ACTION AGAINST HUNGER UK
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Mission Statement
For almost 40 years, across nearly 50 countries, we have led the global fight against hunger. We save the lives of children and work with their communities before and after the disaster strikes. We enable people to provide for themselves, see their children grow up strong, and build prosperous communities. We constantly search for more effective solutions, while sharing our knowledge and expertise with the world. We push for long-term change. We will never give up. Until the world is free from hunger.
About This Cause
Action Against Hunger's teams work in nearly 50 countries worldwide to carry out innovative, lifesaving programmes in nutrition, food security, water, sanitation and hygiene. NUTRITION: Good nutrition is the foundation for every child’s growth and development. We are dedicated to providing children with the nutrition they need to fulfil their potential and to making a lasting change in their community so they can have a brighter, healthier future. Today, we are closer than ever to creating a world without child hunger EMERGENCIES: We are at the forefront of disaster response. Working in nearly 50 countries worldwide and with rapid-response emergency teams on call 24 hours a day as well as pre-positioned stocks of essential supplies ready for deployment, we ensure that life-saving assistance can be delivered anywhere in the world when needs arise. The last few years have seen an unprecedented number of humanitarian crises – each devastating in their impact and each requiring intensive humanitarian support. From the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh and Myanmar to extreme famine in Yemen, Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan. What we do: We evaluate needs: when a disaster hits, our rapid assessment teams evaluate the immediate needs of affected populations so we can launch the most appropriate response. We provide emergency aid: we team up with local government agencies, partners and community leaders to bring efficient, effective relief to communities hit by disaster. Our programmes include providing food and water, creating child friendly spaces to enable mothers and their children deal with the traumatic situations they have lived through, providing hygiene kits, seeds and tools and a range of livelihood services tailored to the needs of each community. We prevent and manage risk: in communities that are prone to disaster or recurring crises, we work to manage their risk of and strengthen their resilience to future shocks. We are a member of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC): The DEC brings together the leading UK aid charities to raise money and work together to help people impacted by major disasters around the world. The other members include Action Aid, Age International, British Red Cross, CAFOD, Care International, Christian Aid, Concern Worldwide, Islamic Relief, Oxfam, Plan International, Save the Children, Tearfund and World Vision. ADVOCACY: As well as providing children and their families around the world with support and care, we work to encourage governments to champion the fight against hunger and malnutrition. Why do we campaign? The global community has the knowledge and resources to ensure that no child dies from preventable and treatable malnutrition, but the lack of political will means that every 30 seconds, somewhere in the world, a child needlessly dies from acute malnutrition. Campaigning and influencing is one of the most cost effective ways to build political will and achieve impact on hunger and malnutrition. Alongside providing life-saving support to families, we aim to influence the policies and practices of governments to: Address the root causes of hunger and malnutrition Ensure that high-impact programmes and interventions can continue to reach the poorest and most vulnerable people. Through our campaigning we aim to deliver sustainable change that will benefit millions of families. Who do we want to influence? In countries with high rates of malnutrition our country staff work to influence national and local government bodies to implement policies that help prevent malnutrition and improve treatment of malnutrition. At the international level we work to influence decisions from bodies such as the UN Security Council that can affect how the international community responds to incidents of extreme hunger and malnutrition around the world. In the UK we focus particularly on the UK Government, which provides the largest amount of humanitarian assistance after the United States, as well as being one of the biggest donors to overseas development assistance (ODA), spending 0.7% of their Gross National Income (GNI) on overseas aid. The UK is also an important foreign policy player as a permanent member of the UN Security Council. INNOVATION, LEARNING AND STRATEGIC FORESIGHT: Over the last few decades, the fight against hunger has taken us many directions; from running small treatment centres in rural Africa to developing international guidelines for eradicating child hunger. Through these experiences and contributions, Action Against Hunger has shaped and transformed the way acute malnutrition is prevented and treated around the world. But that is not enough. We also need to shape the future if we want to beat child hunger for good. And this requires a robust and dynamic culture of evaluation and learning in the organisation, and the capacity to capture good practices, build on successes and learn from failures. It also requires better understanding the long-term future so we can anticipate how humanitarian and protracted crises will develop and plan ahead to meet future needs. Improving the quality of humanitarian response by unlocking the power of information: Today Action Against Hunger is more committed than ever to demonstrating the impact and quality of our programmes, going beyond the numbers and capturing the changes that we bring about everywhere we work. We believe that the more we learn from the past, the better we can plan for the future. We believe that better information will lead to more effective humanitarian action. Ultimately, we know that to really succeed in the fight against hunger we will need to go beyond measuring success. We will need to improve, improvise, test new ideas and try new things. We need to be responsible towards those we work for, but we need to be bold in our thinking. We recognise that what has worked for a decade might not work tomorrow. When we learned that treating malnutrition in hospitals was too expensive for caregivers, we moved treatment closer to the communities. We recognise that our capacity to adapt our approach requires us to unlock the power of technology and human ingenuity in regular and tangible ways. We believe in learning and innovation not because it is popular, but because it is part of who we are now and who we have been for nearly forty years.