Lobby organisation
We Effect
NGO or non-profit · Human rights & humanitarian · HQ: Sweden · Transparency Register entry
As of 8 October 2026, We Effect appears in 3 declared MEP meetings (3 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.
In their own words
“We Effect was founded in 1958 by the Swedish co-operative movement to support the development of democratic organisations and societies that have the capacity to articulate the rights and needs of their members in respect of work, influence, services, incomes and livelihoods.”
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“We Effect works in 23 countries in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa through our regional offices in partnership with local CSOs, farmer organisations, cooperative federations and other democratic organisations. We Effect applies a human rights-based approach in its international development cooperation programmes, assisting people living in poverty to secure their rights and entitlement to adequate living conditions and broad empowerment. We Effect targets women in partner organisations to secure them the same rights and entitlements as men, especially to own and control land and access to financial resources. The core strategy is to strengthen cooperatives of women and men li (...)”
Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.
Who they meet, and when
Which groups they meet
Share of this organisation's 3 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.
Meetings by year
Declared meetings per calendar year, 2019–2020. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (2 in 2019).
Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.
The MEPs they meet most
The 3 most recent declared meetings
| Date | MEP | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 25 May 2020 | Tomas Tobé | Digital meeting European Development Policy |
| 4 Sep 2019 | Abir Al-Sahlani | Möte med We Effect |
| 3 Sep 2019 | Evin Incir | EU development and humanitarian aid |
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