Partners

Hope For Children Ethiopia (HFCE) is a local Ethiopian NGO that was established in November 2000 in response to the staggering AIDS pandemic and its related problems. The organisation provides community-based care and support to the growing number of rejected children and disintegrating family structures caused by HIV/AIDS. Their vision is to enable HIV/AIDS affected children and families to live with dignity in their local communities while ensuring that their basic needs are met.

HFCOE'S work is based on the many years of effort by founding member Yewoinshet Masresha. Yewoinshet is a highly regarded local social worker who is passionate about and has long advocated for the cause of Ethiopian children, who would otherwise be lost and institutionalised in large dormitories. Her model of care has seen her invited to speak at UNICEF conferences and invited to the White House.

The residential care model pioneered by HFCOE is now being adopted across the world.

Global Development Group

Global Development Group, established in 2002, is a Brisbane-based, Australian-founded non-government overseas humanitarian development organisation. It provides comprehensive quality management to help achieve development effectiveness, together with partners, in aid and development projects and activities around the world.

Accountability

Global Development Group has been an approved OAGDS (Overseas Aid Gift Deduction Scheme) organization since 10 March, 2004. Donations over $2 to Global Development Group have been tax deductible since that time. Global Development Group is able to work in areas of specialist relief and humanitarian aid not covered by some of the larger NGO’s.

Global Development Group is also accountable to ACFID (Australian Council for International Development), DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) and the ACNC (Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission).


Global Development Group State Fundraising Registrations

Global Development Group is a registered charity in the following Australian States [QLD, NSW, VIC, WA, SA, TAS – not required for NT and has not been needed yet for the ACT].

  • QLD Registered Charity No. CH1385
  • NSW Charitable Fundraising Registration No. 18581
  • VIC Fundraising Registration No. FR-000014733
  • WA Charitable Collections Licence No. [CC] 20898
  • TAS Approval to Solicit for Charitable Donations No. FIA -275
  • SA Collections for Charitable Purposes Sections 6 Licence No. CCP3412

ACFID

ACFID (Australian Council for International Development) is an independent national association of Australian non-government organisations (NGOs) working in the field of international aid and development. ACFID has over 140 members. It administers a Code of Conduct committing members to high standards of integrity and accountability.

Vision

ACFID is committed to achieving sustainable human development in which people are able to enjoy a full range of human rights, fulfill their needs free from poverty, and live in dignity.

Conduct

Global Development Group is a member of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) and a signatory to the ACFID Code of Conduct. The ACFID Code of Conduct is a voluntary, self-regulatory sector code of good practice that aims to improve international development outcomes and increase stakeholder trust by enhancing the transparency and accountability of signatory organisations. The Code sets good standards for program effectiveness, fundraising, governance and financial reporting.

For more details visit www.acfid.asn.au

ATO

OAGDS entities are uniquely qualified to send tax-deductible funds to overseas projects.

Global Development Group Overseas Relief Fund is a DGR [Deductible Gift Recipient], which means it can issue tax deductible receipts for donations freely given to its approved aid and development projects.

As an Item 1 DGR, Global Development Group has an approved Overseas Aid and Development Fund, with the Australian Government’s Overseas Aid Gift Deduction Scheme [OAGDS], and has been granted 9.1.1 classification from the Australian Taxation Office [ATO]

Global Development Group is authorised to send Australian Tax Deductible funds overseas for approved aid and development projects.

DFAT

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s (DFAT) role is to advance the national interests of Australia and Australians internationally. This involves working to strengthen Australia’s security and enhance Australia’s prosperity by providing foreign, trade and development policy advice to the government.

As of the 1st November 2013, the responsibility for Australia’s aid program was transferred to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Other government departments and agencies, such as the Australian Federal Police, help deliver the aid program.

The program is improving the lives of millions of people in developing countries. Australia works with the governments of neighboring countries to help them improve the way they deliver economic and community services.

For more information, visit: aid.dfat.gov.au

ACNC

The Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission was introduced in 2013. Global Development Group is committed to the highest standards of governance and reporting that are required under the ACNC regulations.

Global Development is registered under sub-types 1, 4 and 6 of the table in s.25-5 of the ACNC Act being – a charity with a purpose that is the relief of poverty, sickness, or the needs of the aged; a charity with a purpose that is beneficial to the community and a charity that is a public benevolent institution. As a large Charity, Global Development Group must supply full financials to ACNC.