ActionAid

ActionAid "are an international development agency whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. Formed in 1972, for over 30 years we have been growing and expanding to where we are today - helping over 13 million of the world's poorest and most disadvantaged people in 42 countries worldwide." [1]

• Chief Executive of ActionAid International, Joanna Kerr

Staff

• Ramesh Singh chief executive
• Everjoice J. Win - International Head of Women's Rights with Action-Aid International [2]

Funding

Grants received in 2004 from the UK Department for International Development came to just under Euros 23 million. [3] In 2005 they came to 22 million [4]

International Directors

Accessed April 2012:

• Irene Ovonji-Odida - chair
• Patrick Dowling - treasurer
• Poguri Chennaiah
• Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda
• Alexandra Mitsotaki
• Matteo Passini
• Sriprapha Petcharamesree
• Kibuga Kariithi
• Adrian Zapata

Trustees (2008)

• Noerine Kaleeba, Ugandan (Chair)
• Patrick Dowling, Irish (Treasurer), Chairman of ActionAid Ireland
• Mary Kaphweleza Banda, Malawian
• Karen Brown, British
• Ken Burnett, British
• Cândido Grzybowski, Brazilian, is General Director of the Brazilian Institute of Social and Economical Analysis (IBASE)
• Roberto Kishinami, Brazilian
• Diego Masi, Italian
• Alexandra Mitsotaki, Greek
• Andrew Mott, American
• Sriprapha Petcharamesree, Thai

Source

2005 International Directors

• Adriano Campolina Soares - Regional Director, Americas
• Louise Hilditch - International Director, Policy
• Thomas Joseph - International Director, Organisational Effectiveness
• Helen McEachern - International Director, Fundraising
• Richard Miller - Director, Human Security
• Kate Nustedt - International Director, Communications
• Asenath Omwega - Regional Director, Africa
• Marco de Ponte - Director, Europe Coordination
• John Samuel - Regional Director, Asia
• Nigel Saxby-Soffe - International Director, Finance
• Ramesh Singh - Chief Executive

Contact

International head office
PostNet suite #248
Private bag X31
Saxonwold 2132
Johannesburg
South Africa
Tel: +27 11 731 4500
Fax: +27 11 880 8082
mail.jhb AT actionaid.org
Web: http://www.actionaid.org

Resources and articles

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• Leslie Kirkley
• Salil Shetty - Former Chief Executive
• Bretton Woods Project
• Sarah Mukasa
• Action for Global Health
• CIVICUS
• Focus on the Global South
• Sarah Mukasa
• Action for Global Health
• Association of Women's Rights in Development
• Prem Khanal
• Taziona Sitamulaho
• Karen Twining Fooks - former head of staff (Africa)
• Laurie Adams - South Africa
• Lyndall Stein
• Rita Sarin
• Chris Mathias - ambassador
• Hugh Venables
• Roger Yates
• Michael Lynch-Bell