Translation of "affirmative action development pool " (English → French) :

Program Development Affirmative Action

The EU and its Member States, where appropriate, will also look for opportunities to pool resources and apply quick and flexible decision-making and implementation to maximise the impact, effectiveness and visibility of EU development cooperation for delivering on the SDGs, through initiatives, in particular EU Trust Funds used for emergency, post-emergency or thematic actions, which may provide ...[+++] opportunities for effective joined-up action by the EU, Member States and other development partners.

Action at Union level shall also support high-risk, high-cost, long-term programmes beyond the reach of individual Member States, pool efforts to reduce investment risks in large-scale activities such as industrial demonstration, and develop Europe-wide, interoperable energy solutions.

We could take the obligations in Part VI and have the Federal Court define them and impose affirmative action programs where necessary, much like the conclusions in the report of the commissioner in the complaint Alliance Quebec made, as follows: By a specific date, develop a three-year action plan with measurable indicators and strict time frames to increase anglophone participation at all levels in the organization of the Montreal region for the period 2002 to 2005.

Recognises that the problem is often not the lack of funding but, rather, how funds are spent and what other resources are utilised; notes that the Court of Auditors’ recommendations concerning EU funds have not been fully implemented; calls for regular reviews of how funding from national governments through the EU and the UN is spent; believes it is vital to utilise funds effectively, given their finite nature and the scale of the problems being faced; believes accountability is an essential part of this process, as well as helping to tackle endemic corruption in Africa; insists on a more thorough and transparent evaluation of PSOs supported by the EU; backs initiatives such as the Békou trust fund operating in the Central African R ...[+++]epublic, which seeks to pool European development-related resources, expertise and capacities in order to overcome the fragmentation and ineffectiveness of international action in the context of reconstruction of a country; calls for more systematic joint programming among the various EU instruments.