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What we do
One World Action works with more than 30 partner organisations in Africa, Asia and
Our policy change programme contributes to deepening policy discussions at the
Here are some examples of our support to partners and our advocacy work:
In Southern Africa, our Voices Influence Access Project works with partners in Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe to build civil society capacity to influence trade and aid negotiations between their governments and the European Union in the interests of sustainable and equitable development.
In Angola, our long-term partner, Development Workshop, is improving water supply and sanitation, providing micro-finance for community development, and influencing government policy in this critical post-war period.
Rede Mulher, the major women’s network in Angola, is running programmes on HIV/AIDS, youth and women’s political participation, and is especially active now in the run-up to the 2006 elections.
In Malawi and Zambia, Manet + and Women for Change, our partners are bringing together people living with HIV/AIDS so that they can have their voices heard and their health needs met.
In Asia we work on issues of governance, inequality and urban poverty. We have a regional programme, Citizen Participation in Local Government, which supports people in Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines to get involved in local politics and to learn from the experiences of different countries.
We work with organisations in India and Bangladesh to protect the rights of informal workers, and supporting trade unions of textile workers and teachers in Cambodia.
We support fishing communities in the Philippines to establish secure employment and to take action to prevent over-fishing of their traditional fishing areas.
Our partners, Solidez and FEMUCADI in Nicaragua, work with disabled people, especially women to gather evidence of compliance with existing disability legislation and campaign for stronger and more gender-responsive legislation.
We have recently begun to work with ASCES, the Association of Blind People in El Salvador, supporting its business development programme for blind women.
In Nicaragua, with our support the Movimiento Comunal Nicaraguenses-Madriz is developing a replicable approach so that gender equality issues are a day-to-day focus for all community development actions as well as being mainstreamed at organisational level.
A Central America Regional programme works with five partner organisations in El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras to train women leaders, councillors and elected representatives in local government on gender equity, and to promote women’s rights in local and national legislation.
We continue to lobby and campaign on:
- Putting gender policy into practice in aid and trade
- Trade justice, particularly within the Economic Partnership Agreements which the EU is currently negotiating with 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries
- Making services universally available to the poorest women, men and children, and democratically managed and controlled
- Rights for disabled people
- Rights for people living with HIV/AIDS
We play a leading role in several key networks, including: BOND, GAD (UK Gender and Development Network), AEPF (Asia Europe People’s Forum, WIDE (Network Women in Development Europe), Solidar, PHM (People’s Health Movement) and the GAPS Campaign (for a General Agreement on Public Services)
