ActionAid is part of a global partnership of people working for a better world—a world without poverty in which people can exercise their right to a life of dignity. ActionAid has its development programmes in more than 40 countries across the world, in Asia, Africa and the Americas.

ActionAid started a full-fledged country programme in Cambodia in 2004. We have been working on various human rights issues stemming from inequalities in power relations and resources and social injustice. We aim for an equitable sharing of power and resources within families, communities, the larger society, nationally and nationally, while challenging the social structure that creates and reinforces poverty and injustice.

We partner with 17 long-term partners in most 14 inaccessible and underdeveloped provinces out of the 24 provinces and towns. This gives poor and marginalised people solidarity and a forum in which they can assert their rights, such as the right to full participation in decision-making, the right to indigenous and natural resources, and the right to protect their livelihoods.

ActionAid further networks with NGOs, social movements, people's organisation and activists and critically engages with governments, international organisations and private companies to work on policy issues that our partners view as relevant and impacting upon the lives of poor and marginalised people. Everything we do is informed by priority needs of our social groups who are communities with food insecurity and hunger, women and girls, women and men living with HIV/AIDS, urban poor people, youths, and children.

Our role is not to replace the responsibilities of the state but to ensure that the state is affirmative, accountable and committed to its responsibilities, particularly to the poor and marginalised. This can be most effectively done through our current direct contact with the most vulnerable groups, our work with partners and our involvement with other actors on specific issues. We need also to build stronger relations with different levels of government, seeking out those officials who are committed to the development of their country through justice and equality, and support them in their concerted efforts to do so.

Our vision
Our vision is a world without poverty and injustice in which every person can exercise their right to a life of dignity.

Our mission
Our mission is to work with poor and excluded people to eradicate poverty and injustice.