Action for World Development was an Australian

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initiative to promote

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. It began with the establishment of the Joint Secretariat for World Development, which set up and ran a study program in 1972. Subsequently, a fund-raising organisation, Force 10, was formed to focus on funding existing programs rather than duplicate them. Force 10 later joined the existing organisation

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(CAA) (formerly ''Food for Peace Campaign'' and now ''Oxfam Australia'').

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* http://wkfl.asn.au/religioused/social_justice.htm * http://www.awd.org.au/ Development charities based in Australia {{philanthropy-org-stub