12 Amendments of Elly SCHLEIN related to 2015/2345(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that NGOs are vital change agents and human rights defenders with a central role in implementing Agenda 2030; given current humanitarian crises, underlines NGOs’ importance to humacrucial and independent partners and critical change and accountability agents; emphasizes the pivotal role that they play in the field of development and humanitarian aid, especially in light of the unprecedented scale of humanitarian crises; recalls that NGOs as part of civil society will continue to play an important role in the implementation and monitaorian aid; condemns efforts to control NGOs through public fundng of the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development; condemns any attempt to use public funds to impose political control over NGOs;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls EU adherence to the 2011 Busan Partnership for Development Effectiveness and its support for the 2011 International Framework for CSO Development Effectiveness, and the commitments made to help civil society organisations (CSOs) achieveto exercise their roles as independent development actors with a long-term results- oriented outcomesperspective facilitated by an enabling environment and institutional support;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recalls Council Conclusions on a rights-based approach to development cooperation, encompassing all human rights, and urges the European Commission to step up its efforts in ensuring the effective implementation of a rights-based approach in order to strengthen the impact of EU's development and cooperation assistance. Future funding in terms of design and indicators should reflect more clearly a rights-based approach and take measurable steps towards gender equality;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Commission to build a central database outlining NGO funding and results, and to make any data secure that might endanger NGO actorsised and comprehensive database outlining key information about funding allocated to NGOs, amounts committed or disbursed, and key results achieved, bearing in mind protection of data and sensitive information that might put the security of actors involved at risk;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to reduce NGOs’ administrative burdens on NGOs without affecting transparency and control requirements by simplifying application procedures and reporting formats and requirements, ensuring there is a mix of funding formodalities available to a range of different actors and streamlinbetter balancing financial requirements such as audits and bank guarantees;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that NGOs differ in terms of size and activities; urgy area; believes that a range of grants be offered; asks the Commission to make administrative burdfunding modalities needs to be in place to ensure access to grants for a diversity of NGOs; asks the Commission to consider making application, implementation and reporting requirements proportional to the size of the grant size;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Given the unpredictable and complex environment in which NGOs now operate, stresses that NGOs should be permittedhumanitarian and development NGOs operate, stresses that flexibility is needed to help NGOs to adjust their projects based on real-time re- evaluation and feedback, defining light and quick procedures for project amendments not affecting overarching objectives;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recognises that working with multiple donors increases administrative burdens; asks the Commission, therefore, to limit minimum percentage requirements in co-funding agreements, and further to ensure that in- kind contributions are considered as eligible, harmonise external evaluation requirements and make better use of existing evaluation for co-funding within the different funding programmes;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls its concerns about the increasing use of trust funds, such as limited transparency, lack of consultation and regional ownership; believes that involvement of CSOs is essential and the use of this instrument should not lead to greater administrative burden to NGOs or the exclusion of important actors; calls therefore for a thorough external evaluation of this mechanism and to ensure full transparency and accountability in the management of all public finances from the EU budget;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Commission to use the opportunity of the mid-term review of the Multiannual Financial Framework to agree on the necessary structural changes so that the level of payments for humanitarian and development aid is automatically brought up to the level of commitments in the annual EC budget;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Takes note of the decision of the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières no longer to accept funds from the EU or its Member States as a result of its opposition to the EU response to the migrant crisis and the EU-Turkey deal, calls on the Commission and the Member States to engage in dialogue and to profit from the critical role played by humanitarian NGOs, which deliver in the field, often with a high level of specialisation, the majority of international humanitarian aid;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to promote proactive engagement with NGOs in order to focus on priorities such as simplification and better implementation.to intensify partnership and policy dialogue via umbrella organisations, and to support NGOs in relations with authorities and local associations, in order to focus on priorities such as simplification and better implementation; stresses that EU Country Roadmaps for engagements with CSOs should be recognised and used as a tool for better policy dialogue and overall strategic engagement with a range of civil society actors at the country level;