AUSTRALIA:
Location: Timor Leste
Because Carol Borovic is no longer able to be resident in this new, small and
traumatised nation, she and David Jago paid a ten day visit to see those NGO's
and other organisations that we have been doing facilitations and or training
for in order to get a feeling for how ICA Australia can continue to serve in
that location. We were heartened by warm responses everywhere and the
beginnings of a plan for Australian ToP teams to work with groupings of our
clients on a periodic basis.
Carol Boroic cborovic@gmail.co
CANADA:
Location: Youth as Facilitative Leaders
Last week YFL facilitated the development of a strategic plan for Earth Day
Canada's ecoMentors program, which trains high school youth to teach elementary
school children about environmental issues. We are also working hard on a small
capacity-building grant to assist us with developing a marketing strategy for
the program and an interactive website for YFL youth.
Leah Taylor ltaylor@icacan.ca
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Location: Canada
Jo Nelson taught Community Development to over 20 people in Kenora, Ontario.
Many of the participants were from Grand Council Treaty 3 communities and
organizations.
John Miller facilitated a workshop for Kitchner - Waterloo United
Way.
Duncan Holmes continues work with the Beaches church merger.
Bill staples
launches a set of community development modules for several neighborhoods
specially targeted by the United Way of Greater Toronto. This session has over
90 people registered.
Conversations continue with Ottawa colleagues over forming
business relationships to better serve the nation's capital.
Wayne Nelson wnelson@ica-associates.c
NEPAL:
Location: Nepal
ICA Nepal organised 'National Workshop on Advocating the Rights of Indigenous
and Deprived Communities through Identifying and Managing Underlying Causes of
Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Nepal' on Nov. 29-30, 2007. The workshop
was attended by 55 participants from various parts of the country representing a
number of governmental and nongovernmental organizations.
Dr. Keshav Kandel,
Director General of Department of Forest inaugurated the programme. He shared
that identifying underlying causes of forest destruction reveal various factors
which may be quite new and unknown to us. He also highlighted the role of
indigenous communities in safeguarding their forest.
Sarah Farina from ICA
International, Chris Watson from ICA Nepal, Bhanu Timsina from Tribhuvan
University Nepal also spoke on the occasion. Tatwa Timsina gave the overview of
the project and Juju Raj Tuladhar chaired the inaugural programme. After the
inaugural programme, a series of workshops and presentations were carried out in
which participants also opined their views. At the end of the programme,
Kathmandu Declaration on the 'Role of Indigenous Communities in Identifying
Underlying Causes of Forest Destruction and Degradation and Safeguarding their
livelihood through Resource Use' was released.
The programme was widely covered
in Nepal through various mass media. ICA Nepal will be continuing this momentum
through various programmes.
Before the workshop, a three day long training on
the same theme was also organised in which 27 participants were present. This
week, Sarah, Chris, Hanako and Tatwa visited various projects sites in Rupandehi
and Kapilbastu districts conducted by ICA Nepal and enquired first hand
information about various activities.
Tatwa P. Timsina ica@icanep.wlink.com.np
PERU:
Location: Chincha Alta Earthquake Project
As of this week, 1,563 temporary houses have been built on the way to 1,650 and
a huge celebration on 22 December. You can feel and see the new energy running
through the community as the Project approaches completion. The 60 Promoters
are spontaneously organizing workdays in their neighborhoods to complete the
cleanup of the streets and public places, and even to start the process of
beautification again. It's truly amazing to see what local people can do to
take charge of their own community with just a little training and
care.
Meanwhile, the 30-2-5 method of organizing the Project now has a life of
its own as a proposal is in process to use it again to build another 1,800
houses in 10 weeks beginning in January. There are a number of conversations
going on with other organizations to assist them in their work with this same
simple method of organizing any effective community self-development
project.
Staff admin@ica-peru.or
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
After an exciting and busy stay in Nepal, Sarah Farina moved on to the Asian
Regional Directors meeting in Bangladesh where she will spend the coming days
meeting with colleagues from the Asia and Pacfic region.
Sarah Miller continued
to work on conference issues, communications, and outreach, and met with
potential supporters in the US before meeting up with Katie to take part in a
'springboard' gathering.
Michael and Lambert held the fort in Montréal as the
temperatures dropped. Michael worked on a proposal on Underlying Causes of
Deforestation for Cameroon, finalised and distributed the African directors
meeting report, and spoke with potential conference partners. Lambert liased
with institutional donors, met remotely with the Japan conference team, and
prepared the monthly staff report.
Staff info@ica-international.org
