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Weekending: Saturday 2007 10 06

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