6 Amendments of Maria HEUBUCH related to 2017/2594(RSP)
Amendment 16 #
Recital G
G. whereas while a lack of resilience can result in immediate needs – including a humanitarian response to save lives or political and diplomatic efforts to end conflict – fostering resilience needs to be understood as a long-term effort embedded in the promotion of sustainable development; whereas as part of the EU’s foreign policy and development cooperation programmes promoting resilience needs to be context-specific and seek to contribute to the strengthening national resilience strategies owned by partner countries’ governments that are also accountable to their populations;
Amendment 25 #
Recital i a (new)
i a. whereas empowering women is key in order to foster resilience;
Amendment 32 #
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that the current EU approach to resilience, as set out in the 2012 Communication and 2013 Council Conclusions, remains fundamentally valid and should be continued, whilst recognising the need to incorporate lessons learnt from the implementation of this policy into the new Joint Communication; wonders how the Communication will take into account elements from evaluations as a major planned evaluation will only take place in 2018; believes that the 2013-2020 Action Plan for resilience should be fully implemented;
Amendment 41 #
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights that building resilience in partner countries is a long-term process and that this therefore needs to be integrated into development programmes; stresses that the new Joint Communication should recognise this and support the promotion of resilience as essential element of the sustainable development strategies of partner countries, particularly in fragile states; notes that these strategies need to be context-specific and in line with the principles of effective development including country ownership and shared mutual accountability to European citizens and those from partner countries; underlines in this regard the important monitoring and scrutiny role of the European Parliament and of national parliaments;
Amendment 51 #
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for community resilience and a focus on vulnerable groups – including the poorest in society, minorities, women, children, people with disabilities and the elderly – to remain central to the promotion of resilience in the external action of the EU; highlights the central role played by civil society organisations in building resilience; underlines also the importance of collecting and disseminating disaggregated data to understand the situation of vulnerable groups;
Amendment 70 #
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for sufficient resources to be devoted to the promotion of resilience, in line with its place as one of the strategic priorities of the EU; would welcome a strategic reflection ahead of the next multi- annual financial framework of how the EU can better use existing external financing instruments and innovative mechanisms like Trust Funds, to promote resilience; stresses that actions can be financed from different instruments working in a complementary manner and underlines that resources drawn from development cooperation instruments need to maintain poverty reduction as their central objective; considers that short term mechanisms like Trust Funds are not appropriate instruments in order to foster resilience;