ICA USA Chicago Sustainability Leaders Network celebrates 5th anniversary

submitted by ICA USA

Within hours of breaking down and packing up the party lights, leftover food and drink, Polaroid pictures, flyers and banners, the praise began on social media. One member wrote on Facebook that the Fifth Anniversary Celebration of the Chicago Sustainability Leaders Network (CSLN) was “the best time I have had all year.” Another posted a photo captioned “What a terrific...

Leadership Inc China reflects on Fall 2018

submitted by Leadership Inc China

Major projects undertaken by Leadership Inc China in Fall 2018 included… Strategic Planning for Shenzhen Women’s Federation Facilitating Annual Alumni Conference of EU-China NGO Twinning Program Training Participatory Community Development and Group Facilitation Methods (GFM) training program for communities leaders in Chengdu, China Shenzhen Female Leaders Study group Faculty Orientation in Research and Teaching Excellence (FORTE) training for AIACHE (All Indian...

ICA Japan interns complete ICA West Africa website

submitted by ICA Japan

Super Intern Power Our 3 ICA Japan interns completed their journey here this week in the Tokyo House with outstanding success. They finished the West-Africa-icas.org WEBSITE that you will really enjoy, including the pages about their recent ICA West Africa Conference. And they are providing providing simple operating instructions for them to operate the site. We very much appreciate their work...

ICA MENA collaborates on safe health care and integrated sanitation

submitted by ICA MENA Egypt

Safe Health Care for Mothers and Children ICA MENA Egypt recently completed this 9-month project, which lay within a wider programme of participatory development in urban areas. Funded by the European Union and the German government, the project was implemented in the centre of Qalyub railway area in the province of Qalyoubia. The Institute of Cultural Affairs worked with the...

ICA USA celebrates Uptown community gardens in third annual Garden Walk

submitted by ICA USA

“I never paid any attention to this space until I was asked to get involved,” says Ian Whiting of the humble garden plot in Uptown’s Sunnyside Mall, adopted in 2016 by students at Courtenay Elementary’s Budding Gardeners program. Ian was one of several enthusiastic Uptown residents representing their neighborhood gardens during ICA-USA’s Third Annual Uptown Garden Walk on September 8th,...

ICA Nepal hosts cook training course for unemployed youth

submitted by ICA Nepal

Providing Opportunities for a Disadvantaged Group ICA Nepal in coordination with the ICA Training Center is going to host a free three month cook training course. The training will be especially beneficial to youth who are unemployed. Additionally by taking this short term basic cooking course, they will have a general knowledge of cooking that will enhance their opportunity for...

ICA West Africa Regional conference opens in Lagos

submitted by Adufu Yawo Gator

The ICA West Africa Regional conference in Nigeria opened on 29th November 2018 in Lagos, Nigeria. After welcoming participants, the Chairman of EPDI Nigeria said that he was delighted to see representatives (Directors and staff/members) of all the ICAs in West Africa. He announced the theme which is Re-Positioning West Africa ICAs for Greater Effectiveness. He added that our desire...

ICA India and Emerging Ecology support Chikhale School curriculum enhancement consultation

submitted by Emerging Ecology USA

Working together, ICA India and Emerging Ecology USA have secured a grant from the Fulbright-Nehru Specialist Program to send Dr. Randal Hayes, a curriculum specialist with Agnosia Media in Greensboro, North Carolina, to Chikhale for 40 days beginning November 12, 2018. Having demonstrated that tribal students can succeed in the standard government curriculum, the Chikhale school leaders are becoming acutely...

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