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FULL LIFE and DIGNITY: Justice for All in a Challenging Climate Annual Report 2014 FULL LIFE AND DIGNITY: justice for all in a challenging climate ACT Alliance Annual Report 2014 i In the Philippine city of Tacloban, drivers who had lost their ‘pedicabs’ in Typhoon Haiyan, in 2013, are given new machines by ACT Alliance. Now they are able to continue working and supporting their families. ACT/Paul Jeffrey Contents 1 Who we are Recovering from Typhoon Haiyan Advocating in conflict situations in the Philippines Towards enabling civil society space 2 Introduction by General Secretary Floods and landslides in Nepal John Nduna Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Earthquake survivors in China Acting now for climate justice 3 ACT over a year 16 ACT in Latin America and the Caribbean 30 ACT Communities of Practice 6 Join Hands: ACT General Assembly Responding to drought in Central America DRR and adaptation to climate change 7 ACT in emergencies Child migrants in Honduras Psychosocial support 7 ACT in Africa Floods in Chocó, Colombia Disability-inclusive development Commemorating 10 years in Darfur 18 ACT in Europe Gender equality and justice Responding to conflict in South Sudan Floods in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina Human rights in development Central African Republic refugees in Conflict and displacement in Ukraine Cameroon Migration and development Ebola prevention in Liberia and Sierra 19 ACT in the Middle East Safety and security Leone Help to survive for displaced people in Iraq Protection Combatting drought and food insecurity Urgent help for Gaza and the West Bank 34 ACT accounting for change in Somalia Flash floods devastate Afghanistan 36 Audited financial statements Displacement and return in the DRC 22 ACT in development and advocacy Conflict survivors in Kenya 38 ACT members Working to maintain human dignity as 12 ACT in Asia Syria enters its fourth year of crisis 39 Governance Floods and landslides in Jammu and Indigenous rights and development in Kashmir South America’s Gran Chaco Restoration after Cyclone Hudhud Migrant rights in Central Asia Ten years after the tsunami: building a Mobile cash for sustainable relief in bridge towards resilience in Indonesia Zimbabwe Cover: Sudanese women in Darfur. ACT/Annie Bungeroth Who we are Rooted in the communities we serve 25,000 member staff and volunteers % % 76 22 2% global global global 145 south north organisations members Working together for sustainable change US$21.raised in4 appeals m Following the highest international codes and standards in the communities we serve Fighting countries poverty Achieving success through 14coordinated humanitarian,0 and injustice development and advocacy work ACT Alliance Annual Report 2014 1 Introduction by General Secretary John Nduna “ In the face of this year’s extreme challenges, the relief, support and advocacy work of ACT Alliance has been more important than ever for some of the most vulnerable communities in the world.” a new governing board for the alliance was elected. Ecumenical relations also took major strides forward in Malawi in September, where representatives from World Council of Churches members, national councils of churches, ACT members, specialised ministries and regional ecumenical organisations came together to strengthen relationships among members of the ecumenical family. During the year we strengthened our advocacy agenda through finalising the integration of EU advocacy group APRODEV into ACT. Therefore from 1 January 2015, APRODEV is officially the ACT Alliance advocacy office to the EU. One of the most pressing issues we’ve ACT General Secretary John Nduna. ACT/Sean Hawkey faced this year has been advocating for climate justice, which has grown ever more urgent as we head towards a This has been a year marred by severe our members and their partners on the decisive moment in 2015 when world emergencies resulting from political ground. leaders will determine the final agreement conflict and the outbreak of disease. The In addition to crises driven by conflict, for action to curb climate change. We beginning of 2014 saw violence in South 2014 saw further emergencies create have seen the need to be bolder in our Sudan internally displacing an estimated new challenges for members working messaging and more agile in how we do 575,000 people and more than 100,000 to provide relief, such as the Ebola advocacy, which has culminated in the fleeing to neighbouring countries. This epidemic in West Africa. However, it was launch of a first-ever global ACT Alliance was followed by military operations on heart-warming to affirm that within this campaign – ACT Now for Climate Justice Gaza, which, according to the United networked alliance, the flexibility really – to mobilise advocates at all levels of Nations (UN), killed more than 1,600 does exist to enable us to adapt to our society. civilians, a third of whom were children. changing environment. We have proved I would like to thank all members and A further wave of displacement in Iraq we are able to use our strengths as a faith- partners of ACT Alliance, because it is was triggered by massacres and human based movement to provide the support through your resounding commitment rights abuses by Islamic State. Iraq now that people and communities need. that we have made, and continue to make, has more than 2.4 million internally This has been an important year strides towards a world free of injustice, displaced people (IDPs), one of the largest for our progress as an alliance. The inequity and poverty. IDP populations in the world. implementation of the restructuring A bittersweet reminder of the long-term process for the ACT Alliance secretariat impact of such crises was evident on my kicked off in June 2014 and will continue visit to the now 10-year-old ACT-Caritas until the end of 2015. Our new strategic Darfur programme. This year alone it has plan focuses strongly on a member- seen an increase of 350,000 refugees. driven alliance, now 145 members Speaking to people living in the camps, strong. The ACT secretariat restructure it was clear that the work of ACT-Caritas and decentralisation will support this John Nduna was highly valued by the communities, strategic direction. We held our second General Secretary and this is an example of how the core General Assembly in Punta Cana, ACT Alliance value of our alliance lies in the work of Dominican Republic, in October where 2 ACT Alliance Annual Report 2014 ACTover a year ACT members raised US$21.4m for emergency ACT also launched its first ever global campaign, ACT Now appeals in 2014, with the largest amounts directed for Climate Justice, aiming to mobilise communities across the to the most critical and protracted emergencies: globe to pressurise political leaders towards an ambitious climate US$5.3m for the ongoing ACT-Caritas programme agreement in 2015. We actively engaged in the negotiations on the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, successfully to assist the Sudanese people of Darfur living in ensuring that the key issues our members are working on remain camps; US$3m to assist internally displaced people on the agenda. Alongside this, the work of ACT members as conflict raged in South Sudan; and US$2.8m continued to tackle the long-term, life-saving and to provide survival assistance to displaced resilience-building efforts that help communities live in populations in northern Iraq. sustainable environments, leading full lives with dignity. A young girl helps women pump water from a water station in the Khamsa Dagaig camp for people displaced by conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan. ACT along with Caritas marked 10 years in 2014 of its joint relief and development programme in Darfur. ACT/Sandra Cox ACT Alliance Annual Report 2014 3 ACT over a year January to March April to June ¢ ACT members start the year continuing humanitarian relief ¢ ACT issues Rapid Response Fund payments to help survivors of operations in the Philippines, following the devastating Cyclone Hellen in Madagascar and an earthquake in Nicaragua November 2013 typhoon. that measures 6.2 on the seismic moment magnitude scale. ¢ Rapid Response Fund payments are dispersed to provide ¢ Having attended the meeting of the Global Partnership for life-saving assistance to 620 families from 10 communities Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) in April to affected by a volcano eruption in El Salvador. Warm clothes represent the faith-based organisation (FBO) constituency, and woollen blankets are also given to 650 of the worst- ACT organises further training for the FBO constituency on the affected households in hill districts of far west Nepal suffering Istanbul principles. low temperatures. ¢ ACT sees success in its advocacy work as opposing parties ¢ Urgent assistance is given to 600 households who survived in the South Sudan conflict renew commitment to secure severe storms in Burundi. humanitarian access so that aid can be provided for the hundreds of thousands of displaced people within the country. ¢ As South Sudan erupts into conflict, ACT issues appeals to assist internally displaced people and refugees fleeing to the ¢ The alliance backs efforts of its local member to overthrow a neighbouring countries of Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia. Dominican Republic law that is prejudiced against citizens of Haitian descent. ¢ ACT holds a side event during the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on disaster risk ¢ A city fire that blazed through 10 Chilean hill neighbourhoods reduction (DRR) and climate change. results in an ACT appeal to help rehabilitate nearly 2,000 survivors in Valparaíso. ¢ Alliance members make various interventions at meetings of the Intergovernmental Expert Committee on Sustainable ¢ ACT responds to a series of floods. In Tanzania, more than Development Financing in March, and the Open Working 4,500 people are left homeless and with no food; in Sri Lanka Group on Sustainable Development Goals. ACT develops a incessant torrential rains cause severe damage, mainly to the gender and development position for the 58th Commission southern part of the country, and in Afghanistan floods and on the Status of Women meeting, focusing on the post-2015 landslides affect over 120,000 people in 16 provinces, killing at agenda.
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