Question 15668 — foreign policy

Summary

Mr. Guillaume Gouffier Valente alerts the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the extremely worrying situation of French civil society organizations engaged in international solidarity and dependent on the I-OSC system of the French Development Agency (AFD). Even though the Government repeatedly displays its commitment to international cooperation, as evidenced by the recent meeting G7 ministerial meeting on development in Paris or the summit on partnerships between France and African countries co-organized by the President of the Republic and his Kenyan counterpart, associative actors note a growing contradiction between these announcements and the means actually allocated to public development assistance. In fact, the I-OSC system, registered in program 209, saw its allocation decrease by 67% in two years, despite the adoption in the Senate of several amendments aimed at preserving this essential financing mechanism. It is also indicated that ongoing budgetary arbitrations between Bercy, the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the AFD would consider a two-stage disbursement of the allocated envelope, of an initial amount of 65 million euros in the initial finance law, increased to 61.6 million euros after cancellation of freezing. Such a method would result in only around 28 million euros being disbursed at the start of the year, the balance being carried over to a second payment at the end of the financial year, the realization of which would remain uncertain. In this scheme, AFD could only legally commit financing on the basis of the credits actually available at the start of the year and not on the overall envelope of the system, which would seriously weaken the implementation implementation of projects. To date, 75 non-governmental organizations remain without response regarding the financing of projects scheduled for 2026. This lack of visibility seriously weakens their cash flow, threatens the continuity of projects already validated and leads, in certain cases, to job cuts. Such a budgetary organization would make the management of the system particularly difficult, or even ineffective, in preventing the security of agreements and multi-year commitments. This situation is all the more worrying as it occurs in an international context marked by multiple humanitarian and geopolitical crises, in which French associations play an essential role with the most vulnerable populations and in strategic areas for French cooperation. He therefore asks him to specify the planned timetable for the release of the funding expected within the framework of the I-OSC system and the terms of confirmation of the granting of projects programmed to the tune of 62 million euros. He also wishes to know the Government's intentions concerning the methods of disbursement of the budget envelope, in particular the possible organization of credits in two stages, as well as the guarantees provided to enable AFD to commit to all the funding announced from the start of the financial year, in order to guarantee the sustainability of the associations concerned and the continuity of international solidarity actions carried out by France.

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