9 -11 February 2010
Participatory Project Management Workshop
(Perth, Australia)
16 - 18 February 2010
Disaster Risk Management Workshop
(Perth, Australia)
2 - 4 March 2010
Participatory Project Management Workshop
(Port Moresby, PNG)
Microfinance Institutions Reducing Fossil Fuel Dependence
In December, the Pacific Renewable Energy and Microfinance (PREM) project trained Microfinance Institutions on the important role they play in reducing Pacific fossil fuel dependence. The training, undertaken by The Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC) is just one part of the PREM project that aims to develop innovative loan products that support financing of renewable [...]
Bangladesh Social Enterprise Project (BSEP) Workshop
11 - 12 January 2009
BEI Conference Room, Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) in association with The Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC) based in Australia and Libra Advisory Group based in UK is going to organise a two days Project workshop on Bangladesh Social Enterprise Project (BSEP), supported by the British Government?s Department for International [...]
Joint ASPI-FDC Research Report: Australian Resource Sector Companies Overseas ? Assessing Development Impact
The Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC) and Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) have joined efforts to convene a blue-ribbon Independent Task Force. The Task Force ? a combination of CEO-level individuals from a cross-section of Australia?s leading resource sector companies and PEAK organizations - will focus on assessing the role, influence and impact of Australian [...]
Five individual initiatives designed by participants of Bottom-Up Governance and Leadership Program (BGLP) have now been selected for funding!
Following their training in the BGLP course materials, and based on their excellent project designs, 6 women from BGLP have now become project managers in their own right. Each of the initiatives have been given USD $5,000 in funding. We look forward to seeing some great results come from each of these projects. Well done [...]
Business Models for Financial Services (BMFS)
Providing greater access to finance, especially in rural areas, and improving financial solutions offered to the unbanked, has been a hot topic for many years already. In July 2009, FDC has been contracted by the Porgera Environmental Advisory Komiti (PEAK) to conduct a Business Models for Financial Services (BMFS) assessment. The objective of the BMFS [...]
Latest FDC Nai Sema Now Available!
The Foundation for Development Cooperation is proud to present the second issue of its occasional paper series: FDC Nai Sema - Post-Earthquake Recovery in Haiti:
The Challenges Ahead. More...
Partners Improving Marketplaces Project: Piloting New Initiatives for “Empowerment of Women Vendors and Engendering Market Management in Melanesia”
The Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC) has recently been contracted to undertake the second phase of UNIFEM Pacific’s Partnerships to Improve Markets project in Fiji, which will run from January to May 2010. This project seeks to improve the social, economic and physical conditions of women market vendors and to encourage local governments and other bodies tasked with managing markets to adopt a gender responsive approach to marketplace planning, operations and governance. More...
Latest FDC Briefing Note Now Available!
During January, The Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC) released the latest version of the FDC Briefing Note entitled: Financial Services Models in Papua New Guinea: Increasing Access to Finance in Rural Areas. A copy of this issues is available here.
Australian Aid Resource and Training Guide
This Australian Aid Resource and Training Guide (AARTG) is a monthly newsletter which provides information about how community development and overseas aid practitioners can become involved in humanitarian and development activities. The AARTG was published and edited by TorqAid between 2002 through to 2009. From January 2010, this responsibility has now been taken over by The Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC). More...
Participatory Project Management Workshop
9 - 11 February (Perth, Australia)
This workshop is for those who are:
• Involved in Community Development (CD) projects.
• NGO and International Development Consultancy Project Officers.
• Government or UN officials, returned volunteer or students who wants to learn more about CD/PM.
The purpose of this workshop is to learn a variety of Mindset, Skillset and Heartset skills which are instrumental to the eff ective community development practitioner. These will include Project Cycle Management (PCM); Participatory Learning and Action (PLA); and the Logical Framework Approach (LFA), or Logframes for short. Case Study examples will be drawn from Australia, the Asian-Pacific region, and Africa.
For further registration information contact:
Ms Marjorie Pashley, Projects and Training Officer, MurdochLINK
Ph: + 61 (0)8 93607585; Email: M.Pashley@murdoch.edu.au