BANGLADESH:
Location: Dhaka
For ICA Bangladesg, 3 weeks of December 2008 was a very busy and productive
time. ICA offered a 2 day community leadership training and action meeting
during 11-12 December in Bangla facilitated by Selina, Kabir, Khair and Aziz in
the ICA Ghoramara Human Development Project.
Maria and Richard left Dhaka on 21
December for Sydney after having their 21 days during 1-21 December with ICA
Bangladesh members. The1st week in Dhaka working on Japan conference reflection,
community leadeship for Ghoramara Human Development Project Design and ICA
Members Capacity Building Training Design. The 2nd week in Chandpur helping the team
in doing a 2 day Community leadership training for 15 community leaders during
11-12 December and Community Action Planning on 12 December and 3rd and last
week training for ICA members on ORID and Workshop Method, and workshops on
Governance, .NGO Bureau Registration, Leadership, Brochure, Proposal Writing and
strategic planning. This is Maguires' third time volunteering in Bangladesh.
On
19 December ICA Bangladesh had a meeting with Chandpur team for capacity
building and Ghoramara community development project activities. Richard and
Maria were present in the meeting. They promised to meet on last Friday of every
month at Postmaster Lodge and expect to open Chandpur branch soon.
ICA
Bangladesh expressed deep gratitude for Nicolien's support. Nicolien offered her
place of Maria and Richard to stay and also for the training during 1-21
Decemebr.
On 16 December ICA Bangladesh for some individual donation for ICA
activities. Nicolien raised Taka 10,000.00 and Maria's sister raised 18,000.00
taka for Bangladesh. Maria and Richard also declared their office rent support
for 2009.
Richard and Maria expeirienced Eid in Chandpur on 9 December with Aziz,
Bilal, Khair, Sahalam, Habib, Mizan, Kabir, Manik.
Aziz admin@ica-bangladesh.org
CANADA:
Location: Toronto
ICA Canada held a reception on Wednesday, Dec 17, to congratulate our colleague,
Saaya Tema Karmushu, on receiving the Jacques Hebert Global Citizenship Award
from Canada World Youth.
Saaya is the project coordinator of the Il Ngwesi
HIVAIDS Intervention, a partnership between ICA Canada and ICA Kenya.
Due, in
part, to Saaya's hard work and dedication, the Il Ngwesi HIVAIDS Intervention
has been an overwhelming success, and is being considered a model project for
community HIVAIDS initiatives by the Kenyan Ministry of Health!
ICA Canada has
been busy over the past few months, and is now winding down for the holidays.
We'll resume work on January 8, 2009.
Happy holidays to all ICA friends,
colleagues, and associates around the world!
Gabby Resch gresch@icacan.ca
PERU:
Location: Lima
Last week the team completed a two week leadership training program in Azpitia for Promoters for agricultural programs in a Swiss funded NGO. Participants came from three regions of Peru and went home with concrete plans to move their communities ahead. ICA-Peru staff will be doing a three month follow-up program to fully implement the learnings of this training in their communities. This Implementation Program has now become part of our program offering, and several more are planned for 2009. This program has also opened the door to work with other NGOs to make their projects more effective by using the ICA Promoter program.
This week the staff had reports to write and money to pick up -- both joyful events. We were also able to take two half days to do some long term planning -- out to the year 2015. We now have and exciting vision, some solid contradictions, and a very exiting strategic plan which will turn into implementation in January.
As we close down our offices for this year, we with all of our colleagues a most joyful holiday season, and a fabulous Happy New Year to usher in the exciting year of 2009!
Staff admin@ica-peru.org
ICAI:
Location: Montréal:
The office was busy this past week as we tried to take advantage of what was the last full week of work before the holidays.
Lambert and Michael continued exciting discussions with local school directors about a possible international education and leadership program for Quebec schools. The program will continue to develop in the months ahead, with collaboration with ICA Canada.
Lambert and Michael also had an interesting meeting with representatives from Brazilian NGOs who are working on launching a new corporate certification process to help protect biodiversity and ecosystem services (modeled, in some ways, after the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification process). The representatives were in Canada to meet with the Convention on Biological Diversity and other potential supporters in the environmental community. We recommended that they develop explicit recognition of issues of equity, human rights, and participation in the certification criteria and indicators.
We continued to follow up on various grant applications and discuss new opportunities for 2009.
We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season, and we look forward to continued collaboration in the new year.
Staff info@ica-international.org
