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Overview

Lobbying Costs

75,000€

Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

0.75 Fte (3)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

2

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Wereldsolidariteit - Solidarité Mondiale vzw   (WSM)

    EU Transparency Register

    149390415828-18 First registered on 29 Jan 2015

    Goals / Remit

    World Solidarity (Wereldsolidariteit – Solidarité Mondiale –WSM) strengthens social movements worldwide so they can transform their society into a sustainable and inclusive society. Together with organisations of Beweging.net and MOC, WSM reinforces networks of social movements in Belgium, Africa, Latin America and Asia in order to internationalise their joint struggle at local, national, regional and international level.

    WSM and its network are working for inclusive and sustainable development. What does this imply?
    - Development must be understood in its broader sense of building societies. It is clear that in the process of building societies, several possible paths can be followed. As NGO of the Christian Workers Movement, our path is towards a society with greater social justice and solidarity (and thus reduced poverty, social exclusion, inequality, and vulnerability). Development cooperation is one of the ways to contribute to building societies.
    - This development must be inclusive: The main powers (political, economic and social powers) must act together while acknowledging their respective roles. Together they must define how they build society and where their responsibilities lie in this process.
    - This development must also be sustainable: social, economic and environmental development must go hand in hand.

    WSM and its network can contribute to this inclusive and sustainable development on condition that social movements constitute a genuine social power able to interact efficiently with political and economic powers. Social movements are indeed a force of change, a force of social change for the community, for the society. A force which starts from and builds on the roots (bottom-up).

    To successfully achieve such a development, Beweging.net and MOC as well as its constituent organisations firmly believe that decent work strategies must be implemented. The concept of decent work was launched and is actively promoted by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and is based on 4 pillars: a productive and freely chosen employment (1) for which international labour rights (including fundamental labour standards) are respected (2), which provides access to social protection (3) and where the workers' voices are heard through social dialogue (4).

    Main EU files targeted

    We have been actively following and contributing to the European Communication on Decent Work (2006/2010), on Social Protection in EU Development Cooperation (2012) and the role of Civil society in Development Cooperation (2012). We also closely follow the positioning of the EU institutions regarding the post 2015 framework.

    In the European Parliament, we have actively worked together with MEP's on human rights resolutions condemning labour rights violations in several countries worldwide. We have also contributed to the drafting of Parliamentary Reports and questions of MEP's for EC Commissioners on issues relevant to our work in the field of labour rights and social protection.

    Address

    Head Office
    Haachtsesteenweg 579
    Brussels 1030
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    3

    Employment timeLobbyists
    25%3

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.75

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    WSM has 3 advocacy officers which follow policy processes at the national, European and international level.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Ms Katrien Verwimp (Advocacy officer)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Andre Kiekens (Secretary General)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    11.11.11, the Flemish North-South movement;
    CNCD, the Nort-South movement of the French- and Germanspeaking communities in Belgium;
    SKC, Clean Clothes Campaign Flanders;
    Achact, Clean Clothes Campaign Wallonia;
    International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC);
    Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF);
    ILO Development Partners Meeting of the Global Flagship Programme for Social Protection Floors;
    UN Social Protection Interagency Cooperation Board (UN SPIAC-B)

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    75,000€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    We will follow up as to how the above mentioned policies and initiatives are going to be implemented.
    In terms of funding instruments, we will also see if concrete opportunities arise under the 2014–2020 programme on Civil Society Organisations and Local Authorities, the Global Public Goods and Challenges Thematic Programme as well as the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights.

    Other activities

    None declared

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    2 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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