Our strategy

At ActionAid UK, we believe supporting women and girls means supporting a more just, fair and sustainable world. 

That is why we are committed to working with women, girls and their communities to achieve social change and gender equality and to eradicate the causes of poverty and oppression. 

From 2025 to 2028, our strategy is to build on our internal principles, systems and processes so that we can shift the power to the women, girls and movements we work with and achieve our mission.  

We will also be scaling up our partnerships with women’s rights organisations, activists, social movements, funding partners and our supporters.  

Our four-year goals are:  

• To decolonise our systems and practices to tackle the root causes of inequality and injustice 
• To champion women’s rights organisations and feminist movements driving systems change
• Build political and popular support for fair and just systems
• Strengthen our global solidarity networks
• Re-envision and create equitable ways of working 

Our approach to change  

How we will reach our strategic goals: 

Showing humility  

• Being considerate and engaging in collective care. Approaching our work with reflexivity, humility and a willingness to learn/unlearn.  

Supporting movements whole-heartedly 

• Relinquishing and transforming power to practise equal partnerships. Setting up mechanisms that enable feminist and social movements to thrive and achieve their goals.  

Challenging persistently 

• Challenging current exploitative and extractive systems. Exploring alternative futures and economic models that are grounded in collective wellbeing, interdependence, reciprocity and co-responsibility.  

Sharing realities authentically 

• Using our principles of anti-racist storytelling to ensure people’s stories are being told in a way that is representative of their complex lived realities.  

Influencing purposefully 

• Using the collective voices of feminist and indigenous organisations, movements and activists to demand transformative change.  

Learn more about ActionAid's Theory of Change.

Read a more in-depth view of our four-year strategy below:  

AAUK Strategy 2025-2028