Activities of Mikel IRUJO AMEZAGA related to 2008/2048(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Follow-up of the Paris Declaration of 2005 on Aid Effectiveness (debate)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the EU commitments to give more and better aid should include increase of its aid to 0,56% Official Development Assistance (ODA) / Gross National Income by 2010,; whereas the fall in ODA from EU countries from 0.40 % of GDP in 2006 to 0.38 % in 2007 must be seen as an exception from the norm; whereas the EU commitments should also include the development of new and more predictable and less volatile aid mechanisms along with promotion of better coordination and complementarity by working towards joint multiannual programming based on partner countries' plans and systems, further untying aid and reform of technical assistance to respond to national priorities,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas in the coming years, one of the institutional challenges is how to best integrate the 12 new members of the EU in their role as emerging donors, as some of these donors find it difficult to conform to the standard development co-operation guidelines of the aid system promoted by the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission: to help integrate new members into the increasingly coordinated, international approaches to development policy and delivery with the appropriate mechanisms and; to work with new Member States to set out how they will meet the EU's additional objectives on aid effectiveness agreed on in Paris in 2005; to explore the way forward for possible joint programming exercises based on International Labour Organization Labour Code Standards;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recognises the crucial role of democratic ownership and parliamentary oversight within developing countries for ensuring aid effectiveness, the need for the EU to provide resources and capacity development support to developing country parliaments to ensure that they have sufficient capacity to engage in scrutiny and oversight of their governments' budgets and the importance that better reporting of the results to the European Parliament and the Member States can help build confidence in Community programmes and permit more strategic forms of oversight; in this respect, calls on the Commission to propose a new indicator (the 'Paris Declaration 13th indicator') to monitor Parliamentary scrutiny;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States and its National Parliaments to put forward the division of labour and the Code of Conduct agenda in order to improve the European aid effortsand to make actionable plans for how they intend to implement them in order to improve the European aid efforts, whilst ensuring that this agenda is driven by partner countries and not donors alone;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to ensure greater reliance onsupport democratically elected governments while providing budget support, including assistance for improving countries‘ public financial management systems where there is assuranceso that aid will be used for intended purposes, in order to facilitate both ownership and poverty reduction;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses the need for developingimproving the guidelines and methodology for monitoring the Paris Declaration in order to improve collective understanding of the Paris agenda and ensure the consistent aggregation of information on indicators across the main countries receiving aid; highlights the need to ensure that donor countries fulfil their aid promises and calls on EU Member States to provide better access to their data to facilitate greater transparency and accountability on aid reporting;
Amendment 61 #
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; calls on the Commission to ensure that there is no widening of ODA definitions to include non-aid items such as military spending;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers that increasing transparency of information on aid flows is a critical objective for improving the effective use of aid and mutual accountability; , and ensuring that there is timely public dissemination of complete information on all aid committed, allocated and disbursed, including publishing reliable country-by-country timetables, for aid commitments and expenditure; that there is automatic, timely and proactive disclosure by Member States and partners of all documents related to the planning, execution and evaluation of aid strategies and projects; and that this disclosure should include publication of information that permits public participation in decision-making, in languages and forms that are appropriate for the stakeholders concerned;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25b (new)
Paragraph 25b (new)
25b. Recognises that the agendas of aid quantity and aid quality are inextricably linked, and that for aid effectiveness targets to be met, there must be continued commitment to existing quantity targets as agreed to by all EU Member States;