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Adapt to Thrive: Transforming Food Systems in Africa - The Case for Investing in Agroecology

Across Africa, the dominant industrial agriculture model has failed to end hunger and is steadily eroding the ecological ...
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Beyond the Numbers: Young Women's Voices on Economic Justice

As the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings take place in Bangkok, young women are speaking out against economic policies that ...
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Debt Fuels the Climate Crisis: How the Finance Flows

Debt is a major, but fixable, barrier to climate action. Action on debt could be one of the most impactful and achievable climate solutions available. The debt and climate crises are deeply ...
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‘A double tragedy’: ActionAid hears from displaced families battling Ebola and conflict in the DRC

Amid the evolving nature of the Ebola virus outbreak in Ituri Province, ActionAid has heard from internally displaced people living in camps about how the virus and the armed conflict are impacting ...
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Still Cooking With a Failed Recipe

A new report by ActionAid, Education International and the Tax and Education Alliance, supported by 19 partners, has revealed how the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) rigid, one-size-fits-all ...
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The IMF still functions as a colonial 'debt enforcer' despite transformation rhetoric, new report reveals

Report reveals that African countries are spending an average of 7.6% of their national budgets on public service wage bills, below the global average of 9%. The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) ...
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Outrage at efforts to break promise on adaptation finance in Bonn climate negotiations

As UN Climate negotiations in Bonn wrap up in the closing hours, ActionAid’s Global Lead on climate justice, Teresa Anderson, said; “Developing countries are furious at rich countries’ efforts to ...
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Final green light by the European Parliament on the Return Regulation: detention and deportations become the new norm

Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted the Return Regulation – better called Deportation Regulation – after months of political negotiations marked by false narratives, political propaganda and a ...
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1 in 3 people in Ituri believe Ebola is not real, as myths and misinformation hamper containment efforts

As healthcare professionals and local authorities in the DRC battle to contain the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, ActionAid has heard from community members in Ituri narrating how myths and ...
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Lack of protective equipment against Ebola in schools and communities is a ‘ticking time bomb,’ says ActionAid

ActionAid has conducted a rapid needs assessment in Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, following the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in the country. Below are the key findings: ...
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Ebola outbreak threatens to devastate Democratic Republic of Congo's most vulnerable communities living in conflict

The Ebola outbreak in the conflict-affected Ituri province of the DRC poses a severe threat to public health and community stability, ActionAid has warned. The charity has called for an urgent, ...
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Nairobi Charter on Transforming Education Financing

Over the past 18 months ActionAid has led a Learning Collaborative on Education Financing in Africa with civil society organisations and coalitions across East, West, North, Central and Southern ...