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ACT Alliance Secretariat

ACT Alliance is the largest coalition of Protestant and Orthodox churches and church-related organisations engaged in humanitarian, development and advocacy work in the world, consisting of 135 members working together in over 120 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 30,000 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.


certification suspended

ACT Alliance Secretariat is certified against the CHS for its humanitarian mandate since 2017. A new certification cycle has started in 2021 with the recertification audit. Following the conclusion of the renewal audit 2023 the certificate ACT-CHS-17-02 was suspended on 09-08-2023.


ACT Alliance latest audit reports

Renewal audit 2023

summary report 2023-08

Recertification Audit 2021

summary report 2021-12

Maintenance audit 2020

summary report 2020-06

Mid-term audit 2019

summary report 2019-06

Maintenance audit 2018

summary report 2018-05

Initial audit 2017

summary report 2017-02


ACT Alliance
A community consultation during a monitoring trip on Quality & Accountability to ACT Alliance's member CEDES response to Cyclone IDAI in Mozambique.
Group photo of workshop for ACT Forum Members in Nepal on CHS Implementation & Compliance. It was conducted in Dec 2019.
Christian Aid Nepal
Group photo of workshop for ACT Forum Members in Nepal on CHS Implementation & Compliance, 2019.
Its Group Photo of Regional Workshop on Quality & Accountability to support our members implementing the response to Cyclone IDAI, it was a capacity enhancement event at Mozambique in June 2019
CEDES member of ACT Alliance
Group Photo of Regional Workshop on Quality & Accountability to support ACT Alliance's members implementing the response to Cyclone IDAI, 2019.
During a group work in workshop on Quality & Accountability at Chimoio, Mozambique in June 2019.
ACT Alliance
During a workshop on Quality & Accountability at Chimoio, Mozambique in June 2019.

Type of organisation

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