ICA UK

Public courses:
ICA’s Technology of Participation training schedule continued with monthly public courses in Manchester and London. We did contracts for community/voluntary sector clients in the UK, as well as in the Netherlands, Palestine and Somalia.

Togo schools:
We completed a two-year programme for community schools in Togo, West Africa, increasing pupil numbers, improving the quality of education and establishing income generating projects. We have submitted a proposal with ICA Togo to continue the work.

Zambian farmers:
We submitted a proposal to the UK Big Lottery Fund for work with 2,500 farmers in the Kapiri Mposhi area of Zambia, along with our local partner OPAD.

Spain collaboration:
We continued work with ICA Spain, helping with a two-day Group Facilitation Methods course in Madrid. More work is planned for the next two years with Initiatives of Change.

Conflict transformation:
We completed an EU-funded programme to build a network of conflict transformation practitioners, using the Kumi approach, with partners in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany, and in Utrecht, Holland.

Streamlining operations: ICA: UK’s business plan, designed to reduce our size, extend and deepen our network and increase our impact, was approved by the board and implementation has begun.

ICA SPAIN (IACE)

Multicultural conference:
IACE's has been taking part in Learning to Live in a Multicultural World, an annual conference held by Initiatives of Change in Caux, Switzerland. This year’s event, themed Building Trust for Action across Generations, had more than 200 participants from Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa. IACE’s Catalina Quiroz Niño helped plan the conference as well as design the interactive sessions.

Youth exchange:
We organized a Youth Exchange between Spain and Switzerland with EU funding. It was led by IACE members Iman Moutaoukil and Aurelia Gomez. Catalina was co-organizer and co-facilitator for a workshop on Women’s Power for Inter-generational Cohesion and Inclusion and Mané Arratia was small group facilitator. Our group’s contribution was a “Human Library”, following experiences in personal story-telling at ACATHI, the Catalan Association for the Integration of Lesbian, Gay, Transsexual and Bisexual Immigrants, NGO in Barcelona.  Volunteers, whose interest was sparked by the “titles” available in this “living library”, also shared their experiences.  Given the nature of the conference, there were volunteer “books” from all ages, genders and backgrounds.