Philippines The NCCP-ACT Alliance Emergency Team in December 2020 reached 4,546 families affected by super-typhoon Goni and Vamco residing in Albay, Camarines Sur, and Rizal. They received food packs and hygiene/sanitation kits through the support of ACT Alliance members, individual and group donors. Early recovery response is ongoing, targeting communities for cash assistance, repair of […]
7th Annual Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-based Organizations in International Affairs Videos from the event: Full Symposium: History of the Symposium and 2021 Theme clip: Sponsoring agencies video: Documents for Participants: Concept Note Program Speaker Bios UN Reference Documents: Generation Equality home page Prioritizing prevention and strengthening response: women and the […]
7th Annual Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-based Organizations in International Affairs Media material: Concept Note Program Speaker bios Media contacts: ACT Alliance: Simon Chambers simon.chambers@actalliance.org World Council of Churches: Marcelo Schneider msc@wcc-coe.org Islamic Relief: David Hawa dhawa@irusa.org General Board of Church and Society – The United Methodist Church: Kurt Adams kadams@umcjustice.org URI: Isabelle […]
ACT Resilience Award 2020 Every year the ACT Resilience Award wants to prompt members to showcase their best-practices and promote cross-region learning on innovative resilience, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) projects. This year the ACT Resilience Award is linked to the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) (location to be […]
ACT Communications Policy The Communications Policy in general emphasizes that the ACT Secretariat relies on its members and forums to be sources and mediums of information sharing in communities. The update focuses on bringing the policy into line with the Global Strategy, with additional policies passed since it was last updated, including Child Safeguarding, Social Media, and others, […]
Of the 129 specialists following the webinar “Understanding and Handling Misinformation in the COVID-19 context”, 81 were from Asia, most of them joining in order to learn good practices around handling misinformation. The 213 practitioners joining “New Approaches to Monitor Remote Programming during COVID-19” were asked how their monitoring needs changed as a result of […]
While typhoons, storms, and heavy flooding have hit Japan very hard in recent years, another record-breaking heavy rain hit the prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima in the southern Kyushu early July 2020 in the middle of the East Asian rainy season. It was officially named as “Heavy rain of July Reiwa 2” by the Japan […]
As the rise of populist governments worldwide led to a questioning of the value of human rights as well as mechanisms and institutions to protect them, ACT Alliance a few months ago built up a global Project Task Group on Shrinking Spaces. Its objective is to oversee the development of a sub-strategy to address the […]
1 – ACT Alliance Maintenance Audit Summary 2020-08-01_signed by ACT