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ActionAid is an international non-governmental organization whose stated primary aim is to work against poverty and injustice worldwide. [ 1 ] ActionAid is a federation of 45 country offices that works with communities, often via local partner organisations, on a range of development issues.
ActionAid Kenya actively campaign for lower prices and greater availability of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs for the poor. It is part of the Kenya Coalition on Access to Essential Medicine (KCAEM), which is made of various NGOs campaigning for greater access to medicine.
Following this, Shetty joined the international NGO ActionAid, rising up to head ActionAid's operations in India and later Kenya in East Africa.Shetty was the first person from the global south to be appointed as the Chief Executive of ActionAid, 1998- 2003.
Despite verbal assurances from Secretary of State Marco Rubio about allowing lifesaving humanitarian aid to continue, international aid and development work funded by the U.S. government have ...
This is a list of development aid agencies which provide regional and international development aid or assistance, divided between national (mainly OECD countries) and international organizations.
August 29 marks the 10-year anniversary of the day that Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, and since then, New Orleans and surrounding areas have never been the same.
In 1998 Mitsotaki created Greece's first international development NGO, ActionAid Hellas (AAH). She has chaired AAH from 2007 to 2017. Mitsotaki was a member of the board of ActionAid International (AAI) from 2003 to 2015. [6] She served on AAI board committees Governance and Board Development Committee, and the Finance and Funding Committee.
Current activities are facilitated through partnerships with locally registered, in-country NGOs. When Austcare changed its name to ActionAid Australia after joining ActionAid International as an affiliate, the organisation previously known as "Action Aid Australia – For Those Who Have Less" changed its name to Partners in Aid. [2]