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ICA:UK announces ToP Facilitation training in Geneva
submitted by ICAUK
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
submitted by ICA USA
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
submitted by ICA Japan
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
submitted by ICA Cote DIvoire
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,...
ICA Bangladesh trains PRA field facilitators
submitted by ICA Bangladesh
June was a busy month for the ICABangladesh ToP faculty team, for practical training. On June 3rd members had a full day training session at the ICA office. On June 4th, the Urban Development Directorate (UDD) of the Ministry of Housing Works of the Government of Bangladesh, hosted a Training of Trainers (ToT) for PRA field facilitators. Aziz as a...
ICAI Board prepares for General Assembly
submitted by Staci Kentish
The ICAI Board spent much of the June Board meeting preparing for the upcoming General Assembly July 21st. Three new organizations are applying for Associate Membership at this GA, Safe Neighbourhoods Foundation (SNF) in Uganda, ORP Institute in Korea and Esto Perpectua Development Initiative (EDPI) in Nigeria. We are excited to be recommending these applications for voting and look forward...
Raising our ambition – a face-to-face meeting of the virtual ICAI Board
submitted by Martin Gilbraith
Last month provided a rare and invaluable opportunity for the largely virtual ICAI Board to meet face-to-face, in conjunction with the East & Southern Africa ICA regional gathering held near Arusha in Tanzania – see below for my review of the Board meeting, and please SAVE THE DATE for the 21 July ICAI General Assembly (10am & 2pm London time). ...
ICA Ukraine launches ToP Facilitators Lab
submitted by ICA Ukraine
ICA Ukraine launched a new project -ToP Facilitators Lab – space designed for those who have just received the very first skills in using ToP (Technology of Participation) facilitation tools. This is a laboratory for experimenting with the results of new ideas and testing new practices. We hope that the ICA Ukraine experience can help the ICA Global Community. We...
ICAs address causes of deforestation
submitted by Martin Gilbraith
The rise of global deforestation is popularly recognized as a climate change issue. Yet this is but one layer of damage, as deforestation also constitutes a major threat to the survival and cultural integrity of indigenous groups and other forest-dependent peoples. Indeed, the forest serves as an intricate network of resources and relationships integral to the economic, political, and cultural...
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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...
