QSA Notes

QSA Notes provides regular updates on QSA projects and issues related to international development. It is published quarterly in The Australian Friend magazine and sent to QSA supporters by email.

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The latest edition of QSA Notes

December 2024: Living Gifts: Gifts that make a difference

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November 2024 – Highlights from the QSA Annual Report 2024

August 2024 – Introducing QSA’s vision for the future

May 2024 – Food Security: Why does hunger exist when there is more than enough food to feed the world?

February 2024 – Highlights from the QSA Annual Report 2023

November 2023 – Reflections on the 2022/23 project year:  Highlights and priorities

August 2023 – Changes at QSA

June 2023 – Peacebuilding in Cambodia

March 2023 – Helping communities meet the challenge of climate change

December 2022 – Reflections on the 2021/22 project year

August 2022 Project evaluations: Essential to understanding the real impact of our projects 

June 2022 – Working with Indigenous groups

March 2022 –  Preserving traditional handicrafts, providing skills, work and incomes to poor women in rural Cambodia 

December 2021 – Partners deliver innovative activities to meet the specific
needs of their local communities

September 2021 – 12 months into the pandemic, how are Cambodians faring?

August 2021 – Cambodia: 12 months into the pandemic

June 2021 – Food security: the family farmer and the global food system

March 2021 – Equality in society, aid and development

December 2020 – Support and assistance to enable people living with disabilities join KCD programs

September 2020 – Responding to COVID-19

June 2020 – Refugee Amir is an Ideal Permaculturist

March 2020 – QSA and toilets

December 2019 – Sustainability

June 2019 – Refugees at home and abroad

September 2019 – Spirituality, and visiting QSA projects

March 2019 – Politically significant change for QSA

September 2018 – What we told Yearly Meeting

June 2018 – Many hands make light work

March 2018 – QSA and the family

December 2017 – The impact on QSA of membership of ACFID

September 2017 – At year’s end

June 2017 – The journey of an idea!

March 2017

December 2016 – Peacebuilding

September 2016 – Climate change and caring for the environment

June 2016 – Developments in Cambodia

March 2016 – People, places & projects

December 2015 – People, places & projects

September 2015 – Uganda visit with small holders living with Disabilities

June 2015 – Latest funding, Theory of Change and ACFID Accreditation.

March 2015 – Homestead gardens & Meera Herbal Food Unit, Tamil Nadu.

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QSA Newsletters

In the past, QSA published QSA Newsletters that provided more detail about development issues. This has now been rolled into QSA Notes, but earlier issues are still available for download.

September 2020 – Not just a health crisis: The impact of COVID-19 on women in developing countries

December 2019 – Overview of the development networks of which QSA is a part

May 2019 – Bangladesh

July 2017 – Indigenous projects supported in Australia

May 2017 – Food Security and Livelihoods in Uganda

November 2016 – Projects – Pitchandikulam Bio Resource Centre in Tamil Nadu

June 2016 – Project – Eco – Agric in Uganda

February 2016 Project addressing poverty

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