BANGLADESH:
Location: Dhaka
ICA Bangladesh supported a Community Meeting for Vision and Action for its human development project in Chandpur on 14 December. It was possible with kind support of Maria and Richard and ICA Bangladesh team. This workshop included vision, issues and actions which was designed on the basis of site visit on 7 December by Shankar, Sarah, Richard and Maria along with Aziz, Manik and Khair. The workshop was facilitated in Bangla by Aziz, Selina, Mehdi and Naimul.
On 16 December ICA Bangladesh team meeting was held at the Pacific Inn facilitated by Maria and Richard. Agenda were Review of past strategic plan and action plan for 2008 mainly. Twenty members and advsers were present in the meeting. Prof. Mahbub, Riaz, Miton and Nicolien from the Netherlands were among advisers. Nicolien sponsored the celebration dinner on this occasion. Maria and Richard has been supporting ICA Bangladesh from March 2007. They assisted us in training, planning and funding in different ways. This is the 2nd time they are in Bangladesh even in the same year. By this time we got a lot of things from them-second strategic plan, training on ToP, donation in cash and a note book raisied by them in Australia, in doing community workshop, and financing local travels and also purchased a printer for ICA Bangladesh.
Aziz admin@ica-bangladesh.org
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Location: Canada
Bill facilitated a strategic planning workshop with a hospital in Regina and the
Community Care Access Centre in Mississauga. He taught another module in the
community development series for local leader sponsored by United Way.
John
Miller taught Group Facilitation to a Community Futures, a community economic
development program, in Collingwood, Ontario.
Jo Nelson facilitated a strategic
Planning retreat for peel Health Department. The group has several people
trained in ToP methods so the workshops went very well and the group was able to
go into substantial depth. She also facilitated an action planning review
related to earlier work with the Cree School Board in Northern Quebec.
Wayne Nelson wnelson@ica-associates.ca
UNITED KINGDOM:
Location: UK Togo Ghana Zimbabwe Belgium
With best wishes for the festive season to all our readers...
We have been quite
international over the past few weeks. Jonathan attended the ICA African Regional
Meeting in Togo, then spent ten days in Ghana with Sightsavers International,
before travelling to Zimbabwe to help facilitate a new strategic plan for ICAZim
and to train some of their staff and volunteers on Group Facilitation
Methods.
Martin has been busy completing a series of in-house contracts,
attending the ICA Europe Interchange in Belgium, and finalising our Annual
Report for 2006-2007
Amelia meanwhile has been taking the Youth Programme forward
with a mixture of fundraising, delivery and preparation of events and Clare has
been taking care of the office admin.
Next week we all meet for our final staff
meeting of the year to review progress and plan the first quarter of 2008
Jonathan Dudding jdudding@ica-uk.org
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
With vacations looming, the staff of ICAI continues to work hard on year-end
goals.
Planning for the Staff Training program progressed, and the registrants
list is being compiled. In the interest of supporting gender equity in the
network, women are strongly encouraged to apply. Registration will be closed at
the end of December, so people are reminded to sign up soon!
Fundraising for the
Staff Training program is ongoing, to lend your support, visit
http://www.workinggifts.org/store/country/country-international.htm today.
Other
exciting news Sarah Miller worked this week on the World of Human Development
DVD mailing. Everyone who is expecting a copy can start watching the
mailbox!
Katie Burke info@icai-international.org
