FDC’s Asia Regional Representative Jamie Bedson will be presenting at the Asia Pacific Academy of Business in Society (APABIS) conference in Sinagpore on the 17th October. More…
Masud Isa, Senior Private Sector Specialist of FDC conducted an interactive session on Microfinance as a Development Tool, organised by Melbourne based Asia Pacific Journalism Centre (http://www.apjc.org.au/ ) on October 07, 2008 in Melbourne, Australia. The event was attended by the senior newspaper editors, reporters and broadcasters from radio and television media from Indonesia and the Pacific region.
The United Nations Democracy Fund has tasked The Foundation for Development Cooperation to implement the “Bottom-up Governance Leadership Program for Women in the Pacificâ€. The project starts in September 2008, will run for two years, and will train women from four Pacific Islands with leadership and governance skills. More…
The Banking with the Poor (BWTP) Network is pleased to announce that it has received funding from the Citi Foundation for FDC to implement a second year of the Citi Network Strengthening Project (CNSP). The aim of the CNSP is to promote the growth and development of national microfinance operations by strengthening the operational, technical, and financial capacities of national and regional microfinance networks.
15th-17th July 2008
The purpose of this workshop is to learn practical and participatory project management skills, which are used in community development (CD) projects in the Asia Pacific Region. The three main project management methodologies introduced are Project Cycle Management (PCM); Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) , and the Logical Framework Approach (LFA), or Logframes for short. We will also be reviewing projects in the light of AusAID’s latest Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE), 2007. More…
The Board of FDC has approved the opening of a new regional office, FDC Pacific, to be located in Suva, Fiji. A Pacific Regional Representative has been appointed. FDC Pacific will open on 15 September 2008.
FDC House was officially opened by the Australian Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, The Hon Mr Bob McMullan MP, on 27 June 2008. More…
FDC has recently completed the first stage of its BWTP Citi Network Strengthening Project. Multiple microfinance country studies have been prepared, the BWTP Secretariat is being opened in Singapore, and BWTP is hosting a discussion in Hanoi in August to become a network of country-level microfinance networks across Asia. More…
FDC over the next several months will design the first stage of a community development strategy for an Australian mining company operation in Indonesia.
The purpose of this workshop is to learn practical and participatory project management skills, which are used in community development (CD) projects in the Asia Pacific Region. More…