The Global Development Team (GDT) is a network
of specialists pinpointing, researching and reporting on major
issues regarding global development and ultimately providing
assessments, recommendations, and strategies for intervention on
these targeted issues of development throughout the
world.
Activities and initiatives include, but are not limited to, the
following:
- Conduct research and consultations to assess
possible development issues in countries where the need is
highest
- Formulate projects and form relationships with
potential funders
- Conduct exploratory missions (assessing all
possible angles and meeting potential contacts and
collaborators)
- Organize specific research/investigation
missions (Identify expert(s), outline a communication
strategy, carry out mission, discuss follow up and modalities with
local contacts)
- Release findings (develop comprehensive
communication strategy, implement advocacy strategy through local
/regional/national/international contacts
- Continue to monitor the situation, maintain
sustainability (support contacts, according to needs and
resources)
- Evaluate mission and report to funders and key
stakeholders
For more information on the Global Development Team and its
activities please contact the Director of the
GDT, Jacques Bertrand at centerforglobaldevelopment@stjohns.edu
Jacques Bertrand is the Director of the Global Development Team at
St. John’s Center for Global Development. He was formerly the
head of
the Global Issues Department at a major
international NGO based in Rome where he was
responsible for developing policy and coordinating the advocacy
work directed at the United Nations, the World Bank, the World
Trade Organization and the International Monetary
Fund. He has since wrote for newspapers and
magazines and was a reporter for Canada’s public broadcasting
system. Jacques recently published a magazine focusing on
development cooperation between and Canada and
Africa.