Building resilient communities
This brief report looks at how ActionAid helped communities affected by Cyclone Nargis (May 2008) to build their resilience to future crises, by engaging in Disaster Risk Reduction activities.
People's Action to End Poverty
ActionAid is changing. We are moving on from just fighting against poverty – to working for long lasting solutions to poverty. Our new strategy for 2012-2017, approved by our International Assembly in
Real Aid 3
The kind of aid that helps support dramatic decreases in aid dependence is what ActionAid calls real aid – that’s aid which empowers poor women and men to realise their rights, and reduces inequality
Fiddling With Soil Carbon Markets While Africa Burns...
To address both the need for more finance for agriculture and the climate crisis, the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), among others, are promoting selling of carbon offset
Averting the crisis by investing in women smallholders
This is a presentation given by Ruchi Tripathi, Head of RIght to Food, ActionAid International, at the 20th Anniversity and Alumni Reunion Conference of the London School of Economics and Political
Right to Land and Livelihoods
This is a presentation given by Ruchi Tripathi, Head of Right to Food, ActionAid International, on 12 Sept in Geneva, at the International Mobilisation Conference on "The Right to Land and Livelihood"
Milking the Poor - How EU subsidies hurt dairy producers in Bangladesh
For decades, European dairy farmers have been given massive subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU). This has enabled them to export cheap milk powder, among
CAADP UPDATE, Issue 2
CAADP UPDATE highlights key events and issues around the agricultural discourse in Africa, as well as ActionAid’s engagement in the CAADP process.
Milking the poor - How EU subsidies hurt dairy producers in Bangladesh
Massive subsidies in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy are putting local farmers in poor countries out of business, reveals a new report by ActionAid. Milking the poor shows how subsidised EU milk
A cross-country analysis of baseline research from Nigeria and Tanzania
This report analyses data from the Baseline Study conducted for the Transforming Education for Girls in Nigeria and Tanzania (TEGINT) project in Nigeria and Tanzania between 2007 and 2009. TEGINT is a