AUSTRALIA:
Location: Australia
The next ICAA event is to be held from Friday 25th - Monday 28th July, at
'Winbourne' Reatreat Centre, Mulgoa, just out of Sydney. Colleagues will travel
from various parts of Australia, to re-fresh and work together. This week the
NSW team gathered to put the final touches on the weekend gathering. The theme
for the July gathering is 'Unlocking Potential to build a new world together'.
The weekend program will include time of sharing stories and inpsirational
presentations on a 'New World', networking and lots of fun!
There will be time
spent on shairing accomplishments and workshops on the major aspects of our work
together, in global and local partnerships. On the Sunday we will travel to the
beautiful Megalong Valley in the Blue Mountains to enjoy a celebration of
'Living Sustainably'. This will be followed by our Board meeting on the Monday.
As with all our events there is always a magic element of surprise! All are
welcome, from near and far...whether in person or in spirit! We really love it
when it is in person!
Robyn rjhutchinson@optusnet.com.au
BANGLADESH:
Location: Dhaka
Aziz returned home on 11 July. On his way back from Montreal, he visited IDRF
and Plan Canada in Toronto and AJWS in Nework. Jabber - a ICA Bangladesh
associate member accompanied him in Toronto. IDRF is going to start partnership
process with ICA Bangladesh as expressed in the meeting. AJWS also expressed
their possible support for Bangladesh through joint proposal between India,
Nepal and Bangladesh in the future.
On 11 July morning, Selina, Alamgir, Naimul
and Aziz had a meeting at Selina's house to share about Canada visit and next
steps on Aziz's return. In the same day evening Manik, Naimul, Mehdi, Kabir,
Delwar met at TSCn of Dhaka University about Nepal Social Artistry training,
Aziz's Canada staff training and next taskforce meeting date.
On 12 July at 10am
Aziz, Nicolien and Naimul met at Nicolien's house in Gulshan. Nicolien invited
ICA members to attend a dinner and have taskforce meetings in which Nicolien
wants to participate and host a dinner for all ICA members, advisers and
supporters on 18 July at 4 pm. Nicolien is also going to declare a sponsorship
for Japan conference participation in that meeting.
Habib admin@ica-bangladesh.org
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Location: Canada
Bill Staples taught Meetings That Work to a group from the Ontario Public
Service. He also facilitated a strategy planning workshop with a group in
Winnipeg and a special day with Durham Public Health department.
Duncan Holmes
completed the final public consultation event of a long series for the ministry
of Northern Development and Mines. He facilitated a workshop with CNDD.
Jo Nelson
continued work with the Griffin Centre and spent a day working with the distance
education project in Edmonton Alberta.
John Miller taught Meetings that Work to a
full house in our office.
Jerry Mings taught Group Facilitation. Many of the
participants are part of the 3 course series that prepared people for IAF
certification.
Wayne Nelson attended the ICAI inugration in Montreal on behalf of
ICA in Canada and met with Assem Kamel from ICA in Egypt about a training
program for Egyptian NGO leaders. He also helped us get our websites back online
after a server failure.
Wayne Nelson wnelson@ica-associates.c
PERU:
Location: Chincha Earthquake Relief
Carmen Ruiz finished up the school in Montréal and is on her way back to join
our staff with great enthusiasm.
Peter Ellins has put our new 12 minute DVD up
on our web site to document the effectiveness of the Avanza Peru 3-week training
program -- go to www.ica@peru.org and take
a look!
Meanwhile, the work continues on well with the Community Kitchens
project in Chincha, and it is now attracting the attention of other agencies who
are asking us to assist them with their programs in the area.
This week we were
told by JICA of the Japan Government that they are going ahead with two
proposals which they recently asked us to quote on. These programs along with
three others already approved means that we now need to add more staff in the
coming months. In response to that, Jesusa Aburto has pulled together a great
file for new staff with a large compendium of ICA methods instruction materials
-- all in Spanish. Are there any Spanish speakers out there who would like to
work in Peru?
Staff admin@ica-peru.org
ITERLENG ICA South Africa:
Location: Johannesburg
Today the ICA team is out in Alexandra for the monthly VCT awareness campaign.
Muzi and Fisser completed all projects quarterly reports and sent them out
respectively. We are busy working on a master proposal for the orphans and
vulnurable children of Soweto, after having completed a needs assetment in the
past week.
Muzi Mbonani mbonanim.ica@telkomsa.ne
TANZANIA:
Location: Handeni
This week the ICA-Tanzania launched a new project in Handeni district, Tanga
region. The project is to support the most vulnerable children in the area,
including, but not limited to orphans and those children affected by AIDS.
The
ICA-TZ has received a grant from the Global Fund to verify those children that
have been identified as vulnerable, and to assess their needs. We started the
verification this week, and have almost completed one out of ten wards. The
program itself aims to reach almost 3000 children in total, divided between
their most urgent needs, including nutritional support for those under five,
school supplies and uniforms, bedding and mattresses, and clothes.
Each family
with an identified child will also receive a CHF health card which permits the
whole family to benefit from treatment. This project is a major undertaking for
the ICA, and they have benefited from the assistance of Heather Keachie and
Caryn McGilvray, Canadian interns from the University of Toronto, as well as
several volunteers from Moshi and Handeni.
Heather Keachie heatherkeachie@yahoo.com
UNITED STATES:
Location: Chicago
Nino Tillman, Executive Director, and Timothy Duszynski, Director of National
Programs at ICA USA have both completed ToP Facilitation Methods courses in
recent weeks. Nino took part in the Denver, Colorado course June 20-21, and
Timothy took part in the Madison, Wisconsin course June 25-26. Both were
impressed with the wealth of information and tools they acquired in such a short
time, and have implemented the methods at our mid-year staff retreat and program
meetings. It is expected that all new staff will have participated in a ToP
Facilitation Method course, and in some cases a ToP Strategic Planning course,
by the end of 2008.
Cheryl Zaleski czaleski@ica-usa.or
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
This week has included both the finishing up of a few activities and some new
beginnings.
Mike and Lambert met with the folks at Montreal International to
discuss the final arrangements regarding the office inauguration and everyone
agreed that the event was a complete success.
The ICAI team is also following up
with many of the new friends and contacts made at the opening to explore new
possible linkages for the ICA community.
Sarah and Katie have been working hard
this week to complete the ILHD training program reporting. Sarah has been
compiling all of the resources, notes, photos and other program materials and
proceedings. Katie is also focused on accounting matters, evidenced by the
organized piles of papers and receipts on her desk.
I am happy to be back in the
office and focusing my efforts this week on outreach for the Global
Conference.
Jane jane.leeke@ica-international.org
