Global Citizen

EU Legislative Interests

EU Budget, Multiannual Finance Framework negotiations and EU Own Resources International Partnerships, incl. finance for development, education, global health, (EU global Health Strategy) food security & agriculture, climate change Humanitarian and multilateral action Africa EU relations Climate action including the Scaling up Renewable in Africa campaign EU position in international fora e.g. G7, G20, COP EU contributions to multilateral initiatives such as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the Global Fund, Education Cannot Wait, Global Partnership for Education, and CGIAR.

Communication Activities

Global Citizen and partners addressed a letter to EU Institutions leaders regarding the 2040 climate targets.https://wwfeu.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/2024-01-30-joint-letter-on-fossil-fuel-phase-out.pdf Global Citizen published a report and policy analysis making the case for additional innovative financing sources for development and climate addressed to world leaders. https://media.globalcitizen.org/Finances-for-Development-and-Climate-Report.pdf and https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/enquiries/policy-hub/2024/there-is-enough-money/ President von der Leyen attended the Global Citizen Festival in Sep 2024 (https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/global-citizen-festival-2024-impact/). On this occasion she announced a €260 million commitment over 2026-2027 to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance as well as €213 million in humanitarian aid, with a focus on tackling food security in fragile regions across Africa and in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Venezuela. https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/biggest-moments-driving-impact-and-action/ Global Citizen addressed a letter to Finance Ministers (https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/enquiries/policy-hub/2024/letter-to-g7-finance-ministers/) and a letter to Climate Ministers ahead of the relevant G7 ministerial meetings (https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/enquiries/policy-hub/2024/letter-to-g7-climate-ministers/) and an open letter (https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/open-letter-g7-summit-italy/) ahead of the G27 Summit. Global Citizen also wrote a letter to EU Leaders and Finance and Climate Ministers ahead of the G20 and COP29 summits(https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/enquiries/policy-hub/2024/letter-to-leaders-finance-and-climate-ministers/). Together with a coalition of EU based CSOs working on global health, Global Citizen published a briefing "The EU as a Leader in Global Health: A Roadmap to Better Futures" (https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/enquiries/policy-hub/2024/the-eu-as-a-leader-in-global-health-a-roadmap-to-better-futures/) at an event at the European Parliament in Brussels on 24 Sep. In Nov 2024, Global Citizen launched https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/sl/ip_24_5881) a joint campaign with European Commission President von der Leyen and South Africa President Ramaphosa (https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/enquiries/press/2024/global-citizen-now-rio-power-our-planet/) called “Scaling up Renewables in Africa” (https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/stronger-europe-worl d/global-gateway/energy-africa_en) . The campaign will culminate in a pledging summit at the G20 in Nov 2025 in South Africa. Global Citizen co-led a coalition of almost 100 partners, the MFF Hub, (https://www.mffhub.org) working on the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework. As part of this work, we published a number of joint papers and recommendations for the EU institutions focusing on the external action heading and the EU’s Own Resources.

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/partners/

Organisation Members

Global Citizen is a group of charities. All the activities of the group are covered in this registration and all the group members have charitable status. These include Global Poverty Project INC, registered in the USA, and the parent Charity of the group. Global Poverty Project UK Limited, registered in the UK - Global Poverty Project Inc is its sole member Global Citizen Deutschland GgmbH registered in Germany and the wholly owned subsidiary of Global Poverty Project UK. The other charities in the group are: Global Poverty Project Canada, registered in Canada, Global Citizen Limited, registered in Australia, Global Citizen Brazil, registered in Brazil, Global Citizen International for Poverty Alleviation Ltd/GTE, registered in Nigeria, Global Citizen Movement NPC registered in South Africa. Our entity structure and a full list of our board members across each entity that has a board structure can be found here https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/about/governance/board-directors/ As co-host of the 'Global summit: health & prosperity through immunisation' which took place in Brussels on 25 June 2025, the Gates Foundation provided funding for Global Citizen to act as strategic partner and produce the event. Global Citizen received grants totalling €552,500 from the Gates Foundation in 2024. Funding is ongoing in 2025. Some of the funding from Gates was used for EU related work. An employee of the Gates Foundation sits on the Global Citizen Board. There is no link between Global Citizen's corporate sponsors and its work with the EU. Our corporate sponsors in 2024 included Cisco, Citi and Delta Air Lines, but such sponsorship affiliations were associated with events that do not fall within the scope of this registry. While these sponsors had employees on GC's Board of Directors in 2024, the sponsors do not dictate GC's campaigns and in any event the directors from such sponsor organizations recuse themselves from board decisions where appropriate.

Additional Information

The budget above refers to the global budget of the organisation, not the budget allocated to EU-related activity. Many of our contributions exceed €10,000, but none of those contributions account for more than 10% of the organisations finances in 2024. Our total income is split as follows: Donations and grants €19,394,549/40%, Other - Sponsorships €22,261,760/46%. Other - merchandise sales, bank interest & other items €383,324/1%, other - in kind €6,417,770/13%. Approximately 64% of funding was received from corporate sources (predominantly in kind and sponsorship for events but also some donations) but none of that related to EU work. Foundations provided approximately 33% of funding (predominantly grants but also unrestricted donations) of which only part of the Gates Foundation grant was allocated towards EU activities. Individual contributions amounted to approximately 3% of funding (unrestricted donations) of which a nominal amount was allocated towards work with the EU. We received £707,953 from Europe Climate foundation and €552,500 from the Gates Foundation. Some Global Citizen Board members made unrestricted one-off donations to Global Citizen either personally, or through their foundations. These fall outside the scope of this registration. We used a representative from Valia BV to represent our rights.