AVSI Foundation

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

125,000€

Financial year: Jan 2011 - Dec 2011

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

None declared

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

1

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.

    Since 1991, AVSI has been registered as a PVO with USAID, and is officially recognized by the Italian Government and the European Union. AVSI holds general consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council, New York, with UNICEF, New York, is an accredited participant of the UN Global Compact and is listed in the ILO Special List of NGOs.
    At present, AVSI is operating in 37 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.
    More than 60 organizations now make up the informal AVSI network, which works systematically on the implementation of projects, common reflection on development, to share methods and experiences. The network includes founding members and participating members, but also partners. A network bound by operative friendship.

    Drawing on AVSI’s methodological approach that focuses on the needs of the person in his/her entirety and on partnerships with local institutions, AVSI’s programs and those of networked organizations often extend into more than one sector and across the divisions of civil society, business, and the state. This cross-sectoral and community-level approach makes each intervention more effective and sustainable.
    AVSI, relying in a particular way on its personnel in the field working side by side with local partners, holds education as the overall goal of each cultural, social and economic project and initiative. Education cannot be reduced to schooling, training sessions, or information campaigns; instead, to educate means to introduce ourselves and one another to reality, to its meaning and to the value of things, thereby sustaining the individual’s responsible undertaking to better his/her life and the lives of others.

    An education to reality entails sharing an experience, through a relationship, where the fulfillment of life and the awareness of meaning are already being lived.

    With this ultimate goal and guided by the following principles, AVSI does not create dependency, but helps individuals and communities address their own present and future needs through education and building permanent and sustainable institutions.

    Centrality of the person: The person is seen as a unique being in his or her fundamental relationships, family and society. The person cannot be reduced to a social category or a limitation such as poverty, disease or disability.
    Starting from the positive: Every person and every community represents a potential resource, regardless of their vulnerability. This means valuing and strengthening all that has been made by people and also helping people to understand their own value and dignity.
    Doing with: Starting from a relationship with the people to whom the project is directed and building with them on the basis of their development path.
    Development of Civil Society and Subsidiarity: Development projects must favor associations, ackowledgment and must value the establishment of intermediate bodies along with responsible and engaged social fabric.
    Partnership: Promotion of partnerships with all the actors in the field in order to favor synergies and optimize available resources.

    Main EU files targeted

    Address

    Head Office
    via Legnone
    Milan 20158
    ITALY
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    None declared

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 12 May 2013

    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

    None declared

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Giampaolo Silvestri (Executive Director)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    None declared

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2011 - Dec 2011

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    125,000€

    EU grant income for closed financial year

    2,931,346 €

    Other financial info

    The total budget managed in 2011 by AVSI by both headquarter in Italy and local branches is 41.477.511 Euros

    Besides 124 natural persons, AVSI has 28 member organisations in 20 countries.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    None declared

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None declared

    Communication activities

    None declared

    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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