Examples of using To development aid in English and their translations into Czech
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His report notes that the approach to development aid needs to be reformed.
Sweden is fairly unique in that one per cent of our gross domestic product goes to development aid.
It also demonstrates the need for reliable and consistent retrospective analysis work in this area,proposing a new approach to development aid based on greater differentiation, on the involvement of civil society, and on strict eligibility criteria.
Even those who would like to eliminate Christianity from the public space recognize that the EU must contribute to development aid.
When it comes to development aid, the EU presses hard on a rights agenda, including promotion of abortion, even where it offends the local culture- as in Kenya, where EU-funded NGOs use the money for funding abortions in breach of local custom and law.
The common objective should be to allocate 0.56% of gross national income to development aid by 2010, and 0.7% by 2015.
Quality also depends on quantity and, like my colleages, I deplore the fall in resouces allocated by European countries to development aid.
In the plenary vote at first reading it was decided- albeit by a narrow majority- that none of the funds allocated to development aid thus far should be devoted to ICI Plus.
The EU, for its part, has suggested a 25% reduction in the number of people living in poverty by 2020 andan allocation of 0.7% of gross national income to development aid.
In this context, let me point out that, as ever, it is time we made very concrete progress in applying innovatory financing instruments to development aid, something that was mentioned expressly in the Paris Declaration.
It is entirely fair for the EU to have more effective representation in international organisations and for this representation to be valued, inasmuch asthe EU is the organisation that contributes the most to development aid.
We must send out a genuine message to the countries of the South by means of a clear financial commitment that will permit an aid package to be agreed on in addition to development aid, which absolutely must reach the agreed level, i.e. 0.7.
If we now look at the funds transfers that are being discussed in this regard, it is a key point that they should be very well monitored and be tied to conditions,because otherwise all we are doing is opening a second route to development aid.
In order to achieve this, we need to honour our commitments and contribute 0.15 to 0.20% of our annual Gross Domestic Product(GDP) to development aid for these countries.
As we have done in recent years, we will continue to increase our development cooperation so thatwe are among the ten leading countries in the world in terms of the percentage of our gross domestic product that we give to development aid.
Within the context of this final aspect,the pledge by European Union countries to renew the commitment to allocate 0.7% of their gross national income to development aid by 2015 should be emphasised.
At a time when the food crisis is affecting the most fragile developing countries and access to water and education remains restricted,it is understandable that the EU must redouble its efforts to achieve the MDG objective of allocating 0.7% of its GNP to development aid by the year 2015.
Effectiveness should be ensured by consensus on establishment of the European External Action Service, both among the institutions, and here I am pleased by the declarations of the Council and the Commission, butalso by the inclusion of matters related to development aid, humanitarian aid, enlargement and international trade.
Madam President, I thank Mr Deva for his contribution but can I ask him, when he says that the euro handouts are over, if he does not agree that all Member States,including the United Kingdom, should stick to the calendar for achieving the UN Millennium Development Goal of committing 0.7% of GNP to development aid by the year 2013?
As you are aware, the EU decided to suspend development aid to Fiji because of the political situation in the country.
In addition, it raised the threshold at which direct aid is to be switched to rural development aid.
With these funds, measures will be financed in the following three key areas,which extend from emergency aid to long-term development aid.
Some of the funding will come from the private sector, but international public funding will also be necessary,in addition to official development aid.