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  • Education: High quality education is distant dream for those who cannot afford it. In less affluent areas, many families cannot pay for their children's education because running costs are high and not supported by the government. Lack of accountability means teacher absenteeism is high, curriculums are not well implemented, students are mistreated or excluded for not grasping concepts quickly and children regularly go without meals for lack of food causing widespread malnourishment. In Nusa Tenggara Timur, one of the poorest provinces of Indonesia, three quarters of school aged children do not enroll or drop out of school each year because fees are unaffordable.
  • Water and sanitation: In absolute terms, more than 40 million people do not have access to safe drinking water sources, and more than 100 million people lack adequate sanitation. In rural areas, village people walk across steep, rugged terrain to collect water each day representing a large opportunity cost on productivity. Furthermore, malaria is major issue associated with exposed bodies of water, affecting up to 20% of Indonesians. Immunisation rates are low due to lack of access to healthcare.
  • Natural disaster: In recent years, Indonesia has suffered an unprecedented series of natural disasters due to its global position on active tectonic plate boundaries. Some of the more notable catastrophes include the Boxing Day Tsunami of December 2004 in Aceh, the Nias earthquake of March 2005, the Yogyakarta and Central Java earthquake of May 2006, and the West Java earthquake and tsunami in July 2006. In addition, outbreaks of disease and ongoing disruptions to local markets cripples disaster affected areas for subsequent months and years.

Sources:

CIA WorldFact Book - https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html

The World Bank - www.worldbank.org

United nation Development Reports - http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/IND
Unicef - http://www.unicef.org/index.php

What we do

Global Poverty Solutions provides a suite of options to match your philanthropic passions with sustainable development initiatives. You can support any number of our 100+ projects that may align with your passions whilst enjoying the benefits of tax-deductibility and the confidence that your donations will achieve the greatest impact. Alternatively, we can enable you to support a project you have witnessed in a developing country with the same tax-deductibility and quality assurance benefits.

Benefits

Global Poverty Solutions has been managing international development projects and conducting due diligence on international partners for over ten years. This experience will give you confidence that your donations will be effective in providing solutions to the causes of poverty.

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All of the projects in our portfolio are implemented by reputable and accountable organisations. The projects have undergone rigorous design reviews, and are monitored every six months for project and financial progress. Our implementing partners benefit from our developmental expertise through capacity building, toolkits, and networking to ensure that their policies and programming are best practice. Our Due Diligence on new partners and projects ensures that they comply with Australian Taxation Office, and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Australian Charities and Non-profits Commission requirements, as well as best practice in development.

Guiding Principles

Our solutions are guided by three principles: Ethics; Efficiency; and Effectiveness.

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1. Ethical processes ensure that the poor are empowered and not exploited. To this end, we are:

  • Committed to empowering local communities to implement their own solutions to the causes of poverty
  • Endorsed by the Australia Government as a charity and Deductible Gift Recipient Overseas Aid Organisation
  • Registered with Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission
  • Governed by an independent Board of Directors
  • Audited annually by an independent financial auditor
  • Governed by a Code of Practice, which also governs all our partner organisations
  • Compliant with child protection, antiterrorism and money laundering requirements

2. Efficient application (matching) of resources with innovative solutions to the causes of poverty. To this end, we:

  • Conduct comprehensive due diligences on promoted projects
  • Reduce costs of finding projects, designing projects, and conducting due diligences on project partners through our matchmaking facility
  • Decrease the administrative burden through shared administrative support
  • Enable online donations
  • Facilitate grant matches

3. Effective interventions that provide innovative solutions to the causes of poverty. To this end, we ensure:

  • Best practice for the project design, monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessments of all our projects
  • Training, networking, and mentoring are provided for our partner organizations’ staff
  • Innovative strategies can be incubated in our projects

Support any number of our 100+ projects that may align with your passions