Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.75 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
LIGHT FOR THE WORLD International - Organisation for inclusive development/ Organisation für inklusive Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, abkürzung: LIGHT FOR THE WORLD International (LFW)
EU Transparency Register
74313108109-71 First registered on 20 Feb 2012
Goals / Remit
LIGHT FOR THE WORLD is an international disability and development organisation whose vision is an inclusive society where no one is left behind. We strive for accessible eye care services and support inclusive education, empowering persons with disabilities to participate equally in society.
LIGHT FOR THE WORLD is an international organisation with Austria, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland as core members, and Belgium and the Netherlands as associate members. We have country offices in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and South Sudan as well as an EU office in Brussels.. Our programmes in 15 countries strengthen the rights of persons with disabilities, enabling them to lead a self-sustaining life and reducing systemic poverty by including persons with disabilities.
Our mission and vision
Our vision is an inclusive society for all where no one is left behind and all persons participate equally in the cultural, social, political and economic environment.
Our mission is to contribute to a world in which persons with disabilities fully exercise their rights. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities guides us. Persons with disabilities living in poverty are amongst the most excluded groups in society. They are at the centre of our work and they drive the change.
- We engage in empowering persons with disabilities to take development in their own hands.
- We strive to overcome all barriers in society and create access for people with disabilities.
- We are committed to improving eye health and promoting inclusive education, community-based rehabilitation, disability rights, livelihood and disability inclusion.
- We pay specific attention to women with disabilities, children with disabilities and more excluded impairment groups within the disability community.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities guides us in our work.
LIGHT FOR THE WORLD is committed to transparency about EU lobbying. LIGHT FOR THE WORLD believes that the Transparency Register fails basic transparency standards and does not yet live up to its name. We support ALTER-EU's demand for a mandatory nature of the register, safeguards against underreporting, and publication of the names of interest
representatives.
When registering, we have therefore chosen to provide additional information that we consider necessary and relevant 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 monitoring and 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 guidelines that result from consultations with public interest organisations, professionals working on lobby transparency as well as experts of 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 LIGHT FOR THE WORLD, carry out such activities.
Our registration is based on the guidelines for transparent registration developed by the Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU. Find the guidelines on www.act4europe.org/register or www.alter-eu.orgMain EU files targeted
EC Package on Sustainable Development (including EU Consensus on Development; SDG implementation)
Post-Cotonou Framework and EU-ACP relations
EU Strategic Framework and Action Plan on
Human Rights and Democracy & Anti-Discrimination Toolkit
CRPD Implementation
Next Multiannual Financial Framework
General disability rights monitoring in EU external actionAddress
Head Office
Niederhofstraße, 26/3
Vienna 1120
AUSTRIAEU Office
Rue de l'Industrie, 10
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 75% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 07 Jan 2019
Name Start date End Date Sarah HULL 23 May 2023 22 May 2024 Ms Sarah Hull 23 May 2023 15 Apr 2024 Mr François Carbonez 04 Oct 2019 03 Oct 2020 Ms Sarah Hull 04 Oct 2019 03 Oct 2020 Mr François Carbonez 27 Sep 2018 01 Oct 2019 Ms Sarah Hull 27 Sep 2018 01 Oct 2019 Mr François Carbonez 28 Apr 2017 27 Apr 2018 Ms Steffie Neyens 28 Apr 2017 07 Apr 2018 Ms Steffie Neyens 12 May 2016 28 Apr 2017 Mr François Carbonez 20 Apr 2016 19 Apr 2017 Ms Steffie Neyens 08 Oct 2015 12 May 2016 Mr François Carbonez 15 Apr 2015 13 Apr 2016 Ms Steffie Neyens 19 Sep 2014 17 Sep 2015 Mr François Carbonez 01 Apr 2014 29 Mar 2015 Ms Steffie Neyens 20 Sep 2013 19 Sep 2014 Mr François Carbonez 22 Mar 2013 19 Mar 2014 Ms Steffie Neyens 01 Nov 2012 21 Sep 2013 Mrs Celia Cranfield 22 Mar 2012 02 Apr 2013 Mr François Carbonez 22 Mar 2012 22 Mar 2013 Complementary Information
On behalf of LIGHT FOR THE WORLD the persons listed below have had, during the reporting period, four or more contacts with members or officials of the EU institutions with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions; or they have spent 20 percent or more of their working time on behalf of LIGHT FOR THE WORLD carrying out such activities:
Steffie Neyens, EU Liaison Officer
François Carbonez, Policy OfficerPerson in charge of EU relations
Ms Sarah Hull (EU Liaison Officer)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Rupert Roniger (Executive Director)
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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
http://www.iapb.org - International Agency for the Prevention of Blindess (IAPB)
http://www.v2020.org - VISION 2020 - The Right to Sight
http://www.iddcconsortium.net/ - International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC)
http://www.icevi.org - International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI)
http://www.campaignforeducation.org - Global Campaign for Education
http://www.trachomacoalition.org - International Coalition for Trachoma Control/ICTC
http://www.edf-feph.org - European Disability Forum
http://www.hrdn.eu - Human Rights and Democracy NetworkMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
Other financial info
Following the guidelines of the EU Civil Society Contact Group and the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU, LIGHT FOR THE WORLD has calculated that it spent an estimated € 100,000 in 2017 on activities carried out with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
We follow the work of the Disability Intergroup
Communication activities
Communication Coordination of the IDDC European Disability & Development Week in the context of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3rd
Conference ”Increasing resilience: access to sexual and reproductive health for women with disabilities" in the context of the European Disability & Development Week and the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3rd, including promotion of the Light for the World publication "Her body, her rights"
EP Screening of the « KANTHARI : change from within » documentary, co-organized by MEP Bogdan Wenta and Light for the World International
Participation to the European Parliament of Persons with Disabilities
Participation to the EU-NGO Human Rights ForumOther activities
We also monitor the work of the CODEV and COHOM Working Groups
- Meetings
Meetings
3 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 13 May 2022 Location Videoconference Subject Education in the renewed AU-EU partnership Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 Feb 2018 Location Brussels Subject Disabilities in Development Policy Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Anna Gallo Alvarez (Cabinet member)
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