Accompaniers have four stated tasks: to offer protection through nonviolent presence; to monitor and report violations of human rights and international humanitarian law; to support Israeli and Palestinian peace activists; to undertake advocacy work including public speaking.
[1] EAPPI's website at present (November 2019) recruits accompaniers from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom & Ireland, United States of America, Uruguay, through local "sending organisations".
EAPPI has received financial support from the city of Linz, the Benedictine Order of Melk, the Diocese of St. Pölten, private donors and various local parishes.
Jon Benjamin, its then Chief Executive, was reported as saying that the EAPPI motion "helped to create a climate of hostility towards Israel within the Church of England".
He was quoted: "The EAPPI narrative is based on the experience of volunteers who spend several months living alongside Palestinians in the Territories, but less than a day in Israel, and then return to address audiences who know little or nothing about the reality of everyday life for those on both sides of the conflict."