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Activities of Barry ANDREWS related to 2021/2163(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

New orientations for the EU’s humanitarian action (debate)
2021/12/14
Dossiers: 2021/2163(INI)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on new orientations for the EU’s humanitarian action
2021/11/19
Committee: DEVE
Dossiers: 2021/2163(INI)
Documents: PDF(172 KB) DOC(63 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Norbert NEUSER', 'mepid': 96844}]

Amendments (14)

Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
— having regard to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
2021/10/11
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas humanitarian needs are at an all-time high, with 238 million people in need of assistance in 2021, due largely to conflicts but also systemic factors such as climate change, natural disasters, environmental degradation, global population growth and failed governance; whereas the burgeoning of humanitarian needs and their increasing complexity touches upon each of the SDGs and points to a worrying lack of global progress on Agenda 2030;
2021/10/11
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing fragilities and inequalities, amplified humanitarian needs – notably a sharp increase in hunger, with almost 300 million people at risk of becoming acutely food insecure and over 40 million facing emergency levels of food insecurity – and hampered the humanitarian response owing to border closures and other restrictions; whereas the growth in humanitarian needs is, in part, a result of insufficient development assistance to address the drivers of fragility; whereas, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), humanitarian assistance for all fragile contexts increased by 38% from 2015 to 2016, while programmable development aid for fragile contexts did not increase over the same period 9a ; whereas, between 2014 and 2018, humanitarian assistance accounted for the second largest share of Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) contributions across the 29 countries in the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) 9b; _________________ 9aOrganisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, States of Fragility, 2018. 9bNational Centre for Biotechnology Information, Tracking sectoral allocation of official development assistance: a comparative study of the 29 Development Assistance Committee countries, 2011– 2018, Global Health Action, 2021.
2021/10/11
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas growing humanitarian needs have not been matched by adequate resources, leading to a rapidly increasing funding gap: in 2020, less than half of the UN humanitarian appeal was met, and as of August 2021, only USD 10.9 billion in funding was available for needs amounting to USD 36.6 billion (30 % of the total)10 ; whereas, in 2020, funding unrelated to the Covid-19 pandemic response from the largest 20 public donors fell below 2019 levels 10a. _________________ 10UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Financial Tracking Service, 2021 humanitarian aid contributions. 10a Development Initiatives, Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2021.
2021/10/11
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas global humanitarian funding continues to rely heavily on a very limited number of donors, with the ten largest accounting for around 85 % of all funding; whereas the share of total ODA contributed by emerging donors, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Korea, is estimated to have grown by 47% between 2010 and 2015 11a, yet has plateaued in recent years, with the annual contribution from Saudi Arabia falling by 53% and that of the United Arab Emirates falling by 39% in 2020 11b; _________________ 11aDevex, Emerging Donors 2.0 Report, 2021. 11b Development Initiatives, Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2021.
2021/10/11
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas in 2020 the EU and Member States’ combined funding was 36 % of global humanitarian assistance – the largest share in the world; whereas the level of contributions varies within the EU, with four Member States and the Commission accounting for around 90 % of all EU humanitarian financing;
2021/10/11
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas ‘quality funding' comprises one of the two enabling priorities of the Grand Bargain 2.0 and Pillar Two of the 2016 High-Level Political Forum on Humanitarian Financing calls for a widening of the humanitarian resource base through partnerships with new/emerging bilateral donors and the private sector, facilitating remittance flows and Islamic social finance 12a; whereas humanitarian assistance from private donors is already on the rise, having increased by 9%, from US$6.2 billion in 2018 to a record US$6.8 billion in 2019 12b; _________________ 12aHigh-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing Report to the Secretary- General, Too important to fail— addressing the humanitarian financing gap, 2016 12b Development Initiatives, Global Humanitarian Assistance Report, 2021.
2021/10/11
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Supports the Commission’s commitment to leveraging private finance and further involving the private sector in EU humanitarian assistance and welcomes the launch of pilot blending initiative from the EU’s humanitarian budget in 2021; calls upon the Commission to lead by example in trialling a range of blending initiatives, including humanitarian impact bonds and disaster risk insurance schemes, and to make full use of the European Investment Bank and the European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus for humanitarian purposes;
2021/10/11
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include international humanitarian law violations as a criterion for listing individuals or entities in the relevant EU sanctions regimes; notes that sanctions and restrictive measures taken in the context of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy must comply with international humanitarian law and must not hinder the provision of humanitarian assistance; underlines the need to consistently include humanitarian excemptions in regimes of restrictive measures and to provide the necessary support and guidance to partners to apply these exceptions effectively;
2021/10/11
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for the EU and its Member States to swiftly fulfil the commitments made at the World Humanitarian Summit and as part of the Grand Bargain; highlights the importance of making humanitarian aid more efficient and effective by increasing multiannual and multi-country funding, reducing the administrative burden for humanitarian partners and promoting innovative solutions, among other endeavours; calls upon the Commission to continue efforts to ensure the flexibility and fungibility of humanitarian and development assistance and, to this end, to regularly monitor and report upon the pilot Programmatic Partnerships launched in 2021 with partner NGOs; encourages the EU and its Member States to introduce crisis modifiers in grant agreements with local development partners to ensure sufficient programme flexibility for those partners to rapidly shift from development activities to emergency response in case of a sudden emergency; encourages the Commission and the EEAS explore ways of making full use of the Rapid Response pillar of the ‘Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument', Global Europe'.
2021/10/11
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls upon the Commission and the European External Action Service to devise a strategy for long-term collaboration with third countries and, in particular, emerging donors by leveraging the EU’s bilateral, regional and multilateral diplomacy; notes with concern that many emerging donors do not qualify for membership of the DAC, which remains a major forum for the coordination of humanitarian financing; regrets that the United Kingdom, as the fifth largest humanitarian donor in the world, cut its humanitarian budget by 31% between 2019 and 202013a; notes with concern the lack of a formal arrangement within the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement regarding humanitarian aid and calls on the Commission and Member States to work towards such a formal EU-UK partnership on humanitarian aid; calls upon the Commission to invite the United Kingdom and other relevant partner governments to participate in the EU Humanitarian Forum in January 2022. _________________ 13a Development Initiatives, Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2021.
2021/10/11
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the particular importance of supporting local actors and urges the Commission to develop a localisation policy outlining how to provide more and better support for local respondents to enable them to make use of all the instruments available; maintains that such a policy should foster transparency, focus on long-term funding to develop trust and local networks, and make use of existing partner capacity assessments by UN agencies and international NGOs;
2021/10/11
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines the fact that while humanitarian aid seeks to tackle immediate, life-threatening situations, crises are caused by drivers that require long-term solutions; notes that although humanitarian needs are often created by sudden, man-made or natural disasters, underlying fragility is a significant predictor of humanitarian crises; calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service to adopt a communication developing a clear policy on a humanitarian-development-peace nexus in order to bridge the gaps between the individual policy areas; calls for the EU and the Member States to swiftly implement this nexus approach, with a particular focus on preventing conflicts, tackling hunger, providing education and livelihood opportunities, tackling fragility and building resilience, while protecting the rights of vulnerable groups; stresses that the SDGs should be used as a framework for such an approach, given that 2030 Agenda provides a unique opportunity to address the root causes of fragility and conflict, as well as reversals into conflict, including by combatting climate change, strengthening global multilateralism, a rights-based approach to development and ensuring that ‘no one is left behind’; calls upon the Commission to publish an assessment of the six pilot projects aimed at operationalising the humanitarian-development-peace nexus in Chad, Iraq, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan, and Uganda and to consult with civil society organisations, Member States and the European Parliament in the drafting of lessons learned and the design of future projects under the nexus approach;
2021/10/11
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Recalls that women, girls and persons from the LGBTIQ+ community are particularly vulnerable in contexts of fragility and conflict and are the hardest hit by humanitarian crises; insists, therefore, that achieving such a nexus approach requires that the EU’s humanitarian assistance is both gender- sensitive and actively promotes gender equality, LGBTIQ+ rights and sexual health and reproductive rights;
2021/10/11
Committee: DEVE