Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Terre des Hommes International Federation |
| Acronym: |
TDHIF
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| Legal status: |
International Association according to Article 60 and following of Swiss Civil Code
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| Website address: |
http://www.terredeshommes.org/
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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: |
Mr
Raffaele K. Salinari
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| Position: |
Chair |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Salvatore Parata
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| Position: |
Head of EU office |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
31 chemin Franck Thomas
Cologny/ Geneve CH-1223
SWITZERLAND
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| Telephone number: |
(+41) 227363372 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
Terre des Hommes International Federation
Liaison Office with the European Union
Rue d'Edimbourg 26
1050 Brussels
Belgium
Phone +32 2 893 09 51
Fax +32 2 893 09 54
E-mail: tdh-europe@terredeshommes.org
Legal Entity of Brussels Office: International Association of Swiss Law having legal right to operate and establish an operational office in Belgium, according to European Convention N. 124 on the recognition of legal entities of internationational NGO ( COE Strasburg 24/04/1986)
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
The mission of the Terre des Hommes organisations is to provide active support to children, without racial, religious, political, cultural or gender-based discrimination. To this end the organisations develop and implement child protection, cooperation and humanitarian aid projects designed to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged children in their own environment (including families and communities). This work is rooted in a clearly focussed mission to promote concrete conditions for the full respect and implementation of child rights within a context of human rights based approaches to sustainable and equitable development embedded in economic, social and cultural rights. TDHIF and its members are guided by the International Bill of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In their own countries and regions, the Terre des Hommes organisations bring to the attention of the public, including children and young people, the causes of underdevelopment, together with the rights of the child. They mobilise political will and advocate appropriate governmental policies. They undertake fund raising activities to achieve their objectives.
Terre des Hommes believes that children are the main participants in their own development, with inherent rights and vital social, economic and cultural roles. Terre des Hommes helps them realise their full potential in the world of today.
In 2008 Terre des Hommes runs 933 development and humanitarian aid projects in 65 countries in close collaboration with the beneficiaries, who are the primary participants in their own development. Terre des Hommes acts directly or work with 734 local and national civil society organisations, assistance in their institutional development is a key element in this collaboration.
The humanitarian aid projects are designed with the aim of establishing basic social infrastructure both during and after natural or manmade disasters, and enhancing the capacities of children and local partners to participate in the rebuilding of their communities.
The advocacy work of Terre des Hommes is deeply rooted in its field knowledge. We strive to ensure that information from a local level reaches a global level, so that international and European decisions really do improve the plight of those for whom they are made. Terre des Hommes also holds governments accountable for the promises they have made to children, and strives to generate positive change.
TDHIF is committed to transparency about EU interest representation. TDHIF believes that this register fails basic transparency standards and that it does not provide EU lobbying transparency. When registering, we have therefore chosen to give all the relevant information that we consider necessary 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 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 the guidelines that result from consultation with public interest organisations, professionals working on lobbying transparency as well as experts on 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 TDHIF, carry out such activities.
Our registration is based on the guidelines for transparent registration developed by the Civil Society Contact Group and ALTER-EU. You can find the guidelines on “http://www.act4europe.org or http://www.alter-eu.org”
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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- sub-national
- national
- European
- global
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
2
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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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On behalf of TDHIF the people listed below have had during the reporting period (2008) four or more contacts with members of officials of the EU Institutions with the objective of influencing the policy making and decision making process of the European Union institutions, or they have spent 20 per cent or more of their working time on behalf of TDHIF carrying out such activities:
Salvatore Parata, TDHIF Head of EU Office
Lavinia Liardo, TDHIF Communication and Advocacy Officer
Laura Mariotti, TDHIF Intern
Mirela Shuteriqi, International Campaign against Child Trafficking Officer (TDHIF)
Bruno Neri (Tdh-Italy)
Klaus Schilder (Tdh-Germany)who will be substituted by Jonas Shubert
Marlene Hofstetter (Tdh-Foundation Lausanne)
Ignacio Packer (Tdh- Foundation Lausanne)
Claire Rouffineau (Tdh- Netherlands)
Lucien Stoepler (Tdh- Netherlands)
Vincent Tournecuillert (Tdh- Foundation Lausanne)
Main activities in 2010: Conference on Addressing trafficking in human beings:governmants'responses in the EU and NGOs strategies outside the EU (October 2010,Brussels)
-In 2010 participation to the Structured dialogue
- Participation to the EC public consultation on the EU strategy on child rights 2011-2014
Main Activities in 2009:Fight against Child Trafficking - Terre des Hommes draw lessons from the field work and delivers projects results to the EU:
- EU Ministerial Conference against Trafficking in Human Beings: The issue of Child trafficking was discussed and tackled in a specific panel of a EU Ministerial Conference. The Conference, taking place in Brussels on the 19/20 October 2009, brought together Ministers of Justice, Interiors and Migration from the 27 EU Member States and from Third countries, with a total of 66 States represented in the conference, placed under the patronage of H.M. Queen Silvia of Sweden and H.M. Queen Paola of Belgium
- International Conference on "Anti-Trafficking actions and human rights based approach in South Asia, outcomes and links with Europe" (February 2009: Around 60 participants, representing the European Parliament and Commission, governments, students and academics, NGOs from Asia and Europe, law enforcement agencies and judicial policies, attended the international seminar organized by Terre des Hommes International Federation.
- Thailand: Inter-regional seminar to assess results of a EU-funded 3 years anti-trafficking project implemented in 12 countries (October 2009: less than five months before the conclusion of this EC co-financed consortium project all eight partners of the project from Southeast Asia, Latin America and South Eastern Europe met in Chiang Mai to share experiences and knowledge among the three regions.
- ANOTHER ME (Brussels): Photo exhibition to raise awareness on the dignity of trafficked persons.
List of dossiers (EU laws, policies etc) that TDHIF has tried to influence during the reporting period:
- "Disappearing, departing, running away: a surfeit of children in Europe?", a study was carried out in Belgium, France, Spain and Switzerland on the disappearances on unaccompanied foreign minors placed in institutions
- "Santè materno-infantile" which presents a sectorial strategy based on the TDH's experience and projects implemented in Africa, Latin America, Middle East and Asia. This study aims orienting partners and donors on the types and modalities of interventions in the sector of the Health and Nutrition
- "In pursuit of good practice in responses to child trafficking: Experiences from Latin America, Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia" - The study aims contributing to the development of effective policies and practices against trafficking in especially children, safeguarding and promoting their rights in Southeast Asia, Southeast Europe and Latin America
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Development
- Education
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Environment
- External Relations
- Foreign and Security Policy and Defence
- Home Affairs
- Humanitarian Aid
- Justice and Fundamental Rights
- Sport
- Trade
- Trans-European Networks
- Youth
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
0 |
| Number of member organisations: |
11 |
| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
- Terre des Hommes France (443 members)
- Terre des Hommes Switzerland (202 members)
- Terre des Hommes Luxemburg (80 members)
- Terre des Hommes Italy (58 members)
- Terre des Hommes Syria (7 members)
- Terre des Hommes Germany (1,089 members)
- Terre des Hommes Spain (0 members)
- Terre des Hommes Lausanne (0 members)
- Terre des Hommes Denmark (0 members)
- Terre des Hommes Canada (0 members)
- Terre des Hommes Netherlands (0 members)
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
- DENMARK
- FRANCE
- GERMANY
- ITALY
- LUXEMBOURG
- NETHERLANDS
- SPAIN
- AFGHANISTAN
- ALBANIA
- ALGERIA
- ANGOLA
- ARGENTINA
- BANGLADESH
- BENIN
- BHUTAN
- BOLIVIA
- BRAZIL
- BURKINA FASO
- BURUNDI
- CAMBODIA
- CANADA
- CHILE
- COLOMBIA
- CONGO
- CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF
- COTE D'IVOIRE
- ECUADOR
- EGYPT
- EL SALVADOR
- GAMBIA
- GHANA
- GUATEMALA
- GUINEA
- HAITI
- HONDURAS
- IRAQ
- JORDAN
- KENYA
- LEBANON
- MADAGASCAR
- MALI
- MAURITANIA
- MEXICO
- MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF
- MOROCCO
- MOZAMBIQUE
- NAMIBIA
- NICARAGUA
- PALESTINIAN OCCUPIED TERRITORY
- PERU
- SENEGAL
- SOUTH AFRICA
- SUDAN
- SWITZERLAND
- SYRIA, ARAB REPUBLIC
- TANZANIA, UNITED RE UBLIC OF
- TOGO
- UGANDA
- UKRAINE
- URUGUAY
- WESTERN SAHARA
- 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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The Terre des Hommes International Federation (TDHIF) ensures coordination among the Terre des Hommes organisations and representation at an international and European level.
The TDHIF holds a consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council, UNICEF, the ILO and the Council of Europe. It also works in collaboration with other networks pursuing similar aims. TDHIF works in collaboration with European Institutions and with other organizations and networks pursuing comparable aims.
TDHIF is an active member of:
• The NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the largest global network of child rights NGOs, which monitors the concrete implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
• The coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers,
• The Keeping Children Safe Coalition, a coalition of international NGOs working to increase the safeguards offered to children, through improved child protection policies and practice within the agencies and authorities that work with children,
• CONCORD, the European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development, bringing 20 international networks and 22 national NGO associations representing more than 1,600 European NGOs face to face with the European Institutions, to lead policy dialogue and strengthen NGOs voices on development cooperation,
• HRDN (Human Rights and Democracy Network), a coalition of 90 European Human Rights NGOs that monitor the EU policy on Human Rights within and outside Europe,
• CRAG (Child Rights Action Group) to ensure a child rights approach for the EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child.
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2012
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05/2012
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Total budget:
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33,101,765
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€
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of which public financing:
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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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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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€
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from other sources: |
33,101,765
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€
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- donations:
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€
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- contributions from members:
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28,043,964
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€
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- Income for special ad hoc activities :
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37,005
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€
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- Bank Interests :
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406
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€
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- Grants :
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623,532
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€
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- Gain/loss on exchange, net :
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1,041,067
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€
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- Allocation for additional salary costs :
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1,978,066
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€
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- Allocation for additional costs :
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1,377,725
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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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TDHIF' s Budget has been converted from CHF to Euro using the 2010 official exchange rate (Euro 1 = 1.25045 CHF).
In 2010 the loss has been 3.675,120 Euro.
Taking into account this loss the total budget is defacto 327,342.53 Euro
Following the guidelines of the EU Civil Society Contact Group and the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU, Terre des Hommes International Federation has calculated that it has spent an estimated € 79,810.93 in 2010 on activities carried out with the objective of influencing the policy formulation and decision making processes of the European Union Institutions.
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