I recently returned from a visit with ActionAid Rwanda, whose staff graciously showed me around one of the communities they work with in the western district of Karongi (Gitesi sector). Like much of...
The Tax dialogue in many African countries has for a long time been left either to the tax collectors trying to reach their annual almost always 'bursting targets' or to the government technocrats....
I’ve just returned from the 2013 World Social Forum in Tunis, where tax avoidance took centre stage.I worked out that this was my ninth WSF. Since they started in 2001, I’ve only missed one....
On February 8th, EU Heads of States reached an agreement on the EU budget 2014-2020. The agreement is the result of a long-winded negotiating process that gave way to resistance to more progressive...
The food crises of 2007 and 2008 revealed a vacuum in global governance on food security, as a flurry of different actors scrambled to find ways to help countries respond. The G8 launched the Aquila...
As millions of women and men around the world rise today to demand an end to gender-based violence, I wanted to reflect on our safe cities initiative, a programme that ActionAid has been running for...
A great deal of time is spent on Unpaid Care Work by women around the world every day, but often this important work remains invisible.In fact, Unpaid Care Work is a term that you might not be...
EC officially recognises biofuels problem: but what next?In mid October, the European Commission released a key legislative proposal that seeks to amend the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) to take...
Inside the European Commission (EC), new moves are afoot to tackle tax avoidance. With the newly published EU Action Plan for fighting tax fraud and evasion, ActionAid believes there is a real...
Several weeks ago a colleague was surprised when I wrote to him that violence against women is an integral component of poverty reduction. “Is this an ideological position or literally true?” he...
In the year 2000, the world agreed on a set of goals to halve global poverty. Known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), these were a series of global targets including targets on hunger,...
In August the European Commission published a Communication on Social Protection in EU Development Cooperation. For ActionAid the Communication is a key one. Whereas the EU’s new development policy,...
The European Commission has just launched a draft Communication on Resilience. What’s all the fuss? Why does it matter? Read on…In 2011 a serious drought hit the Eastern regions of Senegal, the...
Earlier this year I went to Haiti to meet ActionAid staff, our partners, political leaders and community members to get a sense of our programming two years on after the devastating earthquake....
I find myself lost between a rock and a hard place when I have to articulate issues’ regarding the youth. Being a youth in this generation comes with a lot of opportunities and challenges but in a...
Ekiru Longolea is 80 years old, married to two wives and has 18 children. Here he tells Ssanyu, ActionAid field worker from Uganda, about his role in the community and selling livestock to pay for...
This is the story of Zainabu Kamoto and her family. The Kamoto family live in the small town of Garba Tulla (meaning plenty of water). Like thousands of East African’s suffering the food crisis...
Sellina Narumbe is a pastoralist from Isiolo, northern Kenya. Reliant on her livestock for her survival, she has been hit hard by the ongoing drought sweeping parts of the country. Lack...
Priscilla Ekuru is a Cattle Farmer from the Ngaremara Village, Isiolo County, Kenya. Priscilla is 63 and widowed with 10 children. She is linked to the ActionAid Project, Isiolo DA, Protracted...
