Gamelan Council
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Gamelan Council – Asia-Pacific Public Health, Microfinance, & Development Centre | |
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 Countries where the Gamelan Council largely works shown in blue | |
| Headquarters | Phuong Saly, Laos (Formerly: Sydney, Australia) |
| Type | Non-profit, non-governmental organization |
| Key jurisdictions addressed | 73 |
| Leaders | |
• Director | Carlos Scott López |
| Establishment | 2005 |
The Gamelan Council – Asia-Pacific Public Health, Microfinance, and Development Centre (Gamelan Council) is an international non-governmental, non-profit initiative addressing the
History
The Gamelan Council is an offshoot of the Global Consulting Group (GCG), a non-profit, non-partisan consulting firm created under the aegis of Global Student Response (GSR) and focused on supporting international development efforts which has since been disbanded.[4] As GCG's efforts became more geographically focused on the Asia-Pacific region and thematically focused on public health and microfinance developmental issues, the Gamelan Council formed to focus specifically on these areas.[4]
The name of the organization is a combination of the Indonesian word referring to a music ensemble, 'Gamelan', and an English word referring to a Native American, community-fostering ritual, 'Council' (the same term used to refer commonly to a group of individuals providing advice and counsel).[4] These two terms capture the Gamelan Council's goal of harmoniously unifying the arrays of forces and ideas affecting the areas on which the Gamelan Council focuses its efforts.[4]
Jurisdictions addressed
The Gamelan Council operates predominantly in 73
These jurisdictions are divided into three main geographic groups and are listed below, organized generally by geography (i.e., Americas from north to south; Asia from west to north and then south; and Oceania from west to east):
Key activities
The Gamelan Council focuses on three main sets of activities addressing public health, microfinance, and international development issues. These include (a) research (e.g., conducting targeted studies of trends in the public health, microfinance, and international development sectors); (b) investment (e.g., raising capital to support successful Asia-Pacific microfinance providers and assisting entrepreneurs developing new technologies addressing public health needs throughout the Asia-Pacific region); and (c) education and advice (e.g., developing seminars, providing consulting services to social entrepreneurs, and coordinating conferences on public health, microfinance, and international development in the Asia-Pacific region).[3]
See also
- Microfinance
- International Development
- Epidemiology
- Non-governmental organization
- Social entrepreneurship
- APEC
Notes
- ^ "Gamelan Council". gamelancouncil.org.
- ^ "Gamelan Council". gamelancouncil.org.
- ^ a b "Gamelan Council". gamelancouncil.org.
- ^ a b c d "Gamelan Council". gamelancouncil.org.