Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
ACP Local Government Platform |
| Acronym: |
ACPLGP
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| Legal status: |
International Non Profit Making Organisation
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| Website address: |
http://acplgp.net
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Sections
| Section: |
III - Non-governmental organisations |
| and more precisely: |
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Elisa Rafamatanantsoa
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| Position: |
Coordinator & CEO |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Elisa Rafamatanantsoa
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| Position: |
Coordinator & CEO |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
8 Avenue Eugène Plasky, box 12
Brussels 1030
BELGIUM
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| Telephone number: |
(+32) 027328562 |
| Fax number: |
(+32) 027423673 |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
The objectives of the Platform are to:
• Promote the political recognition of local governments as a distinct actors in the ACP-EU cooperation;
• Represent, promote and protect, the interests of ACP local governments within the context of ACP-EU cooperation;
• Be recognised by ACP and EU governments to be the (sole) representative and consultative body in respect of all matters concerning local government within the ACP-EU cooperation framework and to make representations to both the ACP Group and the EU in respect of any matter concerning ACP local government;
• To be the united voice and representative of ACP local government within the ACP-EU cooperation framework.
• Promote and support at the ACP-EU level effective dialogue between (still to be completed);
• Promote integration into ACP-EU cooperation programmes concerns of ACP-LGs;
• Promote twinning and partnerships;
• Promote the mainstreaming of decentralisation policy in ACP-EU cooperation;
• Promote new mechanisms for dialogue and information flow and to this end gather, disseminate and share information on all matters relevant to LG and pursuit of these objectives;
• Strengthen the capacity of ACP local governments for dialogue;
• Establish, improve and strengthen conditions for effective dialogue between the Platform and the European Union;
• Develop a policy framework for cooperation between the ACP-EU and the ACP local governments at regional and national levels;
• Promote the adoption and implementation of policy frameworks.
• Promote the development and maintenance of systems of elected local government in the ACP States where such systems do not currently exist.
• Obtain and disseminate information on matters of importance to local government authorities.
It will seek to achieve these objectives by:
• Dialogue between the partners
• Information dissemination
• Programming, review and implementation of the Cotonou Agreement
• Capacity-building for local governments
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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: |
1
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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To represent the voice of African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) local government at key ACP-EU fora
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
46 |
| Number of member organisations: |
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| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
- BELIZE
- BENIN
- BOTSWANA
- BURKINA FASO
- BURUNDI
- CAMEROON
- CAPE VERDE
- CENTRAL AFRICAN, REPUBLIC
- CHAD
- CONGO
- COTE D'IVOIRE
- DOMINIQUE
- ETHIOPIA
- FIJI
- GABON
- GAMBIA
- GHANA
- GUINEA
- JAMAICA
- KENYA
- LESOTHO
- MALAWI
- MALI
- MAURITANIA
- MAURITIUS
- MOZAMBIQUE
- NAMIBIA
- NIGER
- NIGERIA
- PAPUA NEW GUINEA
- RUANDA
- SENEGAL
- SIERRA LEONE
- SOUTH AFRICA
- SUDAN
- SWAZILAND
- TANZANIA, UNITED RE UBLIC OF
- TOGO
- TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
- UGANDA
- ZAMBIA
- ZIMBABWE
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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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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2012
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09/2012
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Total budget:
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204,723
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€
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of which public financing:
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204,723
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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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204,723
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€
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- from national sources:
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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€
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from other sources: |
0
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€
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- donations:
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0
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€
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- contributions from members:
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0
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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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