means of implementation such an ambitious partnership will not be successful;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the Zero Draft of the Outcome Document of the Third Financing for Development Conference and calls on the EU and its Member States to support it;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the EU to lead the preparatory processes towards a renewed agreement on financing for development, the definition of a sustainable development framework and its means of implementation along the commitments and values stated in its founding Treaties;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Supports innovative sources of additional development and climate finance, including financial transaction taxes and, carbon taxes on international aviation and maritime transport and automatic allocation of carbon market revenues; welcomes further European and international efforts to identify other additional sources;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises that ODA should remain the standard measure of financial efforts made; supports the inclusion of concessional loans based on calculation of their grant equivalents, despite due consideration of total official support for development, despite due consideration of total official support for development; notes that while most ODA is provided in the form of grants, concessional loans are an important part of it, despite the need for their impact assessment; welcomes the agreement by the OECD-DAC to modernise the reporting of concessional loans by introducing a grant equivalent system for the purpose of calculating ODA figures;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for the EU and its Member States to promote an aid effectiveness agenda by reducing aid fragmentation through greater coordination between different aid mechanisms and donors and ensuring that all development finance is pro-poor, gender-sensitive, environmentally sound and climate-proof;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Underlines that ODA should prioritise basic social services for all and 'public goods' that are less effectively provided by the private sector, such as primary education, social safety nets, health care and infrastructure for sanitation and water supply; stresses that accessibility should be a key criteria in international public financing to promote universal and inclusive services and infrastructures;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Highlights the importance of development banks mobilising additional funds for reducing the gap in infrastructures funding and access to credit in developing countries;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Encourages the Commission to strengthen the areas of tax administration, financial governance and public financial management through enhanced cooperation and capacity building in developing countries; stresses the need to accelerate and scale-up on-going efforts to improve budgetary reporting and calls for increased harmonisation of budgetary reporting practices across countries;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for the EU and its Member States to actively crack down on tax havens, tax evasion and illicit financial flows; encourages the automatic exchange of tax information with developing countries and the elaboration of public registers of beneficial ownership; supports the setting- up of an intergovernmental body for tax cooperation under the auspices of the UN;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Stresses the decisive importance of good governance, human rights protection, the rule of law, institutional framework and regulatory instruments; especially supports investment in capacity- building, inclusive education, and health, nutrition, public services, and social protection for all, and the fight against poverty and inequality, including among children and in terms of gender; recognises the need for accessible infrastructures and selective public investments, as well as the sustainable use of natural resources, including by the extractive industries;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Stresses that financing for development must strengthen the resources available to promote gender equality, women’s rights and women’s empowerment; emphasises that this should include both targeted investments in key sectors such as health and education and steps to ensure all development finance takes full account of the situation of women and girls;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for greater financing of research and development in science, technology and innovation in developing countries, while recognising that this financing should be both domestic and international; urges the promotion of research and development that can advance progress against complex challenges and towards global public goods, such as technology and innovation for health;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Recognises the role of local authorities in the implementation of the SDGs which requires the allocation of the necessary means;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses the importance of favourable conditions for private enterprise in developing countries; calls for alignment of the private sector with the sustainable development goals through appropriate partnerships, financial instruments, incentives, accountability framework and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); recalls the need to comply with agreed international standards such as the International Labour Organization (ILO) standards and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for the EU to set up a regulatory framework that stimulates responsible, transparent and accountable investment which contributes to the development of thea socially conscious private sector in developing countries;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for the adoption of an ‘SDG partner’ frameworkclear guidelines for blending projects and public- private partnerships (PPPs) that willo ensure that such projects deliver the desired development outcomes and respect the best international practices and the internationally agreed development effectiveness principles; suggests the adoption of an ‘SDG partner’ label for those projects that fulfil the best practices requirements;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Recalls the role of civil society, including NGOs, as an essential development partner for a more inclusive and accountable implementation of the post-2015 agenda; calls for an increased civil society voice in the discussions of development priorities and, the set-up of operations on the ground and the development of accountability mechanisms; calls for increased consultation of young people in the discussions for the post-2015 agenda, namely through innovative communication technologies;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Recalls the UN’s central role, in complementarity with other existing institutions and forums, in global economic governance and development; supportscalls for more efforts to further enhance the voice and equal representation of developing countries in multilateral institutions and other norm- and standard-setting bodies;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Welcomes the international efforts to relieve the international debt obligations of Ebola-affected countries in order to help them face the economic crises caused by the epidemic;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for a review of international organisations’ programmes and instruments of financial assistance for development in order to align them with the new SDGs; urges, notably, the European Investment Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to increase low-income countries’ levels of access to their concessional facilities and to gear their resources more closely to the needs of developing countries, including through mutually effective pro-poor lending facilities; calls notably for an increase in the amounts of concessional facilities available to the European Investment Bank, beyond its current mandates, in order to further increase its funding to low-income countries;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls for an international initiative to improve the quality of statistics, data and information in order to track spending, investment and progress on specific commitments and objectives; welcomes global efforts to ensure the implementation of the SDGs uses data that is sufficiently disaggregated for income, gender, age and other indicators, so that the impact of the policies guided by the SDGs can be effectively monitored;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls for an agreement at the Addis Ababa conference on a robust, transparent and accessible monitoring and accountability framework for effective follow-up of the implementation of the SDG commitments and objectives; calls for an international initiative to improve the quality of statistics, data and information; asks all parties to ensure transparent and efficient implementation of aid and financing, in particular by signing and effectively implementing the provisions of the UN Convention against Corruption and by committing to systematically publish accurate, timely and comparable revenue and expenditure data as well as budget documents;