ActionAid is an Affiliate of ActionAid an international anti-poverty agency working in over 40 countries, taking sides with poor people in Africa, Latin America and Asia to end poverty and injustice together.
Our Vision is to see a world without poverty and injustice in which every person enjoys the right to a life with dignity.
Our Mission is to work with the poor and excluded people to eradicate poverty and injustice.
In Ghana, ActionAid began operations in 1990, with its first Development Area (DA) in Bawku West District.and currently works with more than 1,000,000 people in six out of the ten administrative regions of Ghana namely: Upper West, Upper East, Northern, Brong Ahafo, Greater Accra and Volta Regions.
ActionAid uses a rights based approach (that is working within the human rights framework) to development to help protect the rights of the poor and vulnerable with the hope of eradicating poverty.
Our experiences in development over the years show that focusing on power is fundamental to tackling issues of injustice and inequality in order to overcome the structural issues that underlie and perpetuate the causes of poverty.
The focus of our work ensures that the rights of excluded people and people living in poverty are respected, promoted and fulfilled and that the state and powerful institutions are made responsible in ensuring the rights of the citizenry.
Ghana is the first country programme to become an Associate of Action Aid International with a local Board membership of 13, launched on 4th March 2005.
A new strategy to guide ActionAid’s work in Ghana is being developed to build on the third strategy “Engaging power to fight poverty” which is ending by 2009.
ActionAid works with other organisations, networks and movements in participatory analysis and awareness, organising and mobilising, capacity building, addressing immediate needs, conducting research, advocacy and campaigning.
For more information about ActionAid International global strategy go to www.actionaid.org