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‘Seeing women’s lives change, for good’, our CEO’s visit to Kenya

Women joyfully interacting at a community event, highlighting cultural connection and empowerment.

ActionAid Ireland is delighted to be shortlisted for the Dóchas Innovation Award for our Women’s Rights programme. This Award celebrates organisations taking new, creative, forward-thinking approaches in their work to address the increasingly complex and challenging environment in which we work. It recognises new thinking and approaches, risk-taking and alternative ways of working to address […]

Pathways to Protection and Inclusion

Panel discussion at IRMC meeting with four people engaged in paperwork and conversation, focus on refugee issues.

This morning we were pleased to support the launch of the Irish Refugee and Migrant Coalition report entitled Pathways to Protection and Inclusion, Ireland’s role in global refugee protection and migration movements. The report sets out some of the major changes in the area of migration and asylum since 2016 from an International, European and […]

ActionAid Celebrates Culture Night

Outdoor community meeting in a rural setting, people gathered under trees with mountains in the background.

On Friday 22nd September ActionAid Ireland will celebrate Culture Night. And so we will open our Dublin city centre office to supporters and friends, as well as to the public. The event is free and open to all, if you would like to RSVP you can do so here.  What to expect ActionAid will celebrate African and […]

ActionAid Ireland Appoints Programme Learning Co-ordinator

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ActionAid Ireland is pleased to welcome Erick Onduru as Programme Learning Co-ordinator for the Women’s Rights programme funded by Irish Aid. The Women’s Rights programme is implemented in Ethiopia, Kenya and Nepal. It aims to bring about behaviour change to enable women’s rights, end Gender Based Violence and empower women economically. Also, the programme has […]

ActionAid Ireland Strategy Launch

Two friends in colorful shirts sitting together, embracing in a simple room, conveying warmth and connection.

Students Abigail (L) and Purity (R) in their dormitory in West Pokot, Kenya. Photographer’s Credit Ashley Hamer /ActionAid Meet Abigail and Purity These two girls are 14 years old. As you can see they’re friends, they’re from Kongelai in west Pokot, western Kenya. People sometimes ask me if the people in the images we share at ActionAid are […]

6 Months On from Hurricane Matthew

Woman in a straw hat and white blouse smiling, with a textured blue wall in the background.

On the night of 4 October 2016 Hurricane Matthew struck the south-western tip of Haiti bringing heavy rainfall in the south, south-east and the north-west, and creating the largest humanitarian emergency in the country since the 2010 earthquake. What was the damage of Hurricane Matthew? Hurricane Matthew affected 1 million people 546 people died in […]