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Avril le mois de la glorification de Jésus ressuscité à été aussi pour nous un moment intense de travail sur le nouveau projet que nous somme entrain d’exécuter avec ICA-Japon grâce au financement de son Ministère des Affaires Etrangères. Ce projet dénommé « Créer une agriculture durable et réduire la pauvreté grâce à une agriculture à circulation de ressources qui relie l’élevage et la culture à Agboville » va poursuivre les activités dans les trois sous projets que nous avons initié depuis 2015 dans la région de l’Agnéby-Tiassa en faveur des 585 jeunes vulnérables des 11 villages que nous avons sélectionné.

A cet effet nous avons reçu le 5 mars 2019 Yusuke Takaïshi, le Coordinateur Japonais baptisé KOUADIO dans notre langue locale. Il va travailler avec ICA-Côte d’Ivoire durant un an sur ce projet. ICA-CI dans le souci de rendre compte fidèlement, de la gestion des fonds mis à sa disposition a sollicité la présence de ce coordinateur afin de l’aider à faire le rapport financier et narratif.

Dans l’optique de bien faire les choses nous avons reçu la visite de Shizuyo Sato Directrice Exécutive de ICA Japon le 04 Avril 2019. Elle a mis à profit son séjour en terre Ivoirienne pour la formation en leadership portée sur la gestion coopérative pour les amener à mieux conduire leurs activités et ceux des différents CDC affiliés à la coopérative.

Cette mission de 17 jours a été très chargée, car une série de visite des sites de projets associées de réunions avec les bénéficiaires et les différentes chefferies ont meublé une partie de sa présence à Agboville.

Visite à Aboudé-Dadié

Visite à Boka-oho

Visite à N’gorankro

Du 15 au 16 avril une mission spéciale composée d’une équipe de 5 personnes s’est rendu à Bouaké et Brobo dans le centre de la Côte d’Ivoire pour une prospection en vu de l’écriture de nouveaux projets. Il faut noter qu’ICA-Japon et ICA-Côte d’ Ivoire ont par le passé travaillé sur plusieurs projets pour la réinsertion, la sensibilisation sur le VIH/SIDA, l’introduction de la culture maraîchère, de l’Anacarde et du palmier amélioré dans cette région.

Ils ont aussi procédé à la construction d’un centre de formation communautaire pour l’enseignement des métiers de coiffure, couture, broderie et de tissage de pagne Baoulé traditionnel. Ce centre qui faisait autre fois la fierté de la ville de Brobo parce que c’est le seul centre qui a cette vocation d’offrir une qualification aux jeunes déscolarisés de cette localité est aujourd’hui fermé suite à la crise qu’a connu notre pays.   

Nous avons aussi mis à profit pour visiter le village de Ayabo-Abouokro où l’Ambassade du Japon a construit une école de quatre classes plus bureau du Directeur et des latrines. Après Ayabo, le cape a été mis sur le second village (Boka-Kouamekro) distant d’environ 17 km de Brobo.

Ce village, fait parti des nombreux qui ont bénéficié du projet de sensibilisation sur le VIH/SIDA financé par le Ministère des Postes et Télécommunication du Japon (MPTJ) à travers la collaboration entre ICA-Japon et ICA-Côte d’Ivoire en 2003. L’équipe a rendu une visite de courtoisie à Nanan Kidji Marie Chef du village de Brobo qui est très battante et un soutien incontesté d’ICA-Côte d’ Ivoire et de ses actions en faveur le peuple Ahali. 

 Boka-Kouamekro aujourd’hui vient d’ouvrir sa première salle de classe construite en bambou, au vu de cette réalité les autorités villageoises ont sollicité ICA-Japon et ICA-Côte d’Ivoire de leur venir en aide à travers la construction en dure de quelques salle de classes pour leur école.

Les populations de ce village, à cette occasion nous a réservé un accueil les plus chaleureux pour la première visite d’une forte délégation de deux ICAs qui vont porter leur projet aux yeux des bailleurs de fonds.

Dans la continuité des activités du projet année 4 nous avons pu produire des poussins dont les œufs apportés du Japon, vont servir de souche de production de pondeuse pour l’approvisionnement des différentes fermes avicoles construites dans les 11 villages.

Aussi nous allons continuer dans l’encadrement des volets agroforesteries et cultures maraîchères dans les 11 villages tout en mettant l’accent sur la fabrication du compost avec les cabosses sèches de cacao, de feuilles moles de bambou et autres éléments naturelles qui peut être utilisé.

Les Premiers régimes de palmier de l’année 1 Dèoboguié à gauche Aboudé-Boa Vincet à droite

Le projet Association Villageoise d’Epargne et de Crédit se poursuit dans les quatre départements de la région de l’Agnéby-Tiassa, Les bénéficiaires font chaque semaine leurs différentes réunions d’épargne et d’octroie de crédit à leur membre qui ont des petits projets réalistes et réalisables avec des résultats mesurables et quantifiable.

Pour mieux les accompagner nous allons dans les semaines avenir commencer la formation des groupes dans la création des activités génératrices de revenus et aussi en gestion simplifié pour les aider à la bonne gestion de leur future activité.


Visite au projet proril àYamoussoukro financé par la JICA





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April the month of the glorification of the risen Jesus was also for us an intense moment of work on the new project that we are implimenting with ICA Japan through to the financing of its Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This project named: Creating sustainable agriculture and reducing poverty through resource-based agriculture that links livestock and culture in Agboville, will continue the activities in the three sub-projects that we have initiated since 2015 in the Agnéby-Tiassa region for the 585 vulnerable young people from the 11 villages we have selected.

To this end we received on March 5, 2019 Yusuke Takaishi, the Japanese Coordinator baptized KOUADIO in our local language. He will work with ICA-Côte d’Ivoire for a year on this project. ICA-CI in order to report accurately, the management of funds made available to him requested the presence of this coordinator to help ICA-CI make the financial and narrative report. In order to do it right, we received the visit of Shizuyo Sato Executive Director of ICA Japan on April 04, 2019. She took advantage of her stay in Côte d’Ivoire for leadership training focused on cooperative management to bring them to better conduct their activities and those of the various CDCs affiliated to the cooperative.

This 17-day mission was very busy, as a series of visits to associated project sites of meetings with beneficiaries and different chiefdoms furnished part of its presence in Agboville

Visit to Aboudé-Dadié

Visit to Boka-oho

Visit to N’gorankro

From April 15th to 16th, a special mission composed of a team of 5 people went to Bouaké and Brobo in the center of Côte d’Ivoire for a prospection in view of the writing of new projects. It should be noted that ICA-Japan and ICA-Côte d 'Ivoire have in the past worked on several projects for reintegration, awareness raising on HIV / AIDS, the introduction of market gardening, cashew nuts and improved palm trees in this region.

They also went to the construction site of a community training center for teaching hairdressing, sewing, embroidery and weaving of traditional Baoulé loincloth. This center that was once the pride of the city of Brobo because it is the only center that has the vocation to offer a qualification to young people out of school in this locality is now closed following the crisis experienced by our country.

We also used to visit the village of Ayabo-Abouokro where the Japanese Embassy built a school of four class rooms plus the Director's office and latrines. After Ayabo, the cloak was placed on the second village (Boka-Kouamekro) about 17 km from Brobo.

This village is one of many that benefited from the HIV / AIDS awareness project funded by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Japan (MPTJ) through the collaboration between ICA-Japan and ICA-Côte d'Ivoire in 2003. The team paid a courtesy visit to Nanan Kidji Marie, Brobo Village Chief, who is very supportive and unquestionably supportive of ICA – Côte d’Ivoire and its actions in favor of the Ahali people.

Boka-Kouamekro today has just opened its first bamboo classroom, in view of this reality the village authorities have asked ICA-Japan and ICA-Côte d'Ivoire to help them through the hard construction. some classrooms for their school.
The people of this village, on this occasion gave us a warm welcome for the first visit of a strong delegation of two ICAs who will bring their project to the eyes of the donors.

In line with the activities of the Year 4 project we have been able to produce chicks whose eggs brought from Japan will be used as a layer production strain to supply the different poultry farms built in the 11 villages.
Also we will continue in the frame of agroforestry and market gardening components in the 11 villages while focusing on the manufacture of compost with cocoa dry pods, bamboo mole leaves and other natural elements that can be used.

Mme Sato whith a ripe grain of palm tree at d’Aboudé-Boa Vincent

The Village Savings and Loans Association project is continuing in the four departments of the Agnéby-Tiassa region. The beneficiaries make their weekly savings meetings and give credit to their members who have small realistic and achievable projects with measurable and quantifiable results.

To better support them we will in the coming weeks start training groups in the creation of income-generating activities and also in simplified management to help them manage their future business.


Visit on the  Proriz project in Yamoussoukro financed by JICA

Kouame Konan         konaneug@gmail.com


NEPAL:

Community Development Activities:
ICA Nepal in coordination with its local partner, Rural Youth People Concern Forum (RYPCF) and ICA Japan has been conducting a series of agriculture capacity building training sessions as a part of the project entitled, “Improving the Poverty Situation of Earthquake Survivors in Sindhupalchowk district”

Newly constructed community training center in Sindhupalchowk district

The construction of the community training centre was completed in early April and at present beautification and gardening work is being carried out. As a part of agriculture capacity building: shitake mushroom farming, natural pesticides vermicomposting, livestock management and general agriculture, capacity building training was conducted, with more than 100 farmers benefiting. The trainings were carried out in coordination with local ward offices.

Local villagers were taught about nursery management, plastic tunnel making, preparing natural pesticides, and provided with knowledge on various common diseases among cows and buffaloes, and to be aware of preventive and curative methods.

In addition, with the support of Rotary International, ICA Nepal facilitated handloom training for women's economic empowerment in Dingam village, in the Nuwakot district. This is a mountainous village, located not far from the Kathmandu Valley. Due to it's geographical location, the village is rural and underdeveloped. Local Women will have 15 days of basic introductory lessons, learning how to construct a loom, using the locally available wood and bamboos. They will be taught how to make woollen scarfs and bags.

Training and Facilitation:
An ICA Nepal team, provided TOP facilitation services to the Balephi Municipality, located in the Sindhupalchowk district. Dr. Tatwa P. Timsina, Atma Ram Timsina, and Tara P. Gautam, provided facilitation training to 40 local youths of Sindhupalchowk. The training aimed to provided micro enterprise leadership skills to earthquake survivors.


Ishu Subba           subbaishu@gmail.com


UNITED STATES:

ORIGINS OF ACCELERATE77 FOCUS OF ICA PRESENTATION
TO ASSET-BASED COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

When Terry Bergdall returned to ICA-USA to serve as CEO, the organization was in the midst of a missional shift to meet the emerging climate crisis. The City of Chicago was also attempting to respond to climate change, but the City’s approach was to convene expert consultants who drew up environmental programs, then tried to sell them to Chicagoans. Terry believed that this top-down approach to policy-making perpetuated the mentality of treating people as consumers, and helped ICA launch the accelerate77 project to instead show people as producers.

A decade later, Terry is continuing to reflect on that paradigm through his work as a faculty member at the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute, based at DePaul University in Chicago. ABCD Institute, which has a history of partnership with ICA, has

 
 
 

been convening a monthly community of practice since last October. Each meeting is a chance for practitioners to explore a program that uses an asset-based approach through presentation and reflection. On the evening of May 30th, 2019, the community of practice met at ICA GreenRise to learn about the accelerate77 project and its current iteration as the Chicago Sustainability Leaders Network.

“We started with the assumption that that community-led initiatives were happening everywhere, in each of Chicago’s 77 community areas” said Terry of accelerate77. The project, therefore, aimed to demonstrate the truth of that assumption by sending students to interview residents and identify assets in each of those communities. After cataloguing nearly 1,000 neighborhood-led sustainability projects, ICA organized a Sharing Approaches that Work Conference to bring them all together.

Howard Rosing, of the Steans Center at DePaul, recalled that conference for the community of practice: “I met a lot of folks who I ended up partnering with”.

The desire for continued partnership in the wake of accelerate77 led to the creation of Chicago Sustainability Leaders Network (CSLN), a coalition of grassroots leaders and activists from across the city. ICA staff member Caitlin Sarro explained how the the bi-monthly group meetings move around the city, each one an opportunity to showcase a local asset.

Andrew Clayton           aclayton@ica-usa.org


NATIONAL ICA

National ICAs Are Creating Their Own Language Editions of
A Compassionate Civilization

In 2017 the original English language edition was published of A Compassionate Civilization: The Urgency of Sustainable Development and Mindful Activism – Reflections and Recommendations. The book is written by Robertson Work, a longtime ICA colleague, and contains many ICA leadership methods. In 2019, ICA Nepal translated and published a Nepali language edition and gave a copy to each cabinet member, member of parliament, and provincial chief and put it on the local market.  Recently Ms Svitlana Salamatova of ICA Ukraine announced that they will publish a Ukrainian language edition. ICA Nepal is also planning a Hindi edition. 100% of sales goes to each national ICA that assumes financial and managerial responsibility for their own language edition. The author will also raise some funds on Facebook for each national ICA. If your national or regional ICA is interested in publishing your own language edition, please send an email to mrw2@nyu.edu 

This is what Dr. Tatwa Timsina, founder of ICA Nepal wrote to the author as the reason he initiated a Nepali edition:

"I am tracking about the impact of the book that we provided to the MPs and ministers. I got response from few and they have shared that they are very much inspired by the book. They have found it very relevant to our context.

"While reading the English version, I immediately realised that the thought you have elaborated in the book is very relevant to our situation and I thought that our politicians and general public should be aware about that. Realising this, we decided to print it in Nepali version. As you have received the Nepali version, I am sure you have felt how similar it looks. We have done our best to make it replica of the English version. While inaugurating the Nepali version, the Finance Minister of Nepal also highlighted to importance of the messages you have covered in this book.

"MP Khem Lohani has agreed to coordinate the study team and I assume there will be 8-10 MPs with him. They will be discussing and sharing their learning. I have also requested them to be in touch with you directly. We can even enlarge this group and take the message of compassionate civilisation to much needy part of Nepal too.
Thank you again for your good work and allowing us to be in this initiative."

The English edition is available at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1546972617. An article about the book is on the ICAI website is at: http://www.ica-international.org/2017/08/14/compassionate-civilization-urgency-sustainable-development-mindful-activism-reflections-recommendations-rob-work/ 
The blog is at:   https://compassionatecivilization.blogspot.com/

Robertson Work           robertsonwork100@gmail.com   



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