Action contre la Faim
Afghanistan
Début de l'opération : 1994
Team : 919 PEOPLE
Armenia
Début de l'opération : 2020
Team : 39 PEOPLE
Azerbaijan
Début de l'opération : 2020
Team : 39 PEOPLE
Bangladesh
Début de l'opération : 2006
Team : 221 PEOPLE
Burkina Faso
Début de l'opération : 2007
Team : 301 PEOPLE
Cameroon
Début de l'opération : 2014
Team : 156 PEOPLE
Central African Republic
Début de l'opération : 2005
Team : 344 PEOPLE
Chad
Début de l'opération : 1981
Team : 306 PEOPLE
Colombia
Début de l'opération : 1998
Team : 298 PEOPLE
Democratic Republic of Congo
Début de l'opération : 1995
Team : 386 PEOPLE
Ethiopia
Début de l'opération : 1985
Team : 901 PEOPLE
France
Début de l'opération : 2019
Team : 13 PEOPLE
Georgia
Début de l'opération : 1994
Team : 39 PEOPLE
Guatemala
Début de l'opération : 1996
Team : 74 PEOPLE
Haïti
Début de l'opération : 1984
Team : 136 PEOPLE
Honduras
Début de l'opération : 2020
Team : 107 PEOPLE
India
Début de l'opération : 2010
Team : 248 PEOPLE
Iraq
Début de l'opération : 2012
Team : 53 PEOPLE
Italia
Début de l'opération : 2022
Team : 15 PEOPLE
IVORY COAST
Début de l'opération : 2001
Team : 61 PEOPLE
Jordan
Début de l'opération : 2012
Team : 71 PEOPLE
Kenya
Début de l'opération : 2006
Team : 77 PEOPLE
Lebanon
Début de l'opération : 2006
Team : 208 PEOPLE
Liberia
Début de l'opération : 1990
Team : 45 PEOPLE
Libya
Début de l'opération : 2020
Team : 24 PEOPLE
Madagascar
Début de l'opération : 2010
Team : 402 PEOPLE
Mali
Début de l'opération : 1996
Team : 222 PEOPLE
Mauritania
Début de l'opération : 2007
Team : 188 PEOPLE
Moldova
Début de l'opération : 2022
Team : 13 PEOPLE
Mozambique
Début de l'opération : 2021
Team : 112 PEOPLE
Myanmar
Début de l'opération : 1993
Team : 308 PEOPLE
Nepal
Début de l'opération : 2010
Team : 7 PEOPLE
Nicaragua
Début de l'opération : 1995
Team : 107 PEOPLE
Niger
Début de l'opération : 1997
Team : 239 PEOPLE
Nigeria
Début de l'opération : 2009
Team : 333 PEOPLE
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Début de l'opération : 2002
Team : 73 PEOPLE
Pakistan
Début de l'opération : 2004
Team : 174 PEOPLE
Peru
Début de l'opération : 2006
Team : 40 PEOPLE
Philippines
Début de l'opération : 1999
Team : 53 PEOPLE
Pologne
Début de l'opération : 2022
Team : 15 PEOPLE
Romania
Début de l'opération : 2022
Team : 32 PEOPLE
Senegal
Début de l'opération : 2012
Team : 24 PEOPLE
Sierra Leone
Début de l'opération : 1990
Team : 68 PEOPLE
Somalia
Début de l'opération : 1992
Team : 117 PEOPLE
South Sudan
Début de l'opération : 1985
Team : 279 PEOPLE
Spain
Début de l'opération : 2012
Team : 149 PEOPLE
Sudan
Début de l'opération : 0101
Team : 86 PEOPLE
Syria
Début de l'opération : 2008
Team : 89 PEOPLE
Tanzania
Début de l'opération : 0101
Team : 16 PEOPLE
Turkey
Début de l'opération : 0101
Team : 4 PEOPLE
Uganda
Début de l'opération : 1994
Team : 194 PEOPLE
Ukraine
Début de l'opération : 2022
Team : 80 PEOPLE
United Kingdom
Début de l'opération : 2020
Team : 1 PEOPLE
Yemen
Début de l'opération : 2011
Team : 115 PEOPLE
Zambie
Début de l'opération : 2022
Team : 10 PEOPLE
Zimbabwe
Début de l'opération : 2001
Team : 22 PEOPLE
Our action in France
In the current French context, Action Against Hunger is committed to ensuring that everyone in France has the right to sufficient, healthy, sustainable and chosen food.
Today, more than 9 million French people live below the poverty line, and food is often the first adjustment variable in household budgets.
Food aid helps to partially cover the needs of 2 to 4 million people with varied profiles: single mothers, people living in peri-urban or rural areas, the elderly, the working poor…This aid, often deployed in the form of food distribution, only meets the emergency needs of precarious people and gives them little choice in what they consume.
This aid system cannot tackle the other structural barriers to access to food: food availability, physical accessibility, cultural dimensions, people’s mobility, specific health issues, type of housing…
Faced with increasing precariousness and inequalities, non-use and barriers to access to rights and food, Action Against Hunger has launched its intervention in France in 2019. Its guiding principle: to make its humanitarian expertise available to those involved in helping the most precarious people. Also, to act alongside them, by crossing expertise, to aim for operational and structural change.
In the Ile-de-France and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regions, Action Against Hunger has been working for over 3 years alongside those involved in access to food and the fight against precariousness and exclusion, to better cover the essential needs, including food, of those who are furthest from services.
Drawing on its fresh perspective on the challenges of precariousness in France, and nourished by its international experience, Action Against Hunger provides those involved in access to food with diagnostic and analytical tools, as well as various forms of action, in order to co-construct responses tailored to people’s needs.
To achieve this, Action Against Hunger works with its partners to document the barriers to access to food in the field. Action Against Hunger goes out to meet the people supported by the associations in order to get to know them better and understand their constraints in covering their basic needs and essential rights. Through field surveys, Action Against Hunger asks the people supported by the associations about their practices and food security, their health, their well-being, their access to information and their rights, etc. Through these surveys, Action Against Hunger supports its partners in developing their operational strategies and implementing recommendations, by sharing its expertise, in order to act on barriers to access to essential services and rights, including food.
In 2022, Action Against Hunger deployed 12 surveys and provided assistance or support on an ad hoc basis to the teams of 27 aid schemes in the Ile de France and Provence-Alpes-Côté d’Azur regions. At national level, for example, Action Against Hunger teams carried out a survey on the needs and expectations of Restos du cœur clients.
This is why Action Against Hunger works in partnership with other players in the field and in research, to co-construct pilot projects, test and document new aid methods that are better suited to meeting the needs of the most precarious populations, and feed into changes in public policy. The Passerelle project in Montreuil is a good example. So is the food voucher project under construction with the Seine St Denis departmental council, or the territorial project to combat non-recourse and promote access to sustainable food in the 15th arrondissement of Marseille.
In conjunction with its partners, Action Against Hunger participates in various forums for exchange and coordination at both local and national level. For example, Action Against Hunger played an active role in the work of COCOLUPA – Comité de coordination de la lutte contre la précarité alimentaire – set up in 2020 to develop policies to combat food insecurity.
Action Against Hunger facilitates the exchange of expertise, data and best practices between players involved in access to food, and raises awareness of the issues surrounding access to food. Action Against Hunger co-produces and/or shares multi-actor studies on the issues of precariousness, access to rights and access to food, such as the operational research project ISSimars (ItinéraireS et Situation de vie en squat) in Marseille, or the report les Oubliés du droit d’asile in Ile-de-France.
At national level, Action Against Hunger feeds into public policy by advocating access to sustainable food for all. It makes its proposals known to all the players concerned, through alliances with other players and directly. For example, Action Against Hunger is involved in discussions on the Nutrition, Food and Climate Strategy as part of the work of the Climate Action Network, and is also an active member of the Collectif Nourrir and the Collectif Alerte.
© Adrienne Surprenant pour Action contre la Faim
Adrienne Surprenant
France
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