BANGLADESH:
Location: Dhaka
Faculty meeting of Dhaka ICA has been going on in full swing as per the
Action Plan 2007-2009. In the last week the faculty meeting was held on 21 October
followed by 26 October. Next one will be on 2nd November. Tatwa will be arriving
on 2nd October, Aziz and Tatwa will facilitate a training for Concern
Bangladesh staffs.
On 25th October Aziz from ICA Bangladesh joined the
conference call on the 1st Regional Asia ICA Meeting to be hosted by ICA
Bangladesh in Dhaka during 2-3 December. The Skype conference call was hosted by
Sarah Farina from ICAI. Key agenda and schedule was major discussion issues.
Based on the conference, Dhaka ICA organized a pre-confernce planning event on
Japan 2008 Global Conference was held on 26th October attended by ten ICA
memebers.
A Board Meeting was held on 26 October prior to faculty and management
meeting. Decisions were made on four team formation following the PLanning
document formulated in last March with Maria and Richard. New membership was
given to Mr. Naimul Hassan who has been serving the Dhaka ICA as a volunteer
hearing about ICA from the flyer of ToP training program. Naimul has visted the
venue of the regional conference and also arranged registered participants'
tution fee collection. He is also preparing a roster for year-round events.
Naimul was also appointed by the executive committee as honorary directior of
Media, Public Relations and Communication for Dhaka ICA and Mohammad Habibur
Rahman as honorary director of Information Technology of Dhaka ICA.
Aziz admin@ica-bangladesh.org
JAPAN:
2007.10.27 Global Buzz2008 Global Conference
ICA Japan held its Annual Meeting
and Public Kickoff Event for the -Unlocking the Future of Creating a New World,
Together- conference to be held 11-15 November 2008. Attending were 55 people
from business, scholars, youth leaders, government workers, and Civil
Society.The kickoff meeting began with Senator Masuda speaking about the
importance of relevant working groups and having great keynote speakers from
Japan, followed by everyone stating their personal expectations for the
conference.
There emerged five groups creating three month action plans for . .
1. Logistics hotels, site visits, registration, etc
2. Working Group
Themes
3. Fund Raising
4. Publicity and PR
5. Recruitment of 500 from
Japan
Peace Links Japan
Meanwhile Shizuyo Sato participated in the Peace Links
exchange with the wives of the national diet members from the Russian
Federation, with wives of Japanese diet members. One highlight was the mention
of the tentative focus of the G8 Summit meeting, to be held next summer in
Northern Hokkaido, Japan, would be . . .
1. Environmental Action
2. African
Development
3. Conflicts and Disarmament
Wayne Ellsworth staff@icajapan.org
PERU:
Location: 100 Valleys
Another great week at the Chincha Alta Earthquake Project with 310 homes built
under the leadership of the resident coordinators. It looks like the Project
will be completed weeks ahead of schedule, and also that we will be able to
build hundreds more homes than planned because of the economy of our purchases
and building methods.This week there was a meeting with the contractor who is
charged with the reonstuction of the earthquake zone, and he was extemely
interested that our actual construction costs were just 42 percent of the costs
of the same houses done by the Red Cross. It seems that there is a bigger role
for the ICA in this event.
Staff admin@ica-peru.org
UNITED KINGDOM:
Amelia has been selecting two organisations to work with in our Youth
Participation programme before going on leave, Martin and Marilyn have been
facilitating a two-day strategic planning process for a client, Jonathan has
been preparing for the African Regional meeting in Togo.
The ICAUK Board held
their quarterly meeting.
Jonathan Dudding jdudding@ica-uk.org
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
A busy hive of activity at 555 René-Lévesque this week.
Lambert had his big screen debut as a team of volunteer filmmakers descended on the office to shoot the segment intros for the forthcoming 30th anniversary DVD "The World of Human Development: Origins of The Institute of Cultural Affairs". The project as a whole is moving along well and we expect to have copies in hand by the end of November.
Completed drafts of the 2008 budget and work plan were submitted to the Board.
The November Network Exchange was edited and assembled.
Working Gifts proposals continued to come in and the site is almost ready to go live.
French translation of the 2008 conference website was uploaded.
Mike was in Ghana last week visiting ICA Ghana field projects. On Sunday, Lambert departed for South Africa, where he will meet with ICA South Africa, do some conference outreach, and participate in the Steering Committee meeting of the World Rainforest Movement.
Staff info@ica-international.org
