Lafedecat

What Lafedecat does

Lafede.cat - Federació d'Organitzacions per a la Justícia Global is a second-level non-profit federation headquartered in Barcelona that represents more than 130 Catalan civil society organizations working in international cooperation, humanitarian action, peacebuilding, human rights, feminism, global justice education, youth participation, transformative communication, migration and anti-racism, and environmental justice. Founded in 2013 and registered under CIF G-65.179.608 with the Generalitat de Catalunya (registration 640), the federation operates from the Espai Arcadi Oliveres - Casa de la Justícia Global headquarters, which offers three named meeting rooms for member rental, and from a secondary facility (Erasmus de Janeiro Entities Space) in the Raval district.

The federation does not develop commercial technology products. Its service portfolio consists of advocacy, capacity-building, and coordination assets: the Intercom global justice agenda communication platform, the AlertaDH.org human rights monitoring platform documenting corporate violations, an interactive Mapa Educa Justícia Global, the Acció Cinema audiovisual program run jointly with ACCD and the Catalunya Film Festival, the Protocol per l'abordatge de les violències sexuals and its Protocol Kitchen training spaces, and an annual Digitization Laboratory. Governance is exercised through a Junta Directiva, an Equip Tècnic, and a Comissió d'Ètica, with no equity ownership or external investors.

The federation's revenue model is non-commercial: it derives from membership fees paid by the 130+ federated entities, recurring public grants from the Generalitat de Catalunya, Ajuntament de Barcelona, and the Agència Catalana de Cooperació al Desenvolupament, plus project-based financing from Spanish and European administrations. The 2025 parliamentary approval of the Centre Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans, achieved after a decade of advocacy, marks the most significant institutional outcome and positions the federation within a new Catalan regulatory infrastructure for corporate human rights accountability.

Name

Lafedecat

Legal name

LAFEDE.CAT - Federació d'Organitzacions per a la Justícia Global

Website

https://lafede.cat

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lafede.cat is a Barcelona-based non-profit federation that represents 130+ Catalan NGOs working on global justice, peace, and human rights. It delivers advocacy, training, meeting space, and coordination services funded by membership fees and public grants.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

NGO Federation and Civil Society Coordination Services

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Government Accountability, Ethics & Anti-Corruption Advocacy (BPAGAFAN)

Keywords

• NGO federation services
• Global justice advocacy
• Civil society coordination
• Human rights representation
• International cooperation

Headquarters

HQ city

Barcelona

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Lafede.cat is a federation of over 130 Catalan civil society organizations working for global justice. It sells no commercial products; instead it provides coordination, representation, capacity building, training, communication support, advocacy, and direct services such as meeting space rental to its member NGOs in the areas of international cooperation, humanitarian action, peace, human rights, feminism, global justice education, migration, and anti-racism.

Product overview

Lafede.cat is a federation of over 130 Catalan organizations working for global justice, rather than a technology company. The organization provides direct services to its member entities including: (1) meeting space rental at the Espai Arcadi Oliveres through three named rooms, (2) the Intercom global justice agenda platform for communication and dissemination, (3) advocacy resources including the AlertaDH.org human rights monitoring platform and educational maps, (4) training services through its Digitization Laboratory and Protocol Kitchen for addressing sexual violence, and (5) the Acció Cinema audiovisual program. These are support services for civil society organizations, not commercial technology products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Intercom: The Global Justice Agenda and communication platform managed by Lafede.cat for its member organizations.
• AlertaDH.org
• Protocol per l'abordatge de les violències sexuals

Products and services

• Espai Arcadi Oliveres - Casa de la Justícia Global (meeting room rental)
• Intercom - Agenda de la Justícia Global
• AlertaDH.org - Mapa d'Empresa i Drets Humans
• Mapa Educa Justícia Global
• Protocol per l'abordatge de les violències sexuals
• Digitization Laboratory (Laboratori de Digitalització)
• Erasmus de Janeiro Entities Space
• Acció Cinema

Quantifiable outcome

• Represents 130+ federated entities in Catalonia
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers109 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

33 partnerships are on record, tiered supporting and core.

• CCOO CatalunyasupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 July 2021Major Catalan trade union supporting the Centre Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans initiative.
• UGT de CatalunyasupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 July 2021Major Catalan trade union federation supporting the Centre Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans initiative.
• Intersindical-CSCsupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 July 2021Catalan trade union supporting the Centre Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans initiative.
• Fons Català de Cooperació al DesenvolupamentsupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 July 2021Organization with 319 members (287 municipalities representing 85% of Catalan population) supporting the Centre Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans initiative.
• Consell Nacional de la Joventut de CatalunyasupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 July 2021National youth council supporting the Centre Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans initiative.
• Taula d'Entitats del Tercer Sector Social de CatalunyasupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 July 2021Platform representing social third sector organizations supporting the Centre Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans initiative.
• AESCAT (Associació d'Economia Solidària de Catalunya)supportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 July 2021Association of social solidarity economy with 7,422 member organizations supporting the Centre Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans initiative.
• Taula Catalana per la Pau i els Drets Humans a ColòmbiacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-leading the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans to advocate for the creation of the Centre Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans. Both platforms represent hundreds of NGOs in Catalonia working on peace and human rights.
• Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets HumanscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoalition of 22 civil society entities working since 2015 to create a Catalan Centre for Business and Human Rights. Led by Lafede.cat and Taula Colombòbia, with support from TNI - Transnational Institute and various universities.
• TNI - Transnational InstitutesupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational research organization providing expertise and research support to the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans initiative.
• Various Catalan Universities (UAB, UB, UdG, URV, UPV/EHU)supportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic institutions providing research expertise and support to the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• Alianza por la SolidaridadcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• AlterNativa Intercanvi amb Pobles indígenescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• Amnistia Internacional CatalunyacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• Centre DelàscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• CooperAcciócoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• EntrepoblescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• Enginyeria Sense FronterescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• FarmamundicoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• Justícia Alimentària GlobalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• Justícia i PaucoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• NOVACTcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• Observatori DESCcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• ODG (Observatori del Deute en la Globalització)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• SETEMcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• Sindicalistes Solidaris - UGT CatalunyacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• SUDScoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember organization of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• Brigades Internacionals de Pau de Catalunya (PBI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerObserver member of the Grup Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans.
• Ajuntament de BarcelonasupportingOthersCity council providing institutional support to Lafede.cat activities and projects.
• Generalitat de CatalunyasupportingOthersCatalan regional government providing institutional support to Lafede.cat activities and projects.
• Agència Catalana de Cooperació al Desenvolupament (ACCD)supportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerCatalan development cooperation agency partnering with Lafede.cat on Acció Cinema program and other initiatives.
• Catalunya Film FestivalsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerFilm festival partnering with Lafede.cat on the Acció Cinema program for transformative communication.
• Coalició Prou Complicitat amb IsraelsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoalition working on boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, partnering with Lafede.cat on campaigns like 'Barcelona, amb l'apartheid no'.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Coordinadora de ONGD-España: National Spanish federation of development NGOs; serves the same second-level coordination and policy-advocacy role as Lafede.cat but at the country level, giving both a directly comparable membership-based umbrella model for international cooperation and global justice.
• Plataforma de ONG de Acción Social: Spanish national umbrella of social action NGOs that coordinates representation, advocacy, and capacity-building for member organizations — closely parallel to Lafede.cat's federation model, though focused on social action rather than global justice.
• Fons Català de Cooperació al Desenvolupament: Catalan municipal cooperation fund with 287 member municipalities; partners with Lafede.cat on the Centre Català d'Empresa i Drets Humans and serves a comparable umbrella role in development cooperation.
• EAPN España (European Anti-Poverty Network): Spanish node of a European anti-poverty network; federates NGOs around a thematic agenda (poverty, social exclusion) and conducts EU-level advocacy — a closely comparable federation-of-NGOs operating model.
• Taula d'Entitats del Tercer Sector Social de Catalunya: Catalan third-sector social organization platform that federates NGOs in Catalonia for advocacy and representation; explicitly a partner of Lafede.cat, operates the same federation/coordination model in the same territory on overlapping issues.

Regional players

• CONCORD Europe: European confederation of development and humanitarian NGOs that represents member platforms across EU member states; operates one level above Lafede.cat and serves as the regional umbrella for national federations like Lafede.cat.
• Forus (International NGO Platform): Global network of national NGO platforms; provides coordination, peer learning, and advocacy capacity-building for member federations — a tiered peer that sits in the same ecosystem but operates internationally rather than nationally.

Emerging players

• Plataforma de Infancia: Spanish coalition of child-rights NGOs that coordinates joint advocacy and monitoring; while thematic (children's rights) rather than cross-cutting, it shares the federation-for-collective-advocacy model Lafede.cat uses in Catalonia.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/lafede.cat
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lafedecat
• Instagraminstagram.com/lafedecat

Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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