Practical Action has been awarded a Programme Partnership Arrangements (PPA) grant by the UK Government’s Department for International Development.

The charity will receive £2,891,061 of funding each year, for the next three years, to support its work in poverty alleviation in Africa, South America and Asia.

Winning this funding is a ringing endorsement of Practical Action’s work and testament to the commitment and progress made by our staff over the past few years.

In excess of 4 million marginalised people will directly benefit from the funding with many millions more benefitting through the sharing of knowledge and expertise. The funding was awarded following the submission of a clear business plan by Practical Action.

Practical Action is an international development charity with a difference, working together with some of the world’s poorest women, men and children, helping to alleviate poverty in the developing world through the innovative use of technology.

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For further information, please contact Abbie Upton, Practical Action Media Officer, on 01926 634510 or 07714 205342.

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Practical Action believes that the right idea, however small, can change lives.
Practical Action is an international development charity with a difference, working together with some of the world’s poorest women, men and children, helping to alleviate poverty in the developing world through the innovative use of technology.

Practical Action’s particular strength is its ‘simple’ approach: finding out what people are doing and helping them to do it better. This enables poor communities to build on their own knowledge and skills to produce sustainable and practical solutions: driving their own development.

Whether enabling women and men in Darfur to feed their families, providing people in Bangladesh with the chance to control the impact of flooding on their lives or working with remote communities in Peru to introduce electricity, Practical Action’s activities are always people focused, locally relevant and environmentally sensitive, offering tangible ways out of poverty.