Since 1998, AAB has promoted core peace building activities, emphasizing the rehabilitation and reintegration of displaced people and ex-combatants through self help projects using participatory...
Recent estimates based on wealth index comparison indicate that poverty has worsened from 2005 to 2009. Burundi faces tremendous challenges in diversifying the economy and income sources, reducing...
Burundi is located in central Africa with 27834 Km2 and a population of over 8.1 million, with an annual population growth rate of 3.9% against an economic growth rate of 3.6%. Women represent the...
This briefing paper, produced ahead of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in Japan in January 2005, outlines eight key strategies of people-centred governance and links these to the...
This report examines the impact of climate change on urban communities in six African cities, and looks at how people are coping with and adapting to increasingly frequent and severe episodes of...
ActionAid is planning to provide temporary shelters and repair damaged schools, health centres and homes in Mozambique where fierce storms have killed 25 people and left tens of thousands homeless.
The rivers are flowing and the grass is finally green in Kongelei, the pastoralist community in North Western Kenya. Here, I mostly meet women and children, as many men have left the villages in...
I am nervous as I travel to Kampong Cham province in the east of Cambodia. I was here a few months ago supporting ActionAid’s response to the massive floods which had swept across parts of the...
Cycling home with 50kg of rice on the back of her bicycle, Roth Chantho’s smile conveys her happiness at receiving emergency food supplies following flooding in her commune in Kratie Province in the...
Two years after the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010, ActionAid Haiti continues to help the most vulnerable to rebuild their shattered lives. Some 10,000 people marched through downtown...
