The first ActionAid Australia Strategy, Changing the Rules, has recently been completed and I thought I’d give a taste of where we are heading over the next six years.
ActionAid Australia, as a member of ActionAid International, supports change makers in developing countries to fight injustice and poverty. Guided by our theory of change, that puts women’s rights at the heart of our work, and cognisant of the increasing number of shocks expected in the years ahead, our mission objectives over this strategy period are focussed on women’s rights where they are most under stress.
We have committed ourselves to the primary objective of helping people to stand up, claim their human rights and actively challenge the prevailing growth-driven development model based on an unjust global economic and political system.
We have now commited ourselves to three core mission objectives:
1. Enabling poor and excluded people, particularly women, to secure access to, and control over, the productive resources, and decision making processes essential to improving their livelihoods.
2. Protecting women’s rights by preventing and responding to gender-based violence against women during disasters and conflicts.
3. Tapping into positive values that encourage Australians to challenge the status quo and critically evaluate how their lives and choices affect people living in poverty.
The strategy will be up on our website early in 2012 when we have it nicely formatted etc etc.
Until then I want to thank everyone for all of their support during 2011 which we really appreciate.
I’ll be in touch early in 2012 with more news on our exciting new direction but until then I wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season and a happy and healthy 2012.
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