NEPAL:
Location: Kathmandu
This week we were busy on preparing for the next week programmes. We are
conducting GFM course on Nov. 4-5 which will be facilitated by Gloria Lindsay
from USA and our team.
Tatwa will be working with Aziz on Nov. 4-6 in Dhaka
facilitating training for CONCERN Worldwide. We have been conducting series of
workshops on forestry issues, for which we spent this week on planning and
preparation. Similarly, Hemant will be leading a team for Dadeldhura.
The
inhouse training of first batch of youths training completed this week and they
will be going for internship for a month.
Chris and Hanako -USA, Japan- arrived
and had meeting with us. They are planning to work with us for two years.
Karen
from Australia, ICA associate there visited us and we had dinner together along
with her husband and children.
Tatwa P. Timsina ica@icanep.wlink.com.n
PERU:
Location: Chincha Earthquake Relief
The Promoters are maintaining their pace of building over 300 houses per week in
the Chincha Alta Earthquake zone. The work ethic of the 60 un-paid promoters is
awesome!
In a meeting with the top executives of the government reconstuction
agency, very strong interest was expressed in using the 30-2-5 project
organization method which ICA staff have used so effectively in Chincha Alta,
which could lead to a very large roll for ICA training and project management in
the 5 year reconstruction process.
Staff admin@ica-peru.org
TOGO:
Location: FOPADES lome Togo
From 29th October to 2nd November 2007, ICA Togo held the annual regional meeting of
African ICA directors. The meeting was located at FOPADESC at Agoe Nyiv in the
North of Lom. Delegates from Canada , United Kingdom and 1 delegate from the
Secretariat of ICAI joined to 7 other delegates from Africa in this meeting.
We have South Africa, Bnin, Ghana, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This
regional meeting intends to bring participants to share and learn from
individuals and collectives experience of the past 12 months, to plan collective
activities for the next 12 month and to ways to enable African ICA to be in
Japan in 2008.I
n the evening of the Monday 29th October, delegates of 4 ICAs
South Africa, Canada, Tanzania and Togo went to a private radio station, Metropolys Radio
for discussion about ICA in these above countries.
On 1st November, participants
were involved in field visit. They visited Hov village, and locality located at
40 km from Lom, the capital town. In the village of Hove, delegate visited
ICA-Togo project tick farm, farm of demonstration of sapling production, a first
help box and households practicing animal rearing.This 2007 annual meeting held
in Togo is the first one held in a french speaking country..
ADUFU ica_tg@yahoo.fr
ICAI:
Location: Montréal Canada
ICAI staff were out in the world this week. Mike attended the African ICA
regional meeting in Togo and visited ICA Benin. Lambert participated in the
Steering Committee meeting of the World Rainforest Movement in Johannesburg,
South Africa. Lambert also met with staff at Itereleng ICA in South Africa, and
representatives from NEPAD.
Sarah Miller finalized the conference proposal
for institutional funding and worked on a final version of the conference
brochure. She also raised funds from individual donors who are supporting ICAI
and continued to do outreach to funding agencies. Sarah and Peter Ellins sent out the November
2007 Network Exchange this week.
Peter Ellins has been working tirelessly to develop
the Working Gifts website to support and promote the work of national ICAs.
Keep an eye out for the launch of the Working Gifts program on November 15th.
Sarah Farina sent out MOUs to ICAs participating in the Working Gifts program
and worked with individual ICAs who are beginning to identify capacity building
needs. Sarah also worked on the National ICA Staff Training program to begin in
2008 and will send out applications for volunteer faculty and participants next
week.
Documentation was submitted to the Quebec government for INGO tax benefits,
and with Jim Campbells help, final application for de-registration in Belgium
was put together and is ready to submit. The 2006 Annual Report continues to be
circulated widely along with other fundraising communications materials, with
packages sent this week to Brussels and Malaysia.
Katie is continuing to develop
ICAI finance standards, with chart of accounts produced to correlate with 2008
budgets.
Sarah Farina sfarina@ica-international.org
