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EPDI Nigeria prepares to develop a sustainability plan
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EPDI Board Meeting The first EPDI Nigeria Board meeting for the year held on March 11, 2018. Various issues regarding the organization were discussed and decisions taken to strengthen the organization. One of the major issues discussed at the meeting was development of a sustainability plan for EPDI. Various suggestions were made regarding this and is still being developed. Our appreciation...
ICA Nepal facilitates Mind Mapping on Prosperity of the Country
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Facilitation on Mind Mapping On March 8, 2018, Dr. Tatwa Timsina, Facilitator of ICA Nepal conducted a half day session on ‘Mind Mapping on Prosperity of the Country’ for the central level members of the Consideration of Nepalese Professionals (CONEP). CONEP is the association of all the unions and associations representing the different professions of Nepal. In the session, Dr....
ICA Cote D’Ivoire celebrates Japanese co-operation
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12As part of the contribution to the socio-economic reintegration for the fight against poverty that ICA Cote D’Ivoire and ICA Japan have been targeting for three years for the happiness of at-risk youth in the Agneby-Tiassa region, the eleven villages, (Bokaho, Ekissiho, Badoukro, Bonikro, Dey-Oboguié, Aboudé-Dadié, Aboudé-Vincent, Niamazra 1 and Niamazra 2, N’gorankro Pk 101, Camp Wall) from the region...
ICA USA’s Greenrise Historic Restoration project is featured in Retrofit Magazine
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ICA USA‘s Greenrise Historic Restoration project is featured in the January-February 2018 issue of Retrofit Magazine in conjunction with a new building owned by the American Geophysical Union in Washington DC. The article is entitled for “aiming for zero” and it appears on pages 64-68 (pdf). The concept of net-zero energy building is ambitious. It also represents the very essence...
ICA Guatemala reports on the Learning Basket Program
submitted by ICA Guatemala
I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 1.1. The overall goal of the Learning Basket program that was proposed to the Spencer Family, CAF America, Hopkins Family, Packard Family and other contributors; was to support actions to improve the quality of life of boys and girls 0 to 5 years of age in rural Guatemala; by delivering tools for parents to be the...
EPDI Nigeria provides Life Skills and Sexuality Education in Lagos
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“A WALK TOWARDS ADULT”: Life Skills and Sexuality Education with Students of Melville College, Lagos This February, EPDI Nigeria met with the SS3 students again and did an ORID (a Focused Conversation of ICA’s Technology of Participation) on the previous lesson “The Dangers of Examination Malpractices” and below are some of their responses: “Knowing your future ambition in time is...
ICA Nepal celebrates its 20th Year Anniversary
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Celebrating 20th Year Anniversary This month of March is marked as ICA Nepal’s glorious 20th year anniversary in the field of training, facilitation and community development. We are grateful to all the funding agencies, organizations, well wishers, colleagues and friends who have been a part of this long journey. We are looking forward to continue this association in coming years....
EPDI Nigeria aims at empowering and transforming
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Our programmes at EPDI Nigeria are comprehensive in that they aim at empowering and transforming both individuals, community groups and organizations. This includes developing the total man i.e. physical, social (relationships and emotions), mental and spiritual (aka the four human energies), using the ToP participatory processes “CATCH THEM YOUNG” for Elementary Schools Our work with MEPOL PRTMARY SCHOOL, LAGOS in...
Leadership Inc. undertakes educational, governmental and community building projects in China
submitted by Leadership Inc China
ICAI Associate member Leadership Inc. China undertook a range of educational, governmental and community building projects in 2017 including: Prof. Loren Weybright visit to Shenzhen Dr. Loren Weybright, an American educational consultant active in Nepal, visited Leadership Inc in July to review creative educational practices for children. We accompanied Loren to visit XinQing, an educational NGO, to learn about their “Young...
Will we flounder or flourish?
submitted by Roma Mehta
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. Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of our New Renaissance, Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna, St Martin’s Press, NY 2016 A book review by Jeanette Stanfield, ICA Canada, Toronto Canada. Authors Ian Goldin...
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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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ICA Associates Canada pub...
“Getting to the Bottom of ToP: Foundations of the Methodologies of the Technology of Participation” by Wayne and Jo Nelson of ICA Associates Canada has now been published! It is now available from the publisher iUniverse, and also from Amazon. For now it is available as a paperback book. The ebook version should be available in January. This is the book...
