Health Poverty Action

UK non-governmental organization

Health Poverty Action is an international NGO working to improve health rights and services in marginalised communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Communities face great challenges and we seek to be innovative and pioneer new approaches to support them. For example: We have introduced birthing facilities that incorporate the cultural needs of indigenous people, without which local women would not be able to use them We have taken health education to remote areas through award-winning radio soaps, one of which has become the most popular radio programme in Rwanda Targeting the poorest has led us to become particularly skilled at reaching remote areas, especially in fragile states, and working with cultural minorities

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Founded: 1984

Accounts

No accounts available from the sources we use.

Public funds from donor governments

Payments by donor in the last 5 years

Donor	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
FCDO (United Kingdom)	–	€677,413	€2.8M	€291,450	€79,305
Irish Aid (Ireland)	€90,000	€120,000	€50,000	€100,000	€100,000

Payments to the organisation reported by the aid agencies of 17 countries (USAID, FCDO, BMZ, Sida and others) in their own IATI data, converted to euros at the year's average rate. They include funds passed on to local partners. Not all donors name the recipient of their payments, so figures may be incomplete; EU funds are in their own section.

Spending on declared projects (IATI)

Only the projects the organisation publishes on IATI: usually a fraction of its total spending (median 14% in our checks).

Countries with projects published on IATI

Kenya ↗ 2 · Myanmar (Burma) ↗ 2 · Rwanda ↗ 2 · Laos ↗ 1 · Peru ↗ 1 · Sierra Leone ↗ 1 · Somalia ↗ 1

Number of activities published on IATI that mention the country, added up over all years. Platforms that raise funds for other organisations publish every small project as a separate activity. Each country opens on d-portal the list of this organisation’s projects in that country.

Projects published on IATI (most recent and largest)

Project	Country	Period	Spending
Mama en Pikin Welbodi Project	Sierra Leone	2020–2022 closed	$131,293
Rwandan Girls’ Education and Advancement Programme 2 (REAP2)	Rwanda	2017–2020 ongoing	$1.5M
Humanitarian Support for Displaced and Conflict-affected People in Kachin and Northern Shan	Myanmar (Burma)	2016–2018 ongoing	$3.4M
Promoting effective sexual and reproductive health services and rights in hard to reach, underserved cultural minorities' areas along the Sino-Burmese border in Burma	Myanmar (Burma)	2016–2018 ongoing	$2.6M
Improving maternal, new born and child health in pastoralist communities of Mandera County, Kenya	Kenya	2016–2018 ongoing	$1.5M
Rwandan Girls' Education and Advancement Programme	Rwanda	2014–2017 closing	$1.8M
Improving Maternal & Child Health outcomes for 128,123 women and children from marginalised pastoralist communities in Mandera, Kenya	Kenya	2013–2015 closing	$853,321
Improving Maternal and Child Health for 116,744 internally displaced women and children in Somaliland	Somalia	2013–2015 closing	$1.3M
Reducing Malnutrition Rates in children under five years old in Southern Laos PDR	Laos	2013–2015 closing	$1M
Indigenous women improving family nutrition in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle	Peru	2011–2014 ongoing	$674,197

Titles are shown as published by the organisation, in their original language. Spending = disbursements and expenditure reported on IATI, in US$.

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Official checks

Public register: Charity Commission — active registration

Facts from public registers and certification bodies, not a judgement on the organisation; the absence of a label is not a negative sign. Methodology

Timeline

1984 Founded
2012-05-31 First publication on IATI

Identifiers

Charity Commission · IATI (d-portal) · Wikidata