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...

EPDI Nigeria invites you to the ICA in West Africa Conference 

submitted by ICA Togo

We are pleased to invite you to the ICA in West Africa Conference, October 28th – November 3rd 2018 at the Redemption Resort, Redemption Camp, 45 Lagos Ibadan Expressways, Nigeria. This conference will be an opportunity to learn, share, strengthen the peer to peer approach and connect on the theme: Strengthening ICAs for Greater Effectiveness and Sustainability in West Africa....

ICA Cote D’Ivoire and the World Bank support village Savings and Loan Associations

submitted by ICA Cote DIvoire

Les activités terrains et administratives de notre bureau se poursuivent dans une atmosphère conviviale, qui nous permettre d’avoir des résultats malgré quelques  difficultés rencontrées par-ci et par-là. Pour ce mois d’août les activités ont portés sur la culture des concombres et mise en place des pépinières de piments pour le village de N’gorankro et pour les autres villages les aubergines...

ICA Canada offers the online Courage To Lead study series #CTLSeries

submitted by ICA Canada

We all know from experience that a leader can make or break an organization, a country, a community group, or a family unit. Leadership is no easy task, especially during difficult times. It is during these difficult times that we’re all witnessing in our present day (e.g. from gender discrimination to inhumane policies) that courageous leadership is so much needed....

Leadership Inc. China continues to develop community building and education related projects

submitted by Leadership Inc China

Over the last six months, Leadership Inc, an ICAI Associate member based in China, undertook a range of community building and education related projects. The community building activities focused on helping develop governmental and NGO capacities to undertake participatory community development in China. Our Director, Karen Lim has taken the lead on this initiative with a range of projects including....

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