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Crisis Action - Responding to armed conflict

Core Partners

We are keen to work with organisations across civil society. For information on becoming a Crisis Action partner please contact us directly.

Network Members

What they say about us

"Crisis Action's great added value is its ability to draw on the different strengths of its partner organisations and mould them into effective and strategic advocacy campaigns. Its campaigning on Darfur in Europe has been particularly impressive, and we at Crisis Group are strong supporters of its work"

Gareth Evans
President and CEO, International Crisis Group

"Crisis Action enables diverse organisations to work together on a common cause. Their initiative strives to mobilize action worldwide; to resist staying silent and to help their many partners take a collective stand that we see has real influence over government policy"

Said Ahmad
Chief Executive, Muslim Aid

"Our co-operation with Crisis Action on Darfur is very strong, and very important for our European level advocacy work on this region, enhancing intelligence sharing, capacity, and consistency of message with other NGOs"

Susi Dennison
Executive Officer Common Foreign and Security Policy/External Relations, Amnesty International

"Crisis Action was instrumental in bringing together for the first time in Germany different NGOs and student groups working on Darfur"

Marianne Heuwagen
Berlin Director, Human Rights Watch Germany

"Thanks to our collaboration with Crisis Action, the Day for Darfur we organized in Italy on 16 September was a great success. We hope to continue to work together to gain greater attention for the crisis in Darfur from the Italian government"

Antonella Napoli
President, Italians for Darfur

"Crisis Action’s networking and analysis has enabled Action contre la Faim to refine its approach by meeting other experts, broadening its perspective as well as increasing dialogue on key themes"

Anne Garella
Advocacy Officer, Action Contre la Faim

"Crisis Action’s work on Iran has been professional, responsible and politically astute. By illustrating that military action would be disastrous, and that there was scope for negotiation, Crisis Action helped change the public debate. Crisis Action is a rare beast; able to harness the expertise and influence of practitioners, analysts and civil society groups to engage both in writing and face-to-face with the realities of politics and to make an impact"

Sir Richard Dalton
former UK Ambassador to Iran

"By coordinating our work on Iran with them and their partner NGOs, we have been able to work with development organisations, trade unions, religious groups, and others with whom we previously had limited contact. They really have shown that by working together, civil society groups can have a genuine impact on policy-making and public debate that goes far beyond our influence as individual organisations"

John Sloboda
Executive Director, Oxford Research Group

"Through dynamic advocacy and incomparable facilitation, Crisis Action has made a serious contribution to transatlantic cooperation on Iran. In doing so, they have increased the impact of the work done by civil society organisations on an issue of global importance"

Carah Ong
Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation, Washington DC

"By organizing a Somalia Round Table early in the year, Crisis Action managed to kick start policy and human rights work on Somalia and helped coordinating efforts. It is with the help of Crisis Action that information is shared, policy is formulated and implemented"

Annette Weber
Research Associate, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

"Crisis Action may be small but it adds big value to our work on armed conflict, particularly by bringing together a wide range of organisations to inform the public and put concerted pressure on decision-makers"

Barbara Stocking
Director, Oxfam

"Crisis Action is fulfilling the potential it always had; catalysing action and adding value to our work. Having been present at the birth of Crisis Action, the question I always had was 'will they add value or just be another NGO initiative?' During 2006 they have, emphatically, added value to our work. They don't do rocket science but they do take the initiative, catalyse action and help us achieve impact in a way that would require many more resources were we to seek to do this work alone"

Tim Hancock
Campaigns director, Amnesty International UK

"Crisis Action came into its own during the Lebanon war. Its light touch yet reliable, creative and professional coordination allowed Save the Children to amplify our advocacy through coalition when it was appropriate whilst at the same time not constraining us when we needed to tread our own path. In such a highly political environment, it provided a perfect vehicle for bringing disparate voices together and resonate the public mood"

Martin Kirk
Public Affairs Advisor , Save the Children

"Crisis Action has done an outstanding job in mobilising civil society on Darfur. Its efforts have have been very effective in raising and sustaining pressure on policy makers to take real action to resolve this devastating conflict"

Nick Grono
Vice President for Advocacy, International Crisis Group

"Thanks to Crisis Action, those of us who are seeking a change of government policy on Darfur, were brought together under one campaigning umbrella. It's a cliché, but in unity, there is strength, and our day of action had much more effect than we would have had working alone. Crisis Action performed a remarkable job by getting us to agree a common policy and objectives, and then making it happen"

Rebecca Tinsley
Director, Waging Peace

"By fusing authoritative analysis with joint advocacy, Crisis Action's work on Iran has gone far beyond the usual boundaries of NGO campaigns. Crisis Action has succeeded in bringing together a diverse group of organisations - from campaign groups to foreign policy analysts - to work strategically on one of the most challenging international issues of the day"

Robert Lowe
Middle East Programme Manager, Chatham House

"World Jewish Aid congratulates Crisis Action for bringing together the major faith groups in a show of unity with the Prayer for Darfur event in Downing Street, an event that so clearly raised the profile of this disaster. We were delighted to have been able to participate and that the breadth of the British Jewish Community was represented amongst the faith leaders in Downing Street"

Peter Reichwald
Deputy Chair, World Jewish Aid

"Crisis Action plays a valuable role in facilitating joint advocacy by different organisations in the field addressing current crises. We find working with them an enormously positive experience"

Dr James Smith
Chief Executive, Aegis Trust

"Crisis Action's swift response in coordinating an urgent demand for a ceasefire during the recent flare-up of conflict in the Middle East drew in a wide range of actors with similar concerns in a professional and truly consultative manner. An organisation that brings organisations together around common concerns within a short timeframe is very valuable"

Marion Birch
Executive Director, Medact

"Crisis Action is about ensuring that creative options for change generated by the NGO community are brought to the attention of decision-makers and opinion shapers in good time to make a difference"

Dr Ian Davis
Director, British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

"Crisis Action brings together the major NGOs that are active in the conflict field and thus gives smaller organisations like People & Planet access to knowledge and insights that would otherwise be out of reach. Furthermore it provides a mechanism for a wide range of organisations to focus on a particular issue - so that the collective energy of the sector is harnessed, and supported, to push for the political momentum that is invariably essential if significant change is to be achieved"

Ian Leggett
Director, People & Planet