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Covid-19: A women-led response

ActionAid research shows how lockdowns and coronavirus restrictions have unleashed a shocking surge in gender-based violence globally.

But while violence is rising, women’s shelters are being shut

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Who Owes Who?

As we enter 2025, 54 countries are in debt crisis, forced to cut their spending on basic public services and climate action in order to pay external debts. Last year, lower income countries between

Young Urban Women (YUW) Teleza Banda Primary School Teacher, in Mchinji, Impacted by the cholera outbreak
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Making the European Green Deal work for International Partnerships

In this paper 14 NGOs, including ActionAid, provide recommendations to International Partnerships Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen on how she can use the European Green Deal to address the climate and

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Beyond borders, beyond boundaries

In recent years, the European Union (EU) and its Member States have intensified their effort to prevent migrants and asylum seekers from reaching their borders. One strategy to reach this goal

New report brings together good practice examples in women’s leadership in humanitarian work

ActionAid International Kenya and ActionAid Denmark have produced a new report highlighting inspirational practises in involving women in humanitarian responses, pulling together examples from across

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New report examines community-led early warning systems and humanitarian crises

ActionAid International Kenya has published a report analysing community-led early warning systems and their use in relation to protracted crises and making recommendations for others working with

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Guide on how to run skillshares within humanitarian projects

ActionAid Denmark has produced a new guide on how organisations can use skillshares as part of projects working with humanitarian projects. The guide is free to download on this page. It was funded

Whose City?

Some successful and innovative ways that women’s rights, social justice and civil society organisations influence and work with governments to improve women’s urban safety.

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EU should adopt a human rights-based approach to migrants forced out of their countries by the climate crisis, ActionAid says

The European Union needs to strengthen protection policies for people moving in response to disasters, climate change, and environmental degradation, ActionAid has said.

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The Sustainability of the Global Partnership for Education: The Role of Domestic Resource Mobilisation

Financing for Education: Let's Make Aid RedundantOn 26th June in Brussels the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is seeking to raise $3.5 billion in a replenishment event, to support low income