1. EAPN: Fighting for a Social Europe Free of Poverty
Director’s Report
20 June to 20 September 2015
Director’s Report
EXCO, Brussels
8th and 10th of October 2015
Barbara Helfferich, Director
EUROPEAN ANTI-POVERTY NETWORK
RÉSEAU EUROPÉEN DES ASSOCIATIONS
DE LUTTE CONTRE LA PAUVRETÉ ET L’EXCLUSION SOCIALE

2. EAPN’s POLICY WORK
EUISG- Europe 2020/European Semester
Advocacy around the new Commission/EP
Semester Alliance
EMIN Project and Drivers’ Projects and beyond

3. EAPN Policy Work/EUISG
Contribution to the European Semester
Finalisation and Publication of the NRP Report 2014//20 national contributions/evaluation and analysis by EUISG
Contribution to the Mid-Term Review
Preparations with Members/EUISG
Policy Conference and meeting of the EUISG
EAPN contribution/input to the mid-term review
Delivered at end of October
Events/Task force driven
Decent Work Event in the European Parliament/Joint Event with ETUC and S&D
Work on Migration Report has been restarted
Toolkit on Stakeholder Engagement

4. Advocacy/Commission/EP
Meetings with MEPs –support for Inter-group
EP President Schulz – EP hearing of PeP in 2015
Questions to future Commissioners
Letters of Congrats to the new European
Commission:(Juncker/Thyssen/Dombrovskis)
Letters/meetings regarding the European Semester – European Council
Requests for meetings/ re. PeP meeting
Presidency

5. Semester Alliance Project
Toolkit CSR and Alliance Report
Advocacy Actions – New Commission
Preparations for Hearing in the EP in December
Evaluation of the Alliance
Preparations for the Future of the Alliance/new round of possible funding

6. EMIN and Drivers’ Projects
All national conferences took places
Finalisation of Reports
Looking towards the continuation – next steps
Drivers’ Project
Wrapping up the project
New Project Applications
2 New projects

7. Membership Development
This year’s Network Development Seminar will be held under the framework of making the most of the MASS tool and drawing practical on member annual reports to exchange, learn and be inspired to strengthen national networks (28-29 November in Brussels)
Capacity building is also happening in all the policy work of EUISG, the Alliance on Europe 2020 and the EMIN project.
Preparatory work for the new Member Development Group

8. Building knowledge on EAPN members
Communication tools include bigger spaces for members to share their work. EMIN conferences are also an important space of mutual learning and sharing of experiences of National Networks.
Annual reports are the basis for building better knowledge 22/29 Networks have submitted so far Annual Reports for 2013 and several have indicated that they would submit them later.
 Member development and MASS implementation
MAPP/the Macedonian network has carried out an internal assessment and a capacity building support meeting. The meeting was positively assessed by all those who participated.
Enlargement and induction support
Induction processes for the Croatian and Latvian networks began after the General Assembly and will continue in Meetings with their national boards/Exco focusing on engaging better with EAPN work are in planning phase.  

9. THE PUBLIC FACE OF EAPN
Regular Member Mailings
10 Issues of the FLASH
2 Policy Updates
2-3 briefing papers and toolkits
Review of website and blogs
EAPN:
PEP Meetings:
Semester Alliance:
EMIN Project:
Social Media maintenance (main: FB, Twitter, LinkedIn)
Publications and lobbying letters

10. Thank you for your attention
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