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ActionAid’s Ten Principles of Feminist Leadership

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How we put feminist leadership into practice Our transformative vision of a just world free from poverty, oppression and patriarchy requires transformative feminist leaders: leaders who enable others to lead, building power with them instead of over them. To develop this approach, we have adopted a set of feminist leadership principles. 1. Self-awareness We will keep our […]

Farhiya Dakane Abdi: Blazing a trail for women’s leadership in Garissa 

Collage of women, text: Women and Girls - Unstoppable leaders for a fairer world, emphasizing leadership and equality.

Garissa, in northeastern Kenya, lies six hours (367 km) from the capital Nairobi. Scorched by heat, its lifeline is the muddy Tana River, which winds along the edge of town, sustaining nearly 950,000 people. But this region is increasingly at the mercy of climate change, with floods and droughts wreaking havoc on already marginalised communities.  […]

Genet Shume: Fighting for gender equality

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My name is Genet Shume and I am the programme director for ActionAid Ethiopia. I am passionate about women’s rights and justice for women. I studied law as my first degree and worked for the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, and then the Federal Supreme Court Child Justice Project Office, before joining ActionAid. We provided free […]

Zamzam: My journey with FGM  

Collage of women, text: Women and Girls - Unstoppable leaders for a fairer world, emphasizing leadership and equality.

My name is Zamzam Hassan. I am a 29 year-old Somali woman born and raised in Garissa County in northeastern Kenya, 367kms from the capital, Nairobi. Garissa has one of the highest rates of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the world at 82.5%.   I went through FGM at the age of 7. My mother took […]

ActionAid Ireland condemns killing of over 20 people at militarised Gaza aid site

Quote by Karol Balfe on the need for humanitarian aid over military intervention.

Israel’s militarised aid distribution scheme violates international standards and humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence, ActionAid Ireland is warning.  Karol Balfe, ActionAid Ireland CEO, said: “Armed contractors and militarised zones are no substitute for a functioning humanitarian system. People are being starved – they need food, not bullets.” The militarised aid distribution system […]