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RESEARCH

GLAPD endeavours to implement evidence-based projects and programs tailored to the needs of its target populations. Therefore we conduct research projects in partnership with reputable universities to identify the challenges and issues faced by our clients in order to respond quickly and appropriately.

We have conducted 4 research projects.

  • In partnership with the University of New South Wales:

    • Understanding the challenges and issues related to the settlement process of migrants from the Great Lakes Region of Africa in Australia.
    • African women migrants' and refugees' access to reproductive health services in South West Sydney: A pilot study.


  • In partnership with Western Sydney University, we are conducting a research project entitled:

    • Understandings and responses to domestic violence in the African Great Lakes Communities of Western Sydney.


  • In partnership with the University of Wollongong, The University of Newcastle and the University of Melbourne, we are conducting a research entitled:

    • Spaces of wellbeing and regional settlement: international migrants and the rural idyll