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GLOBAL LINKS INITIATIVE (UK)-GOODWILL (INDIA) PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE,Tamilnadu,India

posted on Monday, January 26, 2009 08:57 AM

Networking and Capacity building for Non Governmental organisations and Civil society groups in Tamilnadu, South India-Become a partner

The Goodwill Social Work Centre, a professional social work organisation deeply committed to the development of children, youth and women was founded by a Prof.Dr.J.Christopher Daniel,M.A.,Ph.D,a professionally trained social work Educator and a Practising Social worker in November 1981 in the temple city of Madurai, India with the prime objective of performing a wide spectrum of roles in the development of children, youth and women and undertaking a comprehensive action through professional approach with a preventive, curative and rehabilitative perspective. It aims at utilising positively the scientific methods of Social Work for problem identification, problem solving and problem prevention for the multifaceted development of children, youth and women who are at a disadvantage.

It is a Non-governmental organisation registered under the Tamilnadu Societies Registration Act 27 of 1975 and Foreign Contributions (Regulations) Act 1976. Our Centre is a Member of the International Forum for Child Welfare, [IFCW], Child Rights Information Network [CRIN], U.K and ENSCW, Belgium and World Association for Non-Governmental Organisation (WANGO),USA .It is included in the NGO database of the websites: www.idealist.org (Action without Borders), www.enscw.org, www.euforic.org, www.glinet.org and www.impactalliance.org. Our Society's Registration number is: 112/1981 and our FCRA number is: 075940124. Please take a few moments to visit our website at www.goodwillsocialworkcentre.org.

Our organisation has been actively involved in networking initiatives among NGOs/Civil society organisations in collaboration with GLOBAL LINKS INITIATIVE (www.glinet.org), United Kingdom. The Global Links Initiative is a UK based registered company and a charity, which is working in close partnership with our centre in organising networking and capacity building programmes for small and developing NGOs in the southern part of Tamilnadu,India. A brief report on the networking events organised by GOODWILL is given below:

The first GLI-NGOs MEET for NGO administrators, project leaders, academics and social researchers was held at Madurai in November 2006.About 120 participants representing 90 organisations/institutions were in attendance. As a GLI Networker, the Goodwill social work centre, an NGO based at Madurai was requested to assist with GLI in organising the above event in the temple city of Madurai. Mr. Robin Rowland the Executive chairman and co-founder of GLI and Mrs. Libby Brayshaw initiated the networking session in partnership with Dr. J. Christopher Daniel,Executive Director of the Goodwill social work centre,Madurai.

Following the overwhelming response from NGOs and institutions in and around Madurai and its neighbouring districts, the second GLOBAL LINKS INITIATIVE (UK)-NGOs MEET was organised by the Goodwill social work centre, hosted by GLI on 18th April 2007 in Madurai. As many as 317 NGO Administrators, project leaders, academics and social researchers representing 257 organisations/institutions from 15 districts in the southern part of Tamilnadu participated in the GLI networking event.
You can view our web albums containing photos on our GLI-GOODWILL networking events organised for the Non-governmental organisations/civil society groups in the state of Tamilnadu,South India in 2006 and 2007.

http://picasaweb.google.com/chrisdangswc/GLIUKNGOsMEETNovermber2006OrganisedByGOODWILLINDIA
http://picasaweb.google.com/chrisdangswc/GLIUKNGOsMEET2007OrganisedByGOODWILLMaduraiIndia?authkey=lI6hyINAXfs

The Goodwill Social Work Centre is highly professional in its approach and its methods are underpinned by a strong academic research ethos. Highly impressed by the professionalism in GOODWILL’s governance and management of programmes,the Global Links Initiative(www.glinet.org) ,a registered company and a charity in the United Kingdom has entered into a partnership agreement with GOODWILL on 6th October 2007 to work together to provide services and capacity building programmes for GLI Networkers in Tamilnadu, now numbering over 350.This formal agreement deepens and strengthens the friendship, respect and collaboration that already existed between our two organisations and enables us to work even more closely together on practical local initiatives, exchanges and projects. Goodwill is taking on the role of GLI representative and ambassador in serving the needs of GLI Networkers and local NGOs in Tamilnadu. Part of this new role is to take over the management and creation of the Tamilnadu content for the GLI English Language Website recording the inspiring stories of local GLI Networkers, news of their projects and activities and sharing their experiences and expertise with the wider GLI Global network.

Both GOODWILL and GLI,UK have been organising a series of short term programmes/courses for NGO administrators,development professionals and GLI networkers in Tamilnadu,South India .

Under the ‘Capacity Building Series 2008-2009’ the Goodwill social work centre in partnership with the Global Links Initiative,United Kingdom has been organising a series of events on the theme “NGO Management & Capacity Building Programmes for GLI Networkers, NGO Administrators / Development Professionals” under the aegis of The Funding Network,United Kingdom in the state of Tamilnadu,India.

Photographs of the various programmes organised by the Goodwill social work centre canbe viewed on the following webalbums:

http://picasaweb.google.com/chrisdangswc/BuildingNGOCapacityAugust2007# http://picasawe...key=wF02w3C4i9U#
http://picasaweb.google.com/chrisdangswc/NGOMangementCapacityBuidlingProgrammeForGLISTamilnaduNetworkers27thSeptember2008#

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