Velferdsalliansen (The Welfare Alliance / EAPN Norway)

By EAPN Europe Staff
December 3, 2007

eapn-norway EAPN Norway or the Welfare Alliance is a partnership network of organisations, associations and action groups whose aim is to support and help economically, socially and legally disadvantaged groups in Norway. It was founded on 6 March 1998.

Today the network organisations represent more than 50,000 members.

EAPN Norway’s member organisations are supporting job seekers, tenants, single parents, job creators, households with children in poverty, parents of people with disabilities, people receiving an allowance and/or in training, convicts, immigrants, ex-drug users, people with mental illness and their relatives, sexually abused etc.

Its role is to do lobbying work and coordinate contacts between our member organisations and politicians, the Government, different institutions, and to take part in working groups that support our member organisations’ interests, that is, promoting an increased participation of the users.

EAPN Norway’s main goal, which we have been lobbying for over the last 15 years, is to introduce a minimum income scheme in Norway, which would be rights-based and built on the standard budget for households, developed by the National Institute for Consumer Research.

A legal approach to participation on both a system and individual levels for our groups is the second highlighted area of EAPN Norway’s work.