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- Humanitarian response to emergencies: Building back better and stronger
- Building drought-resilient villages in Jharkhand and Odisha
- Empowering women farmers
- Enabling children to enjoy their childhood and realize their potential
- 91 bonded labourers rescued from Rajouri district, Jammu & Kashmir
- Union Budget 2020-21 | Pre-Budget consultations and our inputs on the social sector
- Efforts for peace, harmony and development by the youth of Kandhamal
- Emergency Response: Building back better and stronger
- Yadadri Farmer Producer Company in Turkapally starts a single-window unit to support farmers
- ActionAid Association’s work with Koraga community in Karnataka is World Habitat Awards’ Gold Award Winner 2019
- Raising issues faced by women workers, especially those dependent on the informal economy
- 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence – a report on the campaign in 2019
- Decent work for women dependent on the informal economy
- Musahars assert their right to land, work and social security
- Muslim women’s leadership and the quest for reforms
- #ActForScholarship: A campaign to help students from marginalized communities secure scholarships
- Hope in a Dying River: The Women Fishworkers of West Bengal
- Saying NO to child marriage
- “I’ll use profits from the sale of organic produce to educate my grandchildren”
- Helping flood-affected families in Kerala recover
- Rebuilding lives and livelihoods affected by floods in Kerala
- … and children in Kozhilakudi village get to learn, play and share smiles again
- Promoting rights of workers from the unorganized sector
- Women in the driving seat
- Empowering women farmers of Pithoragarh
- Change by women, of women and for women, in Nalanda
- Highlighting the need to promote water commons for all
- Assam floods and our humanitarian response
- Honouring Women Humanitarians
- Indigenous communities build nearly 280 structures for water conservation in Betul
- Consultation on drought in Maharashtra | Citizens’ Report released
- Rebuilding education in Cyclone Gaja-affected villages of Nagapattinam
- Menstrual taboos start to disappear in Vambay Colony, Visakhapatnam
- Collaborating with Institute of Public Enterprise to start a Centre of Excellence in Urban Management
- Spreading environmental awareness in Delhi-National Capital Region
- Improving biodiversity of Doddakallasandra Lake in Bengaluru
- No child marriage in this village of Rajasthan this Akha Teej!
- Campaign against human trafficking and child labour in Uttar Pradesh
- Women’s Share – A campaign for gender justice in property rights
- Public hearing on child rights in closed and sick tea gardens of West Bengal
- National consultation on stopping child labour
- Introducing computer applications to children from marginalized communities
- Discussion on improving conditions of work and living for circular migrants in India
- Spreading awareness on property rights for single women
- Ranju Bhoi: A single woman but not alone
- Responding to drought in Bundelkhand and Marathwada
- Her smile, her dreams – something that even a cyclone couldn’t shake
- Helping Fani-affected communities get their lives back on track
- Cyclone Fani | Supporting vulnerable communities rebuild their lives
- Cyclone Fani | Helping vulnerable families recover
- Rebuilding education in Cyclone Gaja-affected schools
- Land for the landless | A national consultation on land rights in Bhopal
- Yes, one more water filtration plant can make a big difference!
- Nai Pahal: Empowering adolescent girls | Bringing out-of-school children to school
- Towards creating a fair and just world for people dependent on the informal economy!
- For Equality & Justice: A People’s Agenda
- Enhancing benefits for ‘single women’ in Gujarat
- Dalit communities in Bihar ask for land rights
- Working with the Madhya Pradesh Police on gender sensitization
- Tribals from 10 states come together at Raipur, Chhattisgarh, to highlight their issues
- Promoting rights of Dalits and minority communities in Haryana
- Janakamma from Karnataka honoured with Kittur Rani Chennamma Award
- #ActForWater: Protecting the commons
- #ActWithHer: Furthering the rights of women
- Umeed Centre: Educating children, empowering youth
- Towards empowering urban poor and building inclusive cities
- Musahars for justice: Assert rights to land, work and social security
- Building back better: Rebuilding lives of flood-affected communities in Kerala
- A union of domestic workers in Madhya Pradesh
- A Millets’ Tiffin Centre set up by women farmers in Turkapally
- Go Girls!
- A new lease of life for women and children with disability
- “Now that I have a sweater, I can go to school”
- Empowering women domestic workers in Visakhapatnam
- A roof of their own!
- … and now a forest stands there!
- “I’m happy that I’m now able to support my family”
- “I always missed our tea garden. I’m happy to be back home”
- Strengthening the engagement between domestic workers and their employers
- Single, yes! But not alone | Organizing and empowering single women
- Humanitarian response to emergencies in 2018
- Enabling children in conflict areas in the Kashmir valley enjoy their childhood and realize their potential
- Bringing out-of-school children to school
- ActionAid India’s drought mitigation initiative wins International recognition
- Empowering street vendors of Assam – City-makers of the state
- Empowering communities, transforming lives!
- Ensuring the residential rights of tribal labourers working in coffee estates
- Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights felicitates community-based platform of children against child marriage
- When adolescent girls lead social change
- Training in housekeeping for former manual scavengers
- Securing justice and protecting rights
- New farming practices | Improved yield, increased incomes, better nutrition & a better life
- Getting a village school re-opened in Odisha
- Single, yes! But not alone
- Pushpa: Her story of struggle, her story of grit
- Helping adolescents reshape their lives, for the better
- Breaking stereotypes: Women in the driving seat
- A new lease of life for women and children with disability
- A NaiPahal for out-of-school children
- “Children love going to the school now”
- Domestic Workers come together for their rights in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu
- Women’s cooperative registered in Nalanda district, Bihar
- The story of ManjitKaur and empowering Punjab’s women domestic workers
- Meet Sudha – the masala powder entrepreneur!
- How the Gujjars of Chamba moved into the district market
- More than 10,000 children go to Child Friendly Spaces in Jammu & Kashmir
- Housing plots to 54 Dalit women in Thiruvallur
- Building child leadership in marginalised communities
- Yanadis reclaimed over 3000 acres of land in Andhra Pradesh
- Tuensang’s women learn to help themselves
- Acquiring an Identity
- Organic farmers of Odisha show the way
- “SHE IS OUR WATCH TOWER”: PUSMA’S BATTLES IN THE TEA GARDEN
- Halima Khatun, inspiring women to fight patriarchy
- The woman leader who inspired many to fight for their rights
- WHEN WOMEN LEAD
- ‘Seeds bank reviving our traditional agricultural practices’
- ‘My land gave me confidence to move on’
- No arms, legs but spirit high
- Sarbani Barman: In Search of a New Horizon
- Mariam Toppo – a leader dedicated to the well-being of her community
- Degrees Of Change
- The wage struggle of Maruti Mukhni
- Planting Prosperity, Sowing Dignity
- Power Of One: ‘Netaji’ Vibhuti Chauhan
- Purulia’s Grey Zone
- Sushila Nada – a woman of substance
- Helping break traditional gender roles in Chennai slums
- Raising awareness amongst children to fight against discrimination
- Advocating Land Rights for BPL Dalit communities in Alampur village
- Empowering women through awareness initiatives in Chennai
- Education and awareness programmes for the youth in Bangalore
- Develop Women’s Leadership
- Knowledge empowerment for better livelihoods in Amravati
- Will hope triumph over the Musahars of Shivrajpur?
- Now we have drinking water in our school
- Challenging inheritance of indignity
stories of change
ActionAid India works in 25 states and 1 union territory of India, with a vision to A world without poverty, patriarchy and injustice in which every person enjoys the right to life with dignity.
Empowering women farmers of Pithoragarh
Association for Rural Planning and Action (ARPAN) and ActionAid Association, with support from Oracle, have been working towards the empowerment…
Change by women, of women and for women,...
Nav Bihar Samaj Kalyan Pratisthan Kendra (NBSKPK), Bihar, has had a long and successful history of working with ActionAid Association…
Highlighting the need to promote water commons for...
The impact of changing climate is varied and manifold and is of utmost importance in present times. With the objective…
Assam floods and our humanitarian response
The devastating floods that hit Assam in the month of July claimed several lives and badly affected the lives of…
Honouring Women Humanitarians
On the occasion of World Humanitarian Day, Young India and ActionAid Association felicitated 32 humanitarians – 26 women and 6…
Indigenous communities build nearly 280 structures for water...
Gond and Korku tribes in Betul district of Madhya Pradesh have been traditionally dependent on natural resources such as forests,…
Consultation on drought in Maharashtra | Citizens’ Report...
Several parts of Maharashtra have been facing frequent droughts in the recent years, with their severity increasing year after year.…
Rebuilding education in Cyclone Gaja-affected villages of Nagapattinam
On November 16, 2018, Cyclone Gaja created havoc in Tamil Nadu, specifically impacting the coastal districts of Nagapattinam, Thiruvarur, Thanjavur,…
Menstrual taboos start to disappear in Vambay Colony,...
On August 10, the community centre in Vambay Colony of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, became witness to the start of a…
Collaborating with Institute of Public Enterprise to start...
We are pleased to share with you that on July 31, Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE), Hyderabad; ActionAid Association and its urban…
Spreading environmental awareness in Delhi-National Capital Region
With a view to enhancing knowledge of communities on sustainable environment development and improving green cover through collective community actions,…
Improving biodiversity of Doddakallasandra Lake in Bengaluru
To commemorate World Nature Conservation Day, on July 28, NTT Data Services and ActionAid Association organized a Lake Walk at…
