ActionAid

ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. Their dedicated local staff are changing the world with women and girls. They are ending violence and fighting poverty so that all women, everywhere, can create the future they want.

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Publications

• Al Jazeera (12 Jun, 2021). ‘Gender inequality: The economic effect of the pandemic on women’ [Video, feat. Neelanjana Mukhia].

• Sharpe, R. (22 Oct, 2018). ‘Short-changed: How the IMF's tax policies are failing women’. Action Aid.

• Sharpe, R. (2 Dec, 2016). ‘Making tax work for women's rights’. ActionAid.

• Mukhia, N., and Kachingwe, N. (July 2016). ‘Building feminist alternatives for development’. Gender and Development Network.

Rachel Noble

• Currently based in: UK, Europe

• Affiliation: ActionAid International

• Other affiliations: GADN

• Email: rachel.noble@actionaid.org

• Publication and/or resources: 

  • Herten-Crabb, A., and Noble, R. (15 Feb, 2021). ‘Linking the local to the global: How the International Monetary Fund impacts public services and young women’s rights and what to do about it: Six steps for creating change’. ActionAid.

  • Noble, R., Walker, R., Caballero, L., and Herten, A. (20 Nov, 2020). ‘Another world is possible volume 1: Advancing feminist economic alternatives. ActionAid.

  • Noble, R., Walker, R., Caballero, L., and Herten, A. (20 Nov, 2020). ‘Another world is possible volume 2: Centering economics around care’. ActionAid.

  • Noble, R., Walker, R., Caballero, L., and Herten, A. (20 Nov, 2020). ‘Another world is possible volume 3: Ensuring a just transition’. ActionAid.

  • Noble, R., Walker, R., Caballero, L., and Herten, A. (20 Nov, 2020). ‘Another world is possible volume 4: Building the conditions for feminist economic alternatives to flourish’. ActionAid.

  • Noble, R. (4 Oct, 2018). ‘From rhetoric to rights: towards gender-just trade’. ActionAid.

Wangari Kinoti

• Currently based in: Kenya, Africa

• Affiliation: ActionAid International

• Email: wangari.kinoti@actionaid.org 

• Other affiliations: DAWN

• Publication and/or resources: 

  • Kinoti, W., and Kelleher, F. (2022). ‘COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond: An African Feminist Vision for Macroeconomic System Change’. African Women’s Lives in the Time of a Pandemic. 3 (1): 13-42.

  • Simeoni, C., and Kinoti, W. (March 2021). ‘Medical equipment in Kenya: Neocolonial global finance and misplaced health priorities’. In DAWN Informs: PPPs & Women’s Human Rights. 

  • Video: ‘Ending the Debt Crisis for Women’ (feat. Wangari Kinoti, Dr Claire Slatter, and Lidy Nacpil). ActionAid Australia. (8 Sept, 2020).

  • Kinouti, W. (26 Sept, 2019). ‘It's time to put gender justice at the heart of our economies’. openDemocracy.

Roos Saalbrink

• Currently based in: UK, Europe

• Affiliation: ActionAid International

• Other affiliations: Womankind Worldwide, Global Alliance for Tax Justice

• Publications and resources:

  • Saalbrink, R. (10 Oct, 2022). ‘The Care Contradiction: The IMF, Gender and Austerity’. ActionAid International.

  • Saalbrink, R. (28 May, 2021). ‘How the IMF’s Comprehensive Surveillance Review sidelines gender equality’.

  • Saalbrink, R. (24 Mar, 2021). ‘Making Taxes Work for Women’. Global Alliance for Tax Justice.

  • Othim, C. and Saalbrink, R. (4 June, 2020). ‘In depth: Why fair taxation matters in wake of this pandemic’. Womankind Worldwide.

  • Saalbrink, R. (March 2019). ‘Working towards a just feminist economy: The role of decent work, public services, progressive taxation and corporate accountability in achieving women’s rights’. Womankind Worldwide.