About us

Values and Policies

Act today I Invest in tomorrow

We go the last mile: ACTED’s mission is to save lives and support people in meeting their needs in hard to reach areas. ACTED develops and implements programs that target the most vulnerable amongst populations that have suffered from conflict, natural disaster, or socio-economic hardship. ACTED’s approach looks beyond the immediate emergency towards opportunities for longer term livelihoods reconstruction and sustainable development.

Our mandate

Independent, private and non-profit, ACTED respects a strict political and religious impartiality, and operates following principles of non-discrimination, transparency, according to its core values: responsibility, impact, enterprising-spirit and inspiration.

ACTED is committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential.

ACTED endeavors to respond to humanitarian crises and build resilience; promote inclusive and sustainable growth; co-construct effective governance and support the building of civil society worldwide by investing in people and their potential.

Our vision

Every human being has the right to live in dignity,
We choose to act for immediate change in the lives of those in urgent need,
We create new possibilities and sustainable change together with people by investing in their potential.

Our values

The commitment of ACTED and that if our teams is guided by 4 core values:

• Responsibility: we ensure the efficient and responsible delivery of humanitarian aid with the means and the resources that have been entrusted to us.
• Impact: we are committed to having the most sustainable impact for the communities and the people with whom we engage.
• Enterprising-spirit: we are enterprising and engage in our work with a spirit that creates value and overcomes challenges.
• Inspiration: we strive to inspire all those around us through our vision, values, approaches, choices, practice, actions and advocacy.