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Activities of Pino ARLACCHI related to 2011/2014(INI)

Shadow opinions (1)

OPINION on budgetary control of EU financial assistance to Afghanistan
2016/11/22
Committee: AFET
Dossiers: 2011/2014(INI)
Documents: PDF(101 KB) DOC(84 KB)

Amendments (4)

Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. SOutlines the EU's commitment to continue to support Afghanistan; stresses that the overall objectives of EU development assistance to Afghanistan should be to assist in the long term sustainable development of the country, including improvement of socio-economic standards and gender equality; underlines that the aid should further facilitate capacity building in public administration, strengthen the rule of law and reduce corruption, thus facilitating the transfer of security to the GIRoA; recommends that parts of the financial assistance to Afghanistan is allocated for the five years plan to phase out opium cultivation by replacing it with alternative production; stresses the need to facilitate sub-regional cooperation with regards assistance to issues of cross-border nature;
2011/09/29
Committee: AFET
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates the urgent need to increase efficiency of aid, as many development indicators still show no significant improvement, and corruption and the long distribution chain of international aid remains a major obstacles to the provision of essential services to the people;
2011/09/29
Committee: AFET
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Points out the need to make donor coordination work better and to provideNotes that the majority of resources for socio-economic development in Afghanistan are channelled through international mechanisms but a significant proportion of this aid does not reach the intended beneficiaries, the people of Afghanistan; points out that the EU and in particular the Commission/EEAS should have a leading role in improving donor coordination in close cooperation with other key donors such as the US and Japan, and calls for detailed evaluations of aid efficiency in order to improve theransparency and donor accountability of the aid;
2011/09/29
Committee: AFET
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Requires that, when using international organisations as an aid delivery channel, the EEAS and the Commission should pay close attention to eliminating waste, excessive intermediary costs, inefficiency, overbilling and corruption, and should insist on timely and adequate information on results and use of funds;
2011/09/29
Committee: AFET