 Global Development Group is an Australian charity organisation carrying out humanitarian projects with approved partners and providing aid to relieve poverty in a tangible way. We provide long term solutions through the provision of quality aid development projects in approved countries. Global Development Groups' development project photos from around the world:
========================================================= Recent ActivitiesJ342 Crossroads - Malcolm & Sally Begbie receive 'Order of Australia'Global Development Group would like to extend our warm congratulations to Malcolm and Sally Begbie for being appointed Officers of the Order of Australia on Australia Day, January 26, 2012... See More 
Break The Cycle - Cambodia March (28 Oct - 4 Nov 2011)
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GDG Monitoring Trip - China October 2011
From 13th - 18th October 2011, after the GDG Partners Conference held in Cambodia, Geoff Armstrong (Executive Director) and Hailey Wang (China Project Officer) headed to China to monitor projects. They visited J282 International China Concern, J587 Coat Eagels Wings, J640 ChinaHeart International and J701N Starfish's Development Project.
Global Development Group has many great projects in China - a lot of them focus on disability.
Please see photos above of this trip.
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 Australian Partners Conference – held at Springwood Towers Brisbane, with 110 in attendance. Partners came from all over Australia and we thank them all (quite a number came all the way from Perth).
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..... see more
Attacking the root causes of poverty
In the slum areas west of Yangon, we visited a project centre around a busy medical clinic which is seeing 150 patients a day. This clinic is dealing with the complex problems of HIV/AIDS and associated illnesses amid social pressures of poor housing, poor sanitation and low employment.... see more
Global Development Group is a member of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) and a signatory to the ACFID Code of Conduct, which provides standards on management, communication with the public and, most importantly, how funds are spent.
The 'most valuable gift'?
In addition to giving to their existing preferred projects, GDG donors now have the option to give 'the most valuable gift'; find out more here.
