Global Action for Sustainable Development (GASD) a registered non-profit organization, first established in 2008 as Consolidated Youth for Peace & Development, GASD work to strengthen policies and programs that support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals through poverty reduction, gender equality, health, quality education, clean water & sanitation, zero hunger, drug policy reform, transparency & accountability, peacebuilding and environmental sustainability in  Liberia.

 

GASD meets real needs with real results. We develop and implement development program that affects real-life situations in some of Liberia’s poorest communities in addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

 

GASD actively pursues partnerships with other donors, international and national networks and NGOs to facilitate access to funding, resources, and training;

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GASD recently ended a twenty months (January 2017- August 2018) drug preventing project in four counties in Liberia with support from the UNODC, ECOWAS, and funded by the European Union. Most recently during the pre-election process, GASD with funding from the Ministry of Youth & Sports implemented a three months project that focused on elections non-violence campaigns in ten electoral districts in Montserrado County using sports as a vehicle to mobilized citizens.

 

GASD/COYPED has worked and partnered with national and international institutions including the US-Embassy-Monrovia, UNFPA, UNODC, ECOWAS, EU, Friends of Liberia, Ministry of Youth & Sports, Liberia Education Trust-Monrovia, IMF, The Pollination Project, Women NGO Secretariat of Liberia, Federation of Liberian Youth, Youth Service America, Liberia CSOs Anti-Corruption Coalition, CSO WASH Network and is a beneficiary of the Civil Society & Media Leadership Program implemented by IREX with funding from USAID.