Community World Service Asia Booklet Q&A for PCM – January 2020
The Membership Engagement Model was approved at the 2018 General Assembly in Uppsala, Sweden. The rationale for the model is based both on a need to contribute to a future vision of an alliance membership that is inclusive and enables engagement of members according to their interest and capacity and adds more meaning to the ecumenical cooperation and work of national and regional forums, as well as to address some existing barriers to membership for smaller local members and to active engagement of members.
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ACT Alliance Membership Engagement Model EN
ACT Alliance Membership Engagement Model FR
ACT Alliance Membership Engagement Model SP
ACT Alliance is the largest Protestant/Orthodox alliance in the world that engages in humanitarian, sustainable development and advocacy work, with over 155 members present and working in over 127 countries around the world.
Together, we strive for a world where all may live with dignity, justice, peace and full respect for human rights and the environment. The 2018 Annual Report is available for download below.
The ACT Alliance governance has agreed that the following elements will comprise the funding base for the ACT forums and secretariat:
Procedure for Funding the ACT Alliance Forums and Secretariat
ACT Alliance is the largest Protestant/Orthodox alliance in the world that engages in humanitarian, sustainable development and advocacy work, with over 146 members present and working in 127 countries around the world.
Together, we strive for a world where all may live with dignity, justice, peace and full respect for human rights and the environment.
ACT Alliance Submitted a Statement to the UN Commission on Population and Development. ACT members and partners have been engaged in various events at the 51st Session of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD51).
“As a coalition of over 140 churches and faith based organizations working in humanitarian
response and human rights-based development in over 100 countries, ACT Alliance affirms our
commitment to the Programme of the International Conference on Population and Development,
urges its full implementation and calls for a joint resolution at the 51st session of the Commission
on Population and Development. ACT Alliance is committed to ensure gender equality as a
common value and believes that gender equality and access to sexual and reproductive health and
rights is a prerequisite for ensuring the enjoyment of other rights and for poverty reduction.
We welcome the theme of the Commission “Sustainable cities, human mobility, and
international migration” as the needs and rights of some of the most marginalized in the world,
particularly migrant women and girls, requires urgent resolution. Substantive progress is
desperately needed in view of the grave human rights infringements and consequences for
population policies by growing numbers of refugees, migrants, and displaced people in the world
today.”
The full Statement is available here.
ACT Alliance has launched a Toolkit, Towards the Ambitious Implementation of the Paris Agreement. The purpose of the Toolkit is to support the climate change advocacy actions of ACT members, forums and partners at the national level. The Toolkit guides FBOs to develop successful approaches for meaningful climate advocacy to stay at 1.5°C and to operationalise our common vision of shaping our future in ways that take up the call for a strong moral and religious imperative in overcoming the climate crisis.
The Toolkit is divided into three main modules, with a section on each of the instruments mandated by the Paris Agreement, namely; the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and the mid-century long-term low greenhouse gas emissions development strategies or Long-term Strategies (LTS).
Key messages, questions and answers, checklists and lessons learned, as well as diagrams and info-graphics are used as visual elements to ease the learning process. Examples are used to further illustrate the content and various options for FBO advocacy interventions are proposed. The Toolkit is designed so that FBOs can make their own choice on which of the instruments to focus on. All three modules follow the same structure, allowing FBOs to prepare their advocacy engagements step-by-step, before getting involved in the in-country NDC, LTS and/ or NAP processes.
The Toolkit is available here:
We welcome all of our members and forums to make use of this Toolkit, not only for advocacy purposes but also for capacity building and to facilitate internal discussions and reflections to ensure that specific national contexts are integrated into our global climate justice work.
Civil society organisations in the Middle East and across the globe are actively working on a wide range of issues including service delivery, cultural, social and religious activities, human rights support, development and humanitarian response. Through these organizations, the expressions of people’s concern for their fellow citizens, for the globe and for a better future are raised.
This report is based on a study that was conducted in 2016, and an updated analysis that was carried out in 2017, and identifies a variety of hindrances to CSO operations in the OPT/I.
At the ACT Assembly in 2018, the Global Strategy Putting People First was adopted. It is available in English, Spanish and French in a brochure format, a 12-pager and as a full Strategy document.