AVSI Foundation

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

75,000€

Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1 Fte (2)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

3

High-level Commission meetings

2

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    AVSI Foundation

    EU Transparency Register

    37924887335-21 First registered on 05 Dec 2011

    Goals / Remit

    AVSI Foundation is an international, non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1972, with headquarters in Milan, Italy and an office in Washington, DC.
    Globally, AVSI’s mission is to support human development in developing countries according to the social teaching of the Catholic Church, with special attention to education and promotion of the global dignity of every person.

    At present, AVSI is operating in 32 countries in Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Eurasia, the Middle East and South-East Asia in the following sectors: social and educational, distance support, urban development, healthcare, work, agriculture, food security and water, energy and environment, humanitarian emergency, migrations, international adoptions.
    700 local partners now make up the informal AVSI network, which works systematically on the implementation of projects, common reflection on development, to share methods and experiences.

    AVSI works for a world where the person, aware of his/her value and dignity, is the protagonist of his/her own integral development and that of his/her community, even in crisis and emergency contexts.

    AVSI implements cooperation projects in various sectors with a preferential focus on education, meaning that the person is accompanied towards self-discovery and recognition that the other person is a resource. Each project is conceived as an instrument to promote this awareness in everyone involved, has in itself a need for communicating and sharing, and creates an impact capable of generating a positive change.

    In project implementation, AVSI uses the following approach:

    - to start from the value of the person, who is never defined by the circumstances in which s/he lives
    to consider the person always in his/her family and community context
    - to do with: accompany and let ourselves be accompanied, recognizing that we all share the same human experience
    - to involve all stakeholders: encourage the participation of beneficiaries, providers, partners, donors, and the private sector
    - to learn from experience and capitalize on the lessons learned.

    Main EU files targeted

    - New European Consensus on Development and 2030 Agenda (implementation)
    - Migration and Development
    - EU-ACP post-Cotonou
    - Civil Society Organisations' role in development cooperation and EU funding to NGOs/CSOs
    - MFF 2014-2020 Mid-Term review and MFF post 2020
    - ECHO FPA implementation and new FPA
    - EU Trust Funds Africa and Madad (implementation)
    - Joint Programming process
    - Education in development
    - External Investment Plan
    - Youth, vocational training and job creation in external action
    - Women empowerment in external action
    - Urban development and urban planning in external action
    - Private sector in development
    - Child labour, protection

    Address

    Head Office
    via Legnone, 4
    Milan 20158
    ITALY
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    2

    Employment timeLobbyists
    75%1
    25%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 26 Aug 2019

    Name Start date End Date
    Maria Laura CONTE 20 Mar 2024 02 Oct 2024
    Mr Guido CALVI 28 Feb 2024 27 Feb 2025
    Mr Giampaolo SILVESTRI 06 Feb 2024 05 Feb 2025
    Ms Gloria LORENZONI 06 Feb 2024 05 Feb 2025
    Ms DANIA TONDINI 15 Feb 2022 15 Feb 2023
    Mr Giampaolo SILVESTRI 05 Feb 2022 05 Feb 2023
    Mr Guido CALVI 04 Feb 2022 04 Feb 2023
    Ms Gloria LORENZONI 04 Feb 2022 04 Feb 2023
    Mr Giampaolo SILVESTRI 23 Feb 2021 05 Feb 2022
    Ms Carolina JAMAN 20 Feb 2021 19 Feb 2022
    Ms Gloria LORENZONI 20 Feb 2021 04 Feb 2022
    Ms DANIA TONDINI 20 Feb 2021 15 Feb 2022
    Ms DANIA TONDINI 25 Feb 2020 20 Feb 2021
    Ms Gloria LORENZONI 25 Feb 2020 20 Feb 2021
    Mr Giampaolo SILVESTRI 25 Feb 2020 23 Feb 2021
    Ms DANIA TONDINI 09 Mar 2019 25 Feb 2020
    Ms Gloria LORENZONI 09 Mar 2019 25 Feb 2020
    Mr Giampaolo SILVESTRI 09 Mar 2019 25 Feb 2020
    Ms DANIA TONDINI 12 Feb 2018 13 Feb 2019
    Ms Lucia Conti 12 Feb 2018 13 Feb 2019
    Ms DANIA TONDINI 21 Feb 2017 12 Feb 2018
    Ms Lucia Conti 21 Feb 2017 12 Feb 2018
    Ms Lucia Conti 01 Mar 2016 22 Feb 2017
    Ms DANIA TONDINI 27 Feb 2016 22 Feb 2017
    Ms DANIA TONDINI 11 Feb 2015 27 Feb 2016
    Ms DANIA TONDINI 04 Feb 2014 25 Jan 2015
    Ms DANIA TONDINI 02 Feb 2013 01 Feb 2014
    Ms DANIA TONDINI 11 Apr 2012 08 Feb 2013

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Ms Gloria Lorenzoni (Focal Point EU)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Giampaolo Silvestri (Secretary-General)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    AVSI has been recognized since 1973 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a non-governmental organization for international cooperation (NGO), registered as Civil Society Organization.

    Registered as a PVO with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

    Holds General Consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York, Geneva and Vienna, with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in New York and with the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna.

    Accredited participant of the UN Global Compact, Global Nutrition Cluster and is recognized on the NGO Special List of the International Labor Organization (ILO).

    Associated General Member of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action.

    Associated member of the Global Alliance for Clean Cooking (GACC)

    Member of the Board of Cities Alliance.

    Associated member of the CDO Opere Sociali.

    Joined and signed the Code of Conduct of the “International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGO’s in Disaster Relief”.

    Recognized as an NGO for international cooperation by the European Union and is authorized by the Italian Government for international adoptions.

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    75,000€

    EU grant income for closed financial year

    9,474,769 € (Source: Development Program)

    Other financial info

    The total budget managed in 2018 by AVSI by both headquarters in Italy and local branches is 68.097.472 Euros

    Besides 140 natural persons, AVSI has 34 member organisations in 25 countries.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    None

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    2 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.

    • Date 12 Mar 2019 Location Rue de la Loi 41
      Subject Meeting Dir. Silvestri - Exchange on last developments at EU level
      DG Directorate-General for International Partnerships
      Attending
      • Stefano Manservisi (Director-General)
    • Date 03 Jun 2015 Location Brussels
      Subject Presentation of civil society position on the main development themes
      Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica
      Portfolio International Cooperation &amp; Development
      Attending
      • Paolo Berizzi (Cabinet member)
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