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ActionAid
Mission: "To work with poor and marginalised people to eradicate poverty by overcoming the injustice and inequity that cause it"
In China since: 1998
Annual China budget: $200,000
Mainland China contact:
Zhang Lanying
Country Director
北京东城新中街聚龙花园7楼8B
7-8B Julong Gardens, 68 Xinzhongjie
Beijing 100027
Tel: +86 (0)10 65528329
Fax: +86 (0)10 65528327
Activities in Other Countries:
40 countries worldwide
ActionAid was first established in the UK in 1972, raising funds through child sponsorship to support basic education in developing countries. These programmes soon expanded to include many other aspects of poverty alleviation and community development, and the organisation grew to be one of the largest British NGOs working overseas. Starting from the late 1980s a number of affiliated organisations were created in Europe and in developing countries where project work took place. At the same time, ActionAid increasingly emphasised campaigning and advocacy work on issues of local and global equity. In 2004 a new coalition organisation – ActionAid International, headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa – was created to coordinate and advance global advocacy efforts.
ActionAid began working in China in 1998, partnering with the Ministry of Science and Technology in a participatory poverty reduction project in Huai’an County, Hebei. This has included food security, drinking water, animal husbandry and women’s health components, as well as work with local officials and communities to encourage community management of development initiatives. In Hebei’s Ding County ActionAid has supported the creation of a Rural Reconstruction Institute that offers farmers training in community organisation and
livelihood skills, and is experimenting with cooperatives and demonstration farms.
In 2003 a new rural community development programme was begun in Leishan County, Guizhou .
In Beijing, support from ActionAid enabled a Migrant Workers Education and Training Centre, under the China Academy of Social Sciences, to conduct action research into issues of social exclusion and to establish two activity centres for children of migrants.
ActionAid has also supported gender training and capacity building for a number of civil society organisations, and brought researchers and government policymakers together for policy workshops and seminars on topics such as agriculture and trade, reproductive health.
Funding for ActionAid’s work in China has come mainly from ActionAid UK, which is the largest contributor to the ActionAid International network. In 2002, the UK organisation’s income was EUR 104 million. Of this, EUR 62 million was donated by private individual supporters, and EUR 18 million was received in grants from government aid donors.
Links
http://www.actionaid.org/china
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