Activities of Erik MARQUARDT related to 2023/2000(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on how to build an innovative humanitarian aid strategy: spotlight on current and forgotten crises
Amendments (20)
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas innovative structural solutions are needed to address global humanitarian challenges; whereas these solutions should focus on ensuring sufficient funding, implementing the commitments on localisation and the humanitarian-development-peace nexus (triple nexus) approach and creating an enabling humanitarian environment in line with the principles of humanitarian aid; whereas efforts to address current and future humanitarian challenges must be guided by a conflict sensitive and people- centred approach driven by affected communities;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls urgently on the Commission and the Member States to substantially increase their humanitarian aid budgets to respond to humanitarian needs, which are at a record high; reiterates its call on the Member States to allocate a fixed share of their gross national incomes to humanitarian aid; supports, in this regard, the Council conclusions of 22 May 2023 encouraging the Member States to devote 10 % of their official development assistance to humanitarian action and calls for their swift implementation in close consultation and cooperation with humanitarian partners – especially NGOs and frontline responders;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Underlines the concerns over development additionality of blending- guarantee mechanisms as assessed by the European Court of Auditors in the case of EFSD; calls on the Commission and financial institutions, including the EIB, to ensure that all humanitarian operations undertaken through blending are compliant with the external action goals of the EU as defined in Article 21 TEU, including respect and promotion of human rights, eradication of poverty, and the management of environmental risks; calls on the Commission to provide the European Parliament with a written assessment on the implementation of the pilot project for blending for humanitarian action, defined in the Commission communication of 10 March 2021, to evaluate the alignment of this financial mechanisms with external action objectives;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Underlines that the increased role of private sector partnerships, including support to the “Global Gateway” strategy make access to support for local actors more complex and limit their access to equitable partnerships to leave no one behind; insists that transparency and accountability across EU external actions, and related financial instruments should be fully guaranteed, including for Team Europe Initiatives aimed to provide humanitarian support;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Insists on the importance to preserve expertise and non interference into the neutrality principle of humanitarian actors; stresses that further engagement with the private sector requires: prior analysis of results achieved so far through this collaboration, and to promote exclusively partnerships which comply with international humanitarian principles, environment, social and human rights standards, and accountability to affected populations;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Calls for an expansion of the circle of donor countries which contribute to humanitarian aid on a voluntary basis, to include the 100 countries that the World Bank identifies as high-income and richest countries in the world; underlines that a contribution of these countries counting for 0.03% of their GNI should be compulsory and would allow to raise the $30 billion needed to address international humanitarian crises; stresses that the involvement of new countries would not only solve the question of the volume of aid, but contribute to depoliticising humanitarian aid and making it less exposed to divisions between major state powers;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for the EU to provide a robust annual budget for EU humanitarian aid to ensure timely, predictable and flexible funding for humanitarian aid at the beginning of each financial year and to keep a ring- fenced envelope within the Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve (SEAR) for humanitarian crises outside the Union and maintaining the existing capacity to rapidly mobilise additional funds in the case of emerging, escalating or sudden onset emergencies;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to assess past experiences in humanitarian support in the field of gender equality, as well as to introduce more concrete elements of gender mainstreaming in future humanitarian action, including specific expenditure, programmes, tracking and assessment methods oriented towards gender related activities;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that the triple nexus is key to addressing context-specific needs in complex and protracted crises, in line with humanitarian principles; insists on more transparency, visibility and knowledge- sharing among stakeholders when applying the triple nexus approach, including through better involvement of local actors;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Points out the potential risk of instrumentalisation of humanitarian aid via the EU humanitarian-development- peace nexus approach which may imply that the promotion of humanitarian principles and International Humanitarian Law will not necessarily prevail for humanitarian action but be side-lined by joint-up and coherent action between the 3 axes of the nexus in line with policy objectives set by the EU agenda; in this regard, stresses in particular that humanitarian action must urgently be dissociated from the security or stability agendas;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for climate funding to be scaled up in order to prevent, mitigate and respond to the alarming impact of climate change on humanitarian crises; is concerned that NDICI-GE expenditure with a climate objective falls far short of the commitment that such expenditure should represent 30 % of NDICI-GE’s overall financial envelope; calls on the Commission to scale this up without delay, focusing in particular on climate adaptation in least developed countriand disaster risk reduction in least developed countries in particular through locally-led adaptation measures;
Amendment 104 #
10. Stresses the need to localise climate preparedness, adaptation and response, build the capacities of local actors and ensure the climate resilience of the most vulnerable groupsto limit the adverse effects of the humanitarian impacts of climate change and ensure the climate resilience of the most vulnerable groups; underlines the importance of involving indigenous people and local communities in this process of localisation;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Encourages multi-stakeholder efforts to implement a greener and digitalised humanitarian response; highlights the cost-effectiveness of anticipatory action; calls on a human- centred approach to digitalisation and the responsible use of sensible digital tools; calls for the further enhancement of digital tools’ potential to manage huge volumes of complex humanitarian data and accelerate the detection and prediction of climate disasters;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the importance of building human resilience by supportensuring access to education and essential health services; emphasises the need to involve the affected people and local communities in implementing early warning systems, guaranteeing their ability to take action in advance of disasters, conducting needs assessments and determining and monitoring the humanitarian response;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Asks the Commission to better address the needs of vulnerable groups in humanitarian responses, including minorities, children, women, the elderly, local communities, indegenous people and particularly persons with disabilities; encourages the use of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s disability marker to track the progress made in humanitarian action; calls on the Commission to update the EU guidelines on children and armed conflict and ensure their implementation;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Notes that the number of forcibly displaced persons worldwide is at a record high; calls for the EU and the global community to support refugees, internally displaced people and their host communities and to work for durable soluand ensure equal and effective access to essential services and humanitarian assistance for displaced people, irrespective of their legal status as required by Inernational Humanitarian Law, including hard-to-reach groups and in remote locations, in particular in forgotten crises;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on enhancing local and sustainable agricultural and food production by investing in agroecological methods and sustainable fisheries to increase food availability and prevent dependence on external supplies in times of humanitarian crises;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Underlines the widespread violations of the right to food during conflicts, with recurring use of starvation as a method of warfare, and denial of humanitarian access; calls on the European Commission and the Member States to duly enforce international humanitarian law and vigorously prosecute and sanction those who use starvation as a weapon of war;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that women’s equal participation and empowerment is integrated explicitly into any new mechanisms to strengthen the role of local actors in humanitarian action; recalls the prominent role of women as victims of conflicts and disasters;