Women are crucial and necessary leaders in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and humanitarian response. However, a key challenge to realising women’s leadership of and participation in DRR is recognising...
This webinar was the first in an exciting new series looking at themes being addressed in ActionAid’s 5 year POWER (Promoting Opportunities for Women’s Empowerment and Rights) project. This is taking...
The original article has been published on LeMonde.fr in French and translated into English by Jordyn Pfalzgraf.On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the adoption of Convention 189 by the...
So often the development sector tries to respond to single issues.But the Cambodia migrant worker living in the outskirts of Phnom Penh does not only face fear of robbery and perhaps even rape when...
Public services in rich and poor countries alike are being eroded. But does this mean the need for running water, schools and day care centres or hospitals simply disappears?No, of course not.Whether...
Unpaid care work refers to the work done in the home and in communities from preparing food, collecting firewood and water to taking care of children, the ill and the elderly. Women and girls living...
Last week in Kathmandu, we launched ActionAid’s new report, Making Care Visible, to a room full of government officials, media, donor, women's rights organisations and civil society partners.It was a...
The problems are so many in this dry and remote area in western Kenya that it could be easy to despair of finding solutions. Over the past few days I have been hearing a few of them:Lack of clean...
A great deal of time is spent on Unpaid Care Work by women around the world every day, but often this important work remains invisible.In fact, Unpaid Care Work is a term that you might not be...
Aitamaya Limbu, 36 years old and known as ‘Aitu’ in her community, participated in ActionAid’s Unpaid Care Work Programme and is a member of the Abhiyan Chautari Reflect circle.
