Actionaid Association

Works to enable human rights to girls, women and children, promotes community control over natural resources, democratize society and economy, establish a just society, help people from man made disasters and backing struggles for a progressive society

  • Gold Certified 2023
  • FCRA
  • 80G
  • 12A
  • CSR-1
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About

  • Headquarters

    New Delhi, Delhi

  • Since

    1973

ActionAid Association India is a non-profit organisation that aims to protect human rights, with a particular focus on women's rights. It provides cou Read morenselling and legal aid to help women resist violence and regain control of their lives. The organisation advocates for children's rights to education, nutrition, safety, protection and well-being, and raises awareness about gender equality and saving the girl child. Additionally, ActionAid Association India works to secure citizenship rights for underprivileged communities and develops leadership and livelihood skills among young people in these communities, addressing issues such as poverty, distress migration, bonded labour and sustainable agriculture practices. The organisation also raises awareness about people's rights over land, livelihoods and public commons. Over the years, the organisation has been recognised for its efforts and won several awards, including ASSOCHAM's Third Diversity and Inclusion Awards, Corona Warriors Excellence Award, Bhubaneswar Leadership Award, Best Social Work Practitioner Award, The Giving Economy Changemakers 2020 Charity Leadership Award, and Mahatma Award 2021 for Social Impact. Finally, ActionAid Association India collaborates with state governments and policymakers to formulate policies that support gender equality, stronger land rights and property rights, especially for women.


Issue

Attempts to address bias, injustice and poverty amongst a large population.


Action

It works on multiple initiatives to address livelihoods, tribal and Dalit rights and other cultural malpractices.

Vision & Mission

Our Vision: A world without poverty, patriarchy and injustice in which every person enjoys the right to life with dignity
Our Mission: To work in solidarity with the poor and participate in their struggle to eradicate poverty, patriarchy and injustice

Donor History

UNICEF, Azim Premji Foundation, CISCO, Colgate, Siemens, Loreal Global, HCL

Programs

  • Achieving the Adivasi Millenium

    Worked with the Bhil tribes of Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh to achieve access to land and natural resources, advocating for their participation in public welfare schemes, restoring the rights of women and girls, ensuring their safety, ensuring the rights of children, their education and protection and advocating for providing them with equal socio-economic opportunities.

  • Democratic Governance & Entitlements

    District
    State

    Works to provide just and fair governance and access to social benefits to the marginalised people, especially minority Muslims, living in the slums of Seema Puri, Delhi. It focuses on their rights to land and resources, citizenship, food security and livelihood.

  • Campaign for Dalit Empowerment

    District

    Partnering with The Tamil Nadu Federation of Women Presidents of Panchayats, ActionAid has organized the fifth State Level Convention of Women Panchayat Presidents to enable visibility of their work and bring them together.

  • Ensuring rights of girl child and gender equality

    District

    Addresses the rights of marginalised women and empowers them to fight against gender-based violence through organising them into grassroots groups which struggle for the rightful share of women in social and economic resources.

  • Inclusive Communities and Schools

    District
    State

    Focuses on educating disabled children from marginalised communities through funding rehabilitation programmes.

  • Securing Rights And Sustainable Livelihoods Through Collective Action And Education For People Dependent On The Informal Economy In India

    Brief description of the program : The overall aim of the action is to secure sustainable livelihoods and protect the social and economic rights of vulnerable people dependent on the informal economy in 32 cities and 18 districts across 15 states of India. This has been sought to be achieved through the three integrated strands of the action’s intervention strategy. The first strand seeks to increase awareness of socio-economic rights and entitlements to decent work and mobilize people dependent on the informal economy to claim those rights; the second seeks to enable young men and women to gain life skills and vocational skills, improve their access to decent work opportunities and increased incomes. The third strand is aimed at developing an understanding of the context, the history and practice of policies related to people working in the informal sector both within India and internationally in order to better frame, analyse, monitor and implement them. The aim of this 4 year action was to reach 600,000+ marginalised people in rural and urban areas dependent on the informal economy and empower them to access social protection. The action also aims to have 23,000 youth and women gain access to basic skills and vocational and technical skills training to enable them to improve livelihoods, and have increased decent work opportunities.

  • Securing Rights and Sustainable Livelihoods Through Collective Action and Education for People Dependent on the Informal Economy in India

    Brief description of the program : The overall aim of the action is to secure sustainable livelihoods and protect the social and economic rights of vulnerable people dependent on the informal economy in 32 cities and 18 districts across 15 states of India. This has been sought to be achieved through the three integrated strands of the action’s intervention strategy. The first strand seeks to increase awareness of socio-economic rights and entitlements to decent work and mobilize people dependent on the informal economy to claim those rights; the second seeks to enable young men and women to gain life skills and vocational skills, improve their access to decent work opportunities and increased incomes. The third strand is aimed at developing an understanding of the context, the history and practice of policies related to people working in the informal sector both within India and internationally in order to better frame, analyse, monitor and implement them. The aim of this 4 year action was to reach 600,000+ marginalised people in rural and urban areas dependent on the informal economy and empower them to access social protection. The action also aims to have 23,000 youth and women gain access to basic skills and vocational and technical skills training to enable them to improve livelihoods, and have increased decent work opportunities.

Impact Metrics

  • Assisted Workers From Unorganized Sectors to Build Their Skills

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2014-15 9000
    • 2015-16 2708
    • 2016-17 5782
    • 2017-18 5497
  • Helped Community Youth Through Leadership Building Initiative

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2014-15 19000
    • 2015-16 321
    • 2016-17 2435
    • 2017-18 2944
  • Marginalised People Dependent on Informal Economy Have Increased Awareness of and Better Access to Their Socio-Economic Rights and Entitlements Relating to Decent Work

    Year-wise Metrics
  • Marginalised People Dependent on Informal Economy Have Increased Awareness of and Better Access to Their Socio-Economic Rights and Entitlements Relating to Decent Work

    Year-wise Metrics

Theory of Change

Supporting the most vulnerable and marginalised communities to help them gain access to their basic human rights and entitlements through government-led schemes and also to help them build livelihoods through lifeskills, training, entrepreneurship and leadership to secure a self-sustainable future for them to make them financially independent.

Milestones & Track Record

ActionAid Works in various Thematic Areas such as Land, Water, Forest, Agriculture, Women empowerment, Education, Skill building, Minorities and Refugees. Following are some of the coverages of our key achievements:

Land
Impact in Numbers
• 3779 families got homestead land
• 1732 families got 1345 acres of agriculture land
• 2785 families got Individual Forest Rights over 8119 acres
• Community Forest rights over 15465 acres of forest
• 150 acres of agriculture land protected from alienation
• 228 acres of land under illegal occupation was brought to light
• 753 people (453 women and 200 men) were trained on Land Rights
• 5000 saplings planted in Noida, Delhi, Haryana and 3,000 persons made aware on environment protection.

Livelihoods:
• 266 Farmer collectives have been formed/nurtured with 4831 members
• 9297 families across 381 villages have been practicing Sustainable agriculture
• 4604 farmers were provided training on SA
• 60 Cooperatives (Agri, Fish, FPO) were registered with 3288 members
• 1425 families started Kitchen gardens for Nutritional security of women, children
• 44 Seed banks across 5 states have been established which are completely managed by communities
• 53 Grain banks across 8 states have been established (managed by communities)
• 183 women have been trained on self-employment skills such as Embroidery and Aari works, phenol making, Agarbathi making and Soap making in TN
• Facilitated registration of 1000 construction workers in Delhi

Informal Workers:
• 784 collectives (437 women collectives) across our operational areas with a membership of more than 41939 informal workers (Men: 19615, Women: 22324)
• 29,335 informal workers are now getting social security benefits under different government schemes,
• 5497 (female -4514 and Male- 983) unskilled workers have been provided with skill development and life skill training. Among these 266 person got employment and 2378 persons became self-employed.
• Farmer Producer Company of 587 members registered in Purba Medinipur, West Bengal to take forward agri-business activities collectively
Labour:
• Submitted recommendations to NHRC for the National Policy for Domestic Workers
• Labour code – We have shared recommendations on state rules in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh,
• Women wage watch groups active across 6 states covering 100 districts, reaching out to around 8,000 women workers
• Kaam Mango Abhiyan was carried out in 110 village in 10 districts in states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh , Punjab and Uttar Pradesh
• Secured rainy season compensation of Rs. 5,000 to all saltpan workers in Tamil Nadu
• In West Bengal, domestic workers sought inclusion under wage schedule. 500 domestic workers oriented on leadership skills and in 10 slum pockets digital skilling programs conducted. 250 domestic workers got enrolled under the State sponsored Skill Building Program. In Uttar Pradesh, they demanded a Welfare Board and a legislation securing their rights.
• Awareness programme with informal sector to enrol in e-shram portal in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
• 1,200 construction workers registered in Delhi through Nirman Mazdoor Adhikar Abhiyan
• 1235 informal workers have registered under labour department in Guwahati

WATER:
• Rejuvenated 4 ponds in Noida, Delhi NCR spread over a total of 1.56 hectares of land
• Renovation of 10 water harvesting structures in 10 villages of Kandhmal district, Odisha
• Engaging with Karnataka State Pollution Control Board to issue circular to take action on quality of water in lakes. Documentation of Kudlu Dodda Kere Lake's biodiversity, 38 different bird species identified and documented, reports prepared - Lake Water Quality in Lakes of Karnataka, Report on lake-bed assessment in Doddakallasandra Lake, "Harness Every Drop", a documentation on Rainwater Harnessing in Chunchaghatta Lake, Report on Strengthening Harnessing Rainwater in Chunchaghatta Lake
• In Bengaluru engaged two lake groups, Shikaripalya and Kudludoddakere, providing them inputs on the protection and conservation of lakes
• Through Water Volunteer programme, we reached out to the community on restoration & protection of river ecology, on the banks of river Ganga, Yamuna & Gandak
• Study conducted to understand causes of river pollution of Yamuna, especially due to industries, covering parts of Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh

Education
More than 2,07,081 adolescent boys and girls and 2,389 youths in 2,571 schools across 22 districts in Odisha, Bihar, Rajasthan & West Bengal .
More than 2 lakh children enrolled in Government schools.
Nai Pahel Project in Uttar Pradesh running successfully from the last four years.
Making schools accessible to all by running of Supplementary Education Classes
Strengthening ICDS and Health Support
Supporting children in disaster
Addressing Child Trafficking in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
Emergency Response
Emergency response since the year 1981 benefitting about 40Million people nationally those effected by Cyclones, Floods, COVID, Sunami’s.

Donor Testimonial

Individual donor testimonials

Action Aid has been doing remarkable work in supporting child education. This testimony comes after my association with them for more than 7+ yrs. I wish and pray God to provide me with more strength to contribute more to society through Action Aid. I wish the entire team good luck, congratulations and more power. - Amudhalingam S
Donor Code: 0005754

A foundation I've been supporting for a few years now, Action Aid is incredible in the way it connects and helps not just a child but their family and the whole community on multiple levels. What I love is the impact stories regularly shared and the very heartwarming messages handwritten by the children that I receive by mail. I hope to write some messages to them soon too! - Shirin Johari

Hi Action Aid Team,
I have been connected with AA since 7 years and it feels good to do something for society.
Thanks to AA for giving a platform and reach to needy people.
I am happy to have conversations with kid which I'm doing some donation. It was pleasing experience thanks for arranging that team.
One suggestion would be good to have quarterly updates about how donations are impacting and improving kids life. You can share such things via newsletter or telegram channel.
Thanks, Yogesh
“ActionAid [is] doing great work. My family [and I] are happy to be helping a child [for] education. This is actually not help, but this is my duty, and I feel satisfied and proud of doing [it].” – Dnyaneshwar Laxman Koditkar

Leadership Team

  • Shabana Azmi

    Chairperson

  • Shantha Sinha

    Vice-Chairperson

  • Sandeep Chachra

    Executive Director

  • Ms Dipali Sharma

    Director HR & OE

  • Avinash Sapru

    Director - Fund Raising

  • Venketswar Nayak

    Director - Finance

  • Esther Mariaselvam

    Associate Director

Demographics & Structure

  • No. of Employees

    100+

  • Strength of Governing Body

    12

  • Diversity Metrics

    34% women

M&E

  • Internal, External Assessors

    Yes

Policies

  • Ethics and Transparency Policies

    Yes

  • Formal CEO Oversight & Compensation Policy

    Yes

Political & Religious Declarations

  • On Affiliation if any

    No

  • On Deployment Bias if any

    No

Organisation Structure

Organisation Structure

Yes

Awards & Recognitions

Mahatama Gandhi Award 2021 for best Humanatarian Work during COVID Response, Best NGO Award 2019 by Delhi Minorities Commission, World Habitat Award 2019, The Giving Economy Changemakers 2020 Charity leadership Award , Corona Warriors Excellence Award by Humanity Welfare society Uttar Pradesh, Assocham Third Diversity and Inclusion Award 2022, Bhubneshwar Leadership Award 2022 at The World CSR Day (27.04.2022)

Registration Details

  • PAN Card

    AAAAA9409Q

  • Registration ID

    S56828

  • VO ID / Darpan ID

    DL/2016/0113991

  • 12A

    AAAAA9409QE20086

  • 80G

    AAAAA9409QF20084

  • FCRA

    094420006

  • CSR Registration Number

    CSR00000955

Other Details

  • Type & Sub Type

    Non-profit
    Society

Financial Details

 Income / Expenses
  • 2018-19

    Income
    Rs.530,147,870
    Expenses
    Rs.594,787,634
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.234,506,359
    Program Expenses
    Rs.360,281,275
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  • 2019-20

    Income
    Rs.656,024,787
    Expenses
    Rs.616,781,068
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.135,691,835
    Program Expenses
    Rs.481,089,233
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  • 2020-21

    Income
    Rs.697,678,836
    Expenses
    Rs.662,451,880
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.145,739,413
    Program Expenses
    Rs.516,712,467
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  • 2021-22

    Income
    Rs.866,176,546
    Expenses
    Rs.714,513,100
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.142,902,620
    Program Expenses
    Rs.571,610,480
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Government Partnerships

Ministry of Women and Child Development, Madhya Pradesh + National Human Rights Commission