We are delighted to present our 2023 Federation Annual Report which highlights some of our collective successes, missed opportunities, and lessons for the future from the 72 countries where ActionAid has a footprint directly or through partnerships.
As the world continued to heat up, with both climate related increased temperatures and heated conflict and increased polarisation of peoples and attitudes, ActionAid has had to redouble efforts to continue to be effective. We have been able to do so because of our increased stability and internal cohesion.
During the year we developed and refined a vision for what transformative programming will mean in practice, emphasising external engagement, consolidating our new climate justice campaign, and advancing our renewed aspiration to become a rooted campaign with a strong constituency base. Through a recently developed social justice leadership programme, we are determined to nurture the leadership required to deliver this vision. We will continue to deepen our work with social movements that we believe are essential players in the transnational effort to achieve systems change for climate justice, economic justice, women’s rights, and feminist alternatives.
To enable this transformation, we developed a finance, funding, and sustainability vision. This vision recognises that becoming a rooted campaign organisation with a strong constituency base requires long-term unrestricted income for greater independence.
Alongside sustainability, we also committed to deepening the political imperatives of internationalisation and taking this forward by making ActionAid more feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial. This will be our next leap and shape the Federation’s ways of working.
This Annual Report shows a snapshot of the federation’s work in 2023, the things we are proud to have achieved, and where we have more to do. It shows how ActionAid has become increasingly engaged in external global spaces, particularly related to our Climate Justice Campaign.
Alongside our stories’ map, it shows the breadth and depth of our work, and the potential role that ActionAid can play, working together with partners and allies in the 72 countries across the globe.