ActionAid India unambiguously expresses solidarity with the poor and marginalised people in India , with a commitment to support processes that will empower them to participate in development using the rights approach.

We understand poverty as a complex multi-faceted phenomenon, with many overlapping economic and social dimensions. Despite activist state intervention for more than half a century, its stubborn persistence suggests the need for a much larger effort on many fronts. It is important for not just the outcomes of poverty to be addressed, but also its causes.

The primary responsibility for ensuring justice rests with the state, from which it should not be permitted to retreat, and for which it must be held accountable. But at the same time, poverty cannot be overcome without the active agency of the people themselves, individually and through their organisations.

AAI resolves to clearly take sides, and extend solidarity and support to marginalised women, men, girls and boys living in their efforts to cope with, and struggle to fight poverty and injustice. AAI recognises that it is only one small player in the large body of non-state organisations committed to fighting poverty, but wishes to ensure that its efforts are clearly focussed on addressing the causes of poverty of some of the most poor and marginalised people.

We are able to fulfil our mandate by our active participation in people's campaigns, such as, on Food Rights and Livelihood, Women's Rights and Gender Equality, Rights of Persons with HIV and AIDS, Right to Education, Right to Health, Right to Shelter, Right to Peace and Human Security.

In situation of natural and human made disasters, we strive to provide support in relief, reconstruction and rehabilitation – both psycho-social and material – to the survivors and affected people from the most poor and marginalized communities, enabling them to rebuild their lives.