The National Alliance for Risk Reduction and Response Initiative (NARRI) Consortium from Bangladesh, which is led by ActionAid, has been awarded the 2013 UN Sasakawa Award – the highest award for...
The representatives of big business, including the big accountancy firms, have been scurrying in and out of politicians’ offices trying to persuade them that getting companies to pay their fair share...
Even now, I feel like I’m still inside the debris, amongst the heaped dead bodies and buzzing flies. Hearing the screams of the survivors, the screeching of the industrial machinery lifting away...
What are people saying about @ActionAidRwanda?Tweets about "#AARwanda"// Supporting communities to claim their rights is one of the most important aspects of ActionAid's work. That involves not only...
On May 9, after two days introduction and international inspiration, the third and last day of the participatory bottom-up planning workshop was all about taking action. The workshop was organised by...
Inspiration was a key word on May 8, the second day of the participatory bottom-up planning workshop organised by ActionAid Myanmar and the Union Ministry of National Planning and Economic...
On 7 May 2013, more than 250 senior government officials from 30 out of Myanmar’s 32 Ministries congregated in the capital city of Nay Pyi Taw to embark on a three days workshop about participatory...
More than 200 senior government officials from the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development as well as other relevant line departments across the country will attend a workshop on...
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....