22 Amendments of Patrizia TOIA related to 2016/2139(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the Global Partnership can play a crucial role in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by shifting the focus from the concept of 'aid effectiveness', referring to traditional public development aid, to that of 'development cooperation effectiveness';
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Cа. whereas a high percentage of development aid is used to cover management and administrative costs;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) provides an inclusive forum bringing together governments, bilateral and multilateral organisations, civil society, parliaments, trade unions and the private sector from rich, emerging and developing countries alike;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas South-South cooperation continued to grow despite the slowing down of the emerging economies and dropping commodity prices;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the GPEDC should play a strong role in the evidence-based aspects of monitoring and accountability as regards effectiveness principles for achieving the SDGs and in supporting their fuller implementation by all actors at national level; underlines the need for the GPEDC to provide clearly defined channels for cooperation for specific development actors beyond OECD donors, including emerging donors, civil society organisations, private philanthropists, financial institutions, trade unions and private-sector companies; believes that the chairing arrangements of the GPEDC should reflect the diversity of stakeholders;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that the GPEDC ought to play a leading role in ensuring progress on SDG 17, namely on monitoring and accountability, quality and capacity aspects of finance for development, tax and debt sustainability, mobilising the private sector and its responsibility for sustainable development, policy coherence, multi- stakeholder partnerships, south-south and triangular cooperation;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the progress made, and recommends that the Commission make further efforts to ensure that all actors concerned have access to information, on transparency of development cooperation programming, funding mechanisms, projects and aid flows, in particular in the context of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) and the setting-up of the ‘EU Aid Explorer’; encourages further efforts by all donors to make information and data more accessible, timely and comparable, and calls on those Member States which are not yet contributing to IATI to start doing so;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Underlines that a monitoring framework anchored on the principles of horizontal development cooperation, i.e. solidarity, mutuality, respect for sovereignty, human rights, inclusiveness, non-conditionality, is crucial towards enhanced accountability and impact of SSDC, particularly in the country level;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to undertake gradually to adapt their result reporting systems to the indicators determined by the UN, in order to monitor their achievement, by supporting partner countries in the improvement of their statistical systems;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Urges the EU to honour its longstanding commitments on development effectiveness by supporting sustained global efforts to monitor the implementation of the Busan principles and commitments;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Invites the Commission to study how to ensure more administrative and logistical effectiveness to guarantee that a maximum of development policy resources are targeted to eradicate poverty;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Invites the Commission and EU delegations and Member States’ agencies to inform national parliaments and, to the extent possible, local and regional authorities, as well as private stakeholders and civil society, about programming and financial commitments in relation to development assistance, by publishing country-specific development cooperation reviews, which should provide an overview of strategic documents, donor coordination, Annual Action Plans and ongoing and planned programmes, as well as calls for projects and procurements, or other funding mechanisms used;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Recommends taking into account, for budget support, the adoption of positive conditionality criteria subject to the involvement of civil society, to ensure greater ownership not only by government but, more broadly, by the entire population;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses the importance to promote equal partnerships and shared responsibility for development results, including support for implementation of the Istanbul Principles and other voluntary mechanisms;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Considers it important to promote participation by all Member States in the Addis Tax Initiative, in order to double technical assistance by 2020 and strengthen the taxation capacity of partner countries;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Underlines the role in development of citizens, local communities, faith-based organisations, civil society organisations (CSOs) and elected representatives, and stresses that all these actors need to be involved in furthering and implementing the effectiveness agenda at various levels; believes that their effective contribution requires their participatory involvement in planning and implementation, mutual accountability and transparency, and that donors should improve predictability and speediness when working with these actors as implementing partners and basic service supply partners in order genuinely to reach the most vulnerable sections of the population;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Underlines the importance to enable CSOs to exercise their roles as independent development actors, with a particular focus on an enabling environment, consistent with agreed international rights, that maximizes the contributions of CSOs to development;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Urges the Commission to submit reports on EU´s and Member States´ effort and action plans to comprehensively implement the Busan principles on regular basis, at least every 24 months;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that development assistance can play an important role in fighting poverty and in promoting development, in particular of least developed countries and of the most deprived and vulnerable groups, as well catalysing other critical systemic factors that are conducive to development if employed in a context of legitimsuch as promoting gender equality (as articulate,d inclusive governance based on the rule of law and respect for human right the Busan Partnership), education, health systems strengthening, including access to family planning and the fight against poverty related diseases;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Underlines the significance of SDG 16 for development effectiveness overall, and warns that development aid cannot effectively fulfil its purpose where there is a lack of respect for human rights and the rule of law, sufficientinternationally-recognized social, environmental and labour standards and safeguards for the integrity of public institutions and office-holders, and transparency and accountability;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Notes the increasing role of private sector in development cooperation and asks business sector actors to commit to development effectiveness commitments, become increasingly transparent and responsive to all sectors of society, including workers, legislators, regulators, consumers and shareholders, and adhere to existing international human rights commitments such as ILO labour standards, UN Principles on Business and Human rights and the OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises; furthermore asks the private sector to align their efforts to national development plans and with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to set up reporting and accountability systems on environmental, economic and social impacts of their efforts, in particular on the generation of full and productive employment and decent work for all;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Calls on the Commission to identify, promote and support good practices and to make financing arrangements that can help to scale up and replicate those practices in a streamlined and flexible manner, also taking account of a performance-based approach;