Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific (AFAP) is an independent, secular, not-for-profit, fully accredited Australian non-government organisation (NGO) that was founded in 1968 and incorporated in the state of New South Wales in 1983. Their website states, "Our mission is to be a leading agent for poverty alleviation through innovative and appropriate community-based development."
The idea for the organization was born in the 1960s when Stanley Hosie, an Australian Marist priest, began doing missionary work in the South Pacific, specifically Melanesia and Polynesia. His close friends, Australian actress Elizabeth “Betty” Bryant-Silverstein and her husband, a director, Maurice “Red” Silverstein, were inspired and decided to found the organization in 1968.
The strategy of the new non-governmental organization was developed in 1967 after a consulting visit with to Melanesia and Polynesia, where a nine-volume report of a than Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific (FSP) had been elaborated.
The first office of FSP was officially inaugurated in 1968 in Sydney. The organization gradually became one of the leading NGOs in Australia.
The Foundation opened its office in the USA, which at present is known as Counterpart International.
Pacific and East Timor
Fiji Disaster Preparedness Program
Kiribati Disaster Preparedness Program
Papua New Guinea Disaster Preparedness Program
Samoa Disaster Preparedness Program
Solomon Islands Regional South Pacific Integrated Development Program, Building Livelihoods, Empowerment and Strategic Sustainability Program, Disaster Preparedness Program, Internally Displaced Person (IDP) Resettlement Program
East Timor Timor Aid Capacity Building Program, Bairo Pite Clinic
Tonga Disaster Preparedness Program
Tuvalu Disaster Preparedness Program
Vanuatu Disaster Preparedness Program
Africa
Ethiopia
Kenya Eastern and Rift Valley Integrated Poverty Reduction Program, Africa Women Program
Malawi Masasa Integrated Sustainable Livelihoods Project, Kamenyagwaza Livelihood Project, Small livestock Pass-on Scheme
Mozambique Community Capacity Building Project in Niassa Province
South Africa
Zambia Chikuni Home-Based Care Program, Africa Women Program
Zimbabwe Forest Garden Program, Northeast Integrated Rural Development Program
South East Asia
Cambodia
China
Vietnam Dengue Fever – Innovative Solutions to a Public Health Threat, Integrated Rural Development Program, The Na Ri Integrated Rural Community Development Project, Livelihoods in Environmentally Fragile Areas Program, Cát Bà National Park Program, Bright Futures and Dong Da Hospital – HIV/AIDS Support and Advocacy Group, Australian/Vietnam Scholarship Program
South Asia
India Income and Employment Generation through Sustainable Agriculture, Ecotourism, Handmade Paper Unit, Save the River Campaign
Nepal Tourist Information Centres - Kathmandu, Pokhara, Sermanthang and Salleri, International School Conservation Program, Environmental Awareness Program, International Porter Protection Group Project
Sri Lanka, Tsunami Relief and Rehabilitation, Coral Reef and Allied Ecosystem Restoration Program
AFAP: Action on Poverty manages the Australian-Pacific Centre for Emergency and Disaster Information (APCEDI) to make news on natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region and to help with rapid disaster response assessment.
