Learnings from our Women’s Rights Programme
  • Date: 08/12/2023
  • Author: Jo-Ann Ward

We’re delighted to present our learnings from our Women’s Rights Programme 2017 to 2022. ActionAid Ireland’s Women’s Rights Programme, funded by Irish Aid, aims to increase the safety and security of women and girls and improve their economic wellbeing in Ethiopia, Kenya and Nepal. Phase II of the programme ran from 2017-2022 and the current.....

ActionAid Fund Our Future - Climate Crisis

New report reveals European banks provided US$327 billion of financing to fossil fuel and agribusiness activities in the Global South in the 7 years since the Paris Agreement
  • Date: 04/12/2023
  • Author: Jo-Ann Ward

European banks have provided a staggering US$327 billion (€281 billion) of financing to fossil fuel and industrial agriculture activities in the Global South in the 7 years since the Paris Agreement was signed, a new report from ActionAid published at the COP28 climate summit reveals. The new research also shows that the fossil and industrial.....

ActionAid Ireland’s top five COP28 asks of world leaders
  • Date: 27/11/2023
  • Author: Jo-Ann Ward

We are calling on world leaders to agree on a strong Loss and Damage Fund at the COP28 climate summit. This needs to effectively deliver finances to vulnerable communities on the front line of the climate crisis. Ireland must play its part by committing to a target and making an ambitious contribution to the Loss.....