Womens leadership

Climate change is at the heart of both World Water Day and World Meteorological Day, as it intensifies global water challenges and extreme weather patterns. Climate change disrupts the water cycle, causing rising sea levels, severe droughts, floods, and contamination of freshwater sources - all disproportionately impacting women and children in the world’s poorest regions.

In this blog you can read about how a community in Senegal is adapting to climate change and what it means for the future of climate resilience.

With International Women's Day behind us, ActionAid's Community Campaigners reflect on this important day and share their thoughts on how women's and girls' leadership is needed now more than ever.

December marked the 15th AWID Forum, in Bangkok Thailand. The AWID (Association for Women's Rights in Development) International Forum is both a global community event and a space of radical personal transformation. A one-of-a-kind convening, the Forum brings together feminist, women’s rights, gender justice, LBTQI+ and allied movements, in all our diversity and humanity, to connect, heal and thrive.

Our ActionAid UK Colleagues, alongside Young Urban Women’s movement colleagues joined thousands of feminists from across the globe to share space and solidarity for women’s rights. Here are some reflections on the forum from Ntsiki Khunju, a member of the Young Urban Women's movement in South Africa, who work with ActionAid South Africa.

On the anniversary of UN's resolution on women, peace and security, we explore the crucial role women play in peace negotiations, humanitarian response and redevelopment after conflicts and emergencies.

Find out more about women's leadership in crises and why it's so crucial right now.

28th September marks one year since a series of powerful earthquakes struck the Central Sulawesi province of Indonesia, triggering a tsunami resulting in significant damage and loss of life. Our new research shows how women's leadership made an incredible difference in the aftermath.