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Progress and Prospects of ICA B. – ICA Bangladesh Emerges and Moves on the World Scene |
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| Initial ICA Contacts
- Germany, Nepal, India- + with People and a Local Project in B |
First Establishment of Organisation and Training
in Bangladesh, India & Nepal |
International Partnerships- Expanding our Initial Small Base | Our Future
Creating a Great Future Together Right Here in Bangladesh |
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| 2002- 2003 | 2004–2005 | 2006- 2007 | 2007 –- | |
| 2002 Aziz met Tatwa from Nepal in Germany and is interested in establishing an ICA in Bangladesh
2002 First Gathering in Chandpur District 2002/3 Start with no seed money, all are volunteers First Facilitation Training for ICA and some other NGO participants |
2004 Registration as NGO
-12/04 Community project (selection, visits, workshops, plans, school water – Ghoramara village in Chandpur -Fundraising workshop -Kabir 15 day training in Pune -ICAI Associate Membership Application (Guatemala) 2005 -Training programs & Planning with Hutchinsons from Australia - Hosted 2nd ICA Subcontinent Gathering -Organisation set up, Office rented Attended training and exchange visits in Nepal 5 members participate in Social Artistry training in Nepal Tatwa visits Dhaka as ICA:I president Skills development organisation |
2006
-Submitted Proposal to German Embassy -Misereor proposal -Aziz attended ICA:I General Assembly in Canada, also IAF conference in the USA and met ToP certified facilitators -First paid official stall 2007 Nelson Stover (ICAI president) & Elaine come, give 1day training and visit project -Maguires volunteer in Dhaka for 16 days In fund raising perspective: ICA B still striving |
Dynamic Highly Trained Bangla Faculty
-ICA has its own ToP faculty -Organisation has strength to perform the methods -Materials are translated -Very efficient staff/trainers -Recognised training organisation -Every member has international training Clearly defined Roles and Relationships -Develop “Guardians” of ICA -Many clear roles and relationships in/with ICAB and to ICAI Solid, Generous, Funding Sources -ICA raised funds from different sources -Fund raising and community development -Extensive funding sources for staff and programs Further Areas added later: -Clear Identity and Marketing -Networking and Partnerships with other NGOs -Government and Business Relationships |
Multiple Relevant Projects & Programs in Urban and Rural
-ICA able to create nationwide impact for the development needs of the country. -Do something for grassroots/rural people through -ICAB -Education project/s for rural people -ICA involved in many projects -Introduced and demonstrated project in health, education, environment sectors Trustworthy Organisational Infrastructure (Office and Staff) - Well organised organisation -Won an office building in Dhaka -Well equipped office with adequate trained and paid staff Activities and Cooperation with long term planning, local and international Links -Make a ten year plan -ICA:B would play an important role in national & international events |
| 2002 Law & Order response rapid justice law: RAB
2003 Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) |
2004 Big flood
Asian Pacific Cooperation continues in face of great challenges |
Irene Khan (CEO Amnesty International)- Sydney Peace Pr.
SAARC in Dhaka Caretaker Govt., State of Emergency |
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| “Terrorism”/Anti-Terrorism
Earth Charter Iraq War started 3/03, still going 7/07 UN Millennium Goals |
AIDS still growing in many places
Labor and Civil Rights laws weakened in industrial countries 2004 Tsunami |
2005 UN Yr of Micro-Credit
2006 Yunus (Grameen Bank) Nobel Peace Prize UN Secretary Gen. Kofi Anan replaced by Korean Ban Ki-moon |
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COMMUNITY VISION, ISSUES AND DIRECTIONS
Goramara Asrayan Prokalpa 14 December 2007
Vision
| Skill
training |
Water | Plantation | Education | Garbage disposal, Sanitation and Drainage | Erosion protection | Graveyard | Support for widows | Support for the disabled | Support to the most need in festivals | Paths/road | Livestock | Bathing place with purdah | Gas | Health | Employment creation |
| Sewing skill development | Repair tube-wells | Plant trees | Access to education for children | Drain | Measures for protection of river bank erosion | Fence graveyard | Pucca road | Raise goat and cow | Bathing place for men and women separately | Gas connection | Medical facilities | Self employment for men | |||
| Providing sewing machine | Adult literacy | Sewerage | Pond bank erosion | Boundary wall | Main road | Poultry | Health education training | Women income generation training | |||||||
| Access to dressmaking training | Establish primary school | Dustbin | Livestock training | Establish clinic | Small and medium enterprise | ||||||||||
| High school | Repair safety tank | Provide credit |
Issues/Obstacles/Blocks
| No Ideas/ Process
/Practice to make community cooperation work |
No (clear) Plan for improvement | Distrust of Leaders inside & outside of the Community | Unaware of information skills and how to get them | People do not feel this is their place/ home | Under-develop leadership for all in community | Unsure how to get government cooperation and commitment | No sense of belonging together as family | Hopelessness despair in view of big issues | Not my problem & responsibility
-Let some else fix or, take care of it. |
Girls & woman discounted and unconfident |
| People are not united | Absence of local collective thought | Corruption | Limited knowledge of location for training | Few leaders whom people like | Unorganized efforts | |||||
| Non cooperative attitude | Absence of plan | Distrust people | Absence of training facilities in the community | |||||||
| Absence of alliance | Absence of trainers |
Directions: To move for work together
| Community meeting | Training | Honest and accountable leadership |
| Meet once in every week | ||
| All need to work with unity. | Training locally | Keeping a constant communication with GO and NGO through dynamic leadership. |
| Building a relationship of trust and confidence among the members on the basis of united efforts | To arrange training on tailoring for the women once in a week in a school during holiday | Through some peoples leadership quality to make trust among the quality |
| By arranging a weekly meeting and intensive discussion villagers will try to develop a positive cooperative attitude among themselves | It’s possible to solve different problems through providing training to various professional groups to create mass awareness | Leader selection with the proper honor & giving emphasis |
ICA Fifty Year History: From University Courses to Many Urban and Rural Projects, Programs and Methods in about 50 Nations
| Develop Foundations for a Human Development Model
MIDDLE FIFTIES UP TO 1963 |
Create Social Methods and an Emerging Global Movement
1963-1972 |
Expand and Deepen Work In Many Places With Many Others
1973-1988 |
National ICA’s Deal with Complex Needs
and Maintain Global Network 1988-2007 |
| 1954 Beginnings around a university in Austin, Texas, USA
Study and research impacts of world changes after WWII for individual and collective life, locally and worldwide Created educational methods Teach courses on social and cultural change to interested groups at university and other organisations What is human spirit all about? How to release and nurture it? Develop imaginal education methods Exploring community style living. Families share everything. Creating and living the Vision: All the earth belongs to all the people– All the resources of nature All the decisions of history All the gifts of humanness. |
1963 Move from Texas to Chicago
-Start Community development work in a black ghetto on Chicago’s Westside (“Fifth City”) - Establish early childhood education programs - Create social methods with community – Enable economic, social and cultural programs. -Methods enable comprehensive, catalytic, intentional, practical action. - Focus on Research, Training, Projects - Analysis, needs programs, results. Human Development Principles: 1. Delineated geography (sense of community and belonging); 2. All the people; 3 All the issues; 4. Deal with the depth human issue. 5. Symbol is key (expressions of motivation & identity beyond actions and words) Imaginal education projects ICA staffed primarily by volunteers, living and sharing together, with support from “Guardians”. 1968 ICA’s volunteers move around the world, bound by common program efforts, fundraising and community life. Local tied to global through the region. 1971 Community development methods formalized 1972 Work on Social Process Triangles |
“Community Meetings” in many towns and countries
1975-80 “Community Consults”, in various oppressed selected places in the world, one whole week Intensive with international team supporting local people 1976 “Band of 24” Human Development Projects around the world (in every time zone) 1984 International Exposition on Rural Development (IERD) in Mumbai, India, co-sponsored by UN and others, leads to extensive sharing of wisdom by local people and agencies from 55 countries. It significantly extends cooperation and recognition for participatory human development and ICA methods. Several books are published, pulling together detailed project sharing and workshop results. 1982 ICA:I established as an International Association of Associations in Brussels, Belgium -Following the 1988 Global Conference in Mexico the organisation decentralises and diversifies its work, staff and operations. Move to a more national and small unit base. It becomes a more loose global network with limited official international staff to link and support national ICA’s, especially in the developing world -Growing cooperation with other organisations |
1990–Several new ICA’s get started, in spite of little support available from outside, Ghana, Benin, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, etc.
Existing ICA’s reorganise into many forms of structure and operating modes 1990 ICA represented in many UN and other international bodies (Consultative Status with United Nations Economic and Social Council since early 1980’s) Jadhavs in India start the Pune village development project New focus on Youth in Development and Leadership Training, also Art and Older People’s Role ICA African countries focus on HIV/AIDs, with some ICAI support Global conferences every four years for ICAI and related organisations (Praha Czechoslovakia; Cairo, Egypt; Denver, USA; Antigua, Guatemala; and the next one in Tokyo, Japan in 2008) ICA:I moves to Montreal from Brussels. ICA: I receives and 5 year grant to support national ICA’s worldwide towards organisational capacity building (5 staff) “Learning Basket” initiated by ICA runs creative early education and literacy programs in US and in other countries Many national ICA’s (individuals) form extensive training and consultancy branches and support the professional development of Facilitators (International Association of Facilitators) as well as overseas ICA programs and partnerships in support of development |