Smallholder farmers must benefit from Covid-19 bailouts
As the UN's SOFI report on global food insecurity finds 680 million people are suffering from hunger, ActionAid warns that farmers must be recognised and supported as frontline workers to ensure
COP26: Governments need to get on with making change not noise
On Nature Day at COP26, ActionAid responds as 45 countries including the UK pledge to protect biodiversity and cut emissions from agriculture. Read the response here.
Cyclone Freddy: record-breaking destruction
What’s being investigated by some as a record breaking weather event, has to others caused horror and devastation. #Cyclone Freddy has affected over 1.5 million people in Mozambique, Malawi, and
COP26: It’s crunch time for governments to respond to the climate crisis
COP26: It’s crunch time for governments to respond to the climate crisis
Why civil society organisations will boycott the UN’s Food Systems Summit unless there is a radical redirection away from corporate interests
Global food systems need a major overhaul. The UN Food Systems Summit is being billed as the answer – a forum to launch ‘bold new actions to transform the way the world produces and consumes food’
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
Young people might be more resilient to the virus, but not to its impacts
This blog examines the challenges that young people face around the world, from Covid-19 to homelessness and lack of employment
Ban Fossil Fuel Advertising and Sponsorships Petition
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190 organisations join our call for increased funding for education post-Covid
On 28th July 2020 ActionAid convened a ground-breaking webinar on the domestic financing of education beyond the Covid-19 pandemic. You can view the full recoding of the webinar and read the call to
Charity delivers urgent medical care to survivors as reports of those injured reaches nearly 100,000
ActionAid is responding to the aftermath of the Turkey Syria earthquake by providing medical support through mobile health units in northwest Syria.
It’s reported that around 12,000 people in
