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Gamelan Council

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History
Jurisdictions addressed
Key activities
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Notes
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|map_caption = Countries where the Gamelan Council largely works shown in blue
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The Gamelan Council – Asia-Pacific Microfinance, Public Health & Development Centre (Gamelan Council) is an international non-governmental, non-profit initiative addressing the microfinance, public health, and international development needs of communities in, on, and around the Pacific Rim.^[1] For these purposes, the Gamelan Council views the Asia-Pacific region quite broadly in line with APEC; the jurisdictions covered are claimed to account for approximately 65% of the world's population.^[2] The Council’s activities, which include conducting research, making investments, and providing education and advice, are centrally coordinated.^[3]

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 microfinance and public health developmental issues, the Gamelan Council formed to focus specifically on these areas.^[5]

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).^[6] 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.^[7]

Jurisdictions addressed

The Gamelan Council operates predominantly in 73 states and territories on, near, and around the Pacific Rim, including every jurisdiction with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and several other, significant population centres adjacent to or closely linked to the Pacific Rim (e.g., India, Nepal, and Pakistan). In 2010, the Gamelan Council also commenced pilot projects in both (a) Central Asia (i.e., Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan) and (b) South America (i.e., Paraguay, Uruguay, Guyana, and Suriname) which complement its other activities centered on the Pacific Rim.

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):

Americas	Asia	Oceania
Canada}}	Bangladesh}}	Australia}}
Mexico}}	Bhutan}}	Christmas Island}}
Chile}}	India}}	Cocos (Keeling) Islands}}
United States}}	Nepal}}	New Zealand}}
Costa Rica}}	Pakistan}}	Norfolk Island}}
El Salvador}}	Sri Lanka}}	Fiji}}
Guatemala}}	China}}	New Caledonia}} (France)
Honduras}}	Japan}}	Papua New Guinea}}
Nicaragua}}	Mongolia}}	Solomon Islands}}
Panama}}	North Korea}}	Vanuatu}}
Argentina}}	Russia}}	Federated States of Micronesia}}
Bolivia}}	South Korea}}	Guam}} (USA)
Chile}}	Taiwan}}	Kiribati}}
Colombia}}	Brunei}}	Marshall Islands}}
Ecuador}}	Cambodia}}	Nauru}}
Peru}}	Hong Kong}}	Northern Mariana Islands}} (USA)
---	Indonesia}}	Palau}}
---	Laos}}	Wake Island}} (USA)
---	Malaysia}}	American Samoa}} (USA)
---	Burma}}	New Zealand}} Chatham Islands
---	Philippines}}	Cook Islands}} (New Zealand)
---	Singapore}}	Easter Island}} Easter Island (Chile)
---	Thailand}}	French Polynesia}} (France)
---	Vietnam}}	Hawaii}} Hawaii (USA)
---	---	Chile}} Juan Fernández Islands (Chile)
---	---	France}} Loyalty Islands (France)
---	---	Niue}} (New Zealand)
---	---	Pitcairn Islands}} (UK)
---	---	Samoa}}
---	---	Tokelau}} (New Zealand)
---	---	Tonga}}
---	---	Tuvalu}}
---	---	Wallis and Futuna\|local}} (France)

Key activities

The Gamelan Council focuses on three main sets of activities addressing microfinance, public health, and international development issues. These include (a) research (e.g., conducting targeted studies of trends in the microfinance, public health, and international development sectors); (b) investment (e.g., raising capital to support successful Asia-Pacific microfinance providers and assisting entrepreneurs developing new technologies addressing basic 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 microfinance, public health, and international development in the Asia-Pacific region).^[8]

Notes

1. ^Gamelan Council homepage
2. ^Gamelan Council website referencing ‘where we work’
3. ^Gamelan Council website referencing ‘what we do’
4. ^Gamelan Council website referencing ‘history and background’
5. ^Gamelan Council website referencing ‘history and background’
6. ^Gamelan Council website referencing ‘history and background’
7. ^Gamelan Council website referencing ‘history and background’
8. ^Gamelan Council website referencing ‘what we do’

External links

Gamelan Council – Asia-Pacific Microfinance, Public Health & Development Centre

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