Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
Sections
| Section: |
III - Non-governmental organisations |
| and more precisely: |
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Rupert Roniger
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| Position: |
Executive Director |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Steffie Neyens
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| Position: |
EU Liaison Officer |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
26/3 Niederhofstraße
Vienna 1120
AUSTRIA
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| Telephone number: |
(+43) 18101300 |
| Fax number: |
(+43) 1810130015 |
| Other contact information: |
EU Liaison Office
Rue Washington 38-40
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium
Tel.: + 32 2 275 00 85
Fax : + 32 2 275 09 93
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Note: this covers activities for the year 2012.
LIGHT FOR THE WORLD is one of the leading European NGOs dedicated to restoring eyesight, preventing blindness, providing rehabilitation and access to inclusive education, and promoting the human rights of people with disabilities. LIGHT FOR THE WORLD provides access to treatment and rehabilitation for persons with disabilities by supporting local partner organisations. We also commit ourselves to the task of creating new opportunities for persons with disabilities, to increase mobility with the help of devices, to start initiatives that will provide education and income, and to support people with disabilities to exercise their rights.
In addition, LIGHT FOR THE WORLD is committed to raising awareness of the situation of persons with disabilities within their family, communities and national contexts, as well as within the wider development agenda. LIGHT FOR THE WORLD is committed to transparency about EU interest representation.
LIGHT FOR THE WORLD is committed to transparency about EU lobbying. LIGHT FOR THE WORLD believes that the Transparency Register fails basic transparency standards and does not yet live up to its name. We support ALTER-EU's demand for a mandatory nature of the register, safeguards against underreporting, and publication of the names of interest
representatives.
When registering, we have therefore chosen to provide additional information that we consider necessary and relevant for lobbying transparency. A credible EU lobbying transparency register should include names of individual lobbyists and the issues that they try to influence, provide precise and comparable financial information on lobbying, and have effective monitoring and sanctions to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information disclosed. In an effort to arrive at a more objective way of calculating lobbying expenditures, we follow guidelines that result from consultations with public interest organisations, professionals working on lobby transparency as well as experts of US lobby disclosure legislation. Our registration is therefore providing a more comprehensive calculation of our expenses for activities that aim to influence the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions, and a list of those who, on behalf of LIGHT FOR THE WORLD, carry out such activities.
Our registration is based on the guidelines for transparent registration developed by the Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU. Find the guidelines on www.act4europe.org/register or www.alter-eu.org
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
4
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Complementary information:
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On behalf of LIGHT FOR THE WORLD the persons listed below have had, during the reporting period, four or more contacts with members or officials of the EU institutions with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions; or they have spent 20 percent or more of their working time on behalf of LIGHT FOR THE WORLD carrying out such activities (the numbers refer to activities listed below):
Celia Cranfield, EU Liaison Officer
Worked on: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13
Steffie Neyens, EU Liaison Officer
Worked on: 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 14, 15
Johannes Trimmel, Director international Programmes and Policy
Worked on: 1, 2, 10, 12
François Carbonez, Policy Officer
Worked on: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
| First name
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Surname
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Start Date |
End Date |
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François
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Carbonez
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22/03/13
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18/03/14
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Steffie
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Neyens
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01/11/12
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29/10/13
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Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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1. LFW organized a seminar in Brussels about Social Protection and Disability, with speakers from the EC and NGOs such as IDA. This seminar was part of an effort to promote inclusive social protection in EU development cooperation.
2. LFW participated with IDDC in the year-long advocacy effort regarding the European Multi-Annual Financial Framework negotiations, including numerous meetings, as well as awareness raising at the national level with our partner organizations in order to influence the European Council. LFW also kept following up in parallel with negotiation on the 11th EDF, via CONCORD’s Cotonou Working Group.
3. LFW worked as part of the Social Protection and Decent Work Working Group, sharing informations and experiences with other NGOs. Work was especially focused on the EC consultation, and reactions to the EC Communication on Social Protection. This included common advocacy letters to members of the Council.
4. LFW participated as a IDDC member in a stock-taking in the domain of social protection and disability, in collaboration with IDA, looking to have a clear picture of what kind of social protection work/don’t work for persons with disabilities
5. LFW, as IDDC member, co-organized a High Level Panel during the 2012 European Development Days, in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation (part of the WB Group), UNCDF, and e-MFP. The panel, focused on making finance work for inclusive development, included partners from the South such as Flavia Bwire, as well as political representatives (USAID,…) and financial experts (IFC, UNCDF,…). The panel was opened by a statement from Mr. Rudischhauser, EC.
6. LFW organized a screening of the movie Body And Soul by French director Matthieu Bron, in the context of the Millennium Festival in Brussels, as well as in a side event to the EU-ACP JPA meeting in Suriname. Several members of the JPA were in attendance
7. LFW designed a small course in order to raise awareness to advocacy work done at EU and UN level on behalf of persons with disabilities and their rights.
8. In collaboration with IDDC, LFW commented and got amendments voted, through Mr. Howitt, MEP, on the EP’s Annual Report on Human Rights in the World, securing a mention to the ratification of the UNCRPD by the Union and to EU disability strategy.
9. LFW, with IDDC, welcomed Mr. Lambridinis as the new EU Special Representative for Human Rights, and proposed a meeting in order to discuss the situation of persons with disabilities in the EU, especially in its external action.
10. LFW participated in the creation of a Training for DG DEVCO staff regarding disability in the context of EU development cooperation.
11. LFW organized for IDDC, and hosted a Training Of Trainers for IDDC Members, in order to allow them to train others in partner countries to advocate for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in mainstream contexts. The training took place during two two-days sessions in September and in November, and was created by LFW Netherlands staff. Roughly 25 people from all around the confederation attended.
12. LFW participated to the EC consultation on the Post-2015 Framework, as a stand-alone organization as well as on behalf of IDDC.
13. The campaign EndExclusion organized a social-media contest for the most original video/art/media project showcasing inclusion of disability.
14. LFW participated to the consultation meeting on the feedback from the aforementioned Post-2015 Consultation, as well as on the Rio+20 framework.
15. Finally, LFW is part of the Working Group on Human Devleopment in the context of the Beyond 2015 European Task Force. As part of that working group, LFW took part in a consultation which will determine the ETF’s position on the post-2015 Framework.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Development
- Employment and Social Affairs
- External Relations
- Humanitarian Aid
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
0 |
| Number of member organisations: |
4 |
| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
- Licht Für die Welt (9 members)
- Light For The World Belgium (3 members)
- Light For The World Netherlands (7 members)
- Svetlo Pro Svet (4 members)
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
- AUSTRIA
- BELGIUM
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- NETHERLANDS
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Complementary information:
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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http://www.iapb.org - International Agency for the Prevention of Blindess (IAPB)
http://www.v2020.org - VISION 2020 - The Right to Sight
http://www.iddc.org.uk - International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC)
http://www.icevi.org - International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI)
http://www.campaignforeducation.org - Global Campaign for Education
http://www.trachomacoalition.org - International Coalition for Trachoma Control/ICTC
http://www.endexclusion.eu - End Exclusion Project
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
04/2011
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04/2012
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Total budget:
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19,436,812
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€
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of which public financing:
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3,088,825
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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€
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- Grants:
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€
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- from national sources:
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3,088,825
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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€
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from other sources: |
16,347,987
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€
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- donations:
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12,010,057
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€
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- contributions from members:
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€
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- Foundations :
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2,766,999
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€
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- Bequests :
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784,693
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€
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- Projekt Support alliance partners :
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240,136
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€
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- Donations in kind :
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379,256
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€
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- Interest :
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131,957
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€
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- Other :
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34,889
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€
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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Following the guidelines of the EU Civil Society Contact Group and the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU, LIGHT FOR THE WORLD has calculated that it spent an estimated € 90.000 in 2011 on activities carried out with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the European institutions.
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