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ICA Spain launches crowd-funding campaign

In the name of ICA Spain we would like to make contact with the ICA global network to announce the launching of our first crowd-funding campaign. The campaign is aiming to create and unite a network of SUPER COMMUNITY ENTREPRENEURS, starting with 5 who come from CUBA, ARGENTINA, PERU, MEXICO and FINLAND. They have demonstrated their commitment by action in developing...
ICAI General Assembly meets online

The main event for the ICAI Board last month was the July General Assembly. Final preparations were concluded at the online Board meeting of July 8. An online GA meeting in Adobe Connect was repeated twice for two time zones on July 21, and attended by 20 representatives of 13 member ICAs. Finally, an asynchronous online poll was held by...
ICA Nepal partners for earthquake relief

In connection with its post-earthquake activities, ICA Nepal is working in close collaboration with ICA Japan for renovating the learning center for women and children in Changunarayan. Along with this, programs for senior citizens and children are also being planned. The learning center for women and children was built by ICA Nepal. A great deal of household damage and many...
ICA Asia Pacific region to meet in India

Please find an invitation to the end of year Asia Pacific Regional 2015 meeting in India. We would love to have representation from each and every ICA in our Asia Pacific region, as this will be a great collaborative peer-to-peer working and learning opportunity. Please forward this invitation to your colleagues – interested members of ICA or other networks. While...
Exploring the human factor in global change, and prospects for partnership, at Caux

The week before last I was in Switzerland to support the design and facilitation ofAddressing Europe’s Unfinished Business, a conference of Initiatives of Change(IofC) at Caux Palace – a fairy-tale castle of an international conference centre, high above Montreux and enjoying stupendous views down along Lake Geneva. As luck would have it, Jonathan Dudding of ICA:UK was there the same week supporting the...
ICA:UK announces ToP Facilitation training in Geneva

ICA:UK is pleased to be partnering with Initiatives of Change to bring the ToP Group Facilitation Methods and Action Planning courses to Geneva for the second year running. The courses will be held from 25-27 November 2015 in central Geneva. For full details and how to take advantage of the early bird rate, download the flyer (pdf). This post was first...
ICA East Africa region meets in Tanzania

The 2015 ICA East Africa Gathering was organized by ICA USA and ICA Tanzania. The conference was paid for by ICA USA donor Ruth Reames and a mini grant from ICAI. In 2011 ICA USA staff had visited several East African ICAs and asked what the ICAs thought would be most helpful in building their capacity. Methods training for newer...
ICA Japan supports Fukushima disaster recovery

Fukushima Disaster Recovery Activities Since 2013, ICA Japan has been working with residents in temporary housing sites at Minamisoma City, Fukushima prefecture. Although many governmental recovery projects started, the speed is slow due to local issues, such as the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear radiation disaster. This keeps the residents for 4 or 5 years in the cramped temporary housing, instead of...
ICA West Africa region to meet in Cote D’Ivoire

UPDATE, 27 AUGUST: the ICA West Africa conference will now be held September 16-20 instead of September 9-12. In June, Mr. Wayne Ellsworth, Co-director of ICA Japan, Mr. Yuji Isoda, expert in soil analysis, and Miss Kazuko Yamamoto, Agri-Marketing Director, visited us with regard to the rehabilitation project of, Youth at Risk, in the region of Agneby. During the visit,...
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Winds and Waves

Sociodramas, enchiladas, ...
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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Serving People & Pla...
We are pleased to share here extracts of two new books by Rob Work, a long-time ICA colleague and author of A Compassionate Civilization: The Urgency of Sustainable Development and Mindful Activism – see also his bio below. Serving People & Planet: In Mystery, Love, and Gratitude This memoir (January 2020) celebrates the love between one person and one planet, between...