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.
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 [...]
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 2010
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 Governmentâ??s Department for International [...]
Joint ASPI-FDC Research Report: Australian Resource Sector Companies Overseas â?? 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 â?? a combination of CEO-level individuals from a cross-section of Australiaâ??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 [...]
Jamil Goheer Wins FYSE100 Award
Mr. Jamil Goheer, who, earlier in the year completed an internship with FDC through the Endeavour Executive Award, entered his project, The Cultural Classics, in The Foundation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship (FYSE) competition. The FYSE Competion targets social change makers from Asia and Mr Goheer project was selected amongst a group from Pakistan. The objective [...]
Disaster Risk Management Workshop
From October 14 to 16 2009 FDC held a Disaster Risk Management (DRM) workshop in Port Moresby, PNG in partnership with TorqAid. The workshop included participants from a range of local and international organisations such as the PNG National Disaster Center, AusAID, World Vision and HOPE Worldwide. PNG is vulnerable to a number of both [...]
Ten BGLP Participants to attend Study Tour and Participatory Project Management workshop (PPM)
Ten women participating in FDCâ??s Bottom-up Governance Leadership Program for Women in the Pacific (BGLP), arrived in Brisbane on 14 September to attend a study tour and the PPM workshop. These women have been chosen on the basis of their high performance in the training modules of BGLP and the quality of their project proposals [...]