ChildFund Alliance Brussels Office

The ChildFund Alliance Brussels Office (EU) was established in 2014 to serve as the Alliance’s strategic hub for engagement with the European Union institutions. The Brussels team coordinates closely with the Secretariat’s New York team, and focuses on the following strategic goals:

• To advocate with key EU institutions for policies, programs, and funding and partnership opportunities to promote children’s rights and continued investment in children.
• To promote and increase access to funding opportunities provided by the EU and other European/EU-based donors.
• To promote the Alliance’s outreach visibility, and positioning towards the EU and other European/EU-based and global donors and policymakers.

Advocacy

The Europe Office (EUO) works to strengthen the engagement and cooperation of ChildFund Alliance with European Union (EU) institutions and works together with other organizations, including United Nations agencies and NGOs, to promote children’s rights as a priority in the EU’s external action, both development and humanitarian.

ChildFund Alliance is a member of CONCORD, the European confederation of Relief and Development NGOs and the main interlocutor with the EU institutions on development policy.

In Brussels, ChildFund Alliance is also a member of the Children’s Rights Action Group, a coalition of 18 NGOs committed to making children’s rights a priority of the EU agenda. The coalition supports the Intergroup on Children’s Rights, the first formal body in the European Parliament that works to mainstream children’s rights and promote the interests and well-being of children everywhere.

Working closely together with Alliance members, the EUO also engages with the VOICE network in Brussels. VOICE stands for “Voluntary Organizations in Cooperation in Emergencies” and it is the largest European humanitarian NGO network promoting efficient and effective humanitarian action worldwide since 1992. VOICE is the main NGO interlocutor with the European Union on emergency action.

Additionally, the EUO is instrumental in representing the ChildFund Alliance with the Joining Forces EU coalition in Brussels and in working together with the five other child-focused agencies on advancing key advocacy and policy priorities with key EU institutions and stakeholders. Joining Forces is an alliance of the six largest child-focused international NGOs, including the ChildFund Alliance, united to end violence against all children and secure the rights of every child.