AUSTRALIA:

Hosting launch of Millenium Goal strategy for State of Queensland MAKE INDIGENOUS POVERTY HISTORY at West End Uniting Church Brisbane.

ICA team  John Telford, Helen Ritchie, David Jago, Natalie Moxham and Tom Schwarz leave for Timor Leste to work with Pradet, Timor Sea Authority and Timor Aid.

Meeting of the Global Caucus on Forestry Management with Indigenous People, supported by Ford Foundation, was held near ICA Environmental Education Centre, Talegaon, near Pune, India, and facilitated by ICA colleagues from Ghana, India and Australia.

Third Annual Subcontinent Planning held in Pune India .

Colleagues from Ghana, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Australia assisted in facilitation and or planning for the coming year.

Ray Richmond

BANGLADESH:

Location: Environment Education Center Pune India

The third subcontinental ICA meeting was held on 7th October 2006 at Environment Education Center EEC, Pune, India hosted by ICA India Pune. All three subcontinental ICAs representatives were present. The specialty of this gathering was that the initiator of the subcontinental ICA conference John Hutchinson from ICA Australia and the newly elected ICA International Secretary General Lambert Okrah were present in the meeting. This meeting was followed by the second one held in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2005. In the midst of hopes and possibilities for the subcontinental ICAs and its role in the global network, the third subcontinental meeting came up will a number of important issues and field of activating for coming years.
Agendas:
What things happening with ICAs.
Role of ICAI.
ICAI in 5 years.
Possibilities for Joint Program Collaboration with likeminded organizations. Funding, Resources, and Infrastructures.
Fourth Annual ICA meeting.
Credibility of ICA.
Miscellaneous.

Azizur Rahman

BENNIN:

Location: village of Assode -Ouake

Two important events from ICA Benin this week.
A workshop has been organized by us in the village of Assode for the local community. the topic was about their hospital building project. A proposal shall be writen by  William Bassabi our programs manager and then funders will be contacted.

On Tuesday our organization was involved in the last event concerning the glogal actions against the poverty. At least ten non government organizations and the representatives of children parliement was together to say no to poverty.

Issotina Kassimou

CANADA:

Networking is one of my favourite things about being at ICA. Last week I got a call out of the blue from someone who knew about us and thought we might be able to collaborate on a youth initiative. This week I met with Mark McAlister to learn more about his vision and his vision is fascinating. Amazingly, he spoke of his values and philosophy in terms of a 3 fold framework involving politics, economics and culture. Sound familiar. He'd never seen the Social Process Triangles before.

Cara Naiman

ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)

Bill Staples taught Meetings That Work and Facilitated Planning as public courses this week.

Jo Nelson is delivering 4 group Facilitation courses to 200 principals and teachers in the Toronto suburban Peel School District. We have facilitated and done training with many groups in this very large, growing ethnically diverse part of the city.

John Miller taught Group Facilitation to staff at the Town of Ladysmith in British Colombia.

Duncan Holmes  will be married this weekend, Send your congratulations to him at  dholmes@icaassociates.ca

Wayne Nelson

MENA Middle East and North Africa (Egypt):

Invited by the National council for Youth to explore cooeperation in building the capacity of youth centers in Egypt.

Organizing an event on New visions for community development and ICT sponsored by Microsoft. We have invited more than 150 CDAs with the Minister of Social solidarity as the guest speaker and ICA MENA as a role model.

Continue to meet Key emerging leaders in the country to short list for the Eisenhower Fellowships.

Hala Elkholy

PERU:

100 Valleys

Intense recruiting continues for the six week AVANZA PERU formation program for community leaders being marketed through the mining companies.  The curriculum is taking form, and extenive repairs are going forward on the Azpitia Training Center.  This is the launch of the formation program part of the ten year 100 VALLEYS project, so it is generating a lot of excitement and chatter around Peru.

Ken Hamje

ITERLENG ICA South Africa:

Muzi, YFL coordinator, conducted evaluation sessions with focussed groups, in schools.
Fisser attended a conference on poverty elleviation.
Pat  and Joe visited Itereleng's project in Devon.
Two YFL members and a board member are attending skills exchange and fundraising event.

Thembeka Maxamba

UNITED KINGDOM:

Jonathan did some work with the Salvation Army, Martin is working on papers for the quarterly Board meeting next week, and Julie is planning and promoting 2007 courses

Jonathan Dudding

UNITED STATES:

Location: Denver

This is an unofficial communique. As of last Monday, 10 16 06, 14 of the ICA USA senior staff...Oyler, Oyler, Rodriguez, Jorquera, Wiegel, Walker, Dunn, Alton, ML Jones, Fisher, Philbrook, Jennings, Weddle, and Tucker...were laid off as a part of a reduction in force. The US Board of Directors decided, following a comprehensive organizational assessment, that it was required to protect the corporation from going out of business. I trust that official word will be forthcoming soon.

David

ICAI SECRETARIAT:

Finalized Business Plan draft in advance of meeting with Montreal International next week.
Initiated work on Fundraising Strategic Plan.
Followup on outstanding 2006 ICAI dues.

Sarah Miller