In the four years 2014-17, some 1.7 million people risked their lives by fleeing across the Mediterranean Sea for Europe, a journey in which over 13,000 have died or have gone missing. This report is...
by Ana Alcalde (Executive Director, Alianza/ActionAid Spain) and Marco DePonte (Secretary General, ActionAid Italy)Beatings, enslavement and sex trafficking: it’s recently been revealed that the...
Today is the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, a month of intense prayer when Muslims around the world fast and refrain from the many of the joys of life that would otherwise see us through the...
I am writing with a heart full of sadness and anger in these dark days. All my life, I’ve been witness to the shrinking of my homeland Palestine, watching as the hopes and aspirations of my people -...
Briefing note outlining why ActionAid is committed to devolving humanitarian response from international to national and local levels, and why we and support women to take on leadership roles in...
This is a summary publication of the main lessons learned from ActionAid flagship project Ready for Anything that was implemented from July 2013 to December 2016. The project promoted a holistic...
The G7-backed African Risk Capacity (ARC) drought insurance policy was an experiment that failed Malawi, and in particular its women, in the face of a drought that need not have become a disaster....
Laily Begum is a grassroots woman leader from Bangladesh. Married and a mother of three, she has been leading her community to build disaster resilience against the frequent tidal surges, cyclones...
Women are crucial and necessary leaders in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and humanitarian response. However, a key challenge to realising women’s leadership of and participation in DRR is recognising...
Surge capacity is defined as the ability to scale-up (and down) resources smoothly and quickly, including getting the right people to the right places doing the right things in the shortest amount of...
