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Recent Activities

ACFID Council October 2011

ACFID Executive Director Marc Purcell and The Hon Kevin Rudd, Minister for Foreign Affairs keeping the promise at ACFID Council 2011; Photos courtesy of ACFID; click here for more info on MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY.		Fe Luscombe & Carey Westwood also 'keeping the promise'; Fe & Carey represented and voted on behalf of Global Development Group at ACFID Conference 2011

Cambodian Conference October 2011

The Second GDG Cambodian Projects Conference held at the Sunway Hotel, Phnom Penh on 10-11 October 2011, was by all accounts a roaring success.

With guest speakers including Megan Anderson (AusAID) and other invited guests, GDG staff and Cambodian project staff, with projects highlighted throughout the program, it was a thoroughly informative, enjoyable and empowering time. Many attendees commented on how it built on the success and momentum of the previous year's conference and reinforced and extended the partnership understanding, development process learning and capacity building that had been established previously.  The conference was also a great time of building closer partnership relationships and celebrating and experiencing both the diversity and unity of the various Cambodian projects and activities throughout the nation.

Meet the President: Baucau Peace House, Timor-Leste

President Ramos-Horta (Timor-Leste) was one of the esteemed invited guests present for the inauguration of the latest Peace House in Baucau, Timor-Leste on 14th September 2011. Joao Boavida & Mario Alves (Executive Director & Project Coordinator, respectively, of CEPAD - our In-Country Partner), and Renee Lariviere (Interpeace) were also present. Global Development Group and The Charitable Foundation were both represented by Greg (Compliance Manager, GDG) at the official opening ceremony. The Peace House Project has been a vital and much needed pilot project to trial the effectiveness of official neutral community meeting places for peaceful negotiation of disputes, in a country which has been plagued with a long history of political and social unrest.

Two great events at Global Development Group

On the 4th and 5th August we held our first Partners Conference, with 110 in attendance.

The purpose was to describe the new ACFID Code of Conduct, which will be mandatory
1st January 2012. The highlight speaker for Day 1 was Cath Blunt, Code of Conduct Manager for ACFID. Day 2 was our much respected Belinda Lucas on Development Effectiveness. Ten of the Global Development Group staff and consultants presented the work of Global Development Group, and twenty Representatives and Partners also spoke. A feature was the networking between partners resulting in some great plans to work together for the benefit of all.

Second Representatives Conference and Training

The Conference was a great opportunity for our overseas Representatives to gather the week before the Conference and spend three days training on the next Monday through Wednesday.
 

Office visits from project partners

Regular visits with our project partners - whether In-Country or Australian - are an important aspect of ongoing two-way communication with our project partners and keeping up to date.  We look forward to visits from many of our project partners throughout the year - although we don't always have time to post them on our website but most are mentioned in our regular Members Update emails.

Mama Asiwome herself (Lindy Adam) from Mama Asiwome Inc. and Hohoe Charity School (Ghana) recently dropped into the Global Development Group office in Brisbane for meetings with GDG staff. Lindy is the Administrator of Hohoe Charity School and manages the new development project with Global Development Group. Welcome to the GDG project family Lindy!

Ugandan Minister supports GDG Projects

Whilst conducting monitoring audits of GDG projects in South Eastern Africa, Geoff & Betty and Carey received an invitation to meet with the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs/International Affairs for the Republic of Uganda, the Hon. Oryem Henry Okello. He wanted to personally express how happy he was with GDG's Northern Uganda Program, and offered his Government's full support of GDG projects.

Holistic Community Development in Myanmar

Monitoring Visits of five GDG projects have been recently conducted by Craig Tunney in Myanmar (formerly, Burma). One of the highlights was to visit possibly the largest school of any kind operating in Myanmar, based in Mandalay.

This K-12 school benefits more than 7,000 students directly and provides excellent education that incorporates the Government curriculum plus a child centred delivery of English classes, vocational training and critical thinking - and is building capacity of more than 280 teachers and staff. The school is a significant contact point for the poor community surrounding it, also providing facilities for a medical clinic conducting eye operations and dental care, conducting screening and clinics that reach beyond the student to the community as well.