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Meeting with Lynn Boylan (Member of the European Parliament, Delegation chair)

10 Dec 2025 · Situation in Gaza and the West Bank

Meeting with Lukas Mandl (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Nov 2025 · Development cooperation, Global Gateway

Meeting with Murielle Laurent (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Nov 2025 · Nutrition in Southern Africa

Meeting with Barry Andrews (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

16 Oct 2025 · DEVE

Meeting with Lora Borissova (Cabinet of Commissioner Hadja Lahbib)

16 Oct 2025 · • Humanitarian action • Gender Equality

Meeting with Francisco Joaquin Gaztelu Mezquiriz (Director Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf)

14 Oct 2025 · Exchange of views on MENA region

Meeting with Barry Andrews (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

25 Sept 2025 · DEVE

Meeting with Alessandra Sgobbi (Head of Unit Climate Action)

10 Sept 2025 · Climate change and climate finance

Meeting with Andreas Papaconstantinou (Director European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations)

9 Sept 2025 · Discussion on humanitarian needs and situation in Syria and Türkiye.

Meeting with Hana Genorio (Cabinet of Commissioner Jozef Síkela) and OXFAM INTERNATIONAL EU ADVOCACY OFFICE and

16 Jul 2025 · Exchange of views on Global Gateway and future priorities.

Meeting with Marit Maij (Member of the European Parliament) and OXFAM INTERNATIONAL EU ADVOCACY OFFICE and

14 May 2025 · Roundtable discussion on Financing for Development with MEP Charles Goerens and MEP Marit Maij

Meeting with Lynn Boylan (Member of the European Parliament, Delegation chair)

25 Mar 2025 · Humanitarian Aid for Palestine

Meeting with Marlene Holzner (Head of Unit Directorate-General for International Partnerships) and OXFAM INTERNATIONAL EU ADVOCACY OFFICE and

20 Mar 2025 · Exchange of views on Global Gateway and the future priorities

Meeting with Hana Genorio (Cabinet of Commissioner Jozef Síkela), Lucie Šestáková (Cabinet of Commissioner Jozef Síkela) and

20 Mar 2025 · Global Gateway

Meeting with Hadja Lahbib (Commissioner) and

22 Jan 2025 · • Refugee • Humanitarian aid

Meeting with Hadja Lahbib (Commissioner) and

18 Jan 2025 · • Humanitarian access • Cooperation

Meeting with Lukas Mandl (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Dec 2024 · Development work and humanitarian aid

Meeting with Dubravka Šuica (Vice-President) and Norwegian Refugee Council Europe and

24 Oct 2024 · Support for civil society and building positive and productive partnerships inside and outside the EU.

Meeting with Maciej Popowski (Director-General European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations)

18 Mar 2024 · Situation in Haiti and Gaza – funding

Meeting with Ilan De Basso (Member of the European Parliament) and Save the Children Europe and

30 May 2023 · Möte

Meeting with Suvi Leinonen (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen)

11 May 2023 · Food and water systems

Meeting with Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner) and

22 Mar 2023 · Afghanistan

CARE International calls for humanitarian exemptions in sanctions law

30 Jan 2023
Topic — New EU directive defining criminal offences and penalties for violating restrictive measures.
Message — CARE requests the EU align autonomous sanctions with UN humanitarian exemptions for consistency. They recommend broadening the scope of the directive to include support for basic human needs.12
Why — Clearer legal exemptions would reduce the risk of criminalizing essential humanitarian aid operations.3
Impact — Enforcement agencies might face greater challenges distinguishing legitimate humanitarian aid from sanctions evasion.45
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Meeting with Janez Lenarčič (Commissioner)

27 Jan 2023 · Afghanistan, women rights.

Meeting with Alice Kuhnke (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion)

8 Dec 2022 · EU Textile Strategy (staff level)

Meeting with Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner) and OXFAM INTERNATIONAL EU ADVOCACY OFFICE and

1 Dec 2022 · Speech at the 2nd GAP III Structured Dialogue with CSOs

Meeting with Mónica Silvana González (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

8 Sept 2022 · Meeting for preparation of INI report

Meeting with Mónica Silvana González (Member of the European Parliament)

19 May 2022 · Humanitarian crises

Meeting with Renaud Savignat (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen) and Save the Children Europe and

29 Mar 2022 · Global Health

Meeting with Birgit Sippel (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

27 Jan 2022 · People on the Move in the Western Balkans

CARE International urges gender focus in EU textile strategy

29 Jan 2021
Topic — The EU is consulting on a strategy for a sustainable and climate-neutral textile industry.
Message — CARE International urges the EU to prioritize gender equality within the sustainable textiles strategy. Brands should reimagine business models to tackle unfair trading and ensure dignified work for workers. The EU must support ratification of international standards to end workplace violence and harassment.12
Why — This approach would improve productivity and reduce economic costs caused by workplace sexual harassment.3
Impact — Current business models would lose the ability to pass production risks to vulnerable women workers.4
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Meeting with Janez Lenarčič (Commissioner) and

12 Nov 2020 · Humanitarian aid, humanitarian access, IHL, gender equality.

Meeting with Anthony Agotha (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Damyana Stoynova (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans), Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and

9 Sept 2020 · The Green Deal implemetation with view to external relations

Meeting with Diana Montero Melis (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen), Renaud Savignat (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen) and

10 Jun 2020 · European Green Deal, COVID-19 and development cooperation

Meeting with Diana Montero Melis (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen) and WWF European Policy Programme and

26 Mar 2020 · international dimension of the European Green Deal

Meeting with Kim-Tobias Eling (Cabinet of Commissioner Janez Lenarčič)

24 Mar 2020 · Humanitarian crises and nexus

Meeting with Paraskevi Michou (Director-General European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations)

26 Feb 2020 · Curtesy/introductory meeting to discuss with DG ECHO the 2020 and beyond priorities including on gender and emergencies, localisation

Response to Multiannual Financial Framework: Proposal for the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument

9 Aug 2018

While we welcome the aim to increase coherence by merging multiple external action instruments, there is a need to ensure funds currently allocated to sustainable development and poverty eradication are not diverted to other foreign policy or domestic priorities (i.e. migration, security). For the EU to live up to its international commitments, the Commission should ensure the level of EU ODA and the ex-ante 90% level of DAC-ability for the instrument are maintained. Criteria for allocation of funds between regions and countries must be fair, objective and based on the needs of partner countries, focusing on LDCs. The planning and programming phases as well as the delivery mechanisms should guarantee the Aid Effectiveness principles together with accountability and transparency. Aid allocation should not be dependent on migration deals with the EU. Furthermore, there should be no diversion of finance from poor countries and regions to migrants’ countries of origin or of transit to Europe, on the sole basis that they are on the migration route. Applying Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development can help ensure synergies between and within programmes, while avoiding the potentially negative impacts of other policy areas on human rights and sustainable development. Civil society must be part of the political dialogue as well as the programming. Moreover, funding should be made available to civil society throughout all instruments and programmes (both thematic and geographic). The EU must commit to strengthening a pluralistic and diverse local civil society, supporting democracy and human rights defenders, including women’s rights defenders, and protecting and expanding civic space. We welcome the benchmarks related to human development and climate change, but expect more ambition on climate and gender. In the Gender Action Plan II, the EU committed at least 85% of ODA-funded programmes to have gender equality as a principal or significant objective; this should also be enshrined in the NDICI Regulation. The instrument should also commit to a 50% allocation on climate action. We urge the EU to adopt a gender-responsive approach in the next MFF. The regulation should clearly state the Commission will implement a gender budgeting analysis and adjust structures, mechanisms and tools to fully incorporate this approach. Gender-responsive budgeting cannot be restricted to social sectors. A predictable proportion of funding from development instruments should be dedicated to Disaster Risk Reduction and disaster preparedness. Resilience building and bridging the humanitarian-development nexus should be part of all humanitarian and development programmes. Therefore, community resilience should not be confined to the rapid response pillar of NDICI, but should also be an integral part of geographic and thematic programming. Longer-term funding strategies should be established, with multi-year programming and multi-year funding options in protracted crises, while giving those implementing the strategies more flexibility for adapting quickly to changing circumstances on the ground. Operational flexibility is needed to serve a crisis-affected population but said flexibility should not be restricted to catering to changing political priorities in Europe. The fact that security serves development (and vice versa) does not imply that all measures relating to security in third countries should be funded out of ODA. If peace and security-related activities are funded through development aid, human security and the protection of civilians should always be prioritised over state security. This implies investing more resources in conflict prevention and disaster preparedness, and responding to early-warning systems by taking action early in the face of both conflicts and natural disasters. The European External Investment Plan should be evaluated for its impact on the poorest and development additionality before being further scaled up.
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Response to External Evaluation of EU’s Support to Conflict Prevention and Peace – Building

7 Feb 2018

The EU Comprehensive approach to Women, Peace and Security is a key element in the EU’s approach to peacebuilding and it sets out a clear path for EU implementation, yet a lot remains to be done. The EU regularly underscores its support for the inclusion of civil society, including women’s organisations, in national and international peace and security processes. However, why aren’t timeframes and targets set out on inclusive decision making? We want more accountability on delivery of these commitments. In addition to attention for national peacebuilding processes, more attention should be given to local peacebuilding. Community peace without national reconciliation is unsustainable, and vice versa. Currently, connecting grassroots women’s peacebuilding up to national and international peace-making efforts (the so-called ‘localisation agenda’) remains a key challenge. Evidence shows there is a strong link between economic empowerment, women’s leadership and peace outcomes but the connection is not automatic and requires deliberate support. In CARE’s experience, community reconciliation and economic development should be treated as two sides of the same coin, and given equal weight in strategy decisions from national authorities and donors. Having access to income generating opportunities and increasing skills for greater economic independence, combined with reconciliation efforts in representative peace committees and a strengthening of relations within and between communities and with authorities, increases the ability of communities to withstand the effects of conflict. Here are a few of the lessons learnt from our work: • Cohabitation and human rights contribute significantly to community interventions on violent conflict. Conflicts are resolved by addressing the root causes and recognizing the importance of resolution in a participative manner. • Local governance interventions should be based on a thorough analysis of the key axes of exclusion and the factors that underpin these. • The establishment of community structures such as Peace Clubs and Village Saving and Loan Associations play an important role in the development of women. Besides increased (financial) independence, female members have been recognized as local leaders. • Cultures of social activism should be promoted within communities to ensure that they are willing to, and able to, engage with governance institutions • Prosperity and economic development strategies in fragile contexts should be focused at both the macro and the micro levels, with approaches that seek to build stability through investment in productive sectors which encompass both the formal and informal economy. While we recognise the linkages between security, peacebuilding and development, we are against the increased use of ODA in support of military or quasi-military expenditures, or the channelling of aid through military actors. Any misuse of aid in this area can have extremely serious consequences, both for affected people in recipient countries, but also for the credibility and public support for ODA. When it comes to funding for conflict prevention and peacebuilding, for all modalities and whether funding is channelled through the countries’ national treasuries, CSOs, or other actors, in line with the commitment to gender budgeting in the Gender Action Plan, the EU should select partners which are working in a gender-sensitive or gender-transformative manner, and should monitor that via the use of a gender marker through-out the programming cycle. Lastly and more generally, the EU should always apply a human security focus to its work, ensure to do no harm, and effectively monitor and evaluate its impact rather than assuming it is not doing harm with its external action decisions, including in the implementation of the new resilience approach and the new integrated approach.
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Meeting with Giulio Di Blasi (Cabinet of High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini) and Amnesty International Limited and

25 Nov 2016 · Niger Compact

Meeting with Davinia Wood (Cabinet of Commissioner Christos Stylianides), Kim-Tobias Eling (Cabinet of Commissioner Christos Stylianides)

8 Nov 2016 · Post-WHS and refugee crisis

Meeting with Christos Stylianides (Commissioner)

8 Sept 2016 · Greece, Turkey, Syria, WHS follow up

Meeting with Miguel Arias Cañete (Commissioner) and Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment) and

11 Mar 2016 · Implications of the Paris Agreement in the EU climate and energy policies

Meeting with Monique Pariat (Director-General European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations)

4 Dec 2015 · WHS, Resilience and current humanitarian crisis

Meeting with Paolo Berizzi (Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica)

4 Sept 2015 · Financing for Development, post-2015; Climate change; Gender

Meeting with Claus Sorensen (Director-General European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations)

2 Jul 2015 · Current Humanitarian Crises, WHS

Meeting with Emma Udwin (Cabinet of Vice-President Johannes Hahn)

26 Jun 2015 · Review of European Neighbourhood Policy

Meeting with Christos Stylianides (Commissioner)

26 Jun 2015 · Humanitarian Aid