Who we are

We are a global faith-based coalition organized in national and regional forums operating in more than 120 countries. Through our more than 160 members, we work on humanitarian aid, gender and climate justice, migration and displacement, and peace and security to support local communities.

Our goal is to promote a locally-led and coordinated approach to advocacy, humanitarian and developmental issues.

ACT Alliance Statutes

ACT Alliance By-Laws

ACT Alliance Founding Documents

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Basic Facts about the Alliance
ACT Alliance is composed of more than 160 faith-based member organisations working in long-term development, advocacy and humanitarian assistance.

  • Our members work in more than 120 countries
  • Our members employ more than 30,000 staff and volunteers
  • Our members mobilise approximately more than $ 2 billions each year
  • The alliance is supported by an international Secretariat of approximately 35 staff based in Geneva, Bangkok, New York, Toronto, Amman, Bogotà, Nairobi and Brussels.
  • ACT Alliance was established on 1 January 2010 by bringing together the vision, resources, the people of the organisations who have been working together since 1995 as ACT International and since 2003 as ACT Development.

145

Members

127

Countries

30000

Staff and volunteers

$ 2 bn

Mobilised each year

Our history

The establishment of the ACT Alliance did not happen overnight. As the humanitarian crises became more complex the emergency response had to strengthen coordination and effectiveness. In 1993 a meeting of the communicators of church-related humanitarian agencies held in Geneva raised the need for a more integrated approach and visibility of church- related agencies, acting together.

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In 1994 and 1995 meetings of the WCC Interim Emergency Committee and the LWF Emergency Working Group laid out the basic elements of a network called ACT International, which focused mainly on humanitarian response. In 2000, the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance was established to better coordinate towards advocating for marginalized communities’ rights. Finally, in 2007, ACT Development was created to coordinate activities around development and sustainability. It became clear that faith-based agencies and organizations all around the world felt a strong need for acting in concert. In 2009 these three networks voted to come together under Action by Churches Together Alliance, which was launched in 2010 and today counts more than 140 members in 120 countries, becoming the largest coalition of Protestant and Orthodox faith-based actors working on humanitarian, developmental and advocacy issues.

Our members

ACT Alliance members bring to the alliance all their diversities, cultures and skills. They are embedded in the local communities they serve and are trusted actors who are not just entering the communities. When a crisis strikes but are building the foundations of resilience and empowerment on a daily basis.

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For these reasons our members are a key element of our localization agenda and trusted partners when it comes on ensuring high humanitarian, development and human rights standards.

Our values

We believe in inclusion, diversity and a locally-led approach. We strongly support approaches, standards and projects that make communities worldwide more resilient and able to take the lead in their own development and rights. For this reason, our network is organized around national, regional and sub-regional forums.

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We make sure that organizations from the global south and north meet, strategize, empower each other and therefore better serve the communities around them. We make sure that organizations from the global south and north meet, strategize, empower each other and therefore better serve the communities around them.

We believe that the climate crisis we are all facing is increasing the number and size of climate-induced disasters and deepening global inequalities, for this reason we advocate for a full and equitable implementation of the Paris Agreements.

We believe that gender equality and justice are long overdue and that religious leaders can play a key role in changing norms and traditions that disempower and hinder women and girls. For this reason, we have established our gender justice programme with the aim of transforming those power structures that oppress women and girls, but also men and boys.

We believe that all fundamentalisms – political, religious, economical – take us backward not forward and threaten the full enjoyment of people’s human rights and shrink the space of civil society.

We believe in rights and dignity for all.

Our people

Rudelmar Bueno de Faria

General Secretary

ACT Alliance

Geneva, Switzerland

Thorsten Göbel

Executive Director

ACT Alliance

thorsten.goebel@actalliance.org

Geneva, Switzerland

Claudia Espinosa

Regional Representative

Latin America and the Caribbean

claudia.espinosa@actalliance.org

Bogota, Colombia

Daniela Varano

Communications Manager

Global

daniela.varano@actalliance.org

Geneva, Switzerland

Alwynn Javier

Regional Representative

Asia Pacific

alwynn.javier@actalliance.org

Bangkok, Thailand

Caroline Njogu

Humanitarian Programme Coordinator

ACT Alliance

Caroline.Njogu@actalliance.org

Nairobi, Kenya

Daisy Yator

Team Assistant

Africa

daisy.yator@actalliance.org

Nairobi, Kenya

Elaine Neuenfeldt

Programme Manager, Gender Justice

Global

elaine.neuenfeldt@actalliance.org

Geneva, Switzerland

Elizabeth Kiisigha Zimba

Regional Representative

Africa

Elizabeth.Zimba@actalliance.org

Nairobi, Kenya

George Majaj

Acting Regional Representative

MENA

Amman, Jordan

Julius Mbatia

Climate Justice Manager

Global

julius.mbatia@actalliance.org

Nairobi, Kenya

Lars Krause

Programme Quality Adviser

Global

lars.krause@actalliance.org

Bangkok, Thailand

Moritz Laqua

Resource Mobilisation and Grant Coordinator

Global

moritz.laqua@actalliance.org

Nairobi, Kenya

Muhammad Waqas

Humanitarian Programme Officer

Asia- Pacific

Waqas@actalliance.org

Bangkok, Thailand

Narongchai Lertkrai

Office Administrator

Asia Pacific

Narongchai.Lertkrai@actalliance.org

Bangkok, Thailand

Niall O’Rourke

Head of Humanitarian Affairs

Global

niall.orourke@actalliance.org

Geneva, Switzerland

Noraphan Touythong

Finance Coordinator

Asia Pacific

noraphan.touythong@actalliance.org

Bangkok, Thailand

Rizwan Iqbal

Global Accountability and Safeguarding Coordinator

Global

Rizwan.Iqbal@actalliance.org

Amman, Jordan

Sujinda Rungrungaru

Finance Officer Operations

Asia Pacific

sujinda.rungrungarun@actalliance.org

Bangkok, Thailand

Ioakeim Vravas 

Humanitarian Programme & Global MEAL Coordinator

Global

Greece, Europe

Sokanta Chanda

Humanitarian Finance & Budget Coordinator

Global

Sokanta.Chanda@actalliance.org

Bangkok, Thailand

Vincent Ondieki Mogaka

Senior Programme Officer-Climate Justice

Global

Nairobi, Kenya

Rachel Tavernor

Global Advocacy and Development Policy Manager

Global

rachel.tavernor@actalliance.org

Edinburgh, UK

Njoud Aleifan

Acting Human Resources coordinator

Global

Amman, Jordan

Karol Arámbula

Programme Management Officer on Human Mobility and Climate Justice

LAC

Bogota, Colombia

Lara Alnaber

Regional Finance and Administrative Assistant

MENA

Amman, Jordan

Jessica Ravard

Governance and Membership Coordinator

Global

Jessica.Ravard@actalliance.org

Geneva, Switzerland

Caterina Tino

ACT Representative to the United Nations

Global

New York, USA

Petra Langheinrich

Ecumenical Advocacy Coordinator

Global

Petra.Langheinrich@actalliance.org

Bogota, Colombia

Keziah Kariuki

Senior Global Communications Officer - Climate Justice

Global

keziah.kariuki@actalliance.org

Nairobi, Kenya

Simon Chambers

Head of Communications

ACT Alliance

simon.chambers@actalliance.org

Toronto, Canada

Claire Finas

RRF Manager

Global

Geneva, Swtizerland

Barrisar Busimunkunkul

Senior Finance Assistant

Regional

Bangkok, Thailand

Our Offices

To increase diversity and promote the localization agenda ACT Alliance has moved from a Geneva-based Secretariat to increased presence at local level, establishing four regional offices.

Funding

In 2024 ACT Alliance has invested 14.59M USD in the below areas. For more information refer to our annual report (below) and the audited financial statements.

ANNUAL REPORT
Audited Financials 2024

key project donors

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