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58. Condemns all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect with regard to children; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure investments in child protection systems, including tackling violence against and among children, e.g. cyber violence and bullying, especially when based on socio-economic grounds and affecting vulnerable children, in order to encourage the exchange of best practice in this area with a view to eradicating violence and harassment;

Combating poverty by increasing democratic participation

59. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure adequate, effective and transparent mechanisms to facilitate the meaningful and continuous participation of people with lived experience of poverty in all stages of policymaking, including the design, implementation and evaluation of policies affecting people living in poverty, to go hand in hand with a methodology and capacity building that would enable such participation, resulting in co-creation and not merely consultation, in line with the principle ‘nothing about us without us’;

60. Recommends that an annual conference be held to assess the implementation of the anti-poverty strategy, with a broad and diverse composition, including people with lived experience of poverty, particularly women; highlights that the conference should contribute to the EU’s formal monitoring of the anti-poverty strategy by providing space for reviewing progress against clear benchmarks and indicators; calls, in this regard, for the direct participation of people with lived experience of poverty to be actively supported and recognised as essential to evaluating the anti-poverty strategy’s actual impact;

61. Recognises the importance of the various social organisations, including not-for-profits, involved in combating and preventing poverty, and the role that these organisations play in the fight against poverty, and underlines the need to meaningfully involve them and to strengthen the resources allocated to support their work;

Proper institutional coordination, governance

62. Underlines that the success of the anti-poverty strategy will also depend on an intersectional approach and adequate funding, as well as proper horizontal and multi-level coordination between all levels of governance and decision-making involved in its delivery; reiterates the necessity of comprehensively integrating the anti-poverty strategy into all relevant policies, to ensure consistency, impact and long-term sustainability;

63. Considers that the scope of responsibilities at EU, Member State and regional level for achieving the goal of eradicating poverty should be defined appropriately, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity;

64. Calls on the Commission to introduce a horizontal principle into the anti-poverty strategy, requiring all relevant EU sectoral policies to carry out an ex ante impact assessment on poverty and inequality, including through the distributional impact assessments, with particular attention to the effects on those most at risk of experiencing social exclusion and extreme poverty;

65. Emphasises the need for the EU to continue focusing on the fight against homelessness, extreme poverty and social exclusion, through adequate financial support, promoting mutual learning of Member States’ strategies and experiences, and establishing a systematic approach to monitoring progress and the efficiency of the measures taken;

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Removed:64. Recommends that the anti-poverty strategy have a designated person responsible at European Commission level; calls on each Member State to appoint a national coordinator and implement the anti-poverty strategy through a national action plan, with the involvement of those with lived experience of poverty, the local and regional authorities, social partners and civil society organisations involved in combating and preventing poverty in its implementation;

Removed:65. Calls for a designated Commission task force on poverty eradication, with the aim of monitoring the implementation and coordination of the anti-poverty strategy, as well as the integration of its objectives into other EU policies;

66. Recalls that the at-risk-of-poverty-or-social-exclusion (AROPE) indicator fails to encompass the root causes of poverty, notably by omitting persons living outside of private households, qualitative aspects of poverty and lived experiences of marginalisation; underlines that poverty extends beyond insufficient income or material deprivation; calls on the Social Protection Committee to work with relevant stakeholders on renewing the measuring of AROPE statistics in order to expand it towards a stronger, disaggregated and more multidimensional vision of poverty and social exclusion;

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Changed:67. Stresses that the anti-poverty strategy will only deliver results if accompanied by adequate funding at EU and national level; insists on the need to safeguard and strengthen cohesion policy in order to continue supporting economic, social and territorial cohesion and combating asymmetries between and within the Member States of the EU under the next MFF; calls, in this regard, for an adequate and ring-fenced allocation of funds to reinforce policies that contribute to eradicating poverty, including targeted support for marginalised and vulnerable groups; highlights the essential role of the ESF+ in promoting social inclusion and combating poverty, notably by providing aid to the most deprived and the European Child Guarantee, as well as the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Asylum Migration and Integration Fund in this context; stresses the importance of optimising the use of EU funds, including the Recovery and Resilience Facility, to finance concrete anti-poverty measures such as affordable and energy-efficient housing, access to quality early childhood education and care, such as through the EU school scheme, accessible public transport and targeted energy support for low-income households; stresses the need to ensure a dedicated and sufficiently resourced allocation of funds for food banks that provide material support, including food aid, so that they have adequate operational capacity and the ability to respond swiftly to rising levels of food insecurity and material deprivation; underlines that such support must be complemented by accompanying measures that foster social inclusion and pathways out of poverty in line with ESF+ rules;

68. Recalls the thematic enabling conditions applicable to the ERDF, the ESF+ and the Cohesion Fund set out in Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament laying down common provisions for these funds, in particular enabling condition 4.4., entitled ‘National strategic policy framework for social inclusion and poverty reduction’; stresses the importance of linking the anti-poverty strategy and its funding to the previously defined specific objectives; calls on the Commission and the Council to ensure that the common provisions of the ERDF and the ESF+ better reflect these specific objectives, and to incorporate the anti-poverty strategy into the next MFF, as well as gender mainstreaming;

69. Recalls that energy and transport, among other elements, are key essential services to which everyone should have access, and therefore insists that extra attention be paid to the social climate plans that Member States are required to design and implement under the Social Climate Fund, investing in energy efficiency, housing renovation, and the accessibility and affordability of renewable energy sources and transport systems; calls on the Member States to actively involve people in vulnerable situations, so that the support can effectively reach those who need it the most; calls on the Member States to exchange best practices in the fight against energy poverty, such as energy vouchers and energy price regulation;

70. Stresses that EU funds are difficult to access at local level and for organisations with fewer technical resources due to their complexity; underscores the need to simplify the implementation of EU funding mechanisms and the arrangements for providing final beneficiaries with these funds, and to train staff at the relevant public authorities and at the organisations; underlines that according to the ESF+ Regulation, the co-financing rate for support to the most deprived persons must be continued, to stay at or similar to 90 %, which should facilitate access to this financing for programmes and activities designed to help eradicate poverty;

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71. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and the Commission.