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 and Sierra Leone.

 

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

 

GASD ended a twenty months (January 2017- August 2018) drug prevention project in four counties in Liberia with support from the UNODC, ECOWAS and funded by the European Union. During the 2017 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.

 

During the heat of the Ebola crisis in Liberia, GASD coordinated a nationwide initiative known as the National Youth Action against Ebola where over six hundred youths were trained in Ebola virus prevention, Community Mobilization, and data collection methodology. 

 

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.  

 

Through its programs and activities over the years, over 2200 primary school children mainly girls have benefitted from its Children Study & Play Program initiated since 2010. Over 500 substance users have benefited from outreach activities promoting secondary prevention. Under the Disadvantaged Girls Scholarship Program, 280 girls from primary and secondary schools in Montserrado County have benefited thus far. 20 schools and over 5000 students benefitted from the WASH in Schools project in 2015. Over 500 adolescents and youths have benefited from sexual and reproductive health education in Bomi County. In 2014 GASD/COYPED launched Liberia’s first independent youth-focused newspaper (Youth Voices) that is providing civic education, SGBV awareness and advocating for youth rights and providing young people the platform where they can express their views on critical national issues as well as providing anti-corruption awareness.