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)
1.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
12
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Hope and Homes for Children (HHC)
EU Transparency Register
035163533684-92 First registered on 18 Jan 2019
Goals / Remit
The mission of Hope and Homes for Children (HHC) is to be the catalyst for the global elimination of institutional care for children. Established in 1994, HHC has accumulated 30 years of international experience of reforming child protection systems through the process of de-institutionalization (DI). DI is the policy-driven process of reforming a country’s care system with a focus on transitioning from institutional to family and community-based care, alongside the development of prevention and family support services. Ultimately, HHC aims to achieve systemic and lasting change by supporting the design of robust child protection systems, effective in preventing children’s separation from their families and providing quality alternative care.
Main EU files targeted
Hope and Homes for Children seeks to ensure that the legal and policy frameworks of the EU, including the financing instruments deployed internally and externally, prevent the separation of children from their families, promote the transition from institutional to family and community-based care for children, and exclude investment in the maintenance, construction or refurbishment of institutional care facilities. Hope and Homes for Children actively follow all EU files that that may affect these priorities across the world, with a particular emphasis on the following:
- The implementation and evaluation of key instruments of the 2021-2020 multi-annual financial framework, and new financial instruments for internal and external funding. This includes the European Commission proposals for the Common Provision Regulations (COM(2018) 375 final), European Regional Development Fund (COM(2018) 372 final), the European Social Fund Plus (COM(2018) 382 final), the Instrument for Pre-Accession III (COM(2018) 465 final) and the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (COM(2018) 460 final)
- The Implementation of the EU Guidelines for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child (2017).
- The EU strategy on the rights of the child (2021-24) and Child Guarantee
- The EU Disability rights strategy for 2021-30
- The post-Cotonou process and resulting new agreement between the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
- The implementation of the new European Consensus for Development, particularly with regards to child rights.
- The implementation of the new EU Roma strategic framework for equality, inclusion and participation for 2020 - 2030
- - The implementation of the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy for the period of 2020-2027
In the past year, HHC has provided input to key EU policies and legislation, including:
- The Revision of Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims 2022/0426(COD);
- European Commission's recommendation on integrated child protection systems.
- Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the Ukraine Facility 2023/0200(COD);
- The European Parliament's Draft Report ‘’Reducing inequalities and promoting social inclusion in times of crisis for children and their families’’ 2023/2066(INI);
- The European Parliament’s report “The situation of children deprived of liberty in the world” 2022/2197(INI);
- The European Parliament’s draft report ’’Children first - Beyond the Child Guarantee, two years after its adoption’’.
- The European Commission Guidelines on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) Revised in 2024Address
Head Office
The GuildKing Street
Wilton SP2 0RS
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
Rond point Robert Schuman 6
Bruxelles 1040
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 50% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 22 Nov 2024
Name Start date End Date Irina PAPANCHEVA 15 Oct 2024 15 Oct 2025 Irina PAPANCHEVA 09 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Marie RAVERDEAU 09 Nov 2023 04 Oct 2024 Ms Francesca PISANU 09 Nov 2023 14 Mar 2024 Ms Michela Costa 12 May 2023 04 Oct 2023 Marie RAVERDEAU 14 Oct 2022 14 Oct 2023 Irina PAPANCHEVA 04 Nov 2022 04 Nov 2023 Ms Marie RAVARDEAU 14 Oct 2022 16 Nov 2022 Ms Francesca PISANU 14 Oct 2022 14 Oct 2023 Louise BONNEAU 17 Mar 2020 17 Mar 2021 Mr Emmanuel SHERWIN 17 Mar 2020 17 Mar 2021 Ms Michela Costa 17 Mar 2020 17 Mar 2021 Mr Alessandro NEGRO 17 Mar 2020 17 Mar 2021 Mr Mark WADDINGTON 17 Mar 2020 17 Mar 2021 Mr Emmanuel SHERWIN 20 Mar 2019 17 Mar 2020 Ms Michela Costa 20 Mar 2019 17 Mar 2020 Mr Alessandro NEGRO 20 Mar 2019 17 Mar 2020 Louise BONNEAU 19 Mar 2019 17 Mar 2020 Complementary Information
None declared
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
Hope and Homes for Children is an active member of various non-governmental platforms and coalitions, including Eurochild, Child Rights Action Group (CRAG), the Advisory Group of Better Care Network and Child Rights Connect. Hope and Homes for Children is also a member of Bond (https://www.bond.org.uk/) which gives it access to Concord (https://concordeurope.org/), and the EU Alliance for Investing in Children, which brings together over 20 European networks sharing a commitment to end child poverty and to promote child well-being across Europe.
It is also a leading member of the regional initiative Transform Alliance Africa (http://transformallianceafrica.org/).
In addition, Hope and Homes is part of Child Rights Connect, a global network of international and national non-governmental organisations committed to ensuring that all children fully enjoy their rights as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Furthermore, Hope and Homes has the special consultative status with ECOSOC United Nations. Hope and Homes for Children is also a member of the EU Policy Forum on Development, the Youth Dialogue Platform and the EU Network for Children’s Rights.Member 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
15,456,742€
Major funding types in closed year
Donations, EU funding, Grants, Public funding
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution UBS Optimus Foundation 2,054,320€ Grant European Commission (Rwanda) NDICI/CSO/2023/448-805 132,045€ Grant EU POCU (Romania) 123,009€ Grant EU Ukraine (as a sub-grantee of Save The Children) ENI/2022/434-435 523,461€ Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
Children's rights
Communication activities
Hope and Homes for Children is a leading partner of the regional initiative Transform Alliance Africa (http://transformallianceafrica.org/). It brings together 14 partner organisations, representing seven countries, committed to a vision of an Africa free of institutional care, where all children belong and grow up in safe and loving families. Its mission is to be the catalyst to end institutional care of children in Africa by bringing together the partners’ collective voices, knowledge, practice and experience to strengthen families. Through the Alliance, Hope and Homes for Children provide support for partners to convene key stakeholders – including government agencies – in their own countries to negotiate buy-in to national deinstitutionalisation reform.
Hope and Homes for Children was also a founding partner of the Opening Doors for Europe’s Children (2013-2019; http://www.openingdoors.eu/). The campaign aimed to develop child protection systems that strengthen families and ensure family and community-based alternative care for children. It achieves this by leveraging EU policy and funding and by building advocacy capacity in civil society. The campaign ran across 16 European countries. It contributed to significant breakthroughs across a number of EU countries – particularly, the inclusion of deinstitutionalisation as one of the priorities for the use of European Structural and Investment Funds.
Hope and Homes for Children has also produced and contributed to a number of publications, namely:
- Hope and Homes for Children with the European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community based care (2019) "Checklist to ensure EU-funded measures contribute to independent living by developing and ensuring access to family-based and community-based services" https://deinstitutionalisationdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/eeg_checklist_onlineoffice.pdf)
- Hope and Homes for Children (2017) “End the silence: The case for the elimination of institutional care of children” (http://www.hopeandhomes.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/End-the-Silence-Policy-Paper-Final-Copy.pdf)
- Joint Lumos-Hope and Homes for Children (2017) “Putting Child Protection and Family Care at the Heart of EU External Action”(http://www.hopeandhomes.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Putting-Child-Protection-and-Family-Care-at-the-Heart-of-EU-External-Action_.pdf)
- Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign (2018) “Maintain, Strengthen, Expand: How the EU can support the transition from institutional to family and community based care in the next multi-annual financial framework” (http://www.hopeandhomes.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Putting-Child-Protection-and-Family-Care-at-the-Heart-of-EU-External-Action_.pdf)
Finally, it is the beneficiary of the following EU-funded projects (amounts shown were received in 2023):
- European Commission (Rwanda) NDICI/CSO/2023/448-805 €132,045
- European Commission (Romania) POCU/74/6/18/105525 & POCU/74/6/18/104770 €123,009
- European Commission (Ukraine) (as a sub-grantee of Save The Children) ENI/2022/434-435) €523,461Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
12 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 08 Jun 2023 Location Brussels Subject Care reform for children in Ukraine Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Iris Abraham (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Dec 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Discussion on Youth Action Plan Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Jun 2021 Location Online Subject Meeting on Child Rights Strategy / EC- International CSOs Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Iris Abraham (Cabinet member)
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Date 05 May 2021 Location Online Subject The Strategy on the Rights of the Child Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Iris Abraham (Cabinet member)
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Date 01 Feb 2021 Location Video Meeting Subject Childrens' rights / support. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janez Lenarčič Portfolio Crisis Management Attending - Kasia Jurczak (Cabinet member)
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Date 08 Oct 2020 Location Tele conference Subject Child Rights Strategy Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Renaud Savignat (Cabinet member)
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Date 20 Aug 2020 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Protection of children Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Janez Lenarčič Portfolio Crisis Management Attending - Adela Kabrtova (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 Jul 2020 Location Brussels Subject Child care reform in Covid 19 crisis and in next MFF Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi Portfolio Neighbourhood and Enlargement Attending - Maja Kocijancic (Cabinet member)
- Katri Teedumae (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 May 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Children in migration Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Margaritis Schinas Portfolio Promoting the European Way of Life Attending - Catherine Sustek (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Apr 2020 Location Skype meeting Subject Child guarantee Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Nicolas Schmit Portfolio Jobs and Social Rights Attending - Santina Bertulessi (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Mar 2020 Location Brussels Subject Children's rights Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Dubravka Šuica Portfolio Democracy and Demography Attending - Iris Abraham (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Mar 2020 Location Brussels Subject Discussion on how best to ensure that the new European Commission delivers on children’s right to family life Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Elisa Ferreira Portfolio Cohesion and Reforms Attending - Francisco Barros Castro (Cabinet member)
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