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CRIS15 ACTION 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 15Th ANNIVERSARY 1 Smart Collective Action Can Save Lives 2019 CRIS15 ACTION 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 15th ANNIVERSARY 1 Smart collective action can save lives. It can also protect democracies. CONTENTS 2 Digital Action 4 Summary of Impact 5 Statement of Board Chair & Executive Director 6 15 Years of Impact omplex problems cannot be resolved by any single With support from the Ford Foundation, MacArthur 8 Yemen Corganisation acting alone. That’s why Crisis Action Foundation, Luminate and Open Society Foundation, 12 South Sudan builds powerful coalitions from a global network of Digital Action will replicate the Crisis Action way of 16 Syria inspirational organisations and individuals. We seek no working to unlock ambitious collective action and drive public profile so we can be the honest broker for our change that strengthens democratic rights in a digital 20 Sudan partners, focused only on what makes civilians safer. The age. Digital Action will work to push back against digital 22 Working with Crisis Action threats to democracy, such as the weaponisation of power of this behind-the-scenes, strategic convening 23 Emergency Responses model could apply not only to saving civilians in conflicts, digital platforms to destabilise and radicalise society, and but to other global issues like climate change, education irresponsible data gathering and inscrutable algorithms. 24 Board and digital threats to democracy. 25 Donors & Philanthropic Partners In 2019, people’s struggle for human rights, equality and 26 Financials representation around the world was partially enabled Find out more at digitalaction.co and read about 28 Core Partners the Crisis Action model at creativecoalitions.org. by, and played out on, digital platforms. Peaceful protests 29 Campaign Partners were met by violence and digital blackouts, including in India, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe and Sudan. It is timely 30 Our Network therefore, that Crisis Action has helped to form a new 32 Our Team organisation, Digital Action, to use our model of creative 33 15 Years of Crisis Action coalitions to tackle digital threats to democracy. 2 CRIS15 ACTION 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 15th ANNIVERSARY CRIS15 ACTION 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 15th ANNIVERSARY 3 SUMMARY OF IMPACT STATEMENT In the past twelve months, Crisis Action has coordinated coalitions and campaigns that have helped drive meaningful change for civilians caught up in conflict. With our partners and allies, we: FROM BOARD CHAIR & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR YEMEN SOUTH SUDAN • Helped prevent an attack on the vital lifeline of Hodeidah port that enabled aid to continue to flow to millions of people, by driving global media and political attention about an attack’s dire implications for civilians. • Helped spur a breakthrough ceasefire agreement for Hodeidah and a Arnold Tsunga Andrew Hudson consequent 68% reduction in local fatalities. Executive Director • Coordinated targeted media coverage and advocacy to demand an Board Chair end to United States (US) backing for the war in Yemen, with the result that for the first time the US Congress invoked the War Powers Act and voted to curtail US support for the war. • Encouraged the governments of the US, France and the United Kingdom (UK) to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), given their use in killing Yemeni civilians. • Helped bring about a new power-sharing agreement by supporting civil society involvement in peace talks. REDUCTION IN FATALITIES • Successfully campaigned for the United Nations (UN) Security Council to renew 68% its arms embargo and targeted sanctions on South Sudanese leaders. 019 marks Crisis Action’s 15th anniversary. In that time, we From empowering inspirational activists to push back against have grown from one person to a truly global team of 50, closing civic space in Sudan, to working with brave Russian • Helped to cut off the illicit supply of money to South Sudan from neighbouring 2 countries, which enables the war to flourish, by sparking a crackdown on money based in more than 10 countries. From 14 founding partner Non- journalists to tell stories about war crimes in Syria that their laundering by the Kenyan Central Bank, closure of suspicious South Sudanese Governmental Organisations (NGO) in 2004, we now work with government wanted to suppress, much of what Crisis Action bank accounts and a ban on illegal logging. over 150 partners and our budget has grown to over $5 million. does is about enabling amazing individuals to have maximum We pay tribute to Crisis Action’s previous Executive Directors – impact. At the same time, Crisis Action also helps change the Guy Hughes, Brendan Cox and Gemma Mortensen – and Board system and uphold the rule of law: from highlighting the role of SUDAN Chairs – Paul Ingram, Nick Grono and Jan Egeland – who helped the finance sector in perpetuating the conflict in South Sudan, to us get here. You can read more about the highlights of our 15 working with Parliaments and Congress in the UK, France and SYRIA years on pages 6-7. the US to hold governments to account. • Enabled a large increase in the coverage of Russia’s role in fuelling This report covers our work from July 2018 to July 2019. It has We are incredibly proud that for the first time, Crisis Action’s the Syrian conflict in independent Russian media, which contradicted been a year where the world has seemed to fracture, and the unique model has been replicated and a new organisation – the Russian government line, provoked public debate in Russia and multilateral system has faced existential threats. Yet, at the same Digital Action – has been created. You can read more about that stoked Russian public opposition to the war. time, we saw growing interest in the power of collective action. on page 2. • Helped forestall a full-scale attack on the city of Idlib by keeping And a seemingly forgotten war in Yemen became the primary a spotlight on the suffering of trapped civilians and the potentially foreign policy concern of key western powers, in part thanks to Thank you to everyone in our global network that enables us to disastrous implications of an attack. civil society campaigning. continue to build innovative collaborations to save lives. • Helped prevent a ‘normalisation’ of relations between Syria and the West, including by highlighting the plight of people detained, ‘disap- • Helped spur a breakthrough power-sharing deal between the military and peared’ and tortured by the Assad regime. civilians, by encouraging the African Union (AU) to take strong measures against those opposing the transition to civilian-led government. 4 CRIS15 ACTION 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 15th ANNIVERSARY CRIS15 ACTION 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 15th ANNIVERSARY 5 15At Crisis Action, we have a YEARSmantra of “unreasonable optimism”. Over 15 exciting years, Crisis Action has demonstrated OF unreasonable optimism in the faceIMPACT of some of the world’s most dire conflicts. We have convened powerful collective action to change high-level policy in over 30 different war zones. Some highlights of the impressive collective impact from the last decade and a half include: Prevented President Mugabe from torturing 2007 civilians by stopping Organised a global day the supply of bank note of action in 40 countries paper to the Zimbabwean in protest against the regime. gunning down by military forces of peacefully 2010 protesting monks on Built a powerful NGO the streets of Myanmar. coalition in response to This helped pressure the the mass rape of between European Union (EU) 300 and 1000 women and to place sanctions on children in the Democratic 2010-11 senior military figures Republic of the Congo (DRC) Helped ensure the and bring about the first by security forces, which secession of South Sudan ever UN Security Council led the UN to launch an from Sudan was largely Presidential Statement investigation that publicly peaceful via a year-long 2011 Brought together 200 on Myanmar, measures named the perpetrators and global mobilisation Arab organizations that helped to stop the resulted in the prosecution campaign called Sudan365, Banksy re-released his iconic ‘Girl with Balloon’ piece in support from 18 countries violence. and imprisonment of key which included a music of the Crisis Action-coordinated #WithSyria campaign. in the Middle East 2011 commanders. video featuring Pink Floyd, Mobilised a global to support the Arab The Police and Radiohead public response League’s unanimous that made the top 10 through the #WithSyria and unprecedented in many countries, was campaign to get request for a no- downloaded millions of agreement for UN fly zone, which 2012 times, and featured on the cross-border aid Helped secure the prevented a massacre Religious leaders from CAR meeting with then UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, as organised by Crisis Action. home pages of YouTube convoys to reach three first coordinated in Benghazi, Libya. and MTV. million starving Syrians. regional strategies This was the first time by the AU, UN 2013 the UN had delivered and US to stop Drove a landmark aid from outside any the havoc being EU decision to country and this cross- wreaked by the close settlement border aid continues 2013 feared Lord’s policy loopholes, Built an unprecedented today. Resistance Army; which helped platform of Christian and consequently, revive peace Muslim religious leaders casualties fell by talks between 2016 from Central African Contributed to the over 90%. Israel and Republic, who convinced successful negotiation Palestine. the UN to deploy of a political agreement 2016-19 peacekeeping forces to in the DRC that averted Prevented an attack 2018 the country. This stopped on the vital lifeline of potentially widespread Helped procure a ceasefire agreement ethnic cleansing from Hodeidah port in Yemen violence, and led to a in South Sudan that significantly spiralling out of control that enabled aid to peaceful transition of reduced deaths by ensuring that South and saved thousands continue to flow to tens leadership in 2018.
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