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ActionAid International (ActionAid)
- Organization type:Non-Governmental Organization
General contact information
- URL: http://www.actionaid.org
- Address: PostNet suite #248, Private bag X31
- Postal Code: 2132
- City: Saxonwold Johannesburg
- Country: South Africa
- Telephone: +44 07872033547
- Fax: +27 118808082
- Email: emergencies@actionaid.org
Mission & Disaster Reduction Profile
ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency working in over 40 countries, taking sides with poor people to end poverty and injustice together. Formed in 1972, it has been growing and expanding for nearly 40 years.
Statements & Presentations
- ActionAid discussion paper on resilience
2013 - Mainstreaming of DRR into GoB schemes on water and sanitation: gap analysis and way forward
2012 - Tackling the limits to adaptation: An international framework to address 'loss and damage' from climate change impacts
2012 - Climate resilient sustainable agriculture: a real alternative to false solutions
2012 - Into unknown territory: the limits to adaptation and reality of loss and damage from climate impacts
2012 - Training workshop for media practitioners on climate change facts, communication and adaptation strategies: report
2012 - Pakistan floods emergency: Lessons from a continuing crisis
2012 - Policy dialogue on rebuilding lives-post floods 2010 and 2011
2011 - Climate change radio advocacy, rethinking our future: project completion report
2011 - A charter to end extreme hunger
2011 - Harnessing synergies: mainstreaming climate change adaptation in disaster risk reduction programmes and policies
2011 - Disaster risk reduction through schools: a groundbreaking project
2010 - The time is NOW: lessons from farmers on adapting to climate change
2008 - Integrating disaster risk reduction into the Millennium Development Goals: review of activities up to the present
2007 - Top of the class! Governments can reduce the risks of disasters through schools
2006 - Disaster risk reduction: implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA)
2006 - Disaster risk reduction: Human security policy briefing note 2, draft
2006 - Climate change and smallholder farmers in Malawi: understanding poor people’s experiences in climate change adaptation
2006 - In harm's way: how international finance institutions' policies can increase poor people's vulnerability to disaster
2004
- Promote adaptation by reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience-at Rio +20
18 Jun 2012 - Regional workshop on good practices and policies in CBDRR in South East Asia
22-23 Sep 2011 - National stakeholders workshop on community based adaptation to climate change
24-25 Feb 2011 - Regional conference on disaster risk reduction through schools
29-30 Sep 2010 - Regional conference on disaster risk reduction through schools
08-09 Sep 2010
- People-centered governance - Reducing disaster for poor and excluded people
2005 - From Caribbean Hurricanes to Indian Floods: Experience and Lessons Learned for Disaster Risk Reduction
2005 - Lessons for life - Building a culture of safety and resilience to disasters through schools
- In harm's way: how international finance institutions' policies can increase poor people's vulnerability to disaster
- Successful people-centred early warning systems: 10 essential ingredients
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