BANGLADESH:
Location: Chandpur
On 6 February, Shamim, Habib and Iqbal from ICA visited Chandpur Ghoramara Human
Development Project and had a pre-settled community meeting with the newly formed
ICA Ghoramara Human Development support committee. Dulal, Barek, Jahanara and
Masud discussed different aspects of the project like school teacher, tubewell,
sewing machine and rickshaw components. For appointing a new teacher and one
extra room for class, the community expressed to take necessary steps in this
regard. They fixed next Friday for another community meeting.
On 5 February Aziz
and Mamun visited BRAC and talked to Monitoring and Evaluation officer Shahin
and Human Rights officer Mantasha about ICA and its future interests.
On 5
February Aziz and Mamun also visited the Bureau of Non Formal Education and Mass
Literacy and met Project Director Enamul Haque to discuss about street children
project of ICA and also possible partnership for working with ICA. In that
office UNICEF Project Officer, Education Section Debashis Ranjan Saha was also
there and we could hear from him about UNICEF's support along with CIDA and SIDA
to the Government of Bangladesh for the big project, Basic Education for Hard to
Reach Urban Working Children.
Mamun, Nurul and Aziz are doing office work
regularly on 3 days at the office on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and Mamun
also works on other days. Fuad is finishing his exam soon and we are expecting
to get him at the office from late February.
Aziz admin@ica-bangladesh.org
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Location: Canada
This is a catch-up report covering the last several weeks.
We have 4 public
courses.
John Miller taught Meetings That Work in our training centre and Group
Facilitation in Ottawa.
Jo Nelson taught Group Facilitation and our Designing
Planning Systems course in Edmonton.
Bill Staples taught a special Group
Facilition course for a health department in Manitoba, 2 group Facilitation
courses for the public service in Whitehoprse Yukon and and Image change course
for Saskatchewan Health in Regina.
Facilitation events - - Duncan Holmes worked
with Aspect in Vancouver, British Colombia and Jo Nelson led a strategic
planning process with epidimiologists in Mississauga, Ontario.
Wayne Nelson wnelson@ica-associates.ca
NEPAL:
Location: Nepal
ICA Nepal adopting new strategy
The recent meeting of the board of ICA Nepal
adopted a new strategy for its future direction. The board unanimously approved
the proposal of establishing ICA Associates to launch profit making activities
following the norms and regulations of Nepal Government. With the changing
economic situations globally and change in national politics in Nepal, many NGOs
including ICA Nepal are facing financial difficulties. ICA Nepal will be
implementing its activities through profit making wing namely ICA Associates.
ICA Nepal will continue its nonprofit status and ICA Associates as profit making
status.
ICA A has new members in its management committee who have business
background also. It has established its office at Bagbazar located at the
downtown of Kathmandu. The office will have about 15 full time staff with
background on training and facilitation. It has been agreed that at least 10
percent income of the ICA A will go to ICA Nepal. It is expected that ICA Nepal
will have less financial problem to maintain its expense for office and 10 full
time staff in Kathmandu. ICA Nepal will look for donation to continue its
village level activities which are undertaken through other 25 staff
nationally.
Sudan Paudel ica@icanep.wlink.com.np
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
Lambert continued discussions with colleagues in the Coalition of International NGOs in Montreal (of which ICAI is a founding member) on obtaining subsidized office space from the city of Montreal. The proposal is to secure space where a number of INGOs can establish offices, in order to benefit from increased cooperation and interaction as well as reduced office and overhead expenses. We have approached various city officials informally and have received some encouraging feedback; we hope to have a formal request for more serious discussion on the table in the coming months.
Michael advised colleagues from ICA Bangladesh on setting up an effective internship program to support the work of their staff, and is looking forward to hearing how that program progresses. Michael and Lambert continued to work with Eliza, the volunteer coordinator of the schools program, to develop and refine the program, in preparation for fundraising activities.
The fundraising support interns are busy at work researching donors for national ICA programs and reviewing possible channels for support.
Michael Watson info@ica-international.org
