BANGLADESH:
Location: Dhaka
Concern Worldwide asked ICA Bangladesh to offer a PSP training for its 25 staffs
on 4-6 November 2007. ICA Bangladesh has designed the program already. Faculty
members have been practising trainings at ICA office and Hunger Free World
Office regularly to prepare for the propsoed training for Concern Bangladesh
staffs. ICA Bangladesh invited Tatwa to be in Dhaka to facilitate some sessions
during this training in November.
Maria and Richard from Australia has informed
about their joining in the Asia meeting as they could change the schedule of
arrival in Dhaka. ICA members got excited hearing the news.
Aziz, Faruk, Selina,
Saif and Alamgir from ICA Bangladesh had a meeting with Hunger Free World - HFW
Bangladesh country director and some other staffs on 6 October to discuss about
partnership projects. HFW offered ICA Bangladesh to use their venue for
trainings and other activities at free of cost. Dhaka ICA and HFW also
concretized the project concept for funding request to ICA Japan for a
tri-partnership project as discussed with ICA Japan during HFW country
director's visit of ICA Japan with Sizyo and Wayne in August 2007.
Aziz admin@ica-bangladesh.org
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Location: Canada
This week we experienced a waterfall of secured contracts for future work. A
large contract with United Way to train local staff and community leaders in
community development methods.
John Miller taught Grop Facilitation and
Facilitated Planning in Vancouver. Jo nelson worked with a special task force on
education. Bill Staples did another module in the community development course
for NGO program leaders sponsored by United Way.
Duncan Holmes leaves today to
facilitate ICA USA's Living Legacy event.
ICA Associate, Janine Higgins taught a
mediation course for the Ontario Public Service through our Vendor of Record
agreement with the Ontario Government. These courses are an expansion area for
us as public servants are called upon to be more facilitative in their
approaches.
Duncan, Jo and Wayne are working on getting in better shape to walk
in the Toronto Marathon to raise money for - Listen to the Drumming - ICA
Canada's program supporting HIV - AIDS programming in African ICA's
Wayne Nelson wnelson@ica-associates.ca
NEPAL:
Location: Kathmandu
Professional Career Development TrainingThis week, 20 participatns completed the
two months of their PCDT training being held in Kathmandu by ICA Nepal. This 3
month long training - 2 hours daily - included various issues of human capacity
building such as GFM, PSP, Monitoring and evaluation, leadership development
etc. In the coming one month each of the participants will be joining one
organisation for in-depth internship. Some of them will be pursuing field
research, field work etc. As we are approaching our major festival time now, we
will be continuing the second batch in early November. The main theme of this
programme is to develop youth leaders needed for various aspects of
development.
Tatwa P. Timsina ica@icanep.wlink.com.np
PERU:
Location: Chincha Emergency Relief
The implementation model to build 1,500 temporary houses in the next 60-70 days
is taking form as the first group of 30 Promoters completed their 5-day training
this week. These community people are now 100 percent in charge of forming the
family treams in their neighborhoods and motivating and supporting them to build
their own houses. Meanwhile, the ICA staff is at the sidelines enabling the new
community leaders to take complete responbility for the daily work in the
community. The Promoters are a highly motivated group of volunteers who are
eager for the task, which begins on Monday with their building of the model home
for the Project. Then the begin the duplication of the model in all of their
sectors, and the Project is then off the ground.
Staff admin@ica-peru.org
TAIWAN:
Location: Taipei
Dick West returns home from USA visit which included Open Space on Open Space
conference in Camden, Maine 5 - 9 Sept.
Gail went to Japan to facilitate the
Global Alliance for Peace conference through Open Space in a one day event. She
returned home and held mentoring and monitoring sessions for the Facilitator
Certification Program and our monthly Group Facilitator Forum during September
and sends out monthly newsletter to colleagues in English and Mandarin.
Evelyn
worked with Jessie, and Tara on Reiki and Meridian Massage voluntarilly at the
San Yu Center for Disabled Youth with the Social Services Center in Dick's
absence three times each on Thursday afternoon.
Laura, Shawn, and Evelyn
organized the third, and fourth Meridian Massage Classes where we have learned a
lot about massaging techniques, and the relationship between meridian systems
and ailments of the body to pressure points and stress.
Larry returns from his
trip to Japan with clients and ICA Japan community development training and
action planning for ICA Japan 2008 with a volunteer Japanese facilitators group.
He asttended a session with Jorie Wu and Shu Fang Tsai of the Generative Change
Community Asian Network meeting in Manila - the group is applying generative
dialogue methods in community situations as a way toward healing historic rifts
and building understanding. Larry also went to Indonesia for the second module
of an in-house facilitation series and comes back to Hong Kong for one client
and to meet up with Evelyn and Robyn Hutchinson to talk about how to support
ICAI. We are now all back in Taiwan for the week.
Evelyn and Robyn communicate
with Nelson Stover, and Ruth Gilbert by skype concerning ICAI and secretariat
issues and future development. We also are concerned about the Japan 2008
committee being activated soon.Taiwan recently weathered a super typhoon and ICA
Taiwan managed though a shortage of electricity occurred for only 30 minutes
while others were not so lucky with mudslides, flooding, and electrical outages
across the island Saturday and Sunday. Imagine Taiwan Hualien has been
rescheduled to October 13th due to the typhoon.
Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook evelynaphilbrook@yahoo.com
UNITED KINGDOM:
Location: UK
David and Julie- ICA Associates- delivered a great GFM in London last
week.
Jonathan submitted the Governance and Transparency application to DFID,
carried out more work on partnership with Sightsavers, and has been
communicating re the upcoming African Regional Meeting in Lome.
Martin has been
following up prospects and delivering a GFM prior to the IAF Europe conference
being held in Edinburgh 5-7 October.
Clare is back from holiday.
Amelia is dividing
her time between submitting proposals, networking and preparing and delivering
sessions with young people
Jonathan Dudding jdudding@ica-uk.org
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
The secretariat team worked to pull together 2008 work plans and budgets this
week. In addition Lambert was in Toronto for a meeting with Ford Foundation.
Over the weekend, Lambert participated in the ICA USA Living Legacy event in
Chicago and visited Fifth City.
Sarah F. worked on the national ICAs training
program plan and the roll-out for Working Gifts.
Sarah M. and advisor Rob Work
met with the UNDP in New York re conference partnership.
Mike pulled together
the conference external relationships strategy. Mike also wrote and submitted to
Ford a proposal to participate in the UN Climate Change Conference in
December.Happy
Thanksgiving to all of our Canadian colleagues!
Sarah Miller info@ica-international.org