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ICA Cote D’Ivoire hosts visit and leadership training from ICA Japan
submitted by ICA Cote DIvoire
Scroll down for English translation… Dans la continuité des activités du projet de réinsertion menées à Agboville, ICA Cote D’Ivoire avons dans ce mois de mai 2017 réalisé divers travaux dans les trois sous projets. Nous avons aussi reçu la visite de Madame Shizuyo notre collègue venue du ICA Japan pour apporter une fois de plus son soutien à travers une formation...
Emerging Ecology USA & ICA India partner to support ‘the Global Classroom’
submitted by Emerging Ecology USA
Since its inception in 2010, the Global Classroom has played an important role in strengthening the 11th and 12th standard Science Curriculum of the Adivasi Ashram Shala in Chikhale Village, Maharashtra, India (near Mumbai). In May 2017, the school reported that 96.5% of the Science faculty students passed their 12th standard (HSC) year-end exams; 88% of the Arts faculty passed...
ICA Japan accelerates international partner co-operation
submitted by ICA Japan
Interns Keep Coming! Our ICA Japan interns continue to provide a great service, making brochures, doing our website, recruiting ToP courses, researching Japanese declining rural communities in need of revitalization, and more. Two have applied for four months, starting September 1, and three Japanese are considering coming during the summer break. Please look at our expanded English website. Partner Cooperation...
Facilitating Dialogue in a Populist Era
submitted by ICA Associates Canada
This post was written for ICAI’s online magazine Winds and Waves, May 2017 – now published at Medium.com (see explanatory note). Ordinary people in the 21st century want to participate in decisions that affect their lives. The Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, the recent Women’s March that spontaneously happened all over the world, the Water Protectors at Standing Rock: all are manifestations of...
EPDI Nigeria holds Training of Trainers on Family Education and Life Skills
submitted by EPDI Nigeria
Schools were on holiday in April, and so the only major EPDI Nigeria activity carried out during the period was the five days of: Training of Trainers on Family Education and Life Skills, which took place at Goshen Chalet, Redemption Camp, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State on April 24th-28th, 2017. Some of the topics reviewed during the programme included an overview...
ICA Bangladesh co-hosts “Introduction to ToP facilitation and team building” training
submitted by ICA Bangladesh
Members of ICA Bangladesh, volunteers, and guardians attended a meeting to greet John Miller on April 22nd in Dhaka, Bangladesh. John, from ICA Associates Canada, arrived in Dhaka on April 17th to teach ICA’s Technology of Participation (ToP) for the UN OPS in Dhaka. ICA Bangladesh and BICJ – a partner organization, co-hosted a training session entitled, “Introduction to ToP...
ICA Nepal launches joint initiative on developing entrepreneurship through rubber plantation & production
submitted by ICA Nepal
ICA Nepal, with its vision to improve entrepreneurship among local communities, started with a new initiative this month in collaboration with the Institute of Rubber and Jatropha Research (IRJR-N/USA), which specifically and intensively works for the expansion of Rubber Plantation in Nepal. The initiative called “ICA Nepal and IRJR N/USA: A joint Initiative on developing Entrepreneurship through Rubber plantation and...
ICA Cote D’Ivoire holds assessment sessions in 11 beneficiary villages
submitted by ICA Cote DIvoire
An assessment for project year 3 was held this month with regard to the following points: The continuation of assessment of the activities for the 3 sub-projects which will be carried out in year 3 in the 11 villages Identification and preparation of the plots in agroforestry, culture maraicher and livestock. Rehabilitation of farms year 1 The incubation of 300...
ICA Peru supports national reconstruction following floods
submitted by ICA Peru
El Instituto de Asuntos Culturales del Perú (ICA-Perú) actualmente esta involucrado con actividades para la Reconstrucción Nacional luego de las inundaciones por el Fenómeno del Niño Costero. Nos encontramos en la fase de determinación de cuáles serán los pueblos mas afectados en donde vamos a trabajar con el Plan de Reconstrucción Nacional que el gobierno emprenderá. Es nuestro interés apoyar...
Focused Conversation Method book now in French
submitted by ICA Associates Canada
The Art of Focused Conversation is an ICA Canada contribution to the intellectual property of ICA’s Technology of Participation, L’art de la discussion structurée is now available in French from iUniverse.com. Publisher Bill Staples of ICA Associates Inc. used the original translation by Renaud and Marie-Noelle Houzeau de Lahaie to add to the suite of books offered to ToP facilitators around...
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Winds and Waves
Facilitating Dialogue in ...
This post was written for ICAI’s online magazine Winds and Waves, May 2017 – now published at Medium.com (see explanatory note). Ordinary people in the 21st century want to participate in decisions that affect their lives. The Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, the recent Women’s March that spontaneously happened all over the world, the Water Protectors at Standing Rock: all are manifestations of...
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A Chronological History o...
A Chronological History of the Ecumenical Institute and the Institute of Cultural Affairs 1952–1988 Preface The Chronological History 1952–1988 traces the development of The Ecumenical Institute (EI) and the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), organizations dedicated to sharing methods and models, which have brought depth consciousness and practical tools for responsible participation to organizations and communities. Both organizations, EI and...
