BANGLADESH:
Location: Dhaka
ICA Bangladesh members shared with each other about the events in
Novemebr-Decemebr 2007 sporadically during the Eid vacation in different
locations like Dhaka and Chandpur. Those members who could not take part in
different meetings were updated and asked to participate in monthly taskforce
meetings.
Management and marketing team is working on financial management and
Manik, Kabir suggested to appoint Alamgir for daily financial book keeping
considering treasurer Sonia's inability to play active role.
Two proposals on
Ghoramara are ready and submitted on 30 December at the German Embassy in Dhaka
for small scale funding. One is focusing school and another is on water and
sanitation facilities in area.In order to prepare a proposal on erosion control
in the Ghoramara community, Naznin and Aziz are working. Naznin is suggesting to
conduct a topographic survey and collect maps and data.
Aziz is working on
newsletter and brochure. If any one interested to contribute to the newsletter
he or she can submit articles. Naimul and Alamgir is working on credit and debit
slip. Habib is working on improving website.
Aziz admin@ica-bangladesh.org
BENNIN:
Location: North regions of Benin
Lambassa ICA Benin had been committed to conduct pre-consultations with
grassroots communities in four regions of the north of Benin by Legal
Empowerment, a commission hosted by UNDP.This commission is organizing national
consultations in several countries in the World in order to gather more
information on poverty issues.
In Benin, these consultations are sheduled for
January 2008.So pre-consultations aimed to prepare grassroots communities to
participate to this event.Regions covered by ICA Benin are Atacora, Alibori,
Borgou and Donga.
Kassimou Issotina issotina@yahoo.fr
NEPAL:
Location: Lalitpur
On Sunday, ICA Nepal started third batch of 'Professional Development Training
PCDT which will be continued for 3 months. With this training, the participants
will be able to learn new skills on personal and organisational development. So
far, 40 participants have received this training and they are active in various
organisations.
ICA Nepal also completed 10 day long trianing on Proposal and
Report Writing training for the senior level staff of Centre for rural
Technology - a national level organisation.
Binod Basnet ica@icanep.wlink.com.np
