BANGLADESH:
Location: Dhaka
Dhaka ICA organized a discussion meeting on the proposal for deforestation and
forest degradation in Bangladesh on 6th September Friday at 3 pm at Seminar
Room, Arts Building of the University of Dhaka. Ten experts from Forest related
NGOs, academia and steering committee members joined the meeting. Various ideas
addressing the issues raised by Sandy of GFC were generated through
brainstorming and now the proposal is being improved.
On the same day, Concern
Worldwide Bangladesh assistant country director Oliver Wakelin, invited me to his
office and we had a meeting for offering a PSP training for their 15 staffs
during 4-6 November 2007. We fixed the date and inspected the venue for in-house
training.
Final draft brochure for regional gathering is sent to ICA colleagues
and based on feedback it will be sent to different organizations via email and
marketing will be initiated.
Aziz admin@ica-bangladesh.org
CANADA:
Location: Youth as Facilitative Leaders
This last week has been a week of preparations.
Adrienne Johnson and Leah Taylor
have been preparing to deliver Group Facilitation this weekend to 16
participants who are eager to learn these skills as well as assist us with
reviewing the current way we deliver the training so that we can improve it for
future courses.
We are also very busy working on a customized one-day training
for youth mentors from the Town of Georgina's Our Lady of the Lake Catholic
College High School that will be delivered next Friday.
Leah ltaylor@icacan.ca
NEPAL:
In the last two weeks, ICA Nepal staff were involved in field work. Tatwa and
Madan went to Nepalgunj for 'Leadership and Management Training' supported by
USAID. They also visited flood affected area and handed over clothes to the
local people. ICA Nepal raised funding to buy 100 t-shirts for the flood victims
which were taken to the affected area for distribution.
After this programme,
Tatwa, Madan, Raju, Krishna, Yog Maya, Juju Raj visited Dadeldhura, Doti and
Baitadi districts of Far Western Development region to monitor a project
implemented by ICA Nepal local office with the support of World Bank PAF. Through
this project, more than 1200 goats and hundreds of pigs and buffalos are
provided to highly poor families. In the last 14 months, about US $100,000 has
been spent in the area.
See more pictures here
ICA staff also conducted orientation programme on
'Underlying causes of forest destruction' in Dadeldhura district. ICA also
conducted workshop on school effectiveness issues in some districts.
Tatwa P. Timsina ica@icanep.wlink.com.np
PERU:
Location: 100 Valleys
The team spent the week reflecting on the emergency aid program we did in the
Peru earthquake zone, and creating a new plan for $250,000 of immediate funding
to build temporary bamboo mat housing for thousands of families without homes.
This funding is coming through Wayne Ellsworth's contacts in Japan, and the
exellent NGO called Japan Platform which channels emergency aid money from the
Japanese government. Two staff people from Japan Platform visited the
earthquake zone this week and approved up to 3 more programs in the next 8 or 9
months, so we are going to be able to make a large inpact with literally many
thousands of families. Kaoru Ito from ICA-Japan will be working in Peru with
our staff full time for this period, with Gloria Santos as the local project
director. We feel that this is a wonderful example of how national ICAs can
work together to tackle a major social challenge and support the staff of the
ICAs at the same time. Thank you ICA-Japan!
Staff admin@ica-peru.org
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
It was a short but busy week in Montreal. ICAI staff members met with people at
IDRC and CIDA to discuss the 2008 global conference in Japan, and Michael and
Lambert worked hard to get the Forests with People proposal ready for
submission.
A chapter closed on the long, hard road from Brussels to Montreal,
with documentation submitted to Montreal International for the final
installation of relocation funding.
Coming up - Sarah Farina, Michael and Katie
are getting ready for four days of training in Toronto next week.
Exciting!
Katie Burke katie@ica-international.org
