What We Do
We change the lives of women and children for good, by providing long term support in developing countries, so communities can overcome the obstacles holding them back.
How are we different?
- We don’t impose solutions. We work with communities over many years to strengthen their own efforts to throw off poverty.
- We see poverty as an injustice and poor people as our partners in tackling the causes of poverty.
- Protecting women from violence is an integral part of all our work, including in emergencies.
- We have a committed, long-term supporter base.
- We do not have any religious or political affiliations.
- We see on the ground how the system is holding women back and work at all levels to help change the system in their favour.
Women’s Rights
Supporting women in a community has a powerful effect on everybody, lifting up their children, their families and future generations
We make sure girls go to and stay in school. We work with communities to end gender-based violence. And we train women in the skills they need to earn a living.
Everyday we see problems women face that hold them back and we campaign at every level to tackle these issues, including to end child marriage, eradicate female genital mutilation and stop violence against women.
Tax Justice
The money lost to poor countries from tax dodging by corporations is enough to end world hunger 3 times in a single year!
Let’s make tax fair!
Child Sponsorship
Because of Child Sponsors communities where we work know that they can rely on regular financial support. This allows them to plan ahead and transform their lives in a sustainable way. It gives all the children in that community the best possible chance in the future.
Sponsor a child
Emergencies
When disaster strikes, because of our presence in so many countries oftentimes we can respond within hours, providing vital things like food and shelter.
REFLECT Approach
Around the world ActionAid uses the REFLECT circle method.
It was developed by ActionAid in the 1990s and is now used by thousands of organisations in over 70 countries around the globe. Watch our uplifting video that shows the approach in action.
Human Rights Based Approach
In simple language this means that development needs to:
- Be based on the international human rights legal framework
- Promote the right to active, free and meaningful participation for all
- Address discrimination and prioritise vulnerable groups
- Clarify links between rights and duties, and relationships between rights-holders and duty-bearers.