The GPF Secretary General, Javier Moreno Sanchez, and the GPF team, met today with Jorge Romano, former Executive Director of ActionAid Brasil and new Director of Governance and new International Strategy for ActionAid and with Joanna Maycok, International Director for Europe, accompanied by her assistant Sara Jespersen.
 
Since its creation, the Global progressive Forum has had numerous opportunities to cooperate with ActionAid. ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. Formed in 1972, for over 30 years we have been growing and expanding to where we are today - helping over 13 million of the world's poorest and most disadvantaged people in 42 countries worldwide. Its missions is to work with poor and excluded people to eradicate poverty and injustice.
 
Jorge Romano is a Brazilian anthropologist and is a specialist in governance issues, social movements, local development, and public policies to fight poverty. He has been national and international consultant for multilateral and international NGOs, social movements, Brazilian NGOs, and governmental agencies on such issues.