Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo
Budget
€22,761,187
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
28
17.75 FTE
EU Grants
€333,433
Mission & Goals
The Welfare and Development Association (ABD) is an NGO recognized as a public service organization, focused on protecting people’s rights and addressing processes that lead to social exclusion. Founded in the 1980s by professionals and volunteers responding to rising drug use and AIDS, ABD has evolved into a transversal social action organization. It works on issues such as physical and cognitive dependency, poverty, lack of basic resources, gender-based violence, child abuse, elderly care, migration, and discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, or origin. ABD develops over 170 national and international programmes, supporting more than 110,965 people annually. Its team includes over 1,802 professionals and 533 volunteers. In 2024, 715,261 people were sensitized and 18,954 trained. The ABD Group includes ABD, FABD, Institut Genus S.L., UTE CAS Prat, UTE PAE, PDS, and PAS.
EU Legislative Interests
ABD’s advocacy activities focus on key European Union legislative and policy initiatives aligned with its work on social inclusion, gender equality, migration, health and drug policies. In particular, ABD follows the Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence, the Directive establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime (and its revision), and the Directive on work-life balance for parents and carers. In the field of migration and inclusion, ABD is attentive to the Regulation on Asylum and Migration Management and the European Child Guarantee. Regarding drug policy, ABD follows the EU Drugs Strategy 2021-2025 and the EU Drugs Action Plan 2021-2025, particularly measures related to prevention, harm reduction, health and social reintegration.
Communication Activities
ABD carries out communication activities (conferences, awareness-raising campaigns, publications, training sessions and policy events) linked to key European Union legislation and strategies in the fields of gender-based violence, victims’ rights, migration and integration, social inclusion, drug policy and public health. These activities are mainly implemented through European projects such as RISE, CO-POWER, FADO, FREE-DVV, POWER, LILA, Care4Trauma, CRISSCROSS and Cut All Ties, focused on preventing and combating gender-based violence and strengthening victims’ support systems; MINDTECH, MEDNET 4 Youth Addictions, BOOST, SCANNER and SOLIDIFY, addressing drug policy, harm reduction and youth addictions in line with the EU Drugs Strategy 2021-2025; and AMIR, POWGEN, Cope&Hope, Mums@Work, Fashion for Inclusion and MYTH WORK, promoting the inclusion of third-country nationals. ABD also develops initiatives such as EDUCATE for INDEPENDENCE, Youth+, GLOBAL DISTRICTS, EDU4SDGS, Home4Health, Agri for Integration, EU Food Security, CoolToRise and DREAM, contributing to social inclusion, sustainability and equal opportunities. In addition, ABD participates in institutional and civil society networks at local, national and European level, including collaboration with the City Council and Provincial Council of Barcelona, the Third Social Sector Board of Catalonia, the Catalan Federation of Drug Dependency, the Civil Society Forum on Drugs, the Correlation European Harm Reduction Network, the EUCLID Network and the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC), among others.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
City Council of Barcelona. Social Inclusion Area Public body from the Barcelona City Council https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/serveissocials/ca Diputació de Barcelona. Social Inclusion Area Public body from the Barcelona Provincial Council https://www.diba.cat/web/benestar/novetats Acord Ciutadà per una Barcelona Inclusiva Working group formed by Public Administration and Third Social Sector Organizations from Barcelona http://www.bcn.cat/barcelonainclusiva Third Social Sector Board Institution representing Third Social Sector Organizations in Catalonia https://www.tercersector.cat FCD Federació Catalana de Drogodependències Catalan Federation of Drug Dependency http://www.fcd.cat FCVS - Federació Catalana de Voluntariat Social Catalan Federation of Social Volunteering http://voluntaris.cat FEDAIA Federació d'Entitats i Educació a la Infància i l'Adolescència Federation of Entities and Education for Childhood and Adolescence http://www.fedaia.org ECAS - Entitats Catalanes d'Acció Social Catalan Entities of Social Action www.acciosocial.org CAB Consell d'Associacions de Barcelona Council of Associations of Barcelona www.cab.cat Plataforma Unitària contra la Violencia de Gènere Unitary Platform against Gender Based Violence https://violenciadegenere.org Xarxa d'Atenció a Persones Sense Llar Network for the Care of Homeless People http://sensellarisme.cat/es Taula de Salut Comunitària Community Health Board from the Barcelona City Council https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/sanitatisalut/ca/canal/pla-de-salut-comunitaria Taula d'Habitatge i Emergència Habitacional Housing Emergency Board from the Barcelona City Council http://www.bcn.cat/consorcihabitatge/es/suport_emergencia_social.html Xarxa Barcelona + Sostenible Barcelona More Sustainable Network https://www.barcelona.cat/barcelonasostenible/ca Consell de Ciutat a Barcelona Advisory and participatory body of the Barcelona City Council https://www.conselldeciutat.barcelona Plataforma de Voluntariado Social de España Social Volunteering Platform of Spain https://plataformavoluntariado.org EUCLID network European Social Enterprise Network https://euclidnetwork.eu/ TOLERANT Network Transnational network for the integration of migrant women victims of trafficking https://www.tolerantnetwork.com Xarxa Catalana sobre la Tracta de Persones Catalan Network to fight against human trafficking https://xtratacat.wordpress.com Xarxa d'habitatges d'inclusió social de Barcelona Social Inclusion Housing Network of Barcelona http://www.bcn.cat/barcelonainclusiva/ca/xarxa4.html CESIE European centre of studies and initiatives to promote educational innovation, participation and growth https://cesie.org ECIU European Consortium of Innovative Universities https://www.eciu.eu Convention of Rights in the Mediterranean Sea CSO promoting the Convention of Rights in the Mediterranean Sea https://agora-humanite.org/en/convention-des-droits-en-mediterranee ECOSOC of UN Special consultative status at the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations https://ecosoc.un.org/en/ngo Citizens For Europe Civil Society Organization for inclusion and solidarity https://citizensforeurope.org European Cancer Organisation Inequality Network of the European Cancer Organisation https://www.europeancancer.org RIOD Ibero-American Network of Non-Governmental Organizations https://riod.org NEW Net Nightlife Empowerment & Well-being Network http://safernightlife.org TEDI Trans European Drug Information network https://www.tedinetwork.org CSFD Civil Society Forum on Drugs http://www.civilsocietyforumondrugs.eu C-EHRN Correlation European Harm Reduction Network https://www.correlation-net.org FEVOCAM - Plataforma de Entidades de Voluntariado de la Comunidad de Madrid Volunteering Platform of the Community of Madrid https://fevocam.org/en/fevocam-home/
Additional Information
The latest published financial report is from 2024: https://abd.ong/transparencia/ https://abd.ong/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/INFORME-ABD_2024-Castellano.pdf
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.