AUSTRALIA:
Location: Democratic Republic of Congo
Collaborators in Sydney, South Africa, Sweden and the Democratic Republic of
Congo agreed this week to work together to hold the first planning meeting for
eye care education in the Congo. Initiated by ICA member and international
development consultant Lucy Hobgood-Brown and her optometrist, Dharshie
Jeyaseelan, this meeting will be held in Kinshasa in early July and will be led
by the country's national program director for eye care and vision, Dr Makwanga
Mankiew.
Lucy Hobgood-Brown hobgood-brown@msn.com.au
BANGLADESH:
Location: Dhaka
Azizur Rahman, Prof. Dr. Mahbub and Maria Maguire reviewed the deforestration
proposal for Global Forest Coalition funding. Based on Sandy's comments, the
proposal will be finalized for sending to GFC in the next week.
Aziz contacted
with ICAs in Japan, Nepal, India, Taiwan and ICAI to plan for the 4th
Sub-continental ICA gathering in Dhaka during 2-9 December 2007. Dhaka ICA
members visited some venues and talked to some organizations for program
planning.
Nicolien got much work load at the Embassy and about to leave for her
country on a short vacation. On return she is going to meet us to discuss about
our work.
Azizur Rahman admin@ica-bangladesh.org
CANADA:
Location: Toronto ON
This past week, Eowynne has been calling past donors to update them on the work
that is being done by ICAs in Africa. Leah Taylor, who is now working on the YFL
program, has been preparing a youth intern training program that she will be delivering
next week.
Eowynne Feeney efeeney@icacan.ca
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Jo Nelson spent the week in Northern Quebec facilitating community meetings in
isolated, fly-in only communities for the Cree School Board long term planning
initiative.
Duncan Holmes taught Meetings That Work and Group Facilitation to
full courses in Vancouver.
John Miller taught Group Facilitation and Facilitated
Planning to full groups in Toronto.
Bill Staples taught Facilitating Conciliation
in Chicago.
Wayne Nelson completed the new agreement for sponsorship of public
courses and the promtion of in-house courses in Saskatchewan with the college -
SIAST.
Wayne Nelson wnelson@ica-associates.ca
PERU:
Location: 100 Valleys Project
Registrations are rolling in for the next VISION PERU ToP methods training
program as the whole team is involved in visiting agencies who are
collaborating with the 100 Valleys Project.
Ken Hamje spent 3 days at a
Alternative Energy conference and found some great new colleagues.
Last week we
found a great community to be the National Demonstration Community for the 100
Valleys Project and this week the mayor joyfully agreed to accept the
challenge.
Staff
UNITED KINGDOM:
Martin and Ghee facilitated a public PSP training,
Amelia with Alan and a bit
of Jonathan facilitated a great weekend with one of our partners in the youth
programme during which they developed a participation strategy for their
organisation,
Jonathan did more work with Sightsavers,
Martin facilitated a day
with Manchester City Council,
Clare confirmed upcoming ToP courses in
Manchester, London and Derry Northern Ireland and our latest Newsletter came
out- edited by Derek
Jonathan Dudding jdudding@ica-uk.org.uk
UNITED STATES:
Location: Chicago
ICA-USA continues its restructuring with the hiring of new Constituency
Services Associate, Cheryl Zaleski. We are also in the process of hirng a
Director of Finance and Asset Management, and expect to have new Executive
leadership in place by June 15th.
We are also moving forward with programming for
the re-scheduled Living Legacy event, which will be held October 5-7, 2007 in
Chicago. Check the ICA-USA web page for updates as they become available.
Cheryl Zaleski czaleski@ica-usa.org
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
Another intensely busy week for ICAI, with progress on: funding proposals and strategy; networking in Montreal; 2008 partnerships and communications; and accounting. Annual Report also went to the printer.
Staff info@ica-international.org
