11 Amendments of Nirj DEVA related to 2008/2048(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas this situation of underperformance leads to low levels of ownership, less effective programmes and developing countries being greatly overloaded with donor demands,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas Article 188 D of the Treaty of Lisbon requires that the Union's development cooperation policy and that of the Member States complement and reinforce each other', requiring the Member States and the Union to strive towards enhanced donor coordination and a better division of labour (mindful of the primacy of Member States’ nationally determined priorities), which will contribute to greater aid effectiveness,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas aid is often disbursed according to donors’ own priorities and timetables, without making sufficient efforts to respect and conform to national planning and development priorities, or the national budgeting timeframe, which makes very difficult for recipients to prepare effective budgets, or to plan ahead, and makes it hard for parliaments, civil society and othin coordination with the recipient state’s national budgeting timeframe, and parliaments, civil society and others must demand the widest degree of aid transparency possible in orders to monitor aid flows and effectiveness diligently,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas aid effectiveness cannot bmight in reality become a pretext for not reaching the commitments that the Member States made according to the Monterrey agreements in 2002, and this is to be discouraged; therefore calls attention to the seriousness of recipient states’ aid effectiveness commitments and their importance in the EU’s development expectations,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States and the Commission together to make every effort to ensure that the EU speaks with one voice where appropriate, to align aid delivery and to make their actions more harmonized, transparent and collectively effective;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Supports the role that the Commission is playing in order to harmonizcoordinate development co-operation among Member States in headquarters and in the field;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to continue to simplify procedures, to further decentralise responsibility and to provide the delegations with sufficient capacity (staff and skills) and moreto control or influence overas required by necessity the shape and approval procedure of the thematic and regional budget lines to fulfil their responsibilities;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11a (new)
Paragraph 11a (new)
11a. Notes the forthcoming Third High Level Roundtable on Aid Effectiveness in Accra this September, and in this regard acknowledges the importance of the Development Gateway (a not-for-profit foundation originally established by the World Bank but totally separate for over five years), which is the only ICT4D (Information and Communications Technology for Development) organisation that systematically seeks to support the international aid effectiveness agenda through the provision of web- based tools to strengthen country systems (financial management, procurement statistics); and therefore calls on the Commission to implement the Paris agenda through stronger support for NGOs such as the Development Gateway, including through membership to of Development Gateway International (the European Office of Development Gateway), based in Brussels, and its Aid Effectiveness Steering Committee (chaired by the OECD Development Assistance Committee and also comprising the World Bank and UNDP);
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15b (new)
Paragraph 15b (new)
15b. Acknowledges that ‘democratic ownership’ works both ways, and upholds the legitimacy of economic conditionality in the interests of Member States’ taxpayers, as manifested through their governments’ priorities;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses the need to disburse aid according to partners´ ownthe EU and recipient Member States’ jointly delineated priorities and timetables, and conform to national planning and development priorities, or the national budgeting timeframe;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Recognises the importance to set targets in order to gradually accomplish that 100% of technical assistance is demand-driven and aligned to partners national strategies only when the recipient country is totally democratic, the state apparatus has minimal corruption and there is full transparency and accountability as to how all EU funds have been spent;