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Global Buzz Report: December 2021

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GLOBAL CALENDAR of zoom events
- We would encourage all of us to keep an eye on the Global Archive new initiative – hosting global conversations – book reviews, topical discussions, etc.

I have been on several very fine conversations. https://icaglobalarchives.org/social-research-center-events/  The aim is to make this a GLOBAL CALENDAR with a range of time zone options.

Do consider your participation as well as hosting an on line session some time!

Global Schedule of events!
icaglobalschedule@gmail.com.

For December, click on this link: https://icaglobalarchives.org/social-research-center-events/.to see four types of events: studies, significant conversations, training and impactful global events.

Remember: YOU are invited to:
1.Offer a presentation you are interested in giving;
2.Recommend other people to present;
3.Participate in any of the events and encourage your friends to attend; and
4.Give feedback by emailing: icaglobalschedule@gmail.com.

The vision for the Global Calendar of events is to make this easily accessible/ globally friendly to all no matter where/what!

As you will be aware, ICAI – GA is in process of some re-structuring (with all ICAs represented) – a further opportunity for strengthening our global/regional communication and collaboration.

For December

DATE CLAIMER

ICA members and friends are invited to a
Global multicultural celebrative end of year zoom party!

What – a sharing of stories and yarns from the year & looking forward to 2022 and beyond!
When - choose your time -
3pm CST (Chicago time)
&/or 12 noon (Togo time) on 11/12 December

How – on the Global Schedule zoom platform

You are also invited to be part of the planning team for this event. If so please let Alan know at agammel@ix.netcom.com Guests will be able to register on the global schedule, and a link will be sent.

Let’s make it a wonderful connective event to end the year!!!
To see upcoming events, copy this this link into your browser:

https://icaglobalarchives.org/social-research-center-events

Karen, Alan, Sunny, Virginia and Robyn           rjhutchinson48@gmail.com


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Rapport de novembre

Les programmes qu’ICA-CI conduit en cette année 2021, a dans ce mois de novembre travaillé en plus de l’agriculture et de l’éducation sur un nouveau projet dans le cadre du changement climatique « contribution à la réduction du gaz à effet de serre par l’utilisation de foyers améliorés dans 14 villages de la Sous préfecture de Bounda » financé par ICA USA.

Les activités agricoles ont essentiellement portées sur l’accompagnement des bénéficiaires en conseil dans l’entretien en maraicher dans les plantations de palmier à huile et la récolte des régîmes de palme à huile à l’aide du ciseau.


L’ensemble des villages sont rentrés en production au niveau des plantations de palmier à huile ce qui aujourd’hui permet une visibilité encore plus grande du projet de réinsertion que nous avons eu a réaliser dans les 11 villages de la région de l’Agneby-Tiassa.


En maraicher certains bénéficiaires dans les différents villages continuent de travailler individuellement, pour eux la pratique de cette activité est importante puisqu’elle leur procure rapidement de l’argent. Les spéculations les plus cultivées sont le chou, l’aubergine, le gombo et le persil.


Au niveau du centre d’éducation préscolaire Sainte Soto la rentrée scolaire 2021-2022 à débuté en d’octobre 2021 avec l’inscription des nouveaux et la réinscription des anciens élèves. Les cours ont bien commencés et nous avons reçu le programme de progression des cours dans mois de novembre. Cette progression qui est un guide élaboré par le Ministère de la famille de la femme et de l’enfant pour les enseignants pour la conduire d’une année scolaire.

Les élèves tous enthousiaste de reprendre les cours à l’école car les retrouvailles avec leurs amis et les éducatrices préscolaire leur permet partager des moments d’apprentissage ensemble tout en jouant. Concernant l’école nous avons depuis quelque mois entamé avec ICA Japon des recherches de financements pour le projet de la clôture de celle-ci, afin d’offrir un cadre éducationnel plus beau et bien sécurisé digne du nom de cette grande dame apôtre du développement.

Dans le projet de changement climatique, lors des séances de sensibilisions dans les 14 villages, le staff de ICA Côte d’Ivoire à expliqué aux populations les effets du changement climatique que vit le monde entier cela dû aux activités et actions de nous les hommes. Pour la formation nous avons axé notre méthodologie sur l’approche participative.

Ainsi les femmes ont-elles-mêmes, donné quelques caractéristiques des changements climatiques vécus en Côte d’Ivoire. Pour ces femmes, les faits remarquables sont la baisse effective de la pluviométrie, l’irrégularité des pluies, le raccourcissement de la longueur des saisons pluvieuses, la hausse des températures, les inondations, persistance et rigueur des saisons sèches.


Le foyer amélioré leur a été présenté comme un dispositif de cuisson des aliments construit pour utiliser le bois-énergie tout comme le foyer ouvert traditionnel, mais plus économe en bois-énergie et moins polluant. Il induit un temps de cuisson plus rapide, une quantité moindre de bois-énergie consommée, soit une économie considérable par rapport au foyer traditionnel. Il confère un gain de temps aux femmes et aux enfants qui parcourent parfois de grandes distances pour trouver du bois de chauffe et qui passent assez de temps à faire la cuisson des aliments.


Pour participer à cette grande ambition qui est la lutte contre le changement climatique, ICA USA, à mis en œuvre un projet avec les ICA Africains. Ce projet qui cadre avec la politique mondiale (COP 26) et nationale de nos pays vient apporter un plus à la stratégie ivoirienne et de l’ONG ICA dans cette lutte contre le changement climatique, à travers le « Projet de contribution à la réduction des gaz à effet de serre », renforce la résilience des communautés vulnérables face au changement climatique dans 14 villages de la sous-préfecture de Bounda, à travers l’approche basée sur les écosystèmes. Le projet promeut la construction, l’utilisation et la vulgarisation des foyers améliorés.

L’ONG veut ainsi amener les communautés locales à réaliser une synergie entre l’usage du bois de chauffe et l’impératif de préserver les forêts. L’implication des ménages est d’autant plus importante qu’ils sont les plus grands consommateurs individuels de bois-énergie.

En effet, face à la problématique des changements climatiques, accompagnés parfois de la désertification et de la déforestation, les acteurs civils se sont lancé dans la recherche des technologies locales afin de limiter l’épuisement de leurs ressources et la dégradation de leurs milieux de vie.

Ainsi, pendant deux jours, les 06 et 07 Novembre 2021, le Directeur Exécutif de ICA Cote d’ivoire Mr. Eugène KOUAME, accompagné du Consultant Principal de l’ONG, Mr. AMANI Koffi, Sociologue, se rendus à Bounda pour former 54 femmes de 14 villages de la Sous-préfecture de Bounda afin qu’elles sensibilisent l’ensemble des femmes de leurs différents villages sur les changements climatiques et les former sur la construction, l’utilisation et la vulgarisation des foyers améliorés.

C’est dans cet ordre d’idée de développer la fabrication des foyers améliorés en utilisant les matériaux locaux est née. Dans ce contexte global de transition vers la maîtrise de l’énergie de cuisson, les communautés locales font partie du problème et par conséquent, elles doivent être une partie de la solution. L’usage des foyers améliorés apparaît comme l’un des moyens précieux dont disposent ICA Côte d’Ivoire pour permettre à ces communautés de satisfaire efficacement les besoins énergétiques des leurs ménages, tout en protégeant le couvert forestier, considéré comme l’unique moyen de lutter contre la désertification dans notre pays.



Un certificat de participation a été décerné pour marquer cette formation initiée dans le cadre de ce projet innovateur dans la vie de ces femmes leaders rurales qui ont pris l’engagement de dupliquer ce modèle de foyer dans leurs villages.









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Report for November

The programs that ICA-CI leads in this year 2021, has in this month of November worked in addition to agriculture and education on a new project within the framework of climate change "contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gas greenhouse through the use of improved stoves in 14 villages of the Bounda sub-prefecture ”funded by ICA USA.

Agricultural activities have mainly focused on supporting beneficiaries in counseling in the maintenance of market gardening in oil palm plantations and harvesting oil palm farms using the chisel.


All the villages have returned to production at the level of oil palm plantations which today allows an even greater visibility of the reintegration project that we had to carry out in the 11 villages of the Agneby region. Tiassa.


In market gardening, some beneficiaries in the different villages continue to work individually for them. The practice of this activity is important since it quickly provides them with money. The mostcultivated crops are cabbage,eggplant, okra and parsley.



At the Sainte Soto preschool education center, the 2021-2022 school year began in October 2021 with the registration of new students and the re-registration of former students. The courses started well and we received the course progression program in November. This progression, which is a guide developed by the Ministry of the Family of Women and Children for teachers to conduct it through a school year.



The students are all enthusiastic about going back to school because the reunion with their friends and the preschool educators allows them to share learning moments together while playing.



In the climate change project, during sensitization sessions in the 14 villages, the staff of ICA Côte d'Ivoire explained to the populations the effects of climate change that the whole world is experiencing, due to the activities and actions of us men. For training we have focused our methodology on the participatory approach.

Thus the women themselves have given some characteristics of the climate changes experienced in Côte d'Ivoire. For these women, the remarkable facts are the effective decrease in rainfall, the irregularity of the rains, the shortening of the length of the rainy seasons, the rise in temperatures, the floods, the persistence and severity of the dry seasons.


The improved fireplace was presented to them as a food cooking device built to use wood energy just like the traditional open hearth, but more energy efficient and less polluting. It induces a faster cooking time, a less amount of wood energy consumed, that is to say a considerable saving compared to the traditional hearth. It saves time for women and children who sometimes travel great distances to find firewood and spend enough time cooking food.


To participate in this great ambition which is the fight against climate change, ICA USA, has implemented a project with African ICAs. This project, which is in line with the global (COP 26) and national policy of our countries, brings more to the Ivorian strategy and to the NGO ICA in this fight against climate change, through the "Contribution project to the reduction of greenhouse gases ”, strengthens the resilience of vulnerable communities facing climate change in 14 villages of the Bounda sub-prefecture, through an ecosystem-based approach. The project promotes the construction, use and extension of improved stoves.

The NGO thus wants to bring local communities to achieve a synergy between the use of firewood and the imperative to preserve forests. The involvement of households is all the more important as they are the largest individual consumers of woodfuel.

Indeed, faced with the problem of climate change, sometimes accompanied by desertification and deforestation, civil actors have embarked on the search for local technologies in order to limit the depletion of their resources and the degradation of their living environments. .

Thus, for two days, on November 06 and 07, 2021, the Executive Director of ICA Cote d'ivoire Mr. Eugène KOUAME, accompanied by the Principal Consultant of the NGO, Mr. AMANI Koffi, Sociologist, went to Bounda to train 54 women from 14 villages in the Bounda sub-prefecture so that they sensitize all women in their different villages on climate change and train them on the construction, use and extension of improved stoves.

It is in this vein to develop the construction of improved stoves using local materials was born. In this global context of transition to mastery of cooking energy, local communities are part of the problem and therefore, they must be part of the solution. The use of improved stoves appears to be one of the precious means at ICA Côte d'Ivoire's disposal to enable these communities to efficiently meet the energy needs of their households, while protecting the forest cover, considered the only means of fight against desertification in our country.




A participation certificate was awarded to mark this training initiated as part of this innovative project in the lives of these rural women leaders who have made a commitment to duplicate this model of household in their villages.


Kouame Konan         konaneug@gmail.com


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Brief November Activity Report, 2021

IIQA- sister organization of ICA at COP 26
Climate Change Conference

Ms. Enusha Khadka, CEO of IIQA, sister organization of ICA which is committed in implementing various ISO standards in Organizations of Nepal attended the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow that started from 31 October 2021. Nearly 200 countries came together in hope of finding collective answers to global challenges posed by climate change. As standards are crucial in underpining the global economy, creating trust on all aspects of international trade is critical. ISO has a number of standards that are essential in supporting the climate agenda , help in adaptation of climate change , quantatifying GHG emission and promote the dissemination of good practices in environmnet managmnet. Ms .Khadka attendended the event and shared how ISO had committed to combat climate change through standards to achieve the climate agenda by 2050 and about the London Declaration.

Quality champions

International Trade center in collaboration with the Government of Nepal, funded by the European Union had launched a Quality champion Program to help SMEs comply with the export quality requirement, build excellence into products and operations and succeed on export markets. As part of this program, a pool of Quality Champions (QCs) will be trained and qualified to serve Nepali businesses as part-time trainers, coaches and advisers through relevant national institutions. Upon the successful completion of the course, participants will be given an international qualification and commit to serving on a long-term basis as QCs. Ms. Enusha Khadka, CEO of IIQA had also been involved in this program and is attending various training sessions organized under this program with an objective to serve SMEs to meet the international export quality requirement and improve their linkage to the global market.














Social Artistry Leadership- Spark Project:

ICA Nepal continued to provide Social Artistry training to interested youths throughout the month of November as well. We completed our second batch this month with the support and facilitation of Janet Sanders and Evelyn Philbrook. After learning about Social Artistry tools and techniques 25 youths from diverse background wholeheartedly executed their spark project with the mini-grant provided by the organizing team facilitated the sessions. The exciting projects ranged from developing social pages dedicated to animal welfare to promoting Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, ensuring better reproductive health of women, small initiations to tackle climate change and awareness on child labor. All the participants were overjoyed with the support they received in the training and shared their emotions that sparked in them after they successfully completed their spark project. Participants had shared their learnings and achievements on day 4 and 5 after successfully completing their projects.
Most of them were committed to take their spark project to the next level proudly.

Every Friday Learning Friday

Every Friday, Learning Friday sessions of ICA Nepal continued in the month of November as well. The topics and name of speakers are given below:


  • Talk on Menstruation and Travel- Ms. Gaurie Malakar and Ms. Moon Shrestha
  • Identifying, Collecting, and Managing Resources- Mr. Himmat Singh Lekali.
  • Teaching Factory: Competency in Skill Development- Ms. Akim Malakar Shrestha.

We bring together people involved in NGOs, civil society, development practitioners and academia and provide them a platform together to learn on different issues concerning them with the support of experts. Participants share that this program has bettered their knowledge and also gave them platform to expand networks.






With the financial support of Fundraising for NGOs (FFN), Manmohan Memorial Hospital received Colposcopy Machine.

 



 


Meeting with International ICA teams for the expansion of Fundraising for NGOs (FFN)

 





Orientation on Youth Facilitative Leadership Program for promoting SDGs







IAwareness on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for hydropower.

 



          Prepared by: Swikriti Parajuli




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