The new Winds and Waves magazine We are delighted to invite you to share your stories via medium.com/winds-and-waves which is the public platform we have moved to now, to publish Winds & Waves. Please see the attachment which sets out how you can now personally publish your stories for Winds and Waves magazine. See here W&W@Medium PDF

ICA Colleagues connecting on zoom:

• Informal sharing
  
• STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK OUTPUT – next steps
• REINVENTION DESIGN CONVERSATION – next steps
• Reports and discussion:
• Informal conversations across ICA’s
• ICAI board update,
• Archives project participation

You are invited to join in any of the conversations that are being organised, if you can find a time to suit.

Being discussed is everything from our methods and how we expand on the virtual world of facilitation, to community development practice, to what is the ICA today and for the future!!!

• Foundational thinking:
• What is ICA really? Who are we locally and globally? What have we learned?
• What is our sense of mission?
• What is required of ICA globally and locally in this new age? What is the new social vehicle?
• How is Facilitation working with our human development mission: What for? Who for? How to?
• Developing and spreading of ToP - including the virtual
• Integrating ToP into different applications for different situations

Robyn (in Australia)           rjhutchinson48@gmail.com

PS Please let us know if you would like to have the invitation and zoom link for May 6.

COTE D'IVOIRE:

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Dans le cadre de la conduite des activités des projets sur le terrain ICA-CI malgré la situation du COVID 19 est toujours en contact téléphonique avec les bénéficiaires de chaque village pour les motiver. Nos équipes vont des visites mais de façon espacée pour des mesures sanitaires qu’oblige cette pandémie dans le monde entier.

Pour laver les mains à moindre coût

Nos communications portent sur les mesures barrières qui sont actuellement les seulement remèdes efficaces contre ce coronavirus. Ainsi pour permettre à nos bénéficiaires de pratiquer le lavage des mains régulièrement et avec du matériel à moindre coût nous leurs préconisons l’utilisation des bidons d’huile vide avec un robinet comme le montre cette image.

Aussi  nous avons grâce au projet BCP- Emploi mis à la disposition de nos 200 bénéficiaires du projet Association Villageoises d’Epargne et de Crédit une subvention de plus de huit millions de francs CFA pour le financement de leur microprojet. Concernant le projet financé par MOFA grâce à ICA Japon la situation du coronavirus à impact gravement sur nos bénéficiaires qui font l’élevage de poulets car le confinement total du grand Abidjan qui est la zone la plus touchée ne favorise plus la poursuite de cette activité. Les conséquences sont durement vécus par toute la population, l’approvisionnement en aliment pour les poulets est ralenti et aussi avec le de chômage technique que subisse les travailleurs du privé cause d’énorme difficulté pour  la commercialisation des produits agricole et avicole.

Pour les poulets japonais (Momiji) se développent et ont toujours un bon de productivité en œufs seulement la situation du coronavirus affecte beaucoup la production des poussins pour l’élevage de poulets pondeuses par nos bénéficiaires qui subissent aussi les effets du confinement qui oblige toute personne restreindre ses déplacement.

Lave main pour la lutte contre le coronavirus

saison des pluies qui a commencé et aussi avec la production de ces palmiers qui débute maintenant, nous espérons que d’ici l’an prochain, ils feront de bonne récolte.

Notre vécu a beaucoup changé dû à ce virus qui tue dans tous les pays du monde, en causant la mise dans les rues de plusieurs personnes dans tous les continents.
Le personnel d’ICA-CI dans sa prière de tous les jours implore le tout puissant Dieu de permettre aux chercheurs de pouvoir trouver un remède qui va guérir les personnes malade et aussi prévenir pour qu’il n’y ait plus personnes infectées.

COTE D'IVOIRE:
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WithIn the framework of project activities in the field, ICA-CI, despite the situation of COVID 19 is always in telephone contact with the beneficiaries of each village to motivate them.

To wash your hands at a lower cost

Our teams go on visits but in a spaced manner for health measures that this pandemic requires worldwide.

Our communications relate to the barrier measures which are currently the only effective remedies against this coronavirus. So to allow our beneficiaries to practice hand washing regularly and with equipment at a lower cost, we recommend the use of empty oil cans with a tap as shown in this image.

Also, thanks to the BCP-Emploi project made available to our 200 beneficiaries of the Association Villageoises d'Epargne et de Crédit project, a grant of more than eight million CFA francs to finance their micro project. Regarding the project funded by MOFA thanks to ICA Japan, the situation regarding coronavirus has had a serious impact on our beneficiaries who raise chickens, because the total confinement of Greater Abidjan which is the most affected area, no longer favours the pursuit of this activity. The consequences are hard-hit by the whole population, the supply of food for the chickens is slowed down, and also with the level of technical unemployment suffered by private workers, which causes enormous difficulty for the marketing of agricultural and poultry products.

For the Japanese chickens (Momiji) they always have a good egg production, only the situation with coronavirus now greatly affects the production of chicks for the raising of laying chickens by our beneficiaries who also undergo the effects of confinement which forces everyone to restrict movement.

Hand wash for the fight against coronavirus

But for palm plantations we are in a very good period with the rainy season which has started and also with the production of these palm trees which begins now, we hope that by next year they will have a good harvest.

Our life has changed a lot due to this virus which kills in all countries of the world, causing the putting on the streets of several people on all continents.

ICA-CI staff in their daily prayers implore the almighty God to allow researchers to be able to find a remedy that will cure sick people and also prevent so that there are no more infected people.

Kouame Konan         konaneug@gmail.com

NEPAL:

News from ICA Nepal

The Government of Nepal has announced the nationwide lockdown until 7 May, 2020. ICA Nepal team is working virtually during this time.

At the request of ICA Nepal, Larry Philbrook from ICA Taiwan facilitated Focused Conversation for ICA Nepal staff and associates. The training was co-facilitated by Evelyn Philbrook, Jorie Wu, Jackie Chang and Eric Tseng. The training was carried out online using various tools and applications.

Although the training was conducted online for the first time, we were able to actively participate in all sessions. The training highlighted on how focused conversation can be undertaken using ORID tools and provided ample opportunities for all the participants to practice the ORID methods. The training was participated by Tatwa P.Timsina, Hare Ram Bhattarai, Ishu Subba, Priyanka Ghimire, Yunusha Kafle, Sushil Mahato, Binod Nepal, Janardan Ghimire, Rupendra Maharjan, Prem Lamichhane , Miyuki Tsujii (ICA Japan), and Archana Deshmukh (ICA India).

In addition, we are also working on the preparatory activities of community development project in Sindhupalchowk district. Currently we are working on document preparation, local staff mobilization and awareness raising in COVID-19. We are also exploring likeminded organization to expand  the awaress in COVID-19. We have approched CIVICUS to spread the right information too in relation to the prevention and spread of COVID-19 in Nepal, to the most marginalized and vulnerable communities.

Ishu Subba           subbaishu@gmail.com

TAIWAN:

Events
Taiwan is not on lockdown so we have conducted 2 public Face to Face training sessions in March. 40 people in a GFM 1 Focused conversation
April we had 20 people in GFM 2 Consensus workshop

We have been doing lots of exploration of the virtual world
5 virtual webinar session with colleagues in Malaysia and Singapore
5 virtual sessions with colleagues from Australia and New Zealand looking at our application of ToP
Monthly regional dialogues on our Asia Pacific strategy
Hosted a meeting with ICA USA and ICA Associates Canada on ToP virtual training
Conducted a virtual Focused Conversation Course with colleagues from Nepal and India
Hosted 6 global invitation gatherings

Family events
Lloyd Philbrook (Evelyn and Larry's Son) married Seva Gandhi in Bali in February
Lela Philbrook (Evelyn and Larry's daughter) performed in an Opera in March
Larry and Evelyn were in quarantine in Taiwan for two weeks upon return

Research
We are exploring taking GFM 2, Imaginal Learning and PSP online as well
Reaching out to the ICA network for other language offers of the the original or new webinars

Concerns
Income remains a concern - how to keep ICA viable but so far so good
Network of colleagues are helping us explore options

Larry Philbrook, CPF CTF
ICA Taiwan

www.icatw.com
T: 8862 2871 3150
F: 8862 2871 2870

UNITED STATES:

ICA Social Research Center Virtual Gathering - Update
May 10 - 13, 2020

Please see this PDF
MayVirtualGathering042320-1.pdf

Lynda Cock, Davidson, NC. 

The ICA Social Research Center and
ICA Global Archives Advisory Council

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