Hope and Homes for Children

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

150,000€

Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

3 Fte (5)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

4

High-level Commission meetings

12

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Hope and Homes for Children   (HHC)

    EU Transparency Register

    035163533684-92 First registered on 18 Jan 2019

    Goals / Remit

    Hope and Homes for Children is an international non-governmental organisation registered in the United Kingdom. The mission of Hope and Homes for Children is to be the catalyst for the global elimination of institutional care for children. Established in 1994, Hope and Homes for Children has accumulated almost 25 years of international experience of reforming child protection systems through the process of de-institutionalization (DI). DI is the policy-driven process of reforming a country’s care system with a focus on transitioning from institutional to family and community based care, alongside the development of prevention and family support services. Ultimately, Hope and Homes for Children aims to achieve systemic and lasting change by supporting the design of robust child protection systems, effective in preventing children’s separation from their families and providing quality alternative care.

    Hope and Homes for Children works across four key areas to achieve policy and practice change: engagement, demonstration, capacity building, and policy and funding streamlining. Hope and Homes for Children assists public authorities and implementing partners at national and local level to develop engagement strategies and move away from reliance on institutional care, demonstrating the closure of all types of institutions: for babies, for children with special educational needs, for children and adults with disabilities and for typical children. The institutions are replaced by a range of services developed to match the needs of the children, their families and communities, and included both prevention services as well as alternative family care. Hope and Homes for Children has a tested model of working, endorsed as best practice by UNICEF and the World Health Organisation, which ensures that children’s basic human right to a family, safe housing, education and health care is met, and that vulnerable families and communities are strengthened.

    Hope and Homes for Children works across five Regions to support the development of locally determined and relevant family and community-based care arrangements: Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and South Europe, East and Southern Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and India. Hope and Homes for Children works in partnerships with national governments, civil society organisations, local non-governmental Organisations (NGOs), international agencies and committed donors to build a global movement that will eliminate orphanages in our lifetime. This close cooperation has allowed Hope and Homes for Children to make a major contribution over the years to reducing the number of children in orphanages and institutions. In Romania the reduction has been from over 100,000 to less than 7,500; in Moldova from 12,000 to just over 1,000; in Bulgaria we have reduced the number of children under three in institutions by 75%; and we have worked with the Government of Rwanda to reduce the number of all children in orphanages by over 35%.

    For more information on Hope and Homes for Children strategic vision for the next 10 years, please see the 2018 Organisation Strategy: http://www.hopeandhomes.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Organisational-strategy_2018_AW_lowres.pdf

    Main EU files targeted

    Hope and Homes for Children seeks to ensure that the legal and policy frameworks of the EU, including the financing instruments deployed internally and externally, prevent the separation of children from their families, promote the transition from institutional to family and community based care for children, and exclude investment in the maintenance, construction or refurbishment of institutional care facilities. Hope and Homes for Children actively follow all EU files that that may affect these priorities across the world, with a particular emphasis on the following:
    - The implementation and evaluation of key instruments of the 2014-2020 multi-annual financial framework, namely the European Structural and Investment Funds, the Instrument for Pre-Accession II, European Development Fund, the Development Cooperation Instrument, the European Neighbourhood Instrument and European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights.
    - The on-going negotiations of the 2021-2020 multi-annual financial framework, and new financial instruments for internal and external funding. This includes the European Commission proposals for the Common Provision Regulations (COM(2018) 375 final), European Regional Development Fund (COM(2018) 372 final), the European Social Fund Plus (COM(2018) 382 final), the Instrument for Pre-Accession III (COM(2018) 465 final) and the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (COM(2018) 460 final)
    - The Implementation of the EU Guidelines for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child (2017).
    - The post-Cotonou process and resulting new agreement between the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
    - The implementation of the new European Consensus for Development, particularly with regards to child rights.
    - The European Disability Strategy 2010 – 2020 and the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies and their successors
    - The EU Human Rights Action Plan

    Address

    Head Office
    East Clyffe
    Salisbury SP3 4LZ
    UNITED KINGDOM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    5

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%2
    50%1
    25%2

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    3

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    4 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 17 Jan 2020

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Irina PAPANCHEVA 09 Nov 2023 08 Nov 2024
    Ms Marie RAVERDEAU 09 Nov 2023 08 Nov 2024
    Ms Francesca PISANU 09 Nov 2023 14 Mar 2024
    Ms Michela Costa 12 May 2023 04 Oct 2023
    Ms Marie RAVERDEAU 14 Oct 2022 14 Oct 2023
    Ms Irina PAPANCHEVA 04 Nov 2022 04 Nov 2023
    Ms Marie RAVARDEAU 14 Oct 2022 16 Nov 2022
    Ms Francesca PISANU 14 Oct 2022 14 Oct 2023
    Ms Louise Bonneau 17 Mar 2020 17 Mar 2021
    Mr Emmanuel SHERWIN 17 Mar 2020 17 Mar 2021
    Ms Michela Costa 17 Mar 2020 17 Mar 2021
    Mr Alessandro NEGRO 17 Mar 2020 17 Mar 2021
    Mr Mark WADDINGTON 17 Mar 2020 17 Mar 2021
    Mr Emmanuel SHERWIN 20 Mar 2019 17 Mar 2020
    Ms Michela Costa 20 Mar 2019 17 Mar 2020
    Mr Alessandro NEGRO 20 Mar 2019 17 Mar 2020
    Ms Louise Bonneau 19 Mar 2019 17 Mar 2020

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    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

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    Hope and Homes for Children is an active member of various non-governmental platforms and coalitions, including Eurochild, Child Rights Action Group (CRAG), the Advisory Group of Better Care Network and Child Rights Connect. Hope and Homes for Children is also a member of Bond (https://www.bond.org.uk/) which gives it access to Concord (https://concordeurope.org/).

    Hope and Homes for Children is indirectly involved in the European Expert Group on the transition from Institutional to Community based care (https://deinstitutionalisation.com/) through its partnership with Eurochild in the Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign.

    It is also leading members of the regional campaign Transform Alliance Africa (http://transformallianceafrica.org/).

    In its day to day work, Hope and Homes for Children is closely cooperating with some other organisations, working in directly or indirectly in the areas of child rights, social affairs, poverty, etc. They include:
    • AGE Platform Europe
    • Bond
    • COFACE Families Europe
    • Eurochild
    • ERGO Network for European Roma
    • European Disability Forum
    • European Public Health Alliance
    • EuroHealthNet
    • FEANTSA (European Federation of national organisations working with the homeless)
    • Inclusion Europe
    • Lumos
    • Plan Europe
    • Missing Children Europe
    • Save the Children
    • SOS Children's Villages International
    • UNICEF
    • UN OHCHR
    • World Vision

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    150,000€

    EU grant income for closed financial year

    305,071 € (Source: EIDHR Sudan; EU POCU Romania)

    Other financial info

    Total income in 2018 was EUR 10.3 million which was EUR 3.0 million down on the 2017 comparative figure of EUR 13.3 million. In the final quarter of the 2017, donations were significantly boosted by the End the Silence appeal which ran as part of DFID’s UK Aid Match Scheme between September and December 2017.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    Intergroup on Children Rights

    Communication activities

    Hope and Home for Children is a leading partner of the regional campaign Transform Alliance Africa (http://transformallianceafrica.org/). It brings together 14 partner organisations, representing seven countries, committed to a vision of an Africa free of institutional care, where all children belong and grow up in safe and loving families. Its mission is to be the catalyst to end institutional care of children in Africa by bringing together the partners’ collective voices, knowledge, practice and experience to strengthen families. Through the Alliance, Hope and Homes for Children provide support for partners to convene key stakeholders – including government agencies – in their own countries to negotiate buy-in to national deinstitutionalisation reform.

    Hope and Homes for Children was also a founding partner of the Opening Doors for Europe’s Children (2013-2029; http://www.openingdoors.eu/). The campaign aimed to develop child protection systems that strengthen families and ensure family and community-based alternative care for children. It achieves this by leveraging EU policy and funding and by building advocacy capacity in civil society. The campaign ran across 16 European countries. It contributed to significant breakthroughs across a number of EU countries – particularly, the inclusion of deinstitutionalisation as one of the priorities for the use of European Structural and Investment Funds.

    Hope and Homes for Children has also produced and contributed to a number of publications, namely:
    - Hope and Homes for Children with the European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community based care (2019) "Checklist to ensure EU-funded measures contribute to independent living by developing and ensuring access to family-based and community-based services" https://deinstitutionalisationdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/eeg_checklist_onlineoffice.pdf)
    - Hope and Homes for Children (2017) “End the silence: The case for the elimination of institutional care of children” (http://www.hopeandhomes.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/End-the-Silence-Policy-Paper-Final-Copy.pdf)
    - Joint Lumos-Hope and Homes for Children (2017) “Putting Child Protection and Family Care at the Heart of EU External Action”(http://www.hopeandhomes.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Putting-Child-Protection-and-Family-Care-at-the-Heart-of-EU-External-Action_.pdf)
    - Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign (2018) “Maintain, Strengthen, Expand: How the EU can support the transition from institutional to family and community based care in the next multi-annual financial framework” (http://www.hopeandhomes.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Putting-Child-Protection-and-Family-Care-at-the-Heart-of-EU-External-Action_.pdf)


    In the scope of its advocacy activities, HHC contributes to relevant to public consultations on initiatives of EU institutions. Recent examples include the European Commission public feedback on the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (August 2018, https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/initiatives/com-2018-460/feedback/F13860_en?p_id=250777 ) and on the Instrument for Pre-Accession III (August 2018, https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/initiatives/com-2018-465/feedback/F13861_en?p_id=250544).

    Finally, it is the beneficiary of an EU Funded project:
    - The European Commission-EU Delegation to Sudan awarded a project in Sudan titled “Development of a safe environment for single mothers, pregnant women and women who give birth outside wedlock and their children” (April 2018 - March 2021). The project is funded through the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights with a budget of € 299.866, 93. It shall also contribute to the promotion of children’s rights in Sudan in particular in terms of reduction of child mortality, prevention of abandonment and institutionalization of children born out of wedlock.

    Other activities

    Hope and Homes for Children is collaborates with the European Expert Group on the transition from Institutional to Community based care (https://deinstitutionalisation.com/).

    Hope and Homes for Children is interested in also engaging with the Disability Intergroup, the intergroup the on extreme poverty and human rights, the intergroup on anti-racism and diversity, and the intergroup on youth issues.

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    12 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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