Women Engage for a Common Future

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

550,000€

Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

16.75 Fte (25)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

3

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Women Engage for a Common Future   (WECF)

    EU Transparency Register

    168989714324-36 First registered on 02 Sep 2014

    Goals / Remit

    WECF is a nonprofit network dedicated to a gender just and healthy planet for all. Our international network consists of over 150 women’s and civil society organisations implementing projects in 50 countries. We believe that a sustainable future and environment needs holistic solutions reflecting the lives of people on the ground. We believe in feminist solutions based on our partners’ visions and needs. That is why we work on transformative gender equality and women’s human rights in interconnection with climate justice, sustainable energy & chemicals, less toxic waste, safe water & sanitation for all.

    WECF has expertise in three thematic issue areas:

    - Sutainable development: We work towards the full realization of human rights, development justice and the right to a healthy environment for all, regardless of gender, age, race, sexual identity, education, religion, ability or social economic status. We work on gender equality, women’s rights and international solidarity.

    - Climate action: We mobilise for gender just implementation of the Paris Agreement. We want a sustainable future in which polluters and governments are held accountable and where human rights, health and the environment have priority over trade agreement and other economic interests. We work on climate justice, energy solutions, and safe water and sanitation.

    - Toxic free healthy environment: We promote toxic-free and non-chemical alternatives based on the principles formulated at the Earth Summit in Rio 1992: the polluter pays, reversal of the burden of proof, the precautionary principle and principle 10 to ensure public participation, transparency and access to justice. We work on toxic chemicals and waste, healthy green living, and menstruation.

    Our main areas of expertise are capacity building, policy advocacy and outreach:

    - Capacity building: Training, assessment and monitoring capacity of network organisations, sub-granting to local women’s organisations to demonstrate sustainable solutions based on their priorities.

    - Policy advocacy: Effective and meaningful policy participation of network organisations in national policies and plans and strengthening of global women’s movements to ensure impactful policy advocacy by women’s civil society organisations.

    - Outreach campaigns: Awareness raising, outreach and campaigning to change mind-sets and help create an enabling environment.

    WECF coordinates the network activities from 3 offices: in France, Germany and the Netherlands, and has representative offices in Switzerland and Georgia.

    Main EU files targeted

    The EU 7th Environmental Action Program (EAP) stating that «Living well, within the limits of our planet»
    Communication "A decent Life for All: From Vision to Collective Action” on its priorities for the SDG/Post2015 process
    Communication “A Global Partnership for Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development After 2015”
    EU strategy for Equality between Women and Men
    Directive 2003/4 on public access to information.
    Directive 2003/35 on public participation.
    Regulation 1367/2006 applying the Convention to EU institutions and bodies.
    Decision 2005/370/EC on ratification of the Convention and deposit of its instrument of ratification (EU became a Party to the Convention on 17 February 2005).
    Civil Society Organisations and Local Authorities programme 2014-2020
    EU Gender Action Plan II 2016-2020
    European Environmental Bureau.

    Address

    Head Office
    Korte Elisabethstraat, 6
    Utrecht 3511 JG
    NETHERLANDS
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    25

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%6
    75%8
    50%8
    25%3

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    16.75

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 26 Nov 2019

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Sascha Gabizon Kranendonk 10 Sep 2014 08 Sep 2015
    Mrs Sascha Gabizon Kranendonk 10 Sep 2014 27 Jan 2015

    Complementary Information

    The WECF employees work at four different, European offices.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Ms Sascha Gabizon (Executive Director)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Ms Sascha Gabizon (Executive Director)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    Building Change Coalition,
    Can Europe & Can International,
    CONCORD,
    ECOS,
    EEB=European Environmental Bureau,
    Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung,
    HEAL=Health Environmental Alliance,
    IPEN=International Pops Elimination Network,
    Klimaallianz
    PAN= Pesticide Action Network Europe,
    PARTOS,
    WASH network,
    WO=MEN,

    Member organisations

    Please find our members and partners listed per country in this link:

    https://www.wecf.org/our-partners/

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    550,000€

    EU grant income for closed financial year

    1,031,441 € (Source: EuropeAid, Devco)

    Other financial info

    WECF's annual reports are allways checked by a registered auditor.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    Competent Authorities for Biocidal Products (Regulation (EU) No 528/2012)#E03125 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3125 #Observer #C

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    WECF is a founding member of the Women’s Major Group. The WMG is a self-organised network of 1000 organisations from over 100 countries providing input into the global policy processes on Sustainable Development. WECF gave substantial input in the monthly negotiations of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, agreed in 2015.

    WECF supports grassroots women leaders to participate in the policy process and speak in the United Nations halls. We help develop policy interventions and to organise meetings with government delegations. Through our Women2030 program, we support local women organizations in 50 countries to engage in the national implementation of the global commitments for Sustainable Development including the global goal on Gender Equality. We support the bi-annual elections of the facilitators of the Women’s Major Group. Currently we have been elected to facilitate the European and Central Asian region.

    WECF is also an active core member of the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC). WECF contributes to the climate negotiations and ensures the participation of grassroots women organisations from our networks in the policy meetings. Through our ‘gender-just climate solutions’ program in cooperation with the WGC, we identify, promote and mentor best practice projects that are adapting to climate change, and reducing climate emissions.

    The list of the processes we follow:
    - Aarhus Convention
    - Agenda 2030 (Sustainable Development Goals)
    - Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions
    - UN Women’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
    - WHO’s European Environment and Health Process (EHP)
    - United Nation’s Environmental Assembly (UNEA)
    - United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

    In 2016, WECF signed a Framework Partnership Agreement with DEVCO, for the implementation of the programme Women2030. The #Women2030 programme is being implemented in 52 countries across different regions of the world. It is lead by a coalition of 5 women and gender network organisations collaborating to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a gender equitable and climate just way. Our aim is to advance local and regional equitable, inclusive & environmental sustainable development, including the 2030 Agenda & climate change processes. Our goal is to build capacity of women’s civil society organisations.
    WECF also aims to achieve the 2030 Agenda and Paris Climate Agreement by advancing local and regional sustainable development, while ensuring it is equitable and inclusive. To achieve this we currently facilitate participation in policy development and monitoring, mobilize citizen’s support, and share best practices. We work in a coalition of four organisations at the regional level (APWLD, GFC and WEP), and with our country partners for the implementation of the programme.

    The 3 key areas of the programme are: capacity building; strategic cooperation and policy advocacy; media and social outreach. The women’s networks in this coalition have been part of the sustainable development process from the very beginning as part of the Women’s Major Group. It was created by UN Member States in 1992 as a key social constituency for sustainable development.

    WECF is also part of the coalition of 28 civil society organisations led by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) in the project Make Europe Sustainable for All (MESA). This coalition works in 15 EU countries. All our offices in France, Germany and the Netherlands participate. We organise dialogue meetings with policy makers. We monitor the progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. We organise awareness raising campaigns and publish info-graphs. We work in wider coalitions with over 150 civil society organisations as part of SDG-Watch Europe. We organise a call for grants for grassroots organisations to carry out local campaign and advocacy activities. We bring women’s organisations into the wider movement.

    Other activities

    WECF has participated in a number of events and consultations of the European Parliament and the European Commission, and gave input and organised round tables in the frame of the EU processes.

    Since November 2019, WECF is a member of the Partnership Forum on Development (PFD), after being involved in PFD meetings and in the Partnership Forum in the past couple of years. During the PFD meetings, we have shared our experiences and best practices on PFD issues, and especially on transformative gender equality and women’s human rights, in interconnection with sustainable development. The PFD enables us to bring the perspective of women’s rights and gender equality organisations to the table, to advance their representation and their rights.

    WECF also participates in the European Green Week and the European Development Days every year.

    Since 2016 WECF has a framework cooperation agreement with DEVCO and implements the programme WOMEN2030 with 4 other international partners.

  • 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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