Practical Action works with poor communities to help them choose and use technology to improve their lives for today and generations to come.

Our work in Africa, Asia and Latin America is in partnership with poor people and their communities, building on their own knowledge and skills to come up with innovation, sustainable and practical solutions. Our work is people focused, locally relevant, environmentally sensitive and offers tangible ways out to poverty. Through our work we demonstrate alternatives, share knowledge and influence change.

Practical Action aims to help eradicate poverty in developing countries by developing and using technologies, and by demonstrating results, sharing knowledge and influencing others.

Vision

A world free of poverty and injustice in which technology is used to the benefit of all.

Mission

Practical Action aims to eradicate poverty in developing countries through the development and use of technology, by demonstrating results, sharing knowledge and influencing others.

Practical Action is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) which specialises in helping people to use technology for practical answers to poverty.

Practical Action is striving for a world free of poverty in which technology is used sustainably to the benefit of all equally. It seeks to demonstrate and advocate the sustainable use of technology to reduce poverty in developing countries.

A growing number of concerned global citizens oppose the current economic model of globalization, arguing that it fails to eliminate poverty and inequality and degrades the natural environment. They are searching for alternative, sustainable models of development.

Practical Action will play a key role in this search, drawing on its position within three overlapping international movements:

• The non-governmental international development sector
• The movement for environmental conservation and protection
• The non-governmental sector that has emerged out of the tradition of appropriate technology