ActionAid USA

ActionAid USA is the U.S. branch of ActionAid International, which works in more than 50 countries to achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication. ActionAid builds international momentum for social, economic, and environmental justice, driven by people living in poverty and exclusion. This grant will support the convening of a group of strategic thinkers, including feminists, from across Africa on building a new economic paradigm to replace neoliberalism. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)

ActionAid USA is the U.S. branch of ActionAid International, which works in more than 50 countries to achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication, building international momentum for social, economic, and environmental justice, driven by people living in poverty and exclusion. This organizational effectiveness grant to ActionAid USA will support the transition to a new IT platform combining all of ActionAid USA’s information technology needs into one integrated platform allowing for standardized workflows.

ActionAid USA is the U.S. branch of ActionAid International, which is a global federation working for a world free from poverty and injustice. ActionAid’s work aims to build local to global momentum for social, economic, and environmental justice, driven by women and young people living in poverty and exclusion. This grant will support ActionAid’s work on women’s economic justice and rights through the Young Urban Women and Valuing Women’s Work programs in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and South Africa, as well as regionally and globally. These programs collaborate in challenging mainstream macroeconomic policies, narratives, and institutions that fail to recognize and value women’s paid and unpaid work and undermine their access to decent work and bodily autonomy and integrity. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)