Activities of Inés AYALA SENDER related to 2015/2042(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Implementation of the European Progress Microfinance Facility (debate) ES
Amendments (6)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the Progress Macrofinance Facility ought to be assessed qualitatively and not just quantitatively; whereas also, although it is simpler to assess this Facility in terms of economic efficiency, its efficacy as a means of ensuring social inclusion should also be assessed, as should the quality and knock-on effect of the jobs created;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the Facility’s geographical coverage within the EU is not adequate, extending as it does to only 203 out of the 28 EU Member States; calls on the Commission to make greater efforts to ensure full geographical coverage and to identify and analyse the reasons for some Member States not being covered by the instrumentFacility;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that the employment creation impact was less than initially expected, in spite of the fact that many recipients would have been completely excluded from the credit market were it not for microcredit; believes that this less-than-expected impact on employment creation can partly be explained by the fact that the Facility was implemented at the same time as the economy was experiencing a major economic crisis which impacted both on the credit market and on employment figures;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Regrets the high number of rejected applications for microfinance and the still significant microfinance market gap, despite the increase in the number of micro-borrowers; calls on the Commission to conduct a more detailed study of the reasons for these rejections which also looks into ways of resolving these;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission to view refugees and asylum seekers as a target group; calls also for economic migrants to be viewed as a priority target group;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Considers that the social contribution made by projects should be a major criterion for the granting of microloans, and that special evaluation conditions should apply to social enterprises; points out in this respect that financial intermediaries familiar with the environs of the social economy are especially suited to evaluating the various social inclusion projects submitted;