Aid workers on frontline of drought in East Africa respond to FCDO funding announcement
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in the UK has today announced £36 million in UK humanitarian funding to help people in Ukraine, East Africa and Syria. Countries in East Africa
Time to Clean Up: How Barclays promotes the use of tax havens in Africa
Barclays bank is now reported to be the largest retail bank in Africa and is the largest UK bank operating on the continent. This puts it in a position of responsibility with regard to the way it
Charter of Demands: Actualizing women's land rights in Africa
The Kilimanjaro Initiative is a rural women’s mobilisation from across Africa towards an iconic moment at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro in October 2016. The Kilimanjaro Initiative was conceived when, we
Policy Brief: Incorporation of Women’s Economic Empowerment and Unpaid Care Work into regional polices: Africa
Time to start caring – how ignoring Unpaid Care Work is holding back economic empowerment of Africa’s rural women Agriculture accounts on average for one third of Africa’s GDP and women make up as
Southern Africa food and climate crisis
More than nine million people in Southern Africa are facing severe food shortages.
Young women: life choices and livelihoods in poor urban South Africa
ActionAid South Africa undertook a scoping study to better understand the experiences of young women living in poor areas of Johannesburg and Cape Town.The findings from the study then inform a new
Horn of Africa Pledging Conference: “Disappointing results with a devastating impact on women and girls.”
In response to the funds pledged at the High-Level Horn of Africa event in New York on Wednesday, Tinebeb Berhane, Country Director at ActionAid Ethiopia, said:
East Africa Food Crisis: Giro-Sumo IDP Camp
The Horn of Africa is facing one of the worst droughts on record with more than 20 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia facing severe hunger and water shortages. Global food prices had
Still racing toward the bottom? Corporate tax incentives in East Africa
In 2012, ActionAid and Tax Justice Network Africa published a report containing estimates of how much revenue East African countries were losing by providing tax incentives.1 Tax incentives often
DRC Conflict Position Paper - November 2012
This ActionAid paper concerns the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as of 28 November 2012, and articulates ActionAid’s position on recent developments in North Kivu as well as the
