Non-government organization working with communities to reduce poverty and promote human rights
ActionAid
Formation
1972; 52 years ago (1972)
Founder
Cecil Jackson-Cole
Type
International NGO
Legal status
Nonprofit organization
Purpose
ActionAid works with communities to reduce poverty and promote human rights
Headquarters
Johannesburg, South Africa
Region served
Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Americas
Membership
Child sponsors
Secretary General
Arthur Larok
Website
ActionAid
ActionAid is an international non-governmental organization whose stated primary aim is to work against poverty and injustice worldwide.[1]
ActionAid is a federation of 45 country offices that works with communities, often via local partner organisations, on a range of development issues. It was founded in 1972 by Cecil Jackson-Cole as a child sponsorship charity (originally called Action in Distress) when 88 UK supporters sponsored 88 children in India and Kenya, the primary focus being is providing children with an education, further the human rights for all, assisting people that are in poverty, assisting those who face discrimination,[2] and also assist people who face injustice.[1] ActionAid works with over 15 million people in 45 countries to assist those people.[1]
Today its head office is located in South Africa with hubs in Asia, the Americas and Europe. ActionAid was the first big INGO to move its headquarters from the global north to the global south.[3][4] ActionAid's current strategy aims to "build international momentum for social, economic and environmental justice, driven by people living in poverty and exclusion".[5] This includes running campaigns and providing training and resources for social movements.[6]
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^"What we do | ActionAid". www.actionaid.org. Archived from the original on 13 November 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
^Campolina, Adriano (10 October 2015). "Facilitating more than leading". Development and Cooperation. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
^Patton, Anna (6 October 2014). "'Internationalizing' your NGO: 4 lessons from ActionAid". Devex. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
^"Strategy 2028: Action for Global Justice". www.actionaid.org. Archived from the original on 20 August 2018. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
^ActionAid (17 January 2024). "Interactive, Self Paced Mini Courses on Organising : Global Organizing and Leadership Development GOLD". The Commons Social Change Library. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
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assistance by the Center for Global Development. "Real Aid: An Agenda for Making Aid Work" (PDF). ActionAid. 1 May 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on...
ActionAid Hellas in 1998 and served as its chair until 2017. In this capacity, in 2014 she co-founded Greece's first microcredit institution, Action Finance...
ActionAid Kenya, a non-political, non-religious organisation that has been working in Kenya since 1972 to tackle the problem of poverty. It is one of...
less availability and a lack of transparency. According to a report of ActionAid, before privatization "the water system in Dar es Salaam was hardly a...
UK's last remaining circus elephant. She is a supporter of the charity ActionAid and has visited Sierra Leone in support of its work there. Worth has been...
2023, she stepped down from the Runnymede Trust to re-join ActionAid as CEO. She left ActionAid after only four months to become chief executive of Oxfam...
Will Month' in November. Will Aid is a partnership of nine charities: ActionAid, Age UK, the British Red Cross, Christian Aid, NSPCC, Save the Children,...
September 2023. "Somaliland: Where we Work". ActionAid. Archived from the original on 10 January 2017. ActionAid International Somaliland (AAIS) supports...
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Phantom aid is what ActionAid describes as aid that never reaches the targeted recipients. This is mostly down to administration costs, as well as aid being...
statement by fourteen major human rights organizations, including Action Against Hunger, ActionAid, Danish Refugee Council, Handicap International, INTERSOS,...
Horrocks, Jaime Winstone, and Laura Carmichael to star in a film produced by ActionAid, encouraging the British public to support girls at risk of sexual violence...
situation". A joint statement signed by Oxfam, Amnesty International, ActionAid, War Child, the Danish Refugee Council and Handicap International stated...
from movies or songs. His most recent EP, released for ActionAid, features samples from ActionAid's project work in Ghana. Rolfe also DJs under the moniker...
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take?, a campaign by Women's Aid to raise awareness of domestic abuse against women. She visited Tanzania with ActionAid in October 2008 to raise awareness...
Involvement, to get teen Italian talents involved in charities such as ActionAid and Smile Again. She also serves meals at Rome's Comunità di Sant'Egidio...
music to raise awareness about Ebola and COVID-19, and has partnered with ActionAid Liberia on several humanitarian projects. Faithvonic's music is a mixture...
National Campaign for Electoral Reform. His principal outside interest was ActionAid, a small overseas development charity, of which he became treasurer in...
control; Peteet 2016, p. 268: In total, over 167 enclaves can be identified "ActionAid: Conditions in Rafah at breaking point, with over one million displaced...
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