At ActionAid UK, we believe supporting women and girls means supporting a more just, fair and sustainable world.
That is why we are committed to working with women, girls and their communities to achieve social change and gender equality and to eradicate the causes of poverty and oppression.
From 2025 to 2028, our strategy is to build on our internal principles, systems and processes so that we can shift the power to the women, girls and movements we work with and achieve our mission.
We will also be scaling up our partnerships with women’s rights organisations, activists, social movements, funding partners and our supporters.
Our four-year goals are:
To decolonise our systems and practices to tackle the root causes of inequality and injustice
To champion women’s rights organisations and feminist movements driving systems change
Build political and popular support for fair and just systems
Strengthen our global solidarity networks
Re-envision and create equitable ways of working
Our approach to change
How we will reach our strategic goals:
Showing humility
Being considerate and engaging in collective care. Approaching our work with reflexivity, humility and a willingness to learn/unlearn.
Supporting movements whole-heartedly
Relinquishing and transforming power to practise equal partnerships. Setting up mechanisms that enable feminist and social movements to thrive and achieve their goals.
Challenging persistently
Challenging current exploitative and extractive systems. Exploring alternative futures and economic models that are grounded in collective wellbeing, interdependence, reciprocity and co-responsibility.
Sharing realities authentically
Using our principles of anti-racist storytelling to ensure people’s stories are being told in a way that is representative of their complex lived realities.
Influencing purposefully
Using the collective voices of feminist and indigenous organisations, movements and activists to demand transformative change.
Top image: Amina works with ActionAid Bangladesh to help keep Cox’s Bazar refugee settlement safe. One of her roles is being a lifeguard. Fabeha Monir / Actionaid