Ms
Sam Mostyn
President
Australian Council for
International Development
28th Feb. 2014
Dear Ms Mostyn
My letter today to the directors
of the Institute of Economics and Peace
speaks for itself.
Dear Nick Abrahams, Dr Vijoleta Braach-Maksvytis, Michael
Hitz, Steve Killelea and Clyde McConaghy
I would like to bring to your attention the inadequacy of
the assessment and monitoring processes undertaken by your partners, the Global
Development Group.
I do not make this statement lightly. I have been very
careful to document all the communications that have taken place between myself
and the Global Development Group this past couple of weeks. These are to be
found, in sequence, on the following blog, starting at:
If you work your way up through the various entries you
will discover that I began by giving the Global Development Group the benefit
of the doubt. I had no reason to believe that GDG would not conduct an
investigation into the allegations that have been made by materially poor
Cambodian parents that their daughters were illegally removed from their care
in 2008 by Citipointe church’s ‘SHE Rescue Home’ – an NGO that receives funding
from the Global Development Group.
I have also brought to the attention of GDG two other
Australian NGOs working in Cambodia in receipt of GDG funding. I redacted the
names of both these NGOs to see if, upon reading what I wrote, GDG would be
interested to know the names of these two NGOs. The answer is no. Not only are
the Global Development Group assessment and monitoring process inadequate, GDG
seems disinterested in being provided with information relating to allegations
of serious human right abuses practiced by NGOs in receipt of GDG funding.
On the basis of Citipointe church’s many and varied
attempts to intimidate me into silence, the speed with which Geoff Armstrong
reached the conclusion that Citipointe had done no wrong and Global Development
Group’s refusal to meet with the parents who are making the allegations or view
any evidence, it will come as no surprise to me if strenuous attempts are made
to discredit me.
Hopefully you will look dispassionately at the facts,
appreciate that my questions and concerns are not unreasonable and wonder why
the Global Development Group refuses to investigate this matter in any
meaningful way.
I
would like to place on record that just as the Global Development Group has
evinced no curiosity at all to know the names of the two NGOs I have referred
to in my redacted correspondence, nor has ACFID.
best
wishes
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