SOS Children's Villages

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

350,000€

Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

5 Fte (6)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

4

High-level Commission meetings

14

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    SOS Kinderdorf-International   (SOS KDI)

    EU Transparency Register

    75014529893-97 First registered on 23 Oct 2012

    Goals / Remit

    SOS Children's Villages International (SOS-Kinderdorf International) is the umbrella organisation of more than 130 affiliated national SOS Children's Village associations worldwide. SOS Children's Villages is a non-governmental and non-denominational child-focused organisation that provides direct services in the areas of care, education and health for children at risk of losing parental care, and those who have lost parental care. The organisation also builds the capacity of the children's caregivers, their families and communities to provide adequate care.

    SOS Children's Villages advocates for the rights of children without parental care and those at risk of losing parental care. Founded in 1949, its operations are guided by the spirit of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children.

    Main EU files targeted

    The SOS Children's Villages EU office has a triple role in Brussels.
    Firstly, the EU office advocates for the rights of children in our target group and making sure that their voices are heard and represented at EU level. We have a focus on children’s rights, tackling child poverty and social exclusion, de-institutionalisation and alternative care, education and youth employment, youth participation. In 2017, we started a new DG Justice funded project "Prepare for Leaving Care" in cooperation with CELCIS and partners in five EU Member States. The aim of the project is to build the capacity of care professionals to better support young people during the transition phase from care to independent life. In 2016, we finished our DG Justice funded project 'Training Professionals Working with Children in Care', which was a two-year partnership between SOS Children’s Villages International, the European Commission, the Council of Europe, Eurochild and partners in 8 EU countries. The project contributed to improving the living conditions and life prospects of children and young people living in alternative care, by providing care professionals with continued training in how to apply a child rights-based approach to their work with children. In 2016, we published our study 'Leaving Care and Employment in Five European Countries: An Undocumented Problem?' which explores the challenging employment situation for young people leaving care in five European countries. During the same year, we also became an international partner for the European Campaign 'Opening Doors for Europe's Children'. In accordance with the unified approach within our federation, the above-mentioned thematic priorities are equally valid for our development sector work. In this area, one of the main highlights is that we won a tender in 2016 from DG DEVCO to carry out a study that compares alternative systems globally. Together with the European Commission and CELCIS, we published our study "Towards the Right Care for Children: Orientations for reforming alternative care systems in Africa, Asia, Latin America" in January 2017.
    Secondly, the EU office advocates for EU funding programmes and priorities that are fit for our work and target group. As an example of our work in the past is that we achieved in alliance with other stakeholders, an explicit priority reference to “de-institutionalisation” (transition from institutional to community-based care) in the European Structural and Investment Fund envelopes for EU member states. Ensuring that the post-2020 Multi-Annual Financial Framework invests in children without or at risk of losing parental care is a main priority of our EU advocacy work going forward.
    Thirdly, the EU office has a membership information and support role. In close cooperation with the SOS International Offices Regions, members at national level are supported to influence and use the EU policy and funding framework in their work. Among other activities to bring the EU closer to our federation, we use materials such as a regular “EU Update”, as well as more detailed briefings and fact sheets to share relevant EU developments, involve member associations in EU consultations and processes and provide support to arrange meetings with EU level stakeholders (at EU delegations and in Brussels). We also support SOS programme and funding strategy development from an EU perspective, capacity development and we provide EU funding application writing support.
    The EU office is member of formal networks and informal alliances such as Eurochild, the Child Rights Action Group (CRAG), CONCORD, VOICE and the EU Alliance for Investing in Children. It has also developed strong partnership with the Council of Europe, in the area of children’s rights and youth participation.

    Address

    Head Office
    Hermann-Gmeiner-Str, 51
    Innsbruck 6020
    AUSTRIA
    EU Office
    Rue de l'Industrie 10
    Brussels 1000
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    6

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%4
    75%1
    25%1

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    4 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 29 Jan 2018

    Name Start date End Date
    Louise REEG 27 Sep 2023 26 Sep 2024
    Carolina FRUSCIONE 29 Apr 2023 26 Apr 2024
    Lidia Giglio 18 Oct 2023 17 Oct 2024
    Ms Lidia GIGLIO 18 Oct 2023 15 Apr 2024
    Ms Louise REEG 27 Sep 2023 15 Apr 2024
    Ms Carolina FRUSCIONE 29 Apr 2023 15 Apr 2024
    Ms Lidia GIGLIO 18 Oct 2022 18 Oct 2023
    Ms Louise REEG 14 Jun 2022 14 Jun 2023
    Ms Margherita Leone 18 May 2018 18 May 2019
    Ms Miriana Giraldi 05 Oct 2017 29 Sep 2018
    Mr John Denis Ronan Mangan 05 Oct 2017 29 Sep 2018
    Ms Caroline Van Der Hoeven 05 Oct 2017 29 Sep 2018
    Ms Barbara Stricker 05 Oct 2017 29 Sep 2018
    Ms Kélig Bossert-Puyet 06 Sep 2016 03 Sep 2017
    Ms Miriana Giraldi 05 Sep 2016 01 Sep 2017
    Mr John Denis Ronan Mangan 05 Sep 2016 01 Sep 2017
    Ms Caroline Van Der Hoeven 05 Sep 2016 01 Sep 2017
    Ms Barbara Stricker 06 Sep 2016 03 Sep 2017
    Ms Samantha Chaitkin 06 Sep 2016 03 Sep 2017
    Ms Isabell Meenen 06 Sep 2016 02 Feb 2017
    Ms Kélig Bossert-Puyet 10 Jan 2013 24 Oct 2013

    Complementary Information

    The EU Office staff consists of five co-workers. The Head of Global Advocacy manages the work of the international advocacy offices and dedicates 25% of her time to the work of the EU Office.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Ms Miriana Giraldi (European Affairs Representative)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Norbert Meder (CEO)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    SOS-Kinderdorf International is accredited with the following bodies:
    - ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council of the United Nations)
    - UN DPI (UN Department of Public Information)
    - Council of Europe
    - ECHO (Humanitarian Aid Office of the European Commission)

    SOS-Kinderdorf International is member of the following networks:
    - EUROCHILD
    - CRAG (Child Rights Action Group)
    - CONCORD
    - VOICE (Voluntary Organisations in Cooperation in Emergencies)
    - Global Alliance to End Child Poverty
    - Better Care Network (BCN)
    - IFCO (International Foster Care Organisation)
    - ISPCAN (International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect)
    - Keeping Children Safe (KCS)
    - Global Initiative to end corporal punishment
    - International Action for Child Rights
    - NGO Committee on UNICEF
    - HDCA (Human Development and Capability Association)
    - CoNGO (Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations)
    - AG Globale Verantwortung
    - International Civil Society Center
    - NetHope

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    350,000€

    EU grant income for closed financial year

    5,968,270 € (Source: estimated with 0,5% of the overall budget as in annual report 2016)

    Other financial info

    SOS Children's Villages International's Annual Reports can be consulted here:http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org/about-sos/publications/annual-report. The figures presented represent the budget of the SOS Children's Villages federation overall and not only of the legal entity of SOS Children's Villages International. The budget in 13c is estimated as the budget of the EU Liaison Office.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    Intergroup on Children's Rights and Well-Being

    Communication activities

    Providing inputs to the European Pillar of Social Rights and the European Semester
    Implementing EU funded projects, such as "Prepare for Leaving Care" and "Training Professionals working with Children in Care"

    Other activities

    For more, please consult our international website: www.sos-childrensvillages.org .

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    14 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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