AUSTRALIA:
Location: Brisbane
A ToP Module 1 -- basic facilitation -- which was scheduled for Tues-Wed this
week had been over subscribed to the point that it was split into 2 courses and
held at two locations. 38 satisfied participants finished the 2 day course in
the two locations led by Marg Endicott, Gerry Keating, Stacy Field and Elaine
Richmond. It will be an ever more 8 days as Gerry and Stacy fly to Cairns to do
another Module 1 with Kate Harrison which has some 22 participants signed
up.
Elaine Richmond emr@iinet.net.au
BANGLADESH:
Location: Dhaka
Habib, Naimul and Manik visited the ICA Ghoramara Human Development Project site
this week. They talked to beneficiaries of Rickshaw for employment generation by
the unemployed men and ICA Ghoramary Primary School teachers.
ICA Nepal is
organizing a Social Artistry Leadership training in Nepal and 6-8 ICA Bangladesh
members are planning to join the event in July. Janet and Richard are planning
to facilitate the training.
Mehdi, Naimul and Aziz are working for organizing a
training program with Larry in October. The courses proposed are PSP, GFM,
Leadership Development, and Teambuilding.We submitted a proposal to Wayne for
street children project for TUC funding for 2008.
Aziz has finished 3 weeks of
ICAI Staff Training Program. Next week will focus on proposal development and
organizational management issues.
Naimul admin@ica-bangladesh.org
CANADA:
Location: Toronto
ICA Canada had a very busy, productive week. We welcomed Eowynne Feeney, the
co-director of our Listen to the Drumming program, back from Africa. She had a
very fruitful working trip. Our new staff member, Meghan Cox, has adjusted to
life at the ICA office very quickly, and we're very happy to see her fitting in.
Copies of Edges, ICA Canada's magazine, were sent out this week. ICA Staff also
had a beneficial idea-generating session earlier in the week, in anticipation of
the ICA board meeting taking place on June 14th. In summary, a typical, busy
week for all of us in Toronto.
Gabby Resch gresch@icacan.ca
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Location: Canada
Since we last reported John Miller taught our 5 day Community Development course in
Vancouver. Significant interest in the Vancouver area for the Facilitating
Conciliation and Power of Image Change courses so we will be adding courses to
our public calendar.
Duncan Holmes, Mark Jowett, our staff person in Ottawa and
Marie Noelle Houzeau, ICA Associes in Montreal have been trecking across
Northern Ontario doing Development and Mines. Duncan also spent 2 days working
with Seimens in Peterborough.
Bill Staples conducted public consultation
workshops for Brock Health and at a manafacturing conference in Kitchner. Jo
Nelson is involved in a series of strategy planning workshops with York
Commiunity Services in Toronto.
Our work with Ontario Clean Water agency
continues. Bill, John and Jo facilitated leadership development workshops with
their managers. John also facilitated a workshop with Zero Footprint.
Wayne
Nelson has done more work on the global ToP Facilitation website that was
commissioned by the last ICAI general assembly. Please take the time to visit
the site at http://ica-associates.ca/topfacilitation. Please send your feedback to
wnelson@ica-associates.ca. Click the -About this Site - in the right column for a
fuller explanation. Your thoughts - at any level - are needed in order to
continue development of this global resource. We need your ideas.
Wayne Nelson wnelson@ica-associates.ca
JAPAN:
Location:
The 7th Global Conference on Human Development
Yuka submitted the 7th Proposal
for funding 'Unlocking the Potential to Create a New World Together', and began
researching gaining 'Donations as Tax Free'.
Nippn Travel Agency 'NTA' completed
the English registration system, and will be available this week.
Mr. Obata and
Mr. Harada joined us as our fast moving corporate funding team.
Shizuyo Sato and
Chimaki Kurokawa completed re-writing the new Japanese brochure which is to be
printed next week.
We celebrated ICAI's completion of revised conference web
site, including a tiki to focus the conference topics.
ICA Japan Development
Projects
Kayo Goda began working on a new Chiapas funding proposal.
Eiki
documented the MVC project in Nigeria, and many others.
Kaoru is in Peru building
a demonstration earthquake resistant Adobe house.
Mr. Akimoto is in Hanoi Vietnam
creating a natural floating lake water cleaning system.
Naomi and Eric are in
Kenya teaching proposal writing to idle Isinya youth.
Wayne received funding for
ICA Japan and proposed funding for a Masaii rural school classroom.and much
more!
ICA Japan Staff staff@icajapan.or
NEPAL:
Location: Nepal
This week we conducted a training on 'Life Skills Based Education' for Nepal Red
Cross Society staff. ICA used social artistry approach on imparting life skills
based eudcation to grassroots workers. There were 30 participants from three
districts of Nepal.
ICA Nepal is coordinating 'development book exhibition' in
which more than 50 NGOs are expected to reserve stall for book sell. ICA is also
conducting youth conference on July 5 when more than 100 youths from various
districts are expected to participate.
The first meeting of the steering
committee of SA microgrants projects' was organised in which the members were
informed about the program and asked for their cooperation. ICA Nepal is also
selected by CIVICUS as National Coordinating Organisation to carry out Civil
Society Index work in Nepal.
Tatwa P. Timsina ica@icanep.wlink.com.np
Location: Kathmandu
Today ICA started a three day training on capacity building to HIV Infected
Group of women called Sakti Milan Society which is the only group of women who
are living with HIV and AIDS. There are 16 women as participants. They will be
implementing their projects as a part of the training.
Atma Ram Upadha
ica@icanep.wlink.com.np Enlarged picture
PERU:
Location: Chincha Earthquake Recovery
This was the first week of actual construction of the 300 improved cooking
stoves made of adobe which will be built for the Community Kitchens over the
next 10 weeks. The first ones built this week achieved their objective of
cooking faster and with half of the fuel, so now we are set to move into
production mode next when we will start building six of these large stoves per
day.
And while this was going on in Chincha, Gloria Santos and Jesusa Aburto
completed the training of the first 30 Promotores in the ICA Training Center in
Azpitia -- a very animated group who are excited to be going back to Chincha to
go to work to dramatically improve the 300 Community Kitchens which are serving
about 50,000 meals daily to 9,000 families.
Meanwhile, Alison Hamje and Jesusa
Aburto secured a 3-year 135K grant from a German foundation designed to continue
the training of Promotoreas as we have done in Chincha -- but now for new rural
communities in the Chincha Valley. This opens the door to a number of other
grant options which are being pursued as well.
Staff admin@ica-peru.org
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
Katie and Mike traveled to rural New Brunswick on Thursday to visit the ICA staff training participants and so that Mike could deliver a presentation on policy. They were greeted by smiling and enthusiastic hugs by the group. Mike led his session Friday morning and got the group talking about unique and shared challenges to doing human development work in their respective countries. We explored how these challenges are often rooted in policy, and looked at what can be done to change policy or apply pressure for accountability with regard to existing policy.
Friday afternoon was devoted to the Human Development Gallery, highlighting the work of the represented national ICAs, and including a Sustainability Platform with key components to sustainability flushed out by the group using ToP methods with Facilitators Elaine Stover and Mayme Webb-Bledsoe. The Falls Brook conference room doors opened to the New Brunswick public, as group members presented their work to a nice turnout of highly interested locals and media.
The ICAI office inauguration event remains slated for June 25th, and Mike and Jane have been busy with planning. If you are interested in coming, we’d love to have you! Just email katie@ica-international or call (514) 875-7111 for more info.
Staff info@ica-international.org
