Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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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, with the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)in Vienna; AVSI 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 30 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
- 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, protectionAddress
Head Office
via Legnone, 4
Milan 20158
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 1 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 25 Feb 2019
Name Start date End Date Guido CALVI 28 Feb 2024 27 Feb 2025 Giampaolo SILVESTRI 06 Feb 2024 05 Feb 2025 Gloria LORENZONI 06 Feb 2024 05 Feb 2025 Maria Laura CONTE 20 Mar 2024 02 Oct 2024 Mr Guido CALVI 28 Feb 2024 15 Apr 2024 Mr Giampaolo SILVESTRI 06 Feb 2024 15 Apr 2024 Ms Gloria LORENZONI 06 Feb 2024 15 Apr 2024 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)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
Compagnia delle Opere - Opere sociali
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
6,432,028 € (Source: Development Program)
Other financial info
The total budget managed in 2017 by AVSI by both headquarters in Italy and local branches is 55.538.380 Euros
Besides 141 natural persons, AVSI has 35 member organisations in 20 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.
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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)
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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 & Development Attending - Paolo Berizzi (Cabinet member)
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