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ICA MENA – from desert village to national network
submitted by ICA MENA Egypt
ICA MENA (Middle East & North Africa) has gained much experience in institutional capacity building with governmental and non-governmental bodies in Egypt over the last 39 years. Our work began with a Human Development Project in Bayad El Arab village, Beni Suef governorate, in 1976. The aim was to demonstrate a self-help model applying community participation methods. During the first...
The First Peoples
submitted by Martin Gilbraith
Welcome to this September 2015 issue of Winds & Waves, the online magazine of ICA International, entitled “The First Peoples”. ICA has been working with indigenous peoples at least since one of the earliest ICA Human Development Projects was established with an aboriginal community in Mowanjum, Australia, in 1971. This issue shares stories of how ICAs as well as other...
A Chronological History of the EI & ICA
submitted by Martin Gilbraith
A Chronological History of the Ecumenical Institute and the Institute of Cultural Affairs 1952–1988 Preface The Chronological History 1952–1988 traces the development of The Ecumenical Institute (EI) and the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), organizations dedicated to sharing methods and models, which have brought depth consciousness and practical tools for responsible participation to organizations and communities. Both organizations, EI and...
Welcome to our new website!
submitted by Martin Gilbraith
Welcome to the new ICAI website, launched today! This new site is designed to provide an engaging platform for member ICAs and ICA colleagues to communicate with each other and with the wider world. We hope that you will like it, and and that you will use it and share it! Everything that you used to find on the ICAI...
ICA USA wins two awards this summer
submitted by ICA USA
“Illinois Financing Roundtable Excellence Award” from CDFA Council of Development Finance Agencies CDFA is a national association dedicated to the advancement of development finance concerns and interests. ICA USA GreenRise Building Retrofit was announced as a winner of an Excellence Award for it’s creative building use and exciting financing proposals. This award will help the GreenRise attract interested investors and further...
ICA Nepal starts construction of Disabled Service Centre
submitted by ICA Nepal
This month had a good beginning with the request proposal being accepted by our peer ICA Australia. We started with the construction of house for Disabled Service Centre and ended visiting one of the remote village, Thulo Parsel in Kavre district. ICA Nepal with the financial support from ICA Australia has started building a new house for the people living with...
ICA Cote D’Ivoire distributes chickens and constructs greenhouses
submitted by ICA Cote DIvoire
Our activities in August were focused on the distribution of 3,000 chickens for the broiler breeding part of our project, in three villages, namely, Ekissiho, Badoukro and Aboude-dadie. The first two villages that received their allotments of chicks (1,000 per village) have sold most of them. For the Maraicher program, to establish okra in 6 villages, the okra is now...
ICA Spain launches crowd-funding campaign
submitted by ICA Spain
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
submitted by Martin Gilbraith
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...
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Winds and Waves
Trading Places: integrati...
We are grateful to Dr. Karen Newkirk of ICA Australasia for paving the way to our use of video as a way of telling stories on Winds and Waves, and we hope it will encourage many others to follow her lead. Being able to use video as a storytelling format is one reason why we moved Winds and Waves to...
Other Publications
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...
