About Global One 2015

Global One 2015 is an international development non-governmental organisation (NGO) dedicated to human development in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Our thematic areas of focus are health, especially maternal health, together with livelihoods, adult skills training and children’s education, poverty – including the links to women and climate change, monitoring and evaluation, and humanitarian emergencies. Our approach to gender includes equal emphasis on both men and women, while remaining sensitive to the impacts of differing approaches to gender in different societies. 

Global One’s International Work:

June 2011: NGO Field Safety Training

Global One 2015 providing NGO field safety training, including landmines and unexploded ordnance, to volunteers on MADE in Europe’s Bosnia volunteering scheme.

Somalia Famine and Drought Crisis 2011

Currently Global One 2015 is advising a UK-based Somali NGO consortium on severe acute malnutrition (SAM) humanitarian response for the 2011 Somalia famine, and is developing SAM programmes with its partners for Somalia.

A Global One 2015 partner is currently conducting preliminary work east of the Dadaab camp on a malnutrition, with Global One 2015 providing the technical malnutrition input.

Maternal Health Care Programme: Nigeria

Since the end of 2010, Global One has started implementing its Nigeria maternal health programme, with the ultimate aim of setting up pilot clinics with the intention of scaling up the programme later. The services to be available at clinics will cover antenatal, child birth and postpartum and extended neonatal care past the first month after child birth. Issues of access will also be dealt with, from problems of transportation to social attitudes and knowledge about maternal health, as well as corrective treatment and referral for injuries women suffer in child birth, such as fistula. One of the outputs will be training materials on maternal health for the training of community maternal health workers.

Maternal Health Care Programme: Pakistan
As of January 2011, Global One has also been conducting work to develop a maternal health care programme in Pakistan.

Maternal Health Care Programme: Somalia
As of November 2010, Global One has also been conducting work to develop a maternal health care programme in Somalia.

Women and Development Conference: Malaysia 2011
Planned for 2011, working is currently being undertaken for an international conference on women and development, to take place in Malaysia.

Protecting Lives: Humanitarian Response, Pakistan Flood 2010

 As of March 2011, Global One has already achieved concrete results with its work on the 2010 Pakistan flood, where it provided life saving interventions in preventing multiple disease outbreaks and acted to set up feeding facilities for severely malnourished flood victims, including several hundred children in southern Sindh.

This involved collaborating in the field with Action Against Hunger/Action Contre la Faim (ACF), Islamic Help, and Global Medic. Global One also demonstrated its ability to forecast humanitarian trends with its predication in October 2010 that the malnutrition situation in Pakistan would deteriorate significantly, which was later confirmed by UNICEF at the end of January, when UNICEF Pakistan Deputy Representative Karen Allen stated in a UNICEF video, released on 21 January 2011:

“I haven’t seen levels of malnutrition this bad since the worst of the famine in Ethiopia, Darfur and Chad, it’s shocking, shockingly bad. And it’s of course an underlying problem of extreme poverty and extremely low levels of education and extremely low levels of access to services and the flood just pushed people over the edge and it is truly as bad as I have seen in the worst emergencies in the world.”

Humanitarian Advocacy: Pakistan Flood 2010 and Severe Malnutrition
In February 2011, Global One issued a report that is currently refocusing attention on the malnutrition issue in Pakistan among British Muslim humanitarian NGOs through the Muslim Charities Form (MCF). In November, Global One was also asked to contribute recommendations in writing to the UK government’s Department for International Development’s (DFID) Humanitarian Emergency Response Review (HERR). In December, Global One submitted a report on the malnutrition situation in southern Sindh to the Nutrition Cluster at Hyderabad. Global One is currently looking at setting up mobile and static maternal health clinics and emergency feeding stations in Sindh, where the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate.

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E): Pakistan Flood 2010 Humanitarian Response
During October 2010, Global One was tasked with performing flood programme evaluations for two British based charities that were providing funding and humanitarian assistance for the Pakistan flood in Khyber Pakhtunkwa, Punjab and Sindh provinces. This involved travelling with NGO disaster response teams into the flood zone, and taking interviews with flood victims, the United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO), local government health officials, as well as collaboration with other international NGOs.

International Work by Faith Regen: Precursor to Global One 2015

Action on the Arms Trade: Elimination of the Illegal Weapons Trade
 On-going in 2011: With the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) civil society engagement initiative for development of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), an international initiative to provide standardized rules for the international arms trade: Global One provides input through CEO, Dr. Husna Ahmad’s role as an ATT champion and  member of the FCO’s ATT consultation group of UK based civil society organizations.

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E): Bangladesh Post-cyclone Sidr Programme
Monitoring and evaluation was done of a local Bangladeshi NGO’s post-disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation work post-cyclone Sidr. Programmes evaluated were livelihoods, housing reconstruction and an education programme for children orphaned by the disaster.

New Paths for Development for the Muslim World: New Ideas and Practical Initiatives
World Muslim Leadership Forum international conference, 2010. Faith Regen Foundation and The Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI), together with Whitepaper Consultants and the World Muslim Foundation based in Geneva, came together to provide a platform for cutting edge thinking on international development from the Muslim world. The conference took plae at Somerset House in London. http://www.asli.com.my/cgi-bin/prevdetails.cfm?type=conference&id=277

Complex Emergencies: Looking for a Post-conflict Way Forward
Women’s Conference on Peaceful Coexistence, Sri Lanka, 2009, (organizers: UMCOR – United Methodist Committee on Relief and Muslim Aid): Global One CEO Dr Husna Ahmad presented a background paper, speech and was chair.

Complex Emergencies: Post-conflict Social Development
Unleashing the Potential of Bosnia’s War Traumatised Children: in 2004-2005 we delivered this project to support war traumatised orphaned children in partnership with the MJDENICA Institute for Special Education. The project helped to rehabilitate the Bosnian orphans through education, mentoring and life skills.

Complex Emergencies: Post-conflict Livelihoods Support through Skills Education
Rebuilding Bosnia with IT: in 2005 Faith Regen started running four IT centres in Lukavac, Srebrenica, Zvornic and Zvinci in Bosnia that offered a range of IT courses to disadvantaged communities. Through this project we helped them to develop their technical skills, career guidance and employment opportunities and helped the participants to gain employment.