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Overview

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

Lobbying Costs

None declared

Financial year: Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.75 Fte (1)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

19

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    ActionAid   (AAI)

    EU Transparency Register

    85103504511-82 First registered on 11 Nov 2010

    Goals / Remit

    ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency which takes sides with poor people to end poverty and injustice together. Around the world we work in local communities, listening to poor people and learning about their needs. We help them approach decision makers in their own countries, simultaneously lobbying powerful institutions such as the EU to change the international policies and regulations that contribute to the uneven distribution of wealth.
    The EU is the largest multi-lateral donor and its decisions have major implications for the lives of millions of people in the developing world.
    ActionAid opened its EU Office in Brussels in 1999. The ActionAid EU Office seeks to ensure that EU policies place the fight against extreme poverty and global injustice as a central concern.

    Main EU files targeted

    The ActionAid EU office works on three of the four ActionAid pillars and four of the six Strategic Objectives (SO) of the new Strategic Implementation Framework (SIF) for the 2021-2023 period, part of our 2028 Strategy, from a EU perspective:

    PILLAR 1. REDISTRIBUTION
    Objective 1) To advance economic justice and redistribute women’s unpaid care and domestic work through expanding fiscal and policy space and supporting investment in gender-responsive public services and social protection.
    Objective 2) Advocating for redistributive climate and humanitarian finance: making polluting countries, corporations and the rich pay based on equity and fair shares and ensuring finance reaches those most in need, to enable countries to invest in adaptation, ensure reparations for loss and damage and transition to greener pathways.

    PILLAR 2. RESILIENCE
    Objective 3) Promote a feminist, green and just transition [that builds climate resilience] especially in agriculture, led by women and young people.

    PILLAR 4. RIGHTS
    Objective 6) Strengthening citizen’s movements, challenging visible, invisible and hidden power through strengthening and connecting movements, defining and adopting a decolonisation approach, enriching our human-rights based approach, and challenging shrinking space.

    Within this framework, at EU level, we have been engaging in different EU public consultations, including 2021’s on 1) Sustainable corporate governance; 2) “Tax avoidance – fighting the use of shell entities and arrangements for tax purposes”; 3) “2030 Digital Compass: the European way for the Digital Decade” (mainly on digital taxation); and 4) Open public consultation on the Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD)

    We have also contributed to the roadmap and been analyzing with other stakeholders the Communication on Business Taxation for the 21st century and the development of the EU policy in this field. We also have input the roadmap on a A fair & competitive digital economy – digital levy. And we have and still are also closely following the development of the EU policy on corporate accountability, including the recent EC’s proposal for a Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence, advocating for a stronger women’s rights perspective.

    All along 2021, we have been participating in the EU regional programming consultations, as ActionAid itself, and we have also contributed to CONCORD’s input to those processes. We have been involved in the EU civil society spaces allocated ahead of the EU-AU Summit (February 2021), including the Civil Society Steering Committee, and we have participated in the organization of one of the sessions of the Civil Society and Local Authority Forum taking place the (15/02/2022) during the Africa-Europe Week.

    On the other side, ActionAid EU office follows closely the EU development policy in the field of agroecology and food systems. During 2021 we have maintained a strong dialogue with DG INTPA food security team to push for more and quality investment in agroecology, including through the new MFF. The European Council position on the UNFSS included some of our recommendations on human rights, bottom-up approaches and agroecology. We have also been supporting with other networks the EU Farm to Fork strategy and following closely the European Green Deal advocating for an ecofeminist perspective.

    We have been also part of the Civil society members of the Structure Dialogue on GAP III through CONCORD.

    Address

    Head Office
    4th Floor, West Wing 158 Jan Smuts Avenue Building (entrance on Walters Avenue) Rosebank
    Johannesburg
    SOUTH AFRICA
    EU Office
    Rue de l'Industrie, 10 2nd Floor, Mundo J Building
    Brussels 1000
    BELGIUM

    Website

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    1

    Employment timeLobbyists
    75%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.75

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 13 May 2022

    Name Start date End Date
    Javier GARCÍA DE LA OLIVA 15 Mar 2024 14 Mar 2025
    Hamdi BENSLAMA 15 Mar 2024 14 Mar 2025
    Carmen GARILLETI 24 Jan 2024 23 Jan 2025
    Mathilde PANNEAU 08 Jul 2023 05 Jul 2024
    Nadia PAROLARI 29 Apr 2023 21 Dec 2023
    Martina VENZO 29 Apr 2023 21 Dec 2023
    Javier GARCÍA DE LA OLIVA 07 Feb 2023 07 Feb 2024
    Hamdi BENSLAMA 07 Feb 2023 07 Feb 2024
    Ms Isabelle Brachet 29 Oct 2019 29 Oct 2020
    Ms Anna MELENCHUK 27 Sep 2019 26 Sep 2020
    Ms Lis PARISI SERVULO DA CUNHA 11 Sep 2019 15 Aug 2020
    Ms Isabelle Brachet 11 Oct 2018 29 Oct 2019
    Ms Lis PARISI SERVULO DA CUNHA 05 Sep 2018 11 Sep 2019
    Ms Isabelle Brachet 30 Oct 2017 11 Oct 2018
    Ms Katarzyna SZENIAWSKA 01 Dec 2016 01 Dec 2017
    Ms Isabelle Brachet 16 Nov 2016 30 Oct 2017
    Ms Katarzyna SZENIAWSKA 28 Aug 2015 29 Aug 2016
    Ms Isabelle Brachet 15 Jul 2015 13 Jul 2016
    Ms Isabelle Brachet 21 Aug 2014 15 Jul 2015
    Mr Sara Jespersen 23 Mar 2013 22 Mar 2014

    Complementary Information

    An office administrator working part time is based in the ActionAid Brussels office, but not contributing to the above-mentioned activities.

    The 2021 internal restructuring in ActionAid resulted in the appointment in December of a Head of Country Engagement and Transformation Americas and Europe, who dedicates the 75% of his workload to the EU Brussels office actions.

    This setting is valid till mid of 2022, as the internal restructuring process has not yet ended. The final set up for the EU work and the Brussels office will be clarified by then. In the meantinme, a job offer has been already published for a new EU Advocacy Advisor.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

    Person with legal responsibility

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

  • Categories

    Category

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    ActionAid International belongs to a number of non-profit networks and confederations. At European level, we are members of:
    - Concord, https://concordeurope.org/about-us/who-we-are/members,
    - CAN Europe, https://caneurope.org/members,
    - Eurodad, https://www.eurodad.org/members (see under the South Africa flag),
    - The EU Food Policy Coalition, https://foodpolicycoalition.eu/participants

    Member organisations

    We’re an international organisation, working with over 15 million people in 45 countries.

    The full list of members (affiliates and associates), as well as of countries where we have programmes, is available here: https://actionaid.org/countries

    8 of them are in the EU:
    1. Denmark, https://www.ms.dk/en/home
    2. France, https://www.actionaid.fr
    3. Greece, https://www.actionaid.gr
    4. Ireland, https://actionaid.ie
    5. Italy, https://www.actionaid.it
    6. Netherlands, https://actionaid.nl
    7. Spain, https://www.alianzaporlasolidaridad.org
    8. Sweden, https://www.actionaid.se

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Does not represent commercial interests

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

    Total organisational budget in closed year

    232,000,000€

    Major funding types in closed year

    Donations, Other, EU funding, Member's contribution, Grants

    Major contributions in closed year

    TypeNameAmount
    Contribution Danida 21,930€
    Contribution European Union 18,100,000€
    Contribution Global Fund 11,010,000€
    Contribution Former Department for International Development (DIFID) 7,500,000€
    Contribution United Nations 9,640,000€
    Grant DG DEVCO/INTPA 2,360,000€

    Other financial info

    ActionAid International whole income consists of a mixture of restricted and unrestricted funding. Operational costs are covered by unrestricted reserves which finance costs for hub offices such as the EU office. Unrestricted funding is made up of International Contributions from members, who contribute certain percentages of their unrestricted funding to the Global Secretariat to cover operational costs which are then allocated to hubs.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    Platform for Tax Good Governance, Aggressive Tax Planning and Double Taxation#E02897#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=2897 #Member #C#Civil society

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Communication activities

    PUBLICATIONS
    - “Analyzing European Union Institutions’ Flows for Total Official Support for Sustainable Development” (https://actionaid.org/sites/default/files/publications/TOSSD%20EU%20Report.pdf), February 2022
    - Together with Eurodad, “Reflecting the duality of gender and climate in the European Investment Bank’s Environmental and Social Sustainability Framework’s Standard 5 on Climate Change” (https://assets.nationbuilder.com/eurodad/pages/2493/attachments/original/1629714233/EIB-gender-and-climate-briefing.pdf?1629714233), August 2021
    - “Why the European Green Deal Needs Ecofeminism, chapter on Trade and summary” (https://wideplus.org/2021/07/27/why-the-european-green-deal-needs-ecofeminism-new-report-with-wides-contribution/), July 2021
    - “The ActionAid Tax Justice Reflection Action Toolkit” (https://actionaid.org/sites/default/files/publications/Tax%20Justice%20Toolkit_English.pdf), June 2021
    - “Mission Recovery: How big tech’s tax bill could kickstart a fairer economy” (https://actionaid.org/publications/2021/mission-recovery-how-big-techs-tax-bill-could-kickstart-fairer-economy) May 2021

    ARTICLES
    - EU’s gender-blind corporate due diligence proposal risks leaving women behind (https://actionaid.org/news/2022/eus-gender-blind-corporate-due-diligence-proposal-risks-leaving-women-behind), February 2022

    CAMPAIGNS
    - Together with others, ActionAid promoted The European Citizens’ Initiative Ban Fossil Fuel Advertising and Sponsorships (https://banfossilfuelads.org/), October 2021
    - Shell Climate case (https://actionaid.org/opinions/2021/shell-climate-case-what-you-need-know), May 2021
    - Climate of Change campaign (https://actionaid.org/news/2021/90-young-europeans-believe-climate-change-and-environmental-breakdown-are-worlds-greatest), April 2021

    EVENTS
    - Co-organization of the European Development Days Lab “Extractives and Taxation. Addressing the challenges in taxation of minerals, to ensure that the Global South will benefit from the energy transition”, 15/06/2021, together with Eurodad and Oxfam, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrvVCjWanHk

    Other activities

    Drawing on ActionAid’s experience working in Asia, Africa and in the Americas, the ActionAid EU office focuses its efforts on optimising the political space for development within the EU.

    End 2016, ActionAid has adopted its new Global Strategy "Strategy 2028: Action for Global Justice". Under that new strategy, the organisation's overarching goal is to achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication by shifting and redistributing power and resources, strengthening the resilience of communities and movements, and fulfilling the rights of people living in poverty and exclusion.

    In October 2020, ActionAid General Assembly adopted a new strategy implementation framework highlighting the federation's priorities for the next three years, ie. economic justice and climate justice. How those priorities will translate in terms of EU advocacy in 2021 is still to be discussed.

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    19 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

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