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ActionAid

Acronym: AAI

General Information

Identification Code: 85103504511-82
Website: [object Object]
Entity Form: Non profit organisation
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 11/11/2010
Last Update: 12/19/2023
EP Accredited Number: 4

Mission & Interests

Goals: 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.
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Climate action
  • Economy, finance and the euro
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • External relations
  • Food safety
  • Humanitarian aid and civil protection
  • International co-operation and development
  • Justice and fundamental rights
  • Migration and asylum
  • Regional policy
  • Single market
  • Taxation
  • Youth
Levels of Interest:
  • european
  • national
  • global
  • sub-national

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: 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 2021-2023 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. We have been also part of the Civil society members of the Structure Dialogue on GAP III through CONCORD.
Communication Activities: PUBLICATIONS - "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 - “Why the European Green Deal Needs Ecofeminism, chapter on Trade and summary” (https://wideplus.org/2021/07/27/why-the-european-green-deal-needs-ecofeminism-new-report-with-wides-contribution/), July 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 - Shell Climate case (https://actionaid.org/opinions/2021/shell-climate-case-what-you-need-know), May 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=UrvVCjWanHk
EU Supported Forums and Platforms: 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
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A

Head Office

Address: 4th Floor, West Wing158 Jan Smuts Avenue Building (entrance on Walters Avenue)
City: Johannesburg
Country: SOUTH AFRICA
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EU Office

Address: Rue de l'Industrie, 102nd Floor, Mundo J Building
Post Code: 1000
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data

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Complementary Information: 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.

Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 3
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 6
Members F T E: 4.5
Info Members: The 2021 internal restructuring in ActionAid resulted in the appointment in December of a Head of Country Engagement and Transformation Americas and Europe, who dedicates 50% of his workload to the EU Brussels office actions. In addition, we have from September 2022: - 1 Head of Engagement Europe and Americas who dedicates 100% of his workload - 1 EU Partnership Manager who dedicates 50% of his workload - 2 EU Advocacy Advisor who dedicates 100% of his workload - 2 Bussiness Development Advisors 100% dedicated to EU Brussels office actions.

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: We’re an international organisation, working with over 15 million people in 45 countries. The full list of members (affiliates and associates), as well as of countries where we have programmes, is available here: https://actionaid.org/countries 8 of them are in the EU: 1. Denmark, https://www.ms.dk/en/home 2. France, https://www.actionaid.fr 3. Greece, https://www.actionaid.gr 4. Ireland, https://actionaid.ie 5. Italy, https://www.actionaid.it 6. Netherlands, https://actionaid.nl 7. Spain, https://www.alianzaporlasolidaridad.org 8. Sweden, https://www.actionaid.se
Organisation Members: 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/participants