ACT Alliance Advocacy Strategy (2015 – 2018)
The ACT Alliance Advocacy Strategy (2015-2018) is available for download in English, French and Spanish.
This advocacy strategy sets out ACT Alliance’s objectives and approaches for advocacy over the coming period, and will guide governance, members, forums, secretariat, advisory groups and other structures in their advocacy agenda.
The Global Strategic Framework of ACT Alliance for 2015-2018 integrates advocacy as a cross cutting strategy in its four aims;
- Human dignity;
- Community resilience;
- Environmental sustainability;
- A robust alliance
ACT Alliance Secretariat Independent Verification Report
ACT Alliance Climate Change Advocacy Framework Position (2016 – 2018)
The ACT Alliance climate change advocacy framework position paper is designed as a broad outline of the policy areas and approaches that the alliance is working on. It serves as the general vision and guide for ACT Alliance’s climate change advocacy, campaigning, and messaging by providing a political and strategic framing of various thematic areas.
Thematic areas include:
- Climate justice
- Gender and human rights
- Community resilience (adaptation, loss and damage)
- Low greenhouse gas emission development
- Means of implementation (climate finance, capacity building)
- Campaigning and mobilisation for ambitious implementation of the Paris Agreement
The ACT Alliance Climate Change Framework Position is available for download in English and Spanish
ACT Alliance Climate Change Framework Position (2016-2018) – English
ACT Alliance Climate Change Framework Position (2016-2018) – Spanish
ACT Alliance is the largest Protestant/Orthodox alliance in the world that engages in humanitarian, sustainable development and advocacy work, with over 140 members present and working in 125 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.
Annual Report 2016 ENG
Annual Report 2016 ESP
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015 brings together 17 goals with 169 targets in an ambitious and comprehensive programme to transform the world by 2030. As such, it presents both huge opportunities and challenges. Much has been written about the SDGs, and it is beyond the scope of this paper to analyse the framework itself. However for ACT Alliance, as it moves to develop a strategic approach to its engagement with the framework, as important as the goals themselves, are the set of common principles that underpin it and which parallel ACT’s own understanding of transformational development.
ACT Strategy on SDGs (ENGLISH)
ACT Strategy on SDGs (SPANISH)
ACT Strategy on SDGs (FRENCH)
ACT Alliance recognises the importance of enabling the empowerment of its local, national, regional and global structures to raise the visibility of, and engage people in, humanitarian, development and advocacy issues relevant to their contexts under the ACT Alliance brand. Branding under the ACT Alliance brand enables members to show they are part of an international collaboration.
However, ACT Alliance also recognises that social media, regardless of the localisation of the content, has a global reach that can impact positively or negatively not only on those groups involved in social media communication, but also on the over 140 member organisations that associate with the ACT Alliance brand.
This is because the ACT Alliance brand represents not only individual member organisations or groups, but a global network which must be taken into account in all forms of global communication. Social media content and messaging in the name of the ACT Alliance brand that is not in line with the ACT Alliance policies and values risks damaging the ACT Alliance brand for all members of the alliance.
This policy serves to ensure consistent messaging and communication in the name of ACT Alliance across social media channels in line with the ACT Alliance brand. In this way the brand can be managed, protected and preserved. The policy stipulates the requirements and responsibilities with which the ACT Alliance secretariat staff, ACT Alliance structures such as ACT Forums, Communities of Practice and Advisory Groups, and staff of ACT Alliance member organisations must comply when communicating through social media channels under the banner of, on behalf of, or in the name of ACT Alliance.
ACT Social Media Policy June 2017 (English)
ACT Política-Redes Sociales junio 2017 (Spanish)
ACT Politique-médias sociaux juin 2017 (French)
Call to Action: WCC, AACC and ACT Alliance on overcoming hunger and sustaining justice and peace in the Horn of Africa
On June 28th and 29th 2017, members of the ecumenical family along with national and international organizations gathered at the All Africa Conference of Churches in Nairobi, Kenya for the “Mobilisation of faith communities for overcoming hunger and sustaining justice and peace in the Horn of Africa”. Together, faith leaders developed a ‘Call to Action’.
Read the full ‘Call to Action’ here: https://actalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Call-to-Action-Overcoming-Hunger-_June-2017.pdf
ACT Alliance believes in an end to gender inequality and injustice, gender-based discrimination and violence, and in closing the gender gap and address unequal power relationships for the promotion of human dignity for all. To this end, the ACT Alliance expects each member to develop a board-approved, gender justice policy which is specific and relevant to their local cultural and programmatic context within three years of the adoption of this ACT Alliance Gender Justice Policy.
While there has been progress on gender equality in some countries, women in many parts of the world suffer discrimination and are under-represented in decision-making processes. Violence against women remains an endemic problem inhibiting their full participation of women in their communities, economies and societies. When a humanitarian crisis occurs gender inequalities are even more acutely highlighted. In such situations, women, young girls and boys form the most vulnerable groups and are exposed to greater risk of sexual violence in particular. In recent years there has been growing evidence of violence, harassment, discrimination, exclusion, stigmatization and prejudice directed against people because of their gender and sexual identities.
The response to humanitarian and development needs and rights must be designed in a way that it pays attention to identifying the different needs, capacities and unique contributions of different individuals and groups. Ignoring these aspects has serious implications for the survival and protection of people and may create set-backs in efforts at long-term improvement.
Thus, all initiatives ranging from emergency assistance, recovery, reconstruction through to long term development, should utilize and benefit from gender sensitive analytical tools and approaches.
The first ACT Gender Equality Policy Principles were approved by ACT International Emergency Committee, 18 April 2008. On 6 September 2010 a revised policy was adopted by the ACT Alliance Governing Board, considering the broader mandate of ACT Alliance. Another revision was done in 2017 to make it congruent with existing standards and commitments adhered to by ACT Alliance. The 2025 revised policy includes a reference to the theological foundations, developed the policy’s mandatory nature and aligned this with the overall Quality and Accountability Framework of the Alliance. This policy applies to the ACT Secretariat, all ACT Alliance members, and affiliated staff/volunteers, to improve the quality and accountability to our commitments on gender justice.
ACT Alliance Gender Justice Policy 2025 English
