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ActionAid UK Annual Report 2024

ActionAid UK's Annual Report 2024 sets out its work with women and girls living in poverty, as part of the ActionAid Federation present in 71 countries. In Gaza, ActionAid reached over 464,000 people with humanitarian assistance through local partners, including four community bakeries supporting 28,000 people. The report covers gender-transformative climate resilience such as the Women-Led Alternatives to Climate Change programme in Cambodia, which has benefited 19,601 people, work with tea farmers and pickers in Kenya, responses in Ukraine and Sudan, and UK campaigning on banks funding fossil fuels. 125,000 people chose to support its work in 2024.

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ActionAid UK is a charity working with women and girls living in poverty, and a member of the ActionAid International Federation. Its vision is a just, equitable and sustainable world in which every person enjoys the right to a life of dignity, freedom from poverty and all forms of oppression. Its mission is to achieve social justice, gender equality and poverty eradication by working with people living in poverty and exclusion.

Key Metrics

464,000 people in Gaza reached with humanitarian assistance through local partners (over)
19,601 people benefiting from the Women-Led Alternatives to Climate Change project in Cambodia, including 12,735 women
125,000 people who chose to support ActionAid UK's work in 2024

Key Outcomes

  • Established four community bakeries in Gaza supporting 28,000 people, alongside latrines and protection services for women and girls.
  • Supported more than 6,000 smallholder tea farmers and pickers in Kenya to claim their rights, training 2,880 community members to recognise and report gender-based violence.
  • Over 5,500 people signed ActionAid's petition calling on the Prime Minister to regulate UK banks funding fossil fuels.

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