Women Engage for a Common Future

Break Free from Plastic (BFFP): the global movement envisioning a future free from plastic pollution
Building Change: a coalition of Dutch CSOs promoting policy coherence for development and realization of the SDGs
Coalition Eau: a French coalition working on access to water and sanitation
CAN International: a worldwide network of over 1300 NGOs in more than 130 countries working on climate change
CONCORD: the European Confederation of Relief and Development NGOs, made up of member organisations representing more than 2600 NGOs
Climate Chance: a global alliance for strengthening climate action and helping the achievement of the objectives of the Paris Agreement
EC-DEAR Climate Action: a diverse consortium of 20 organisations that works on awareness raising promoting development education
European Environmental Bureau (EEB): Europe’s largest network of environmental citizens' organisations (160 CSOs from 35 European countries)
Feminist Power: a consortium led by GenderLinks, based in South Africa. We are strengthening feminist movements to reclaim power and advance women’s rights and equality
Feminist Response to COVID-19: An unofficial collective which creates a safe space for solidarity and information sharing
Gender Working Group: WECF France is a member of Coordination Sud, a collective of 170 French Solidarity NGOs
Generation Equality Forum 2021: WECF France is a member of the Feminist Generations Collective working for accelerated action to achieve gender equality
Green Livelihoods Alliance: An alliance with partners from 12 countries. We support inclusive forest governance and gender responsive policy making
GCF African Gender Monitors: women and civil society participating in the evaluation and monitoring of Green Climate Fund investments
Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL): the leading European not-for-profit organisation addressing how the natural and built environments affect health in the EU
International Pollution Elimination Network (IPEN): a global network forging a healthier world - no harm by the production, use, and disposal of toxic chemicals
OneWorld: Dutch mediaplatform for a fair and sustainable world
PARTOS: brings together a membership of more than 100 Dutch development NGOs
Pesticides Action Network (PAN): a network of over 600 NGOs, institutions and individuals in over 90 countries working to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives
Exit-Plastik.de: an alliance with major civil society actors focused on resolving the plastic crisis
Plastic Health Coalition: a coalition working on more research, prevention, and solutions that address the potential negative health effects of plastics
SDG Nederland: Brings together individuals and organisations, is a catalyst for joint action and creates synergies around SDGs in the Netherlands.
SDG Watch Europe: an EU-level, cross-sectoral CSO alliance of NGOs from various sectors to hold governments to account for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda
UNECE-RCEM: a civil society platform to ensure that voices of all sub-regions of UN ECE are heard in intergovernmental processes in regional and global level
WO=MEN: the largest gender platform in Europe, based in the Netherlands, which demands continuous attention for the impact of gender equality on conflict, climate and the environment
WOMEN2030: a coalition led by three of our global partners and us. Building on local experiences from 50 countries, we are putting gender at the heart of Agenda 2030.
Women & Gender Constituency: a UNFCCC stakeholder group working to ensure women’s experiences and rights are embedded in all climate change processes.
Women’s Major Group: We are an active member of the global, UNECE regional and UNEA branches of this global feminist network, with official UN observer status, following Agenda 2030.

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

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

Does not represent commercial interests

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

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.

1,680,000€

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In 2023 WECF International did not receive an EU grant for operating costs . WECF International's annual financial reports are always checked by a registered auditor.

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Climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development,Unofficial groupings

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, and does since then at the HLPF overseeing its implementation. 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 70 countries to engage in the national implementation of the global commitments for Sustainable Development including the global goal on Gender Equality. 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 (‘gender-just climate solutions’ program in cooperation with the WGC)
The list of the processes we follow:
- Agenda 2030 (Sustainable Development Goals)
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
- Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions
- Generation Equality Forum and Beijing plus 25
-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 was implemented in 52 countries across different regions of the world. The EU DEVCO funding for Women2030 programme ended in 2021. In January 2024, WECF commenced a second Financial Framework Partnership Agreement (FFPA) titled "WomenPower2030: Feminists Accelerate Action for Sustainable Development" with the European Commission, DG International Partnerships. This project builds on the previous 5-year Women2030 program. This new FFPA is a 4-year program involving WECF's regional focal partners from Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America to foster ecofeminist leadership to meet Agenda 2030.
Activities will continue with funding from Netherlands as part of their Power of Voices and Power of Women strategic partnerships. 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), under the EU DEAR funding program. We work in wider coalitions with over 150 civil society organisations as part of SDG-Watch Europe. Since August 2020 WECF is part of a new coalition working on awareness raising on gender, climate and development, funded under the EU DEAR programme. The action will take place in 13 EU Member States and combines organisations with diverse experiences. This project will use the combined experience to raise awareness, build capacity and support EU citizens, particularly young people, to build public support for ambitious climate change and development policies which have gender equality at their heart.
EuropeAid NEAR Georgia Women's Power and Participation (WPP) was launched in 2021. It is aimed at empowering women, youth, and minority groups.
WECF started 2 new Horzion 2020 projects as part of big consortiums in February 2022 (REAL DEAL and Shared Green Deal). In 2022, WECF commenced EU CERV-2022-CITIZENS-CIV as part of the Active citizen for people and planet. In 2023, WECF started the INtegrated and Circular Technologies for Sustainable city region FOOD systems in Africa (INCiTiS-FOOD) Project No. 101083790 as part of a consortium of 22 partners. In 2024 WECF commenced CERV “Imagining climate-just futures - 101146805 for youth & citizen engagement in climate action

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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.

• 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)
  Other Lobbyists	HelpAge International

• 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)
  Other Lobbyists	Bischöfliches Hilfswerk MISEREOR e.V.

• Date	20 Feb 2020	Location	Brussels
  Subject	Africa Strategy
  Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen
  Portfolio	International Partnerships
  Attending	Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner)
  Other Lobbyists	CONCORD Europe