Emergencies
Every year more than 300 million people are affected by natural disasters or involved in conflicts.
Many countries where ActionAid works, such as Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Afghanistan, Haiti, Pakistan, India, the Gaza Strip and Syria, are or have recently been theatres of war or natural disasters.
In all these situations ActionAid works on a long-term basis, with the aim of encouraging social and economic reconstruction, not limiting itself to humanitarian intervention but intervening on the causes that led to the disaster or conflict or that made them so devastating.
We are therefore committed to giving the victims greater security, involving them directly in the construction and defining with them lasting paths of development, regardless of identity, gender or religion.
The theme of human security is declined in three areas:
- disaster risk reduction
- emergency response
- conflicts
- national and global policies to combat the structural causes of natural and man-made disasters,
- emergency preparedness to strengthen the resilience of communities,
- relief, reconstruction and recovery.
We know that we cannot prevent natural disasters from happening, but we can make sure that the people most at risk are better prepared to respond to them. Our approach is based on three principles:
We work with local communities to identify inclusive, needs based and context-adapted response.
We want women to be at the center of humanitarian responses.
We are committed before, during and after emergencies to ensure that authorities listen to the voices of the communities at risk.
