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Activities of Bogdan Brunon WENTA related to 2016/2094(INI)

Plenary speeches (2)

Revision of the European Consensus on Development (debate) PL
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2094(INI)
Revision of the European Consensus on Development (debate) PL
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2016/2094(INI)

Reports (1)

REPORT on the revision of the European Consensus on Development PDF (329 KB) DOC (83 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: DEVE
Dossiers: 2016/2094(INI)
Documents: PDF(329 KB) DOC(83 KB)

Amendments (50)

Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the New Urban Agenda adopted at The United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) held from 17 to 20 October 2016 in Quito, Ecuador,6a _________________ 6ahttps://habitat3.org/the-new-urban- agenda/
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
– having regard to the EU Code of Conduct on Complementarity and Division of Labour in Development Policy,7a _________________ 7aCouncil Conclusions 9558/07, 15.5.2007
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 b (new)
– having regard to the EU Council conclusions of 19 May 2014 on a rights- based approach to development cooperation, encompassing all human rights,7b _________________ 7b Council Conclusions , 19.5.2014, file:///C:/Users/EPP/Downloads/142682.p df
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas Article 208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union states that "the Union's development cooperation policy and that of the Member States complement and reinforce each other";
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the 2030 Agenda sets out to achieve sustainable development within the planetary boundaries, building partnerships putting people at the centre, providing them with vital resources such as food, water and sanitation, health care, energy, education and employment opportunities and promoting peace, justice and prosperity for all; whereas a rights-based approach is a prerequisite for sustainable development;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas climate change is a phenomenon that has to be treated urgently, as it hits the poor and most vulnerable countries to a greater extent;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas wealth and income inequalities are growing worldwide; whereas this trend risks undermining social cohesion and increasing discrimination, political instability and unrest;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas three quarters of the world's poor live in Middle Income Countries (MICs); whereas MICs are not a homogenous group but have very varied needs and challenges and therefore EU development cooperation must be sufficiently differentiated;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A f (new)
Af. whereas the Treaty-based Policy Coherence for Development requires the EU to take development cooperation objectives into account when acting in other policy areas likely to affect developing countries; whereas closely linked policy areas such as trade, security, migration, humanitarian assistance and development need therefore to be formulated and implemented so as to be mutually reinforcing;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A g (new)
Ag. whereas migration has become an ever more pressing issue with over 65 million forcibly displaced people worldwide; whereas the vast majority of refugees live in developing countries; whereas state fragility, instability and wars, violation of human rights, deep poverty, as well as lack of perspectives are amongst the major causes for people to leave their homes; whereas millions of people have migrated or fled to the EU in recent years;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A h (new)
Ah. whereas the European Commission recently proposed to refocus development policy in order to manage this influx of people by, for example, setting up different funds, such as the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa and the EU External Investment Plan;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A i (new)
Ai. whereas health and education are key sustainable development enablers; whereas investment in these areas therefore features prominently in the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A j (new)
Aj. whereas SMEs and microenterprises are the backbone of economies worldwide, are a fundamental part of the economy of developing countries and, along with well- functioning public sectors, are a key factor in furthering economic, social and cultural growth; whereas often SMEs face restricted access to capital, particularly in developing countries;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A k (new)
Ak. whereas over half of the global population is urban today and is predicted to reach 2/3 by 2050, with some 90 % of urban growth taking place in Africa and Asia ;whereas this trend reinforces the need for sustainable urban development; whereas urban security is becoming an increasing challenge in many developing countries;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A l (new)
Al. whereas oceans play a vital role for biodiversity, food security, energy, jobs and growth but whereas marine resources are under threat from climate change as well as from overexploitation and unsustainable management;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A m (new)
Am. whereas deforestation and forest degradation are depleting ecosystems and are important contributors to climate change;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the importance of the European Consensus on Development in providing a joint and coherent position at both EU and Member State levels on the objectives, values and principles and main aspects of development cooperation, including its implementation; believes that the Consensus acquis and in particular its holistic approach and the clear primary objective of fighting poverty must be safeguarded in its revision; recalls that Member State and EU-level development policies should reinforce and complement each other;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the universal and transformative nature of the 2030 Agenda; underlines therefore that developed and developing countries have a shared responsibility for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and that the EU SDG strategy must consist of a coherent set of both internal and external policies and commitments;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for EU development policy to continue to prioritise support to least developed and low-income countries (LDCs and LICs) and small island developing States (SIDS) while also finding new ways of cooperation with the middle- income countries (MICs) in which the majority of the world’s poor live;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the EU to continue and strengthen its support to local and regional capacity-building and to decentralisation processes in order to empower local and regional governments and to make them more transparent and accountable so as to better meet the needs and demands of their citizens;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls, in accordance with the principle of partnership, for shared accountability for all joint actions, promoting the highest level possible of transparency; calls on the EU and its Member States to promote a strengthened role of national parliaments, local and regional governments and civil society in political and budgetary oversight and democratic scrutiny; calls for corruption and impunity to be jointly fought by all means and at all policy levels;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for gender equality and women’s rights to be a cross-cutting goal in EU development policy in accordance with the EU Gender Action Plan, coupled witha point made by the Council in its Conclusions on Gender in Development of 26 May 2015; calls for specific policy-driven action to target challenges in this area; calls for further EU efforts to promote the important role of women and youth as agents of development and change; underlines in this regard, that gender equality comprises women and men and girls and boys and that programmes should encourage equal co-participation of rights and services, for example as in the case of access to education;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Emphasises the role culture plays in sustainable human, social and economic development and insists that account be taken of the cultural dimension as a fundamental aspect of solidarity, cooperation and EU development aid policies; calls for the promotion of cultural diversity and support for cultural policies and for local circumstances to be taken into account where this can help to achieve the objective of promoting sustainable development;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses that EU development cooperation should be implemented to address the most urgent and important needs and to seek the greatest possible impact in the short and long terms; stresses the need for tailor-made development strategies, locally owned and designed, to take into consideration specific challenges faced by individual countries or by groups of countries such as the Small Island Developing States (SIDS), fragile states and Land Locked Developing countries (LLDCs);
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Believes that the respect for internationally agreed aid effectiveness principles are key for accomplishing the 2030 Agenda and considers that a reference should be included in a future agreement;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Reiterates the importance of capacity building to improve the capability of citizens, organisations, governments and societies to fully play their respective roles in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating sustainable development strategies;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the progress made but calls for further efforts by the EU and its Member States towards step up, and broaden the scope of, joint programming of external anid as well as joint implementation efforts in order to pool resources, improve the in- country division of labour, reduce transaction costs, avoid overlaps and aid fragmentation, raise the EU’s profile at local level and promote country ownership of development strategies; stresses how important it is for the joint programming process to be carried out by European stakeholders and opened up to other donors only were the local situation so warrants, but without diluting European ownership of the process; calls on the EU and its Member States to further coordinate their actions with other donors and organisations;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Commission to promote investments that generate decent employment in line with the International Labour Organisation and the 2030 Agenda; underlines in this regard the value of social dialogue and the necessity for transparency and accountability of the private sector in case of PPPs and when development money is used for blending;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Stresses that policy coherence for sustainable development (PCSD) is fundamental in order to achieve the SDGs; underlines that PCD should be seen as an important component of PCSD and should by no means be replaced by it as a concept and an objective;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Recalls that EU-level and Member State development policies are mutually complementary and should reinforce each other; stresses therefore the need for mechanisms to ensure coherence between these policies;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27c. Stresses that policy coherence for sustainable development (PCSD) is fundamental in order to achieve the SDGs; underlines that PCD should be seen as an important component of PCSD and should by no means be replaced by it as a concept and an objective;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Reiterates the direct link between security and development; stresses that the objective of peaceful and inclusive societies with access to justice for all should translate into EU external action buildingwhich, by supporting all local stakeholders who can help bring this about, builds resilience, promotinges human security, strengthenings the rule of law, restoringes confidence and tacklinges the complex challenges of insecurity, fragility and democratic transition;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)
39a. Stresses the need to strengthen international assistance, coordination and resources for emergency response, recovery and reconstruction in post- disaster situations;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 a (new)
40a. Calls for environmental sustainability as well as climate change mitigation and adaptation to be mainstreamed into all sectors of EU development policy; reiterates however that such mainstreaming should not lead to the diversion of official development assistance (ODA) to climate policies that do not achieve direct poverty alleviation; calls for continued EU support for universal access to sustainable, reliable and affordable energy services;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 b (new)
40b. Calls on the EU to continue to promote equitable and universal access to health, notably by supporting local capacities and health systems, putting a special emphasis on women and children and other particularly vulnerable groups, and by promoting research in and development of new health technologies to address new health threats such as epidemics and antimicrobial resistance;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 c (new)
40c. Highlights the importance of continuing to work on improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene as cross- cutting issues that affect the attainment of other goals in the post-2015 agenda, including health, education and gender equality;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 d (new)
40d. Stresses that education is key to developing self-sustainable societies; calls for the EU GPGC strategy to include all levels of quality education and to also address the issue of access to education in emergency and crisis situations;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 e (new)
40e. Calls on the EU to promote global initiatives aimed to address challenges linked to fast increasing urbanisation and to create safer, more inclusive, resilient and sustainable cities; welcomes in this context the recent adoption of the New Urban Agenda by the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) which aims to explore better ways of planning, designing, financing, developing, governing and managing cities to help fight poverty and hunger, improve health and protect the environment;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 f (new)
40f. Calls on the EU to contribute to halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 g (new)
40g. Calls for further EU efforts to protect to protect the oceans and marine resources; welcomes in this context recent European Commission initiatives to improve international governance of the oceans in order to promote better management and to mitigate the impact of climate change on the seas and ecosystems;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 h (new)
40h. Welcomes the fact that food and nutrition security has emerged as a priority area for the new global development framework and welcomes the inclusion of a stand-alone goal to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture; recognises the specific needs of women farmers related to food security that need to be taken into account while developing the new framework;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 i (new)
40i. Stresses the importance of addressing the linkages with improved productivity of sustainable agriculture and fisheries leading to reduced loss and waste of food, transparent management of natural resources and adaptation to climate change;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 j (new)
40j. Points out that land tenure security for small-scale producers, which takes into account traditional land use rights, both stimulates local economies and increases food security;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 k (new)
40k. Calls on the EU to support developing countries in creating conditions conducive to economic development and to drawing up appropriate strategies and policies in order to stimulate the development of the private sector in general and SMEs and family businesses in particular;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 l (new)
40l. Recalls that family farming, which is the most common agricultural model worldwide, plays a key role in the fulfilment of the SDGs: it contributes substantially to food security, to the fight against soil erosion and biodiversity loss, and to the mitigation of climate change, while providing jobs; stresses that the EU should henceforth promote sustainable agriculture worldwide as a means of ensuring food security and a decent life and fair income for farmers;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 m (new)
40m. Calls on development banks, including the EIB, in cooperation with developing countries recipient governments, to propose a microcredit facility to subsidise loans to family farms by means of microcredits in order to improve their productivity; emphasises that microfinance contributes to better working conditions for women;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 n (new)
40n. Calls on developing countries to facilitate and support the creation of farmers' organisations, including cooperatives;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 o (new)
40o. Calls for policies to develop small- scale and family farming to supply local and regional markets;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40 p (new)
40p. Believes that developing countries should integrate technical and vocational education and training programmes into their skills development strategies, involving industry to ensure that, inter alia, entrepreneurship is integrated into quality training programmes;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41a. Stresses the need for EU comparative advantages to translate into focusing its action on a certain number of policy areas, including but not limited to democracy, good governance and human rights, Global Public Goods and Challenges, trade and regional integration, and tackling the root causes of insecurity and forced migration; underlines that such concentration will need to be adapted to the needs and priorities of individual developing countries and regions in line with the principles of ownership and partnership;
2016/12/09
Committee: DEVE