Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Voluntary Organisations in Cooperation in Emergencies |
| Acronym: |
VOICE asbl
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| Legal status: |
Non-profit organisation
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| Website address: |
http://www.ngovoice.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: |
Ms
Kathrin Schick
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| Position: |
Director |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Kathrin Schick
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| Position: |
Director |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
43 Avenue Louise Ixelles
Brussels 1050
BELGIUM
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| Telephone number: |
(+32) 25411360 |
| Fax number: |
(+32) 25349953 |
| Other contact information: |
Email: voice@ngovoice.org
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
VOICE stands for Voluntary Organisations in Cooperation in Emergencies. It is a network representing 83 European non-governmental organisations (NGOs) active in humanitarian aid worldwide. Unlike its members, VOICE is not operational.
Seeking to involve its members in information, training, advocacy and lobbying, VOICE is the main NGO interlocutor with the European Union on emergency aid, relief, rehabilitation and disaster risk reduction. As a European network, it represents and promotes the values and specificities of humanitarian NGOs, in collaboration with other humanitarian actors. Based in Brussels, VOICE has been active since 1992 and became an independent organisation under Belgian law in 2001.
VOICE main objectives are:
To advocate for independent humanitarian action
VOICE monitors and advocates for the implementation of the European Humanitarian Aid Consensus. Members' expertise in humanitarian action--NGOs' added value--is brought to the attention of the EU and its Member States' decision-makers. Members' experience forms the basis of VOICE's thematic working groups on the European Commission's contractual partnership requirements (FPA), disaster risk reduction, and other ad hoc groups on policy issues.
To facilitate members' collective influence
VOICE facilitates its Members' collective influence in EU humanitarian aid-related policies by developing advocacy strategies and policy positions. VOICE promotes its positions through established dialogue and regular exchange with EU Institution and Member State actors. It also ensures relevant information-sharing on the EU context and trends within the network, while also engaging Members in working groups and capacity-building activities.
To support quality and professionalism
VOICE supports a high level of quality in its Members' humanitarian aid responses. VOICE contributes to Members' professionalism through information-sharing, workshops, and the maintenance of links with quality networks & initiatives, universities and research institutes.
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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: |
5
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Complementary information:
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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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Margaret Anne
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BIRD
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22/01/13
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28/06/13
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Inge
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BREES
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22/01/13
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28/06/13
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Kathrin
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SCHICK
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23/01/13
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28/06/13
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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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EU Humanitarian Aid
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Budget
- Development
- Foreign and Security Policy and Defence
- Humanitarian Aid
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
8 |
| Number of member organisations: |
83 |
| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
- CARE Österreich (1 members)
- CARITAS Österreich (1 members)
- Hilfswerk Österreich (1 members)
- SOS Kinderdorf International (1 members)
- World Vision Österreich (1 members)
- CARITAS Secours International Belgium (1 members)
- Handicap International Belgium (1 members)
- Médecins du Monde Belgium (1 members)
- Oxfam Solidarité — Solidariteit (1 members)
- People in Need (PIN) (1 members)
- ADRA Denmark – Nødhjælp og udvikling (1 members)
- ASF Dansk Folkehjælp (1 members)
- DanChurchAid (DCA) (1 members)
- Danish Refugee Council (DRC) (1 members)
- Mission East — Mission Øst (1 members)
- Save the Children Denmark (1 members)
- FIDA International (1 members)
- Finn Church Aid (1 members)
- World Vision Finland (1 members)
- Action Contre la Faim (1 members)
- ACTED - Agence d’Aide à la Coopération Technique et au Développement (1 members)
- CARE France (1 members)
- Secours Catholique – Réseau Mondial CARITAS (1 members)
- Handicap International France (1 members)
- Médecins du Monde (MDM) France (1 members)
- Secours Islamique France (1 members)
- Secours Populaire Français (1 members)
- Solidarités International (1 members)
- Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) (1 members)
- Triangle Génération Humanitaire (1 members)
- ADRA Deutschland e.V (1 members)
- Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) Deutschland (1 members)
- CARE Deutschland – Luxemburg e.V (1 members)
- Deutscher Caritasverband e.V (CARITAS Germany) (1 members)
- Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (1 members)
- Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V. (1 members)
- Malteser International (1 members)
- Medico International (1 members)
- Welthungerhilfe (1 members)
- Plan International Germany (1 members)
- World Vision Germany (1 members)
- Médecins du Monde — Greece (1 members)
- Concern Worldwide (1 members)
- Trócaire (1 members)
- World Vision Ireland (1 members)
- CARITAS Italiana (1 members)
- CESVI — Cooperazione e Sviluppo (1 members)
- CISP — Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli (1 members)
- CARITAS Luxembourg (1 members)
- CARE Nederland (1 members)
- Helpage (1 members)
- ICCO (1 members)
- Oxfam Novib (1 members)
- ZOA Refugee Care (1 members)
- Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) (1 members)
- Medicos do Mundo (1 members)
- Acción contra el Hambre (1 members)
- CARITAS Espaňola (1 members)
- Intermón Oxfam (1 members)
- Médicos del Mundo (1 members)
- Church of Sweden — Svenska kyrkan (1 members)
- International Aid Services (IAS) (1 members)
- PMU Interlife (1 members)
- Medair (1 members)
- Action Against Hunger (1 members)
- ActionAid (1 members)
- ADRA UK - Adventist Development and Relief Agency (1 members)
- CARE International UK (1 members)
- CAFOD (1 members)
- Christian Aid (1 members)
- International Medical Corps UK (1 members)
- International Rescue Committee (IRC-UK) (1 members)
- Islamic Relief Worldwide (1 members)
- Mercy Corps (1 members)
- Merlin (1 members)
- Oxfam GB (1 members)
- Plan International UK (1 members)
- Save the Children UK (1 members)
- Tearfund (1 members)
- World Vision UK (1 members)
- Intersos (1 members)
- Gvc (1 members)
- Adra CZ (1 members)
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
- AUSTRIA
- BELGIUM
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- DENMARK
- FINLAND
- FRANCE
- GERMANY
- GREECE
- IRELAND
- ITALY
- LUXEMBOURG
- NETHERLANDS
- PORTUGAL
- SPAIN
- SWEDEN
- UNITED KINGDOM
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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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12/2012
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Total budget:
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516,847
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€
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of which public financing:
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187,255
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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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187,255
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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: |
329,592
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€
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- donations:
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€
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- contributions from members:
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328,301
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€
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- other :
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1,291
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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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Audited account for 2012.
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