11 Amendments of Nirj DEVA related to 2010/2300(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas many donors consider general and sectoral budget support as a means of fostering partner countries’ ownership of development policies and reform processes, strengthening national accountability institutions and systems, and facilitating growth, poverty reduction and the achievement of development objectives,
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses the need to use sectoral budget support wherever appropriate in order to ensure better targeting of basic social sectors including health, education, and assistance for the most vulnerable groups, in particular persons with disabilities;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Draws attention to the EU’s innovative role in the field of budget support and stresses that the EU has a responsibilitycalls on the Commission, as a matter of urgency, to develop a methodology and conditionality arrangements that alsond apply a new methodology, efficient ex-ante and ex-post conditionality arrangements that measure adequately how development aid is spent, the concrete results achieved, and can be applyied to other donors;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that the Union has a responsibility to pass on its experience to other institutional stakeholders, in particular at the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the dynamic approach adopted by the Commission and a majority of budget support providers entails a number of risks which must be duly taken into account; warns against the danger of politicizing the use of budget support as financing tool;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Is concerned at the effects of macro- economic destabilisation and the impact on the most vulnerable sections of the population which a sudden break in budget support might cause; proposes that, on the basis of concerted action by donors and following consultation of the civil society and parliament of the partner country concerned, a mechanism be set up for the gradual reduction of budget support payments, which could attenuate such impacts, encourage political dialogue and enable concerted solutions to be found to the difficulties encountered;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls that major deficiencies in capabilities, in particular weak governance, are liable to deprive in managing development aid and their national budgets, as well as an inability to stream funds in projects creating wealth and a competitive economy, which are essential elements in eradicating poverty and are crucial impediments in using budget support as a financing mechanism, as such depriving many developing countries of budget support;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Points out that, when granting budget support to banana-supplying ACP countries benefiting from accompanying measures in this sector, it is important to include in the variable tranche based on governance indicators the specific conditions contained in the new Article 17a ofthat Parliament is proposing be inserted in Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006 (DCI Regulation), as set out in an amendment in the position of the European Parliament adopted at second reading on 3 February 2011 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EU) No .../2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006 establishing a financing instrument for development cooperation1; __________________ 1Texts adopted, P7_TA(2011)0030. 1 Texts adopted, P7_TC2- COD(2010)0059.
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Stresses the need for a long term analysis on the impact or lack of impact of budget support as financial tool in order to assess and draw tangible conclusions for the formulation of more efficient EU development policies and tools for the future;