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Overview
Lobbying Costs
250,000€
Financial year: Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5.5 Fte (6)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
2
High-level Commission meetings
6
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Terre des Hommes International Federation (TDHIF)
EU Transparency Register
030107317058-64 First registered on 22 Apr 2015
Goals / Remit
The mission of the Terre des Hommes organisations is to provide active support to children, without racial, religious, political, cultural or gender-based discrimination. The Convention on the Rights of the Child constitutes the conceptual framework guiding the activities of the Terre des Hommes organisations.
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.
The International Secretariat ensures coordination among the Terre des Hommes organisations and representation at an international and European level.
Terre des Hommes International Federation at a glance (data 2014):
- 10 TDH national member organisations
- 4.822.000 direct beneficiaries
- 870 development and humanitarian aid projects in 68 countries
- 1.120 partner organisations
- 320 paid employees at the different headquarters
- 3.100 people in the field
- 3.325 members and supporters
- 8.500 volunteers
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.orgMain EU files targeted
• Focus on EU Agenda on Migration, Integration, Asylum/Borders/Smuggling
• EP Policies on unaccompanied minors
• EU Forum on Migration
• EU Civil Society Organisations’ Platform on Trafficking
• EU Children’s Rights Agenda 2015-2020
• EU Fundamental Rights Policy
• EU Strategy on Human Rights and Democracy Action Plan 2015-2019
• Post-2015 Agenda and SDGs
• EU Guidelines on Child Protection SystemsAddress
Head Office
Chemin Franck- Thomas, 31
Geneva CH-1223
SWITZERLANDEU Office
26 Rue d'Edimbourg
Brussels B-1050
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People
Total lobbyists declared
6
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 5 50% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
2 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 31 Mar 2016
Name Start date End Date Mr Salvatore Parata 07 Jul 2015 03 Jul 2016 Ms Lavinia Liardo 07 Jul 2015 03 Jul 2016 Complementary Information
1 permanent staff (100%) based in Brussels in charge of the Coordination of the Destination Unknown Campaign
1 permanent staff (60%) based in Brussels in charge of EU relations
1 permanent staff (100%) based in Brussels in charge of communication
3 assistants in support of the permanent staffPerson in charge of EU relations
Mr Vincent Tournecuillert (Destination Unknown Campaign Coordinator)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Raffaele Salinari (Chair)
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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
The TDHIF holds a consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council, UNICEF, the ILO and the Council of Europe. It also works in collaboration with other networks pursuing similar aims. It works with other International and European organizations and networks pursuing comparable aims.
TDHIF is active in the following networks:
International Development and Relief:
• International Civil Society Centre
• Beyond 2015 Campaign
• UN Cluster system (WASH cluster, Food security cluster, Health cluster, Protection-psychosocial cluster, Early Recovery cluster)
International Child Rights:
• Inter-agency working group to end child immigration detention
• The Executive Committee of Child Rights Connect
• The Steering Committee of the NGO Coalition for the ratification and implementation of the Optional Protocol 3 to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
• The Keeping Children Safe Coalition
• The Inter-Agency Group on Children on the Move
• Child Protection Working Group including co-leadership on the “Minimum Standards” project
• International Panel on Juvenile Justice
• Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict
• Mario informal network
• Global Call for a Study on Children deprived of Liberty
European Networks:
• CONCORD, the European NGO Confederation on Development and Relief
• The European Human Rights and Democracy Network (HRDN)
• The European Child Rights Action Group (CRAG)Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
250,000€
Other financial info
TDHIF' s Budget has been converted from CHF to Euro using the 2014 official exchange rate (Euro 1 = 1.21 CHF).
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
Collaboration with the EP Intergroup on Child Rights, an Intergroup that was among the advocacy demands of the Child Manifesto Campaign and voted by the European Parliament in 2014. TDHIF has actively participated in the actions towards the creation of this Intergroup, aiming to promote children’s rights in the parliamentary work, as well as to ensure that the best interest of the child is taken into account in EU’s internal and external actions.
Communication activities
Events:
• EU Public Conference: Closing a protection gap for European children on the move! (5 March 2015): Launch of five transnational research reports on the protection of children on the move in six European countries in the framework of Mario II project. The event was co-organised with MEP Nathalie Griesbeck in the premises of the European Economic and Social Committee.
• EU Event: My Destination is Unknown/Children on the move: will the EU deliver on its commitments? (19 February 2014). The event which included a testimony of Farah Abdi Abdullahi, a 18 years old guy who migrated from Somalia to Malta, was hosted by MEP Nathalie Griesbeck in the premises of the European Parliament.
Publications:
• Participation to FRONTEX Joint Operation VEGA Children 2014 (16 September - 20 November 2014): Terre des Hommes contributed to the development of VEGA Children Handbook for border guards to identify and protect children on the move at risk at EU external air borders. The handbook will be published early 2015. As follow-up of this contribution, Terre des Hommes International Federation took part to a “testing phase” of this handbook in the frame of a Frontex Joint Operation – the Joint Operation VEGA Children 2014 (16 September – 20 November 2014) – carried out in selected EU airports. The role of Terre des Hommes is to assess the guidelines, evaluate and advices border guards on child protection measures at border airports based on practice observation
• Vulnerability of Bulgarian and Romanian Children to Trafficking in The Netherlands and in Brussels (Mario Project, date of publication 2015)
• Children and Adolescents Engaged in Street Work in The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Mobilities, Vulnerabilities, Resiliences (Mario Project, date of publication: 2015)
• Transnational Research on Central and South Eastern European Children in Italy (Mario Project, date of publication: 2015)
• Transnational Research on Central And South Eastern European Migrant Children in Greece (Mario Project, date of publication: 2015)
• Children and Adolescents on the Move Involved in Street Work in Albania and Kosovo: Transnational and Internal Patterns (Mario Project, date of publication: 2015)
• Situation Analysis on Children on the Move – Kosovo (Mario Project, date of publication: 2014)
• Children on the Move in Albania Response of Child Protection System to Their Needs (Mario Project, date of publication: 2014)
• Children on the Move in Romania (Mario Project, date of publication: 2014)
• Situational Analysis of Children on the Move in Poland (Mario Project, date of publication: 2014)
• Analysis of The Situation Of Children On The Move: Assessing the Capacity and the Adequacy of the Child Protection System In Hungary to Ensure the Protection of Children On The Move (Mario Project, date of publication: 2014)Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
6 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 Dec 2023 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject European Humanitarian Forum 2024: integration of children's needs & voices in high-level panel discussions Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janez Lenarčič Attending - Aleska Simkic (Cabinet member)
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Date 27 Jun 2022 Location Videoconfernce Subject Consolations with Youth Organisation on the Youth Action Plan Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner)
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Date 05 Feb 2020 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Rights of the Child Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Dubravka Šuica (Vice-President)
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Date 04 Feb 2020 Location Brussels Subject Meeting with the CEOs of 6 leading child rights agencies to discuss different avenues of cooperation. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner)
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Date 03 Feb 2020 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Education in emergencies, child protection, nutrition. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janez Lenarčič Portfolio Crisis Management Attending - Kasia Jurczak (Cabinet member)
- Janez Lenarčič (Commissioner)
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Date 17 Feb 2016 Location Brussels Subject Roundtable Fundamental Rights Cabinet Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights Attending - Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President)
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