Terre des Hommes International Federation

The mission of the Terre des Hommes organisations is to provide active support to children, without racial, religious, political, cultural or gender-based discrimination. To this end the organisations develop and implement child protection, cooperation and humanitarian aid projects designed to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged children in their own environment (including families and communities). This work is rooted in a clearly focussed mission to promote concrete conditions for the full respect and implementation of child rights within a context of human rights based approaches to sustainable and equitable development embedded in economic, social and cultural rights. TDHIF and its members are guided by the International Bill of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In their own countries and regions, the Terre des Hommes organisations bring to the attention of the public, including children and young people, the causes of underdevelopment, together with the rights of the child. They mobilise political will and advocate appropriate governmental policies. They undertake fund raising activities to achieve their objectives.
Terre des Hommes believes that children are the main participants in their own development, with inherent rights and vital social, economic and cultural roles. Terre des Hommes helps them realise their full potential in the world of today.
In 2008 Terre des Hommes runs 933 development and humanitarian aid projects in 65 countries in close collaboration with the beneficiaries, who are the primary participants in their own development. Terre des Hommes acts directly or work with 734 local and national civil society organisations, assistance in their institutional development is a key element in this collaboration.
The humanitarian aid projects are designed with the aim of establishing basic social infrastructure both during and after natural or manmade disasters, and enhancing the capacities of children and local partners to participate in the rebuilding of their communities.
The advocacy work of Terre des Hommes is deeply rooted in its field knowledge. We strive to ensure that information from a local level reaches a global level, so that international and European decisions really do improve the plight of those for whom they are made. Terre des Hommes also holds governments accountable for the promises they have made to children, and strives to generate positive change.

TDHIF is committed to transparency about EU interest representation. TDHIF believes that this register fails basic transparency standards and that it does not provide EU lobbying transparency. When registering, we have therefore chosen to give all the relevant information that we consider necessary for lobbying transparency. A credible EU lobbying transparency register should include names of individual lobbyists and the issues that they try to influence, provide precise and comparable financial information on lobbying, and have effective sanctions to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information disclosed. In an effort to arrive at a more objective way of calculating lobbying expenditures, we follow the guidelines that result from consultation with public interest organisations, professionals working on lobbying transparency as well as experts on US lobby disclosure legislation. Our registration is therefore providing a more comprehensive calculation of our expenses for activities that aim to influence the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions, and a list of those who, on behalf of TDHIF, carry out such activities.

Our registration is based on the guidelines for transparent registration developed by the Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU. You can find the guidelines on “http://www.act4europe.org or http://www.alter-eu.org”

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Mr Salvatore Parata (Head of EU office)

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