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 organisations and individuals continue to work with the “First Peoples” in Australia, and in Canada and Chile as well.
A number of stories focus on the application of appropriate and innovative new technologies, including in strawberry cultivation in India and in earth bag construction in Nepal. Others tell of philanthropy and funding partnerships in Africa, Australia, India and Japan. Others still focus on the application of participatory methods, in particular ICA’s “Technology of Participation”, in countries including Hong Kong, South Korea and Mongolia. Healing and reconciliation, disaster recovery and social transformation feature in stories from Australia, Canada, Egypt and Nepal. Such is the richness and diversity of our members’ work in “advancing human development worldwide”, much of it pursued in partnership, “peer-to-peer”.
Also in this issue you will read of recent developments in the global affairs of ICA International, not least relating to the online ICAI General Assembly held in July. We are delighted to welcome three new Associate members to our global community, and to include contributions from two of them in this issue – from the Safe Neighbourhood Foundation in Uganda and the ORP Institute in South Korea. We are excited by the quickening pace of face-to-face network gatherings emerging around the world, including regional gatherings upcoming in West Africa, Asia Pacific and Europe MENA and emerging prospects for a global conference next year in partnership with Initiatives of Change in Switzerland.
We are also excited to have launched our ICAI website in September, after months of collaborative design and development this year. This dynamic site is designed to provide an engaging platform for member ICAs and ICA colleagues to communicate with each other and with the wider world. you will use and share it! Please do take a look around, and share your comments on the site or contact us directly with your feedback and suggestions.
Thank you to those who have contributed to this issue, and to our tireless editorial team for bringing it all together in such a beautiful new design for us.
Enjoy this issue, and please share it and encourage others to do so.
- Regular online version – mobile tablet and smartphone compatible
- Issuu online version – the electronic magazine
- PDF version – low resolution PDF to read on line
- Print version – a high resolution PDF for downloading by readership for printing locally
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
hyperlinks are to the regular online version
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First Peoples • Recognising a wrong to set it right by John and Elaine Telford • Long Game We have to Win by Linda Burney • The Stolen Generations: Part II by Simona Galimberti • Native way to overcome trauma by Lorraine McRae and Jan Sanders • The Wise Old Warriors by Jan Sanders • Taking back the power by Jeanette Stanfield Facilitation • Making it their project by Jwa-Seop Shin, Young-Seck Lee and Hee-Jae Yoo • Idea jamming to limit climate change by Jimmy Wan What’s On |
ICA International
• General Assembly held across two time zones and over 10 days by Martin Gilbraith • Expanding the global network by Staci Kentish • Ugandan NGO’s self-help strategy by Richard Kirya Itakali • Collaborating with the Initiatives of Change by Martin Gilbraith • Check out the bells and whistles on the new website by Robert Liverpool ICA Reports ICA CHILE • Disabled but independent by Edward Christensen and Isabel de la Maza ICA INDIA • The sweet fruits of high-tech farming by Shankar Jadhav ICA MENA (Middle East & North Africa) • From desert village to national network by Sabah Khalifa • Thriving in Egypt’s turbulent times by Martin Gilbraith ICA NEPAL • A safe home for the disabled by Mohan Bahadur Karki • Rebuilding after the earthquake by Pritha Khanal |
This post was first published in Winds and Waves, September 2015.