What changed between the draft committee report and the plenary report

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Changed:14.31. Calls foron the EU to advance in the implementation of the HDPtriple nexus to address the key causes of crises and to support resilience-building, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected settings by supporting local organisationsorganisations, including youth and women-led organisations, faith-based organisations, which play a key role in responding to humanitarian crises, and ensuring their fullfull, involvementequal and meaningful participation in the humanitarian programme cycle;cycle and in decision-making spaces at all levels;

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Changed:15.32. Calls on the Commission to deliver on its commitment to channel at least 25 % of its humanitarian funding to local actors by 2027;2027, including through the use of country-based pooled funds and other funding mechanisms that prioritise local actors, as well as explore how to provide grants directly to local organisations, and help strengthen their capacities to meet regulatory, transparency and accountability requirements; calls on the EU to prioritise funding for local organisations delivering assistance to youth, women, people with disabilities, LGBTQI+ populations and other vulnerable groups;

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Removed:16. Notes that anticipatory action in crisis-prone settings in advance of humanitarian crises is an efficient way of preventing or mitigating future humanitarian needs;

Added:33. Calls on the Commission to prioritise in the next MFF multi-year funding for conflict prevention and peacebuilding in order to enforce linkages between humanitarian and crisis response mechanisms and longer term peacebuilding and development programming; stresses the importance of strengthening coordination mechanisms at field level across the EU’s humanitarian, development and peacebuilding actions to ensure joined-up and coherent outcomes, including through the Team Europe approach; underlines the importance of the EU-UN partnership in strengthening the humanitarian, development and peace nexus, with special attention being paid to girls and young women, people with disabilities, children and the older persons in vulnerable situations and stresses the importance of EU funding for the UN system; considers that structural inequalities continue to influence the power dynamics of humanitarian interventions, access to funding, and participation in decision-making; calls for a more inclusive, equitable and rights-based approach to EU humanitarian policy, with greater leadership from local and historically marginalised actors;

Removed:17. Insists on the need for a science-based approach to anticipatory action to increase the availability of quality data and risk analysis in order to improve early warning systems and integrate risk forecasting into humanitarian planning;

Added:34. Notes that anticipatory action in crisis-prone settings in advance of humanitarian crises is an efficient way of preventing or mitigating future humanitarian needs, as well as supporting communities’ ability to absorb and adapt to shocks and to build their resilience; encourages the Commission and the Member States to ensure that investments in prevention, anticipatory action and disaster preparedness are preserved to mitigate the impact of crises on populations and systems;

Removed:18. Encourages the Member States to significantly scale up their investment in locally led and integrated anticipatory action;

Added:35. Insists on the need for an evidence-based approach to anticipatory action, particularly in fragile and climate-vulnerable settings, to increase the availability of quality data and risk analysis in order to improve early warning systems and integrate risk forecasting into humanitarian planning;

Removed:25 years of UN Security Council Resolution 1325: towards a gender-sensitive approach to humanitarian aid

Added:36. Encourages the Member States to significantly scale up their investment in locally-led and integrated anticipatory action, such as investments in early-warning systems, risk analysis and community resilience, and an increase in the share of climate funds dedicated to enhancing resilience and adaptation in the most disaster-prone countries and regions, stressing the importance of engaging a diverse group of actors, including civil society organisations and local-level networks in anticipatory actions, including forecast-based finance, and disaster preparedness and risk management, especially in fragile and climate-vulnerable settings;

Removed:19. Welcomes the progress made in the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) and the Women, Peace and Security agenda, as an essential tool in ensuring that the rights of women and girls are observed at all times;

Added:25 years of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000): towards a gender-sensitive approach to humanitarian aid

Removed:20. Calls on all parties to armed conflicts to take measures to protect women and girls from sexual and gender-based violence and all other forms of violence in situations of armed conflict, as well as to promote their sexual and reproductive health and rights;

Added:37. Welcomes the progress made in the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) and the Women, Peace and Security agenda, which is an essential tool in ensuring that the rights of women and girls are observed at all times; notes that 25 years after its adoption, vast implementation gaps remain, with women still marginalised in peace processes and disproportionally impacted by conflict and crisis, including through widespread gender-based violence, requiring increased political and financial support to the agenda from the EU, as a catalyst for and investment in long-lasting and sustainable peace and development; calls on the Commission and the EEAS to continue making the promotion of gender equality and women’s rights and empowerment, including implementation of SDG 5, a priority throughout all of the EU’s external action; calls on the EU and the Member States to prioritise the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda;

Removed:21. Highlights the crucial role played by women in humanitarian settings; regrets that local women-led organisations are among the hardest hit by the recent cuts to foreign aid, and encourages better engagement with them in humanitarian programming;

Added:38. Calls on all parties to armed conflicts to take measures to promote the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls and protect them from all forms of conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence, notably rape, recognising that such violence often intensifies during conflicts and may be being used systematically as a weapon of war; underlines the deep connection between armed conflicts and humanitarian and climate crises, and the increase of irregular migration, human trafficking, and the risk of exploitation, which disproportionately affect women and girls; underlines the importance of the active, full, equal and meaningful participation of women in all stages of a peace process, including in ceasefire negotiations, mediation efforts, prevention and resolution of armed conflicts, peacebuilding, and post-conflict reconstruction; calls on the Commission, the EEAS, and the Member States to enhance efforts to take into account the specific needs and contributions of women and girls in strategies for conflict prevention, mediation, and peacebuilding;

Removed:22. Encourages the Commission, the EEAS and the Member States to promote gender-sensitive approaches in humanitarian interventions and to increase their support for women’s participation in humanitarian decision-making processes, ensuring that their perspectives and needs are prioritised in the design and delivery of aid, in line with the objectives of UN Security Council Resolution 1325;

Added:39. Underlines that women in humanitarian contexts should be recognised not merely as victims, but as agents of change who actively drive positive transformation and shape their own destinies; highlights the crucial role played by women as frontline responders and community leaders and by women-led organisations in humanitarian settings, in preparedness, response, and recovery efforts, providing life-saving services, such as shelter, sexual and reproductive health services, gender-based violence services, cash assistance, trusted community-based protection, and which undertake advocacy for the rights and needs of women, girls, and marginalised populations, as well as drive peacebuilding and development work in their communities, while only receiving 0.3 % of bilateral aid in fragile states;

Removed:23. Reiterates its call for the full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 by the EU Member States;

Added:40. Regrets that local women-led organisations are among the hardest hit by the recent cuts to foreign aid, with half of them at risk of being shut down and encourages better engagement with them in humanitarian programming24; calls on the Commission to allocate specific, sustainable, flexible, multiannual funding, to maintain existing partnerships, to simplify access to funds and to expand its support for local women-led organisations in humanitarian settings, to ensure a more effective, inclusive and accountable system, to achieve this by increasing its funding for local women-led organisations, strengthening tracking and accountability for humanitarian funding to local, women-led organisations, adapting existing funding mechanisms and processes to better fit their needs and capacities, as well as increasing the levels of direct multi-year funding made available to them; notes with regret that almost half (47 %) of women-led and women’s organisations surveyed expect to shut down within six months if current funding levels persist, while more than a third (35 %) remain trapped in uncertainty, unable to plan or sustain their work, and only 18 % report that they anticipate being able to remain operational for more than a year25; calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide 5 % of their aid in fragile contexts to women-led and women’s rights organisations through flexible and long-term funding, including by committing at least 5 % of their ODA funding to supporting those organisations within the next MFF;

Added:41. Encourages the Commission, the EEAS and the Member States to promote gender-responsive approaches in humanitarian interventions and to increase their support for women’s participation in humanitarian decision-making processes, supporting the creation of conditions for women to take on leadership roles in crisis settings, and ensuring that their perspectives and needs are prioritised in the design and delivery of aid, in line with the objectives of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000); calls on the Commission to apply an inclusive, intersectional, and gender-responsive approach in all humanitarian planning, taking into account the specific needs and rights of women, girls, persons with disabilities, LGBTQI+ people and other marginalised groups; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the meaningful participation of these groups in the design, implementation and evaluation of humanitarian aid programmes; considers it necessary to prioritise persons with disabilities in EU-funded humanitarian aid, addressing in particular the needs and priorities of women and children living with disabilities, including by providing funding to local organisations and networks of women and girls with disabilities, who are often best placed to respond to needs, but most impacted by funding cuts;

Added:42. Calls on the Commission to ensure that gender equality remains prioritised when reforming and restructuring the humanitarian system as part of the UN-led Humanitarian Reset, safeguarding funding and critical mechanisms, such as retaining a dedicated cluster within the humanitarian system that includes specialised action on gender-based violence, gender equality, and protection from sexual exploitation and abuse, as critical life-saving services; calls on the Commission to ensure the systematic implementation of rigorous gender analysis, gender-disaggregated data collection, gender-responsive budgeting and gender impact assessments, as well as the development of dedicated gender expertise in the Commission, to support such roles in partner organisations, and to continue strengthening the use of the EU Gender-Age Marker; welcomes the growing number and formalisation of gender focal persons (GFPs), with 99 % of EU delegations and 87 % of headquarters services now having GFPs;

Added:43. Reiterates the need for appropriate and timely sexual and reproductive health services to be prioritised and made available in all humanitarian responses, including through the implementation of the Minimum Initial Service Package for reproductive health in emergencies and transition to comprehensive services as the situation allows;

Added:44. Reiterates its call for the full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) and its subsequent resolutions by the EU and its Member States; in this regard welcomes the progress made on the EU Action Plan on WPS and GAP III, and stresses the importance of the Commission’s presenting a GAP IV and the need for adequate resources for its implementation; regrets that since the launch of the GAP III only 3.8 % of all gender-responsive/targeted actions have gender equality as a principal objective; calls on the Commission to ensure that 85 % of all new external actions incorporate gender as a significant or principal objective and that 20 % of ODA in each country is allocated to programmes with gender equality as one of their principal objectives;

Added:45. Expresses serious concern about the growing influence of ultra-conservative, anti-gender and religious fundamentalist movements – both within and outside the EU – that aim to undermine the fundamental rights of women and girls, including in humanitarian settings; stresses that such movements often spread disinformation, stigmatise sexual and reproductive health services, and weaken the protection of women against gender-based violence; calls on the Commission, the EEAS, and the Member States to ensure that EU-funded humanitarian programmes remain firmly grounded in international human rights standards and gender equality, and to actively support civil society organisations targeted by anti-rights actors;

Added:46. Warns against institutional violence and negligence by humanitarian actors, including gender-blind programming, unsafe environments for women and LGBTQI+ people, and a lack of accountability for abuses; calls for binding gender-sensitivity standards, comprehensive reporting systems and zero-tolerance policies across all humanitarian operations funded by the EU;

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47. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the European External Action Service.