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Global Buzz Report: July 2017

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ICAI Board Report:

As the ICAI Board, we are preparing for the General Assembly that will be held on July 18, 2017. Please make a note on your calendar, and also, please suggest to us, the best time that the general assembly meeting should take place. Use my email address below. An agenda will be sent after we have your responses.

In addition we want to let you know that the Regional Meetings for Asia, and East & Southern Africa, are being planned to take place in October and November 2017.

We look forward to listening to all your ideas and comments during the GA on our Adobe Connect platform!

Lisseth Lorenzo
president@ica-international.org
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COTE D'IVOIRE:

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INTRODUCTION : Les activités réalisées dans ce mois-ci  ont été la continuité  de celles entamées précédemment en mai, afin de nous permettre d’atteindre nos objectifs à la fin de l’année.

Ainsi, en agriculture nous avons procéder à la distribution des semences et d’intrants dans les 11villages ou nous intervenons. Nous avons dans certains villages faits des mises en place de pépinières de piment, aubergine Iv et de la tomate. Il faut notifier que les plants de gombo à EKISSI-HO et BOKA-HO sont au stade de la floraison.

Le technicien à mise en place une pépinière d’aubergine variété MARIMAR  qui va être utilisée spécialement au niveau de la compostière pour former les bénéficiaires sur l’utilisation des différents composts. Les bénéficiaires qui rêvent de voir comment utiliser cet engrais bio  ont confectionnées 9 planches qui vont servir à la transplantation des différentes spéculations et l’expérimentation des composts réalisés lorsque Mr Isoda va arriver en Côte d’Ivoire dans le mois de Juillet.

Confection de planche et installation de la pépinière

Au niveau de l’agroforesterie,  les maïs semés sont au stade de l’épiaison. Le technicien à fait la remise des matériels et des intrants dans tous les villages, tandis les villages de BOKA-HO et DEY-OBOGUIE ont en plus reçu des boutures de manioc.

Il y a eu aussi entretiens de parcelles des palmiers à N’GORANKRO / NIAMANZRA 2 / MURE et BADOUKRO. Le technicien a prodigué des conseils aux bénéficiaires, tout en leur demandant de préparer les parcelles pour recevoir les plants de palmier, d’acajou et de moringa prévus pour cette année.

Dèy-oboguié champ de maïs des bénéficiaires
La palmeraie d’Ekissi-oho

ACTIVITE ELEVAGE :
Dans cette activité on note la finalisation de la réhabilitation de la ferme de poulets de chair d’EKISSI-HO et la construction de la ferme des poules pondeuses de N’gorankro dans le mois de mai, nous avons débuté la construction des poules pondeuses de Niamanzra 1. Il est prévu la réhabilitation des fermes de Bonikro, d’Aboudé Boa Vincent et celle d’Aboudé Dadié dans les mois avenir.

Nouveau poulailler de pondeuse de N’gorankro
 Œufs des poulets reproducteurs

 L’activité de ponte des poules pondeuse au niveau de la ferme des reproducteurs continue et le ramassage des œufs (OAC) s’effectue chaque jour par les techniciens.

ACTIVITE D’ACCOUVAGE : en ce jour du 27 /06/2017, la 4ème sortie de poussins de l’incubateur a été satisfaisante avec un taux d’éclosion de 89,31%  en présence de l’expert japonais Mr. ISHIZAWA ; sur 131 œufs à couver introduit dans l’incubateur, après les 21 jours réglementaires, 117 poussins sont sortis en bonne santé.

Poulets reproducteurs
Poussins sorties le 27 juin 2017

Dans quelques villages, les cycles de productions continus, il s’agit de:
N’GORANKRO : 1100 POUSSINS, BONIKRO : 200 POUSSINS et  BOKA-HO : 180 POUSSINS
Les commandes de NIAMANZRA 1 (400) et de NIAMANZRA 2 (500) sont prévues cette semaine. MR. MYAMOTO a effectué une visite des fermes le vendredi 23 /06/2017 pour s’enquérir des nouvelles.

Poussins de 10 jours à N’gorankro

ACTIVITE DE MISE EN PLACE DES C.D.C : les villages de MURE, N’GORANKRO, NIAMANZRA 1 et NIAMANZRA 2 sont au stade de la formalisation des documents au niveau de l’administration, les autres villages ont été exhortés à mettre en place leur C.D.C et à formaliser les documents afférents.

A ce sujet il faut noter un beau geste de la part de la chefferie de NIAMANZRA qui a octroyer une parcelle viabilisée avec à l’appui une attestation d’attribution de ce terrain aux bénéficiaires du projet.

ACTIVITES FUTURES :

  • VISITES DE SITES
  • FORMATIONS avec les experts japonais Mrs. ISHIZAWA en élevage et ISODA en agriculture dans le mois de Juillet.


COTE D'IVOIRE:


The activities carried out this month were the continuation of those started earlier in May, in order to enable us to achieve our objectives at the end of the year.

Thus, in agriculture we have distributed seeds and inputs in the 11 villages of the project. In some villages we have set up nurseries of chili pepper, eggplant and tomato. It should be noted that okra seedlings at EKISSI-HO and BOKA-HO are at the flowering stage.

The vegetable specialist has set up an eggplant nursery of MARIMAR variety that will be used especially at modern farm to train the beneficiaries on the use of different composts. The beneficiaries who dream of seeing how to use this organic fertilizer have made 9 beds that will serve for the transplantation of the various crops and the experimentation of the composts carried out when Mr. Isoda, the agriculture expert from Japan, will arrive in Côte d'Ivoire in July.

Bed making and nursery installation

At the agroforestry level, corn is growing. The specialist distributed the materials and inputs to all the villages, while the villages of BOKA-HO and DEY-OBOGUIE also received cassava cuttings/trees.
There was also the maintenance of palm tree plots at N'GORANKRO / NIAMANZRA 2 / MURE and BADOUKRO. The specialist gave advice to the beneficiaries, asking them to prepare the plots to receive the palm, mahogany and moringa plants planned for this year.

Beneficiaries corn field at Dey-obeyed
Palm trees at Ekissi-Oho

CHICKEN RAISING ACTIVITY: About this activity, the completion of the rehabilitation of the chicken farm at EKISSI-HO and the construction of the farm of laying chicken of N'gorankro in May. We began the construction of laying chicken farm of Niamanzra 1. It is planned to rehabilitate the farms of, year 1 villages, which are Bonikro, Aboudé Boa Vincent and Aboudé-Dadié.

New Egg chicken in N'gorankro
Egg of original chicken

The Egg-laying activity on the Japanese chicken farm continues, and the egg collecting (OAC) is carried out daily by the specialists.
HATCHING ACTIVITY: On this day of 27/06/2017, the 4th output of chicks from the incubator was satisfactory with an outbreak rate of 89.31% in the presence of the Japanese expert, Mr. ISHIZAWA. Out of the 131 hatching eggs placed in the incubator, 117 chicks were released in good health after the regular 21 days.

Reproducer chicken (original chicken from Japan)
2017 chicken from Incubator June 27th 2017 (chicken from Japan)

In some villages, production cycles continue, these are:
N'GORANKRO: 1100 CHICKS, BONIKRO: 200 CHICKS AND BOKA-HO: 180 POUSSINS

The orders for NIAMANZRA 1 (400) and NIAMANZRA 2 (500) are scheduled for this week. MR. MYAMOTO visited the farms on Friday 23/06/2017 to inquire of their standing.

Chicks of 10 days at N’gorankro

ACTIVITY OF THE CDC CREATION: The villages of MURE, N'GORANKRO, NIAMANZRA 1 and NIAMANZRA 2 are at the stage of formalization and documention for the administration. The other villages have been urged to set up their CDC and to formalize the relevant documents.

In this regard, it is worth noting a good action on the part of the chief of NIAMANZRA, who has granted a plot with a certificate of attribution of this land to the beneficiaries of the project.

FUTURE ACTIVITIES:

  • SITE VISITS
  • TRAINING with Japanese experts, Mrs. ISHIZAWA in breeding, and ISODA in agriculture in the month of July.

Kouame Konan         konaneug@gmail.com


GUATEMALA

On July 21 to 23rd, ICA Guatemala will be holding its first “Learning Basket Practitioner course”, thanks to the support of Elise Packard, and trainers, Angélica Rodrígeuz and Raul Jorquera.

We are so excited that colleagues from Peru and Chile are coming to Guatemala for the course. This is a result of the Americas Regional Meeting where there was a chance to hold a demonstration of the Learning Basket Program, At that time ICA Peru and ICA Chile showed great interest in participating in the training course. We will also have Guatemalan participants coming from the rural areas, were a pilot program of the Learning Basket is curently being carried out.

This program has been put into effect by ICA Guatemala, directed by Joaquina Rodriguez, and supportedby by Elise Packard, Angélica Rodrígeuz, Raul Jorquera, CAF América and the Spenser Family, to whom we are really greatful.

Lisseth Lorenzo
(VP ICA Guatemala)
president@ica-international.org
Joaquina Rodríguez (ICA Guatemala Director)


ICA Associate - Leadership Inc.:

Leadership Inc undertook several facilitation related projects in Shenzhen China

Promoting “Child Friendly City”: Leadership Inc assisted the Shenzhen government to set up a “Child Friendly City” program by facilitating a one day kickoff workshop on 31st May on “Dream and Design Our City” with 25 children from different schools.

The children were divided into teams which held group discussions on the topic of “What I would like to have in our Shenzhen?” and then choose representatives to present their ideas to Mayor of Shenzhen at the afternoon closing ceremony.

We will be facilitating a series of these workshops in each district in Shenzhen over the coming months.


Facilitating government officers on environmental research tour: We facilitated a planning meeting with twenty Shenzhen government officers and Youth League representatives on a research tour to Hangzhou on 20th – 25th June, 2017. The meeting addressed issues of Shenzhen water & environment protection.

Participants build a 7 aspects for future vision on Shenzhen’s Water & environment protection, and create a 3 solid action plans aligned the vision.

The secretary of the municipal party committee of Shenzhen committed to involve more people to and create a dialogue on environmental protection. We will have a follow up workshop in August 2017.


Introducing facilitation online: Karen Lim has prepared an online facilitation learning program, which is popular in 2nd & 3rd line cities in China.  This program introduces basic facilitation to people who may not access to these concepts, and encourages them to set up learning teams, which we can support.  

This online program is divided into seven audio clips (eight minutes each) with a powerpoint presentation. Students can download the chapters and study on their mobile phones.

Mark Pixley
          mjpixley@gmail.com
Leadership Inc


JAPAN:

June 30 we have received another grant for helping Fukushima reconstruction project in Namie town and MinamiSoma city, which are the affected areas by Fukushima nuclear accident.

Many people in temporary housing have started to move to restoration housing since this spring because the government lifted the evacuation ban. Therefore, ICA Japan has started Fukushima reconstruction project (founded by Japan Theravada Buddhist association) since June 2017. In this project, we will conduct 4 activities, which are 1. Planting flowers seedling in the temporary commercial mall in Namie town, 2. Planting flowers seedling in Happouuchi temporary housing, 3. Greening activities in the riverbed in MinamiSoma city and 4. Conducting the meeting to establish new community association in restoration housing.

It has been 6 years since the Fukushima nuclear accident; however, the affected areas have many big issues and challenges. ICA Japan always welcomes donation for reconstruction in Fukushima.

This month we have been busy preparing the final project reports for Nepal and Cote d'Ivoire Year 2. We are also working with our funder to submit a new proposal in Sindhupalchowk district, Nepal to support the community where the scars by an earthquake 2 years ago still remains. We also spent much time on our fiscal year end report, following the advice guiding us towards a sophisticated audited format so that we will meet the requirements for certificated renewal for another five years. Various new project proposals are being improved and submitted to our funding partners.

Our Cote d’Ivoire team of ten people are hosting two Japanese Experts for two weeks the last week of June and the first week of July. Hideki Kambe (Japanese) is there for the third year, assisting and monitoring the 11 villages and the office work in Agroville. Soon they will buy a delivery truck, and a bit later, they will begin building a restaurant to serve hungry people the delicious fresh food that they produce in the villages. Please see their bi-lingual report in this Global Buzz.

Ricardo
Amber

We have been working with Tokyo Immigration preparing the way for three new interns to arrive in August and September. Kaeda Hayakawa is from Japan, Ricardo Bonjean Montrose is from Montreal, and Amber Tamara Gret is from the Netherlands.



Submitted by the staff of ICA Japan.           staff@icajapan.org


NEPAL:

Continuous dialogue leads to effective partnership. Believing this, ICA Nepal carried out a series of interaction events during the month of June.

Recently, Nepal experienced a landmark moment in the country’s transition to democracy. Local government elections were held after a gap of 20 long years. Local government representatives were last elected in 1997. This step marks a positive step towards the realization of democracy. However, along with the new hopes, there are uncertainties on the roles and responsibilities in the newly formed structure. With this in mind, ICA Nepal organized an interaction program on the roles of non-government organizations, (NGOs), and their potential strategies for the changing socio-political context, at the ICA Training Centre. The event was attended by 45 people from more than 30 NGOs. The program was facilitated by Ms. Ishu Subba, Executive Director of ICA Nepal. The welcome note was provided by Prof. Dr. Tatwa Pr. Timsina, Founding Chairperson of ICA Nepal, and the concluding remarks came from Mr. Tara Bhandari, Chairperson of Samudayik Sarathi Nepal.

The speakers at the event were Mr. Kedar Khadka, President of the GoGo Foundation, Dr. Kumar Sharma Acharya, former Vice-President of the Nepal Bar Council, and Dr. Netra Timsina, former NGO President. The event has led to motivation with interaction among NGOs. A draft report has been circulated among the participants. At present ICA Nepal is receiving feedback and comments, especially on a possible way forward.

Issues Raised in the Program:

  • Current legal and bureaucratic procedures/documents of Nepal that control NGOs: registration process, renewals, and monitoring
  • Role of the Social Welfare Council and its existence in upcoming days
  • Global Context of NGOS and their governing bodies for regulation
  • Bills under promulgation which provides an opportunity, a space for NGOs to lobby against the stagnant rules that regulate NGOs performance
  • Contradictory laws that regulate the NGOs. He also added the need to revisit the facts and figures of NGOs actually functioning in Nepal.

Challenges Faced by NGOs

  • Incorrect Data regarding the actual NGOs
  • No uniformity in definition – challenges of multiple definition
  • Pressure to get VAT registration as almost all of the donor agencies and INGOs are adopting the competitive grant system
  • NGOs run/headed by politicians are able to get funds without any bidding or competition
  • Week monitoring system of Government or biased system of Government that categorize similar nature organizations under one board umbrella
  • Corrupt officials in both NGOs and government agencies
  • No technical details and clarity among bureaucrats
  • Lack of good coordination among NGOs in terms of project duplication, accountability and transformation

Possible Way Forward:

  • Developing Self-Evaluation system of NGOs
  • Coordination among INGOs and NGOs through regular interaction with AIN
  • Talking with Good Governance Monitoring Committee
  • Capacity building of NGOs on Inclusive Approach
  • Maintain Data base- categorization of NGOs – functioning and non-functioning
  • Lobbying with Government Bodies

Similarly, in coordination with BB Trust, an interaction program was conducted among the local NGOs affiliated with ICA Nepal NGOs Network. The event aimed to discuss future strategies for the NGOs working for people with disabilities, children, autism, cerebral palsy, visually impaired and hearing impaired etc.

Blogging and social media has become an effective medium to express our opinion, experiences and stories. ICA Nepal invited youth and youth organizations to develop their skills on blogging and social media through participating in a workshop entitled “Social Media and Blogging Workshop for Personal/Professional Profile Development”. The event was attended by fifteen enthusiastic youths.

Upcoming event: “Being an Entrepreneur: Financial Aspects of Startup Business” on 30 June, 2017.

Capability Development of Local Government
We are working on an approach to develop the capabilities of local government. The newly formed bodies (after 20 years) are expediting the development work in their respective areas.

ICA Nepal is working to develop competent human resources within local and rural municipalities and village councils, for local level project development, in the areas of resource mobilization, fund raising, strategy planning, leadership in networking, and consensus building.

The major objectives of this initiative:

  • develop competent human resources required at local levels to transform local communities;
  • assist local government in implementing development projects;
  • support enterprise and employment; and
  • foster culture and creativity in communities

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USA:

Fall Sojourn: Celebrating Human Development Projects

Semi-annual Archives Sojourns provide an opportunity for colleagues from across the country to work and reflect on the future of our past. During the Spring Sojourn, March 13–17, colleagues focused on (1) designing and launching a new ICA Archives website and (2) analyzing and cataloging the Human Development Projects (HDPs).
 
The website team made substantial progress towards their goal to increase accessibility of the archives. The new website is being created by students of former ICA Board member Dr. Danny Mittleman at DePaul University. During the Sojourn, students presented an analysis of the current site, three template designs, and a style guide. Long-term website development will take at least two years and will include other DePaul classes. During the October gathering this team will lead a training on the new site and engage a larger group to help catalog the 2,114 currently digitized documents in way that makes them identifiable, accessible, and relevant to all.
 
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Band of 24 HDPs, a working group formed in March to design the October 9–13, 2017 event. HDPs aimed to harness the “human element” through measures such as motivating residents, releasing their creativity, and building leadership skills to empower them in the task of comprehensive change.

Ten focus projects for the fall Sojourn were selected based on:

  • Relevance to current issues, especially climate change and refugees;
  • Availability of documentation;
  • Recent and continuing contact with the community by former staff;
  • Geographic representation from each of the nine geo-social grid continents; and
  • Residents from the community still live at the project location.

Based on the criteria listed above, the focus projects include: (1) Maliwada, (2) Inyan Wakagapi, (3) 5th City, (4) Hai Ou, (5) Sol de Septembre, (6) Murrin Bridge, (7) El Bayad, (8) Kawangware, (9) Majuro, and one more to be announced. Read the full Spring Sojourn Report at http://bit.ly/GASpr2017.
 
The gathering in October plans to be a substantial opportunity to reconnect the work of the past with opportunities for the future. The Archives team is calling on your expertise, experience, and energy!
 
Prior to the gathering, you can:

  • Engage in planning for the event.
  • Outreach to ICA colleagues and harvest their stories.
  • Help to spread the word!

During the gathering, you can:

  • Assist in the cataloging of Archives data to be accessible on the website.
  • Share your HDP stories and experience.
  • Participate in workshops that will take a deeper dive into the lessons learned from the HDP projects and how that history applies to the current social problems in those locations.
  • Reconnect with old colleagues.
  • Join the Archives team!

RSVP at http://bit.ly/Oct-Sojourn. To ask any questions, email Mary Laura Jones at mljones2022@gmail.com. If you plan to stay at the ICA GreenRise, room cost is $30 ($45 for a couple) a night. Email Kamela at reception@ica-usa.org. Make your reservations early—we anticipate fully booked lodging!

Samantha Sainsbury         ssainsbury@ica-usa.org



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