One Action

North america: the us government relations team played a critical role in the success of us campaigns in 2023. The gr team worked tirelessly behind the scenes cultivating & maintaining relationships with partner organizations, senior staff at the nsc, usaid, and the depts. Of state & treasury, as well as members of congress and their staff, focusing on the house foreign affairs committee, senate foreign relations committee, the house & senate state & foreign operations appropriations subcommittees, and leadership. The team regularly acted as a liaison between democratic & republican offices, and their connections & relationship with committee staff continue to be extremely beneficial, as demonstrated by the inclusion of a one-year reauthorization of pepfar in One of the fy24 minibuses. (continued on schedule o) the team regularly meets with existing and new contacts, reviews existing and helps develop new legislation, leads coalition working groups, and coordinates teams across the us office.

Germany: in 2023, One in france demanded from mps and the government to increase the funds available for french official development assistance in the 2024 budget bill. From september 2023 to december, we met with several mps as well as the finance and fa ministries, the elysee and the prime minister's staff to advocate for an increase of the financial transaction tax rate in 2024 in order to leverage additional resources for the core official development assistance budget. We organized lobby days with youth ambassadors in parliament in october - during which they met with more than 20 mps. In germany, the teams also advocated and campaigned for an increase of the federal ministry for economic cooperation and development's budget. (continued on schedule o)one staff met with government officials and mps to highlight the importance of germany's official development assistance, to underline the success of development cooperation, and to point out what germany had to lose should budget cuts be decided. One activists also met with mps and government officials to make the same arguments. All of these efforts were accompanied by strategic communication and social media work. In brussels we worked with the eu institutions and member states to influence the agreement of the mid-term revision of the eu's long-term budget regulation. This included preparing numerous policy briefings and analysis, providing draft amendments and voting recommendations for members of the european parliament, meeting with decision-makers, mobilizing our online supporters and working with the media. In parallel we also prepared & secured amendments for meps for associated but non-legislative file regarding potential new eu revenue streams.