Statement on Partners:

AMAF is committed to working with other organisations and individuals in mutually respective ways.

AMAF identifies potential partners based on the specific health needs of the people of North and East
of Sri Lanka via personal member contacts, Tamil diaspora referrals, and monitoring of health
programs and issues in Sri Lanka. AMAF assesses and selects partners based on shared interests
and alignment with AMAF vision, equity, mutual respect, accountability and transparency, impacting
government regulations, capacity to deliver as well as capacity to safeguard vulnerable groups from
exploitation. These assessments are performed by AMAF staff who are in regular contact with
potential partners.

AMAF and its partners have regular dialogue when coming together to plan and implement healthcare
projects in North East Sri Lanka. AMAF members are identified to take responsibility on behalf of
AMAF. These members need to establish steady working partnerships.
AMAF will initially work with partners to jointly determine what the intended outcomes of the
collaboration are and how the collaboration will work in practice.

Where formal partnerships are entered into, then AMAF will strive to ensure that any agreement or
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) cover basic expectations such as the shared goals; the defined
contribution of each party; responsibilities of each side; contributions of each side covering both
financial and non-financial; mutual reporting and sharing of information including incident reporting ;
commitment to prevent sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

AMAF is committed to working with partners to improve their processes and capacity as part of project
delivery as well as outside specific projects. This is done by AMAF staff visiting Sri Lanka on a regular
basis to provide training, mentoring, guidance, policy development and recommendations on
improvements. It is also done by constant communication with partner staff during project
implementation.

AMAF will periodically review the effectiveness of partnerships, preferably done jointly with the partner,
to determine if pre-agreed outcomes have been met on a timely basis.

AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL AID FOUNDATION PARTNERS

Australian Medical Aid Foundation began operating in 2001, raising funds for medical and health projects in the North and East of Sri Lanka. We deliver our medical projects primarily through partners, Rotary Club International, Sivan Arul Illam and Kilinochi Education Development Trust (KEDT). KEDT is based in the northern Sri Lanka. We also deliver local activities in partnership with Government authorities, local community groups and service providers.

Current Partners

Rotary club is an international NGO with branches all over the world. It is easy for AMAF to engage with more successful NGO in the world to deliver our projects, particularly in Sri Lanka. AMAF has been partnered with Rotary over 10 years and delivered over 10 medical projects, worth over Aus. $1.0 Million. It is a very successful partnership and we wish to continue the partnership for the future.

KEDT is a NGO in the Northern province of Sri Lanka, that carry out Educational, Medical and humanitarian projects in the Vanni region. It is registered trust in Sri Lanka and carried out many projects so far. With AMAF, KEDT runs school dental project in the Mullaithevu, Kilinochi and Muthur districts of Sri Lanka. AMAF often carried out several other medical projects and emergency projects during outbreak of dengue and COVID 19. KEDT is one of the most trusted partner and root organisation in the Vanni region of Sri Lanka.

Sivan Arul Illam (SAI) Incorporated is a not-for-profit organisation registered in Australia and the United Kingdom to improve the lives of underprivileged children and adults in north-East and Upcountry Sri Lanka.

SAI implements many projects in the North and East of Sri Lanka. SAI carried out several projects, which were funded by AMAF, such as sponsorship

program for paraplegics and quadriplegics, Dry ration program during the COVID 19 outbreak in Sri Lanka.

AMAF carried out NSW Health’s Breast cancer, cervical cancer awareness programs in Sydney as Pink Saree project. AMAF was in close contact with NSW health to provide official information to our community during the COVID 19 Outbreak.

More than 50% of AMAF’s projects are implemented in the public hospital Northern Province of Sri Lanka. In order to run and implement the projects, AMAF work closely with the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health of NPC. The Psychosocial project was very successful project which established ‘Mahilaham’ centres (happy place) in 25 schools in the Northern Province with the partnership of the ministry of Education of the NPC. AMAF supplied 50 android tablets to perform data collection of the population in the war torn, Vanni region and then all over the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.