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Archie@ActionAid
Reporting back from the Australian International Food Security Centre Workshop
This week I was in Canberra for a couple of days attending a workshop that was hosted by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) which was a consultation to provide thoughts on the establishment of the Australian International Food Security Centre (AIFSC) that was announced at the CHOGM Conference in Perth 2011. Whilst [...] Comments (0)
Stori Bilong Mama Land
A rights-based approach to climate change
By Kate Morioka, Research Project Manager Over the past three months I have been analysing and making sense of the data collected from the field, using ActionAid’s rights-based approach as the framework for the analysis. We often speak broadly about a rights-based approach and why it should underpin all development interventions. But what do we [...]
- Beyond domestic chores: treating women as equals Comments (0)
- Predicting false seasons Comments (0)
- Women concerned about food security Comments (0)
- Cohesion, diversity and leadership – do they determine adaptive capacity? Comments (0)
- Women in Derin lack access to information about climate change Comments (0)
Activista
Not In My Backyard
‘You can use the land you have to grow the food you need’. This is one of the slogans from a WWII victory poster that was plastered across the U.K. and the U.S.A. encouraging people to utilise their suburban backyards to increase local food security and independence. Fast-forward a generation of two and people value [...] Comments (2)
ActionAid Campaigns
We once called our land ‘Mathina’ – land of problems
Today’s blog is from Hannah Burrows who is currently in Kenya as a part of ActionAid’s response to the East Africa drought, working to provide food relief and telling stories of the drought’s impact to the outside world. As crucial as it is to provide immediate relief, it is also important to show how resilience [...]
Jambo Tanzania
Women’s rights and media wrongs in rural Tanzania
In my first trip to Newala in the South East of Tanzania, I discovered women’s rights were more of an ideal than a reality and that, to a large extent, the media was to blame. I arrived in Newala in the afternoon after travelling on the rough road for eight hours from Mtwara. This was [...] Comments (3)
- Biofuels: a catastrophe for poor farmers in Tanzania
- Drought exposes thousands to hunger in Central Tanzania Comments (2)
- How gold turns to AIDS in Tanzania Comments (3)
- We are calling upon the People of Australia to push their Company to compensate our belongings Comments (1)
- Let’s tame malaria Comments (3)
Project TOTO
It’s been quite a ‘Journey’…
Sharna Bremner Outreach Blogger 8 July 2010 Throwing two Aussies into a country where they don’t speak a word of the language, with a somewhat lofty goal of connecting the world with some poverty-stricken slum dwellers could have been a recipe for disaster. Lucky for us, it was the opposite. As I sit here at [...] Comments (5)
ActionAid Bangladesh Sponsorship Blogs
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ED of USA in Child Sponsorship Projects The Executive Director (ED) of ActionAid USA, Peter O’Driscoll, visited Bangladesh in the 1st week of July 2010. During the visit to one urban DA in Dhaka, Peter O’Driscoll interacted with sponsored children who were preparing messages for their sponsors in abroad. ActionAid Bangladesh’s Sponsorship Manager Mahbub Hasan [...]
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