ACP Civil Society Forum

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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)

0.3 Fte (3)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

0

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    ACP Civil Society Forum   (ACP CSF)

    EU Transparency Register

    36703913506-85 First registered on 26 Apr 2010

    Goals / Remit

    Our aims are:
    · To promote, facilitate and enhance the vital contributions of regional and national grassroots, community based and other civil society organizations, who work for the benefit of the people of the ACP states and regions.
    · To work together with EU actors and organisations in accordance with article 5 of the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement, the Cotonou Agreement, in order to provide more information and create greater awareness of the ACP-EU Partnership, encourage partnership and build links between ACP and EU actors, strengthen networking and exchange of expertise and experience among the ACP-EU actors;
    . according to the Cotonou Agreement articles 4-7:
    active involvement of ACP civil society as actors of the ACP-EU cooperation, programming and funding, to be provided with financial resources in order to support local development processes and be involved in the implementation of cooperation project and programmes in areas that concern them or where these act (...)

    Main EU files targeted

    OACPS-EU cooperation, Samoa Agreement, Cotonou agreement, Revised Georgetown Agreement, Intra ACP Cooperation, social-economic issues, trade, Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA), WTO issues, development, climate change, environment, agriculture, fisheries, food security, energy, infrastructure, transport, industries, Human Rights, and Peace Building.

    Address

    Head Office
    Kleine Wouwer 50 / 10
    MEISE 1860
    BELGIUM
    EU Office
    Kleine Wouwer 50 / 10
    MEISE 1860
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    3

    Employment timeLobbyists
    10%3

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    0.3

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    ACP CSF Brussels Representative/Legal Advisor Ms.Joyce NAAR is engaged in ACP CSF activities in Brussels and EU.

    ACP CSF Chairman, Bureau Members and 79 ACP CSF organizations and their networks are engaged in ACP CSF activities in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific.

    Ms. Marcia Brandon Bango Barbados holds the ACP Civil Society Forum Secretariat.

    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

  • Categories

    Category

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    ACP CSF has 80 member organizations (CSOs/NGOs/networks)in 80 ACP Countries. They are participating in regional and international networks, such as
    AU ECOSOCC
    SADC Civil Society
    International Council for Social Welfare (ICSW)
    ECOWAS
    Caribbean Non State Actors Panels
    CDPC www.cpdcngo.org
    Caribbean Civil Society Network for Aid Effectiveness
    Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action www.CAFRA.org
    Pacific Regional NGOs (PRNGO) Alliance
    Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) www.pang.org.fj
    The Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (PIANGO) www.piango.org
    CIVICUS https://www.civicus.org
    China-African People's Forum http://www.trademarksa.org/news/nairobi-declaration-adopted-first-china-africa-people%E2%80%99s-forum
    International Forum of national plat-forms www.ong-ngo.org
    OWINFS, Our World is not For Sale.

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • 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

    0€

    Major funding types in closed year

    EU funding

    Major contributions in closed year

    None declared

    Other financial info

    ACP Civil Society Forum established in July 2001 by the ACP Secretariat and European Commission has never received funding and has no budget. Three ACP Civil Society Forum meetings were organized in Brussels by the ACP Secretariat and the European Commission in 2001, 2006 and 2009.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    Climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development#Green new deal

    Communication activities

    Participation 7th Cariforum EU Consultative Committee meeting in Brussels on 28 November 2023 and 6th Cariforum-EU Consultative Committee meeting in Barbados on 4th of May 2022.
    as Member of the Cariforum-EU Consultative Committee.

    Participation webinars Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanisms.

    Online meetings with ACP-EU-JPA-EP-Secretariat, European Parliament Africa,
    Caribbean and Pacific unit, on the Draft Rules of Procedure for the Joint Parliamentary Assembly and the three OACPS Regional Parliamentary Assemblies under the Post-Cotonou Agreement. Update on the signing of the OACPS EU Agreement.

    Partipation in “The role of open trade in an increasingly uncertain world" civil society meeting in Prague, Czech Republic on Monday, 31 October 2022, meeting with Civil Society in the context of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

    ACP Civil Society Forum was consulted by OECD who has been asked by the European Commission to support conceiving and developing a methodology and an instrument for structured stakeholder engagement in the EU-OACPS Partnership Post-Cotonou Agreement, participated in several meetings with OECD and gave feedback and comments on the OECD Draft Recommendations.

    Participation second annual "ClimSA’22 Forum: Advancing Climate Services and Related Applications through Decision Support System Tools", the European Union-funded Intra-ACP Climate Services and Related Applications Programme (ClimSA)'22 Forum hosted by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme - SPREP in Apia, Samoa and the government of Samoa and SPREP, in a hybrid format, in Apia, Samoa, and virtually on 26, 27, 28 and 29 September 2022.

    Participation Unctad meeting Looking to the future: Getting the economy back on track and addressing the most pressing challenges, Geneva 20 October 2022.
    Participation OACPS online meetings and EU Trade online meetings.


    Member of the CARIFORUM EU Consultative Committee established by the CARIFORUM EU Economic Partnership Agreement.

    Participation 40th Plenary Session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly JPA, 24 June 2021 remotely via SPINELLI 3E2, Brussels on the functioning of the ACP-EU JPA and the new Regional Parliamentary Assemblies established by the new OACPS-EU Agreement.

    Contribution to the EU Survey Informal Consultation on the future Role of the JPA and Regional Assemblies in the ACP-EU Cooperation Post Cotonou Agreement on 19 November 2021.

    Participation as Key speaker at the digital Launch of CONCORD Insider's Guide to the Post-Cotonou Agreement on 8 July 2021 with SLOGA, the Slovene National Platform for Non-Governmental Organisations for Development, Global Education and Humanitarian Aid, the EU Slovenia Presidency Project.

    ACP Civil Society Forum participated at the ACP-EU JPA Women's Forum held virtually on Thursday 16 September 2021 from 13:00 to 15:00.

    On 8 February 2022 participated at the European Commission Virtual stakeholder meeting on the establishment of a multilateral investment court.

    Participation EU Trade Civil Society Dialogue Trade Meetings as DG Trade civil society organisation member.

    Participation in ACP – EU policy meetings and keeping the members informed on relevant ACP-EU activities through the online network.
    Communication on regional policies on trade, development and poverty alleviation from a civil society perspective capitalizing on civil society expertise, with ACP CSF providing inputs and facilitating sharing of expertise.

    Final Report of the Study on the ACP Civil Society Forum, Framework Contract BENEF 2009, Lot 7- Governance and Home Affairs, EuropeAid /127054/C/SER/Multi, Specific Contract n°2012/310569, FINAL REPORT – August 2013,
    Project financed by European Union.
    http://acpcsforum.igloocommunities.com/

    Other activities

    ACP Civil Society Forum organisations participated in regional meetings in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific as well in global civil society meetings.

    ACP Civil Society Forum participated in the Post-Cotonou negotiations CSOs network together with ACP and EU CSOs in collaboration with CONCORD.

    ACP Civil Society Forum participated as Observer to the CARIFORUM EU Consultative Committee as from 2010.

    ACP CSF and its organizations participated in the study about ACP Civil Society Forum and its organizations ordered by ACP Secretariat and European Commission in 2013.

    ACP Civil Society Forum participated in the WTO 9th Ministerial Meeting in december 2013 in Bali, Indonesia.

    ACP Civil Society Forum cooperated with global civil society organizations.

    ACP Civil Society Forum has been selected as observer to the European Commission CAP Advisory Group meetings on International Aspects of Agriculture http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/consultations/advisory-groups/cap/index_en.htm

    ACP Civil Society Forum participated in 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010 and in the following meetings and seminars : European Commission CAP Advisory Group meetings on International Aspects of Agriculture 2012, World Bank Civil Society Consultation meetings, EU Trade Seminars in Warshaw, Poland, 2011, and in Prague, Czech Republic, 2010; in Brussels: DG Trade Civil Society Meetings on EPAs, Asean, USA, China, Canada, Japan, Mercosur, Andean, Climate Change, GPS, Trade and SMEs, Trade and Development etc; furthermore the EIAS seminar with ACP-China-EU on Raw Material Strategy; the regional seminars of CTA in Africa and the Caribbean; the regional seminar of the EESC- ACP-EU Follow UP Committee in Ethiopia in July 2010; the EU Structured Dialogue and the BAMAKO seminar in June 2010 through DAKAR Platforme; EIB CSD Annual Seminar; International CS Forum in Dakar, February 2011.
    • ACP CSF has participated in ACP-EU Facilities and Programmes such as ACP Science and Technology, ACP Migration Observatory, Intra ACP Academic Mobility Scheme, ACP Cultures, ProInvest and Mundus ACP II. University of Porto invited ACP CSF as associate partner institution for the Mundus ACP project.

    ACP CSF participated in the Seminar on the future of EU-ACP relations in a changing environment organised by the CONCORD Cotonou Working Group, EU NGOs and ACP CSOs from 4 - 5 October 2011 in Brussels. The topics discussed were : what future for the political dialogue between the ACP countries and the EU, what cooperation after the 10th EDF, what do CSOs want; Trade and development; the deadlock of the EPAs? The participants noted that there is no real equal partnership in the ACP- EU relations and dialogue and that there still to much dependency on financial aid. Parliaments, social, economic and civil society stakeholders should be actively involved in the programming of the financial instrument.
    With regard to the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA), "ACP signatories should abide to the principles of the Cotonou Agreement to drive a trade policy which is coherent to the objective of poverty eradication and partnership, if those countries are to advance their trade policies according to their own needs and circumstances".

    During a meeting at the ACP Secretariat on Friday 7 October 2011, the challenges for the future of ACP were discussed.

    "Despite the provisions in the Cotonou Agreement ACP Civil society organizations were not equipped with and have not been abled to access the resources since 2000. Article 6 of the Cotonou Agreement empowers the ACP CSOs to be actively involved in the programming, implementation and review. Although it is there legally, ACP CSOs have not been receiving funding, whereas they are key for the success of all programming. The mid term review now is the right time to make sure that ACP CSOs receive the resources that have been denied since 2001", according to a representative of the ACP Secretariat.

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    None declared

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