About

ACT Alliance is a coalition of 152 churches and church-related organisations working together in over 125 countries to create positive and sustainable change in the lives of poor and marginalised people regardless of their religion, politics, gender, sexual orientation, race or nationality in keeping with the highest international codes and standards.

ACT Alliance is supported by 25,000 staff from member organisations and mobilises about $3 billion for its work each year in three targeted areas:

• humanitarian aid
• development
• advocacy

ACT Alliance is deeply rooted in the communities it serves. It has earned the trust and respect of local people long before large international interventions scale up, and remains steadfast in its grassroots commitments for many years after world attention has shifted elsewhere.

This means that every day, ACT Alliance is on the frontlines:

• addressing systemic poverty
• supporting survivors of disasters, wars and conflicts
• training rural communities in sustainable agricultural techniques
• helping people adapt to environmental change,
• and influencing governments and other key decision makers to safeguard citizens’ human rights.

Members are associated with the World Council of Churches or the Lutheran World Federation.

The global secretariat of ACT Alliance is based within Switzerland, Jordan, Thailand, El Salvador, Kenya, Canada and New York. In addition, the  ACT Alliance Advocacy office to the EU is based in Brussels, Belgium.