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ICA Nepal resumes office physically
submitted by ICA Nepal
ICA Nepal mourns for heart-breaking incidences caused by the global catastrophe of COVID-19 and offer our sincere condolences to the bereaved families who are grieving at the moment. In these uncertain times, the public needs our presence more than ever before. Once the Nepal Government relaxed the lockdown to some extent, ICA Nepal resumed work physically by adopting the appropriate...
ICA colleagues worldwide gather for virtual Global Research Assembly
submitted by ICA USA
For years, the focus of the ICA Social Research Center (SRC) of ICA USA has been to translate our massive collection of written and recorded material to a comprehensive and accessible website. Throughout that journey of digitizing documents and building websites, the dedicated team of volunteers also began exploring tools for working together virtually. By last fall, the team was reconsidering...
ICA Taiwan conducts face-to-face training in March
submitted by ICA Taiwan
Taiwan is not on lockdown, so ICA Taiwan was ale to conduct two public, face-to-face training sessions in March. We had 40 people in a ToP Group Facilitation Methods 1 (Focused Conversation) course, and in April we had 20 people in a GFM 2 (Consensus Workshop) course. We have also been doing lots of exploration of the virtual world,...
ICA Nepal supports local NGO capacity building
submitted by ICA Nepal
STAY HOME STAY SAFE ICA Nepal expresses its sincere condolences to all families who have lost their loved ones due to novel Corona Virus Covid-19. We wish for the quick recovery who have been infected by the virus. With sincerity, we urge all to co-operate with the Government and authorities to contain this virus. In Nepal, the Government has taken...
ICA USA applies appreciative inquiry to articulate core values
submitted by ICA USA
Thirty years ago, the Institute of Cultural Affairs worked with Case Western Reserve University to research the inner life and workings of ICA. The case study began with the metaphor that organizations are “miracles of human interaction, the mystery of which deepens as we probe more into them.” To probe the mystery, the research team conducted an appreciative inquiry, a...
ICA:UK supports research into impact of ICA and ToP methods in Kenya
submitted by ICAUK
A team of people in Kenya, led by Patrick Mbullu and Henry Ikatukhu, have been conducting research to discover the longer term impact of the ICA’s Technology of Participation methods and the wider ICA approach in Kenya. Their report is now out and full of interesting information about the different initiatives visited, the long term impact they have had on...
ICA Uganda comissions Evaluation Report for the period 1997-2019
submitted by ICA Uganda
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ICA Uganda (ICAU) is a national non-profit organization which was registered in Uganda in 1998 as a company limited by guarantee and as an NGO in 2003. ICAU is a statutory member of ICA International (ICAI). Twenty years since it started in Uganda, ICA has come a long way. It has had its best moments and low times,...
Season’s greetings & 2019 training highlights from New Zealand
submitted by Participatory Techniques Ltd New Zealand
Tēnā rā koutou katoa… Ngā mihi mahana ki a koutou, i runga i ngā āhuatanga o te wā – te puawaitanga o te Koanga me te hokinga mai o Hineraumati, hei whakaohooho i a tātou ki ngā tohu o taiao. Mauriora! Season’s greetings from Participatory Techniques New Zealand. This newsletter is to keep our clients and Technology of Participation training...
Development Institute Ghana hosts the Fifth Annual ICA West Africa Regional Conference
submitted by Adufu Yawo Gator
The ICA West Africa Regional conference, which is organized every year in one of the five member countries, is taking place in Ghana this week from the 18th to the 22nd of November, 2019. The programme is being hosted by the Development Institute, a non-governmental not-for-profit organization working to promote sustainable development in some parts of Ghana, mainly in the...
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This post was published in ICAI’s online magazine Winds and Waves – now published at Medium.com (see explanatory note). To receive articles by email as they are published subscribe at https://medium.com/winds-and-waves. “It was a very nice experience because, through it, I learned how to interact and how to support my daughters in their development,” said one participant in the Learning Basket program delivered in small rural...
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