Activities of Anne VAN LANCKER related to 2008/2048(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Follow-up of the Paris Declaration of 2005 on Aid Effectiveness (debate)
Amendments (22)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15a (new)
Citation 15a (new)
- having regard to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Report 2007,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas this situation leads to low levels of ownership, less effective programmes and developing countries being greatly overloaded with donor demands, a division between so called donor 'darlings' and 'orphans', and the neglecting of crucial sectors such as health, education and gender-friendly programmes,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ea (new)
Recital Ea (new)
Ea. whereas recent OECD figures show that overall, EU aid has decreased significantly in 2007,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ha (new)
Recital Ha (new)
Ha. whereas the brain drain has led to a critical shortage of health workers and other key skilled personnel in developing countries which in turn frequently prevents aid effecting results on the ground,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the current system of allocating aid too often falls short, with many poor countries and critical issues, such as health, education, social cohesion and gender equality, receiving small aid allocations,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas the EU is committed to tackling the question of ‘orphaned’ or neglected countries and sectors in the context of its above-mentioned Code of Conduct on Division of Labour, beginning to look at allocations into situations of fragility,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Sa (new)
Recital Sa (new)
Sa. whereas the role of civil society is essential, both as a partner in the political dialogue on aid effectiveness and setting aid priorities, and as “watchdog” for monitoring government spending,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas improving the quality of aid and increasing the quantity of aid are both vital for achieving the MDGs and aid effectiveness cannot be a pretext for not reaching the commitments that the Member States made according to the Monterrey agreements in 2002,
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ua (new)
Recital Ua (new)
Ua. whereas the European Consensus on Development recognises gender equality as a goal in its own right and commits the EU to strengthening its approach to gender equality in all EU development cooperation and whereas the EC Communication on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Development Cooperation commits EU donors to ensure the effective implementation of strategies and practices that genuinely deliver for women,
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5a (new)
Paragraph 5a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that EU policies as well as the aid architecture support the Paris Principle of managing for results, particularly to achieve results in the MDGs least likely to be fulfilled according to the UN Millennium Development Goals Report 2007, such as MDG5;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6a (new)
Paragraph 6a (new)
6a. Stresses that the division of labour should be country-led, based on the Paris Declaration principles and results-focused and lead to sufficient financing of all sectors in each partner country;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Supports the role that the Commission is playing in order to harmonize development co-operation among Member States in headquarters and in the field and emphasises the added value of the Commission in taking a leading role in the political dialogue between the EU and the partner country, based on the EU’s common values such as the promotion of human rights and gender equality;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to improve the clarity of the definitions (ODA sectorial allocation) so as to improve consistency of the results and reduce the transaction costs of managing the Commission and Member States data at country level; urges the Commission and the Member States to exclude debt cancellation, particularly cancellation of export credit debts, money spent in Europe on students and refugees from aid figures from ODA;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission and the Members States to completely untie their aid in line with the DAC recommendation of 2001 for countries eligible under the European Development Fund (EDF) and with Article 31 of the DCI Regulation, and on technical assistance, food aid and food transport aid;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to respect real democratic ownership of the development process by phasing out economic policy conditionalityphase out policy- oriented conditionality, especially economic policy conditionality, and replace it by mutually agreed contracts, reflecting a common understanding on key priorities, such as in particular the MDGs; Calls on the EU to use its influence to convince the World Bank and the IMF to move towards the same transition;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17a (new)
Paragraph 17a (new)
17a. Stresses the particular need for improvement of the health MDGs for situations of fragility and for DG ECHO and DG Development to coordinate their work throughout the humanitarian aid phase, the transitional phase and the development phase ( Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development) as stated e.g. in the European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recognises the need to intensify the Commission's consultations with civil society partners in headquarters and in the field through better structured meetings on policy, strategic programming and aid effectiveness issues; calls on donors and partner governments to ensure the full and meaningful participation of civil society in the planning, implementation, monitoring and assessment of budgets and programs and to support the conditions that are necessary to fulfil their roles;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18b (new)
Paragraph 18b (new)
18b. Stresses that the involvement of women and the women’s movements in the formulation and delivery of policy and programmes; implementation, monitoring and evaluation should be seen as an integral part of ensuring real ownership, given the disproportionate impact of poverty on women;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21a (new)
Paragraph 21a (new)
21a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to align their aid to the country system by using general and sectoral budget support, which has to be based on a solid poverty reduction plan that strengthens domestic accountability and which has to be linked to the shared commitment on reducing poverty and achieving the MDGs, on respecting human rights and on strengthening and improving monitoring, financial management and accountability;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Stresses the need to make a multi-year (3 years or more) aid commitments by the Commission and the Members States based on clear and transparent criteria and poverty eradication outcomes including specific sectoral outcomes, agreed with partner countries, and the delivery of those commitments on schedule, in a transparent manner so as to allow investment in building the human resources so vital for improving aid effectiveness; welcomes the initiative of MDG-contracting to ensure a more predictable form of budget support in the longer-term; insists however that this involves a strong commitment to achieving the MDGs by partner countries and that continuous monitoring with a strong focus on results is needed;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Notes that Aid reform is only one of the steps that the EU must take along with making its trade, security, migration, agriculture, fisheries, energy, environment, climate change and other policies coherently work with the development objectives to benefit developing countries and promoting a fair international financial and trade system in favour of development;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Notes that the aid effectiveness debate should not be understood as against the scaling up of aid as both issues are closely interrelated; urges the Commission and the Member States to reconfirm their commitment of achieving its collective target of 0.56% in 2010 and 0.7% in 2015, to scale up aid and to set ambitious multi- annual timetables to measure the gradual rise in aid budgets;