Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5 Fte (5)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
3
High-level Commission meetings
19
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
ActionAid (AAI)
EU Transparency Register
85103504511-82 First registered on 11 Nov 2010
Goals / Remit
ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency which takes sides with poor people to end poverty and injustice together. Around the world we work in local communities, listening to poor people and learning about their needs. We help them approach decision makers in their own countries, simultaneously lobbying powerful institutions such as the EU to change the international policies and regulations that contribute to the uneven distribution of wealth.
The EU is the largest multi-lateral donor and its decisions have major implications for the lives of millions of people in the developing world.
ActionAid opened its EU Office in Brussels in 1999. The ActionAid EU Office seeks to ensure that EU policies place the fight against extreme poverty and global injustice as a central concern.Main EU files targeted
The ActionAid EU office works on three of the four ActionAid pillars and four of the six Strategic Objectives (SO) of the new Strategic Implementation Framework (SIF) for the 2021-2024 period, part of our 2028 Strategy, from a EU perspective:
PILLAR 1. REDISTRIBUTION
Objective 1) To advance economic justice and redistribute women’s unpaid care and domestic work through expanding fiscal and policy space and supporting investment in gender-responsive public services and social protection.
Objective 2) Advocating for redistributive climate and humanitarian finance: making polluting countries, corporations and the rich pay based on equity and fair shares and ensuring finance reaches those most in need, to enable countries to invest in adaptation, ensure reparations for loss and damage and transition to greener pathways.
PILLAR 2. RESILIENCE
Objective 3) Promote a feminist, green and just transition [that builds climate resilience] especially in agriculture, led by women and young people.
PILLAR 4. RIGHTS
Objective 6) Strengthening citizen’s movements, challenging visible, invisible and hidden power through strengthening and connecting movements, defining and adopting a decolonisation approach, enriching our human-rights based approach, and challenging shrinking space.
Within this framework, at EU level, we have been engaging in different EU public consultations, including 2021’s on 1) Sustainable corporate governance; 2) “Tax avoidance – fighting the use of shell entities and arrangements for tax purposes”; 3) “2030 Digital Compass: the European way for the Digital Decade” (mainly on digital taxation); and 4) Open public consultation on the Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD)
We have also contributed to the roadmap and been analyzing with other stakeholders the Communication on Business Taxation for the 21st century and the development of the EU policy in this field. We also have input the roadmap on a A fair & competitive digital economy – digital levy. And we have and still are also closely following the development of the EU policy on corporate accountability, including the recent EC’s proposal for a Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence, advocating for a stronger women’s rights perspective.
All along 2021, we have been participating in the EU regional programming consultations, as ActionAid itself, and we have also contributed to CONCORD’s input to those processes. We have been involved in the EU civil society spaces allocated ahead of the EU-AU Summit (February 2021), including the Civil Society Steering Committee, and we have participated in the organization of one of the sessions of the Civil Society and Local Authority Forum taking place the (15/02/2022) during the Africa-Europe Week.
On the other side, ActionAid EU office follows closely the EU development policy in the field of agroecology and food systems. During 2023 we have maintained a strong dialogue with DG INTPA food security team to push for more and quality investment in agroecology. ActionAid EU office has contributed through ECCJ to the development of the new CSDD legislation.
ActionAid EU office follows closely the external dimension of the GREEN DEAL regarding the international Climate Commitments.
We have followed EU migration policies, particularly the New Pact on Migration and Asylum.
We have been also part of the Civil society members of the Structure Dialogue on GAP III through CONCORD.Address
Head Office
16 Baker Street (Firestation)10th Floor, Workshop17
Johannesburg 2196
SOUTH AFRICAEU Office
Rue d'Edimbourg 26Mundo Matonge Building
Brussels 1050
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
5
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 5 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
3 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 21 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Hamdi BENSLAMA 09 Sep 2024 08 Sep 2025 Johanna Rasimus 11 Sep 2024 10 Sep 2025 Javier Garcia de la Oliva 05 Sep 2024 04 Sep 2025 Javier GARCÍA DE LA OLIVA 15 Mar 2024 04 Oct 2024 Hamdi BENSLAMA 15 Mar 2024 04 Oct 2024 Carmen GARILLETI 24 Jan 2024 04 Oct 2024 Mathilde PANNEAU 08 Jul 2023 05 Jul 2024 Nadia PAROLARI 29 Apr 2023 21 Dec 2023 Martina VENZO 29 Apr 2023 21 Dec 2023 Javier GARCÍA DE LA OLIVA 07 Feb 2023 07 Feb 2024 Hamdi BENSLAMA 07 Feb 2023 07 Feb 2024 Isabelle BRACHET 29 Oct 2019 29 Oct 2020 Ms Anna MELENCHUK 27 Sep 2019 26 Sep 2020 Ms Lis PARISI SERVULO DA CUNHA 11 Sep 2019 15 Aug 2020 Isabelle BRACHET 11 Oct 2018 29 Oct 2019 Ms Lis PARISI SERVULO DA CUNHA 05 Sep 2018 11 Sep 2019 Isabelle BRACHET 30 Oct 2017 11 Oct 2018 Ms Katarzyna SZENIAWSKA 01 Dec 2016 01 Dec 2017 Isabelle BRACHET 16 Nov 2016 30 Oct 2017 Ms Katarzyna SZENIAWSKA 28 Aug 2015 29 Aug 2016 Isabelle BRACHET 15 Jul 2015 13 Jul 2016 Isabelle BRACHET 21 Aug 2014 15 Jul 2015 Mr Sara Jespersen 23 Mar 2013 22 Mar 2014 Complementary Information
The staff that is part of the EU office actions is the following
- 1 Head of Engagement Europe and Americas who dedicates 100% of his workload
- 1 EU Partnership Manager who dedicates 100% of his workload
- 2 EU Advocacy Advisor who dedicates 100% of his workload
- 1 Bussiness Development Advisors 100% dedicated to EU Brussels office actions.Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
ActionAid International belongs to a number of non-profit networks and confederations. At European level, we are members of:
- Concord, https://concordeurope.org/about-us/who-we-are/members,
- CAN Europe, https://caneurope.org/members,
- Eurodad, https://www.eurodad.org/members (see under the South Africa flag),
- The EU Food Policy Coalition, https://foodpolicycoalition.eu/participantsMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
254,576,000€
Major funding types in closed year
Donations, EU funding, Grants, Member's contributions, Other, Public funding
Funding types "other" information
2023 Global Income of ActionAid International Federation: EUR 240.000.000,00. Where: - 41% from Individual Giving; - 15% from Philanthropy; - 39% from Institutional funding - 5% from Other sources.
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant NDICI CSO/2022/439-633 351,396€ Grant CSO/2022/440-005 952,940€ Grant NDICI-CSO_448-124 97,222€ Grant NDICI ASIA/2022/ 439-987 649,273€ Grant NDICI HR INTPA/2022/439-737 664,909€ Other financial info
ActionAid International whole income consists of a mixture of restricted and unrestricted funding. Operational costs are covered by unrestricted reserves which finance costs for hub offices such as the EU office. Unrestricted funding is made up of International Contributions from members, who contribute certain percentages of their unrestricted funding to the Global Secretariat to cover operational costs which are then allocated to hubs.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Platform for Tax Good Governance, Aggressive Tax Planning and Double Taxation#E02897#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=2897 #MEMBER #C#Civil society
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
PUBLICATIONS
- Beyond borders, beyond boundaries" A critical analysis of EU financial support for border control in Tunisia and Libya. July 2024
- The European Investment Bank’s development and climate finance – what’s in it for sustainable agriculture? June 2024
- "European Finance Flows fuelling the climate crisis: The role of Article 2.1c under the UNFCCC" November 2023
-"Standing up for our Rights: Feminist Insights from the Ukraine Response" Feb 2023 https://actionaid.org/publications/2023/standing-our-rights-feminist-insights-ukraine-response
-"Ensuring a gender-responsive and effective Corporate Due Diligence Legislation in 10 steps" Nov 2022 https://actionaid.org/publications/2022/ensuring-gender-responsive-and-effective-corporate-due-diligence-legislation-10
-"The Long Shadow of the Climate Crisis" Oct 2022 https://actionaid.org/publications/2022/long-shadow-climate-crisis
-“Education versus Austerity” Why public sector wage bill constraints undermine teachers and public education systems - and must end https://actionaid.org/publications/2022/education-versus-austerity June 2022
-“Gender Responsive Disability-Inclusive Education Budgeting” https://actionaid.org/publications/2022/gender-responsive-disability-inclusive-education-budgeting May 2022
-Doubly Devastating: Local communities disproportionately affected by food, fuel, and fertiliser price rises https://actionaid.org/publications/2022/doubly-devastating-local-communities-disproportionately-affected-food-fuel-and May 2022
-“Safety with Dignity” Women-Led Community-Based Protection manual and toolkit https://actionaid.org/publications/2022/safety-dignity February 2022
-Believe in Better: From Policy to Practice https://actionaid.org/publications/2022/believe-better-policy-practice January 2022
- “Analyzing European Union Institutions’ Flows for Total Official Support for Sustainable Development” (https://actionaid.org/sites/default/files/publications/TOSSD%20EU%20Report.pdf), February 2022
- Together with Eurodad, “Reflecting the duality of gender and climate in the European Investment Bank’s Environmental and Social Sustainability Framework’s Standard 5 on Climate Change” (https://assets.nationbuilder.com/eurodad/pages/2493/attachments/original/1629714233/EIB-gender-and-climate-briefing.pdf?1629714233), August 2021
ARTICLES
-“Increasingly difficult to bridge the divide”: ActionAid reflects on six months into the humanitarian response to Ukraine crisishttps://actionaid.org/news/2022/increasingly-difficult-bridge-divide-actionaid-reflects-six-months-humanitarian-response August 2022
-ActionAid reacts to Bonn Climate Negotiations https://actionaid.org/news/2022/actionaid-reacts-bonn-climate-negotiations June 2022
- EU’s gender-blind corporate due diligence proposal risks leaving women behind (https://actionaid.org/news/2022/eus-gender-blind-corporate-due-diligence-proposal-risks-leaving-women-behind), February 2022
CAMPAIGNS
- Together with others, ActionAid promoted "Stop Funding Destruction and Begin to #FundOurFuture" Sept 2023
- Together with others, ActionAid promoted "Justice is Everybody's Business" https://justice-business.org/about/ September 2022
- Together with others, ActionAid promoted The European Citizens’ Initiative Ban Fossil Fuel Advertising and Sponsorships (https://banfossilfuelads.org/), October 2021
EVENTS
- Co-organization of "Eastern Neighbourhood and Black Sea Region. 2023 Opportunities for young people and women-led organizations" together with FOND and the Black Sea NGO Forum.
- Co-organization of the European Development Days Lab “Extractives and Taxation. Addressing the challenges in taxation of minerals, to ensure that the Global South will benefit from the energy transition”, 15/06/2021, together with Eurodad and Oxfam, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrvVCjWanHkOther activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
19 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.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 01 Dec 2022 Location Videoconference Subject Speech at the 2nd GAP III Structured Dialogue with CSOs Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner)
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Date 15 Nov 2022 Location Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Subject Progress of COP27 negotiations Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Frans Timmermans (Executive Vice-President)
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Date 23 Sep 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Making the European Green Deal work for International Partnerships Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member)
- Diana Montero Melis (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Sep 2020 Location Video call Subject The Green Deal implemetation with view to external relations Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
- Damyana Stoynova (Cabinet member)
- Anthony Agotha (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Jun 2020 Location Videoconference Subject European Green Deal, COVID-19 and development cooperation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Diana Montero Melis (Cabinet member)
- Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member)
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Date 05 Jun 2020 Location Video-conference Subject Sustainable corporate governance Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders Portfolio Justice Attending - Didier Reynders (Commissioner)
- Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Apr 2020 Location Conference call Subject nutrition in partner countries Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Diana Montero Melis (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 Mar 2020 Location Conference call Subject international dimension of the European Green Deal Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Diana Montero Melis (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Oct 2019 Location Brussels Subject discussion on environmental protection and women's 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 - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Apr 2017 Location Brussels Subject Sustainability finance in the mid-term review of the Capital Markets Union Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen Portfolio Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Attending - Jyrki Katainen (Vice-President)
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Date 30 Mar 2017 Location Brussels Subject European Consensus on Development Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Maria-Myrto Kanellopoulou (Cabinet member)
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Date 26 May 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject ActionAid report on industrial policy contribution to job creation in developing countries Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Denis Cajo (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Feb 2016 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Priorities of the Commissioner in the field of international cooperation and development. Main areas of interests of ActionAid Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Paolo Berizzi (Cabinet member)
- Maria-Myrto Kanellopoulou (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Feb 2016 Location Brussels Subject the Commission's agenda against corporate tax avoidance and their views on the Anti-Tax Avoidance Package Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici Portfolio Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Attending - Pierre Moscovici (Commissioner)
- Maria Elena Scoppio (Cabinet member)
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Date 02 Feb 2016 Location Brussels Subject Discuss Corporate Tax Avoidance Package Cabinet Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker Portfolio President Attending - Antoine Kasel (Cabinet member)
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Date 30 Jun 2015 Location Brussels Subject Rural policy issues in Europe and Africa (discussion Action Aid and Via Campesina) Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Peter Power (Cabinet member)
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Date 28 May 2015 Location Brussels Subject Tax and Development (domestic revenue mobilisation) Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Ivan Prusina (Cabinet member)
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Date 17 Apr 2015 Location European Commission - Berlaymont Subject Tax avoidance Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio Euro and Social Dialogue, also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - Jan Ceyssens (Cabinet member)
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Date 31 Mar 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Discussion on ActionAid's new report on a land grab in Tanzania Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Ivan Prusina (Cabinet member)