This report examines the impact of climate change on urban communities in six African cities, and looks at how people are coping with and adapting to increasingly frequent and severe episodes of

Southern Africa is one of the regions estimated to be most at risk from climate change. While policy responses to global warming have been mainly driven by debates among scientists, the insights of

This report argues that extensive reform of technical assistance is urgently needed to ensure that the aid increases pledged in 2005 result in genuine benefits for people living in the poorest

outline of the relationship between teachers' unions and civil society.

This edition captures stories of innovative campaigning work from India to The Gambia, from Ghana to the USA, as well as creative approaches to accountability, mobilisation and transformation in

We recognise that the work of ActionAid sometimes places great demands on our staff in conditions of complexity and risk. ActionAid will take all reasonable steps to ensure the security and wellbeing

For an international NGO to set about trying to satisfy the needs of Brazil’s 20 million people living in poverty would barely touch the tip of the iceberg of deprivation and social exclusion. Seeking

This is the story of people surviving almost unendurable lives as they work as migrants in India’s brick kilns. It is about those who strive to help them, and those who do harm. It is about how