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The Manchester Compact was launched in September 2003, but it was felt that more could be done to raise awareness and understanding of it and promote its use. A summary booklet was being prepared, intended to help to raise awareness and refer readers to the Compact itself. However, experience of discussing the Compact with local voluntary groups and Council officers directly had suggested that a more effective means might be to work with VCS infrastructure workers and other intermediaries to support and encourage them to raise awareness and promote the use of the Compact through their work. The Compact Task Group, including representatives of Manchester City Council and the voluntary and community sector in the city, proposed the development of a tailored half- day facilitated workshop for council officers and VCS staff, based around the use of scenarios, to be repeated around the city. As a result, ICA:UK was approached by Manchester City Council in August 2006 to design and facilitate a series of such workshops. We had previously worked with the council on a number of facilitated processes, including Participatory Strategic Planning events with the Voluntary Sector Policy & Grants Team and with the Area Co-ordination team. UK

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The family guinea pig projects were visited by institutions, producers, university students, NGOs, etc. to learn about the experiences of these family businesses. Many of these successful farms are now used by the ICA staff to share their successful methods of production with people from all over Peru who study in the ICA Formation Center in Azpitia. Facilitating organized participation and consensus 40 communities were involved with ample local leadership Families were committed to participate in their own development through Community Forums Organization and promotion of the Association of Producers of Small Animals (ACAM) in the Lunahuana area Collaboration of local authorities, community leaders, adults and youth in many projects to improve the irrigation infrastructure Facilitating the interchange of learnings and experiences Expansion of the productive capacity of local producers through the active interchange of learnings between local farms Families adopting the production methods they observed in numerous visits to universities, institutes and other demonstration farms The organizing and execution of 3 regional interchange events plus a national convention of the production chain of small animals with over 400 participants in Lunahuana with the support of ICA-Per__

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Project goal: stimulation of the economy to strengthen security and to ensure that the population of the Zafarabad district has the ability to withstand the effects of bad weather, such as that experienced during the winter of 2007-2008. Within this Project framework PO EHIO s Farhang va Tarakkiyot has supported 500 of the most vulnerable households, in the Zafarabad district, with lump-sum humanitarian aid in the amount of 500 Tajik somoni per household. For this purpose PO EHIO s Farhang va Tarakkiyot performed the following important actions: Participated jointly with the local state authorities representatives, community members and Mercy Corps (MC) team, to carry out a further assessment of the communities, and initialize a second analysis of the information for selecting other communities of Zafarabad district, that had suffered the most, for the project implementation; Statistic assessment of food safety of the selected community Ravshan; Cooperated with Village Development Committees, created beforehand by MC in this district, for the efficient implementation of the program ; Worked with selected households to train them in action planning, namely, in the best use of the money provided; Were conducted training for developing individual plans of the households for appropriate use of cash; Developed an agreement with each household concerning use of the money according to the individual household plan; Made individual cash payments to the registered households; Conducted regular monitoring sessions on the use of the money, transferred to the Ravshan community; Conducted assessment of the Program on completion, for its impact and benefit. Project donors: Mercy Corps/Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. - Tajikistan

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GHDP is located in the Ghoramara Shelter Project area, which is home to approximately 230 families s or 1,500 people s who have been displaced and lost their land due to flooding. ICA Bangladesh is assessing the needs of the local community in order to plan visioning and action workshops. It has established school facilities, supplies, and teachers for 30 children who previously had no access to primary education, provided food and material aid, and made the access to safe drinking water possible. Initiated an integrated community development program in Chandpur District. ICA Bangladeshs community programs are mostly implemented in the village of Ghoramara Asrayan Prokalpa in Chandpur District, which is home to approximately 230 families, or 1500 people, who have been displaced and lost their land due to flooding and riverbank erosion. The ICA Ghoramara Human Development Program includes the following components in 2004-2006: Needs Assessment and Planning; Primary Education; Water and Sanitation; Food and Material Aid. In February 2008, Dhaka ICA Ghoramara introduced Dressmaking Training and Income Generation Project with 4 sewing machine for 18 disadvantaged women; Rickshaw for Employment Generation Project with 2 rickshaws and Water and Sanitation Project with two new tube-wells installed and old 8 repaired with partial support under the Working Gifts Program. Education for the Underprivileged Children Project Main aim is to provide the underprivileged children access to education, non-formal education is being provided and primary education is demanded for introduction, education materials and services are offered at free of cost, 45 children are currently enrolled. Provided school facilities, supplies, and teachers for children, who previously had no access to primary education Classes in Bangla, English, and Math, as well as sports and cultural events Constructed a school building Initiated primary schooling Dressmaking training and income generation for disadvantaged women project Women income generation activities through provision of dressmaking skills training and sewing machines. Village women and children support team is organized in the village and women are motivated and provided entrepreneurship capacity for based on their needs. Supply of safe water and sanitation facilities and environmental conservation project Safe water supply by installing new and repairing old tube-wells Due to repaired old tube wells and installed new wells, the village now has access to safe drinking water and related health problems have declined Rickshaw for the unemployed Project Employment generation for the unemployed through rickshaw Community mobilization Community awareness on HIV/AIDS and social mobilization (consciousness raising about health, disability, sanitation, cooperative, birth registration, organic farming, nationality, education, children rights, women rights) Special needs support project Special needs support through scholarship, aid and disaster relief (medical treatment, wedding of a girl or emergency, flood or cyclone relief aid) Distributed food and clothing to the villages neediest families, during Eid festivals. Community leadership development project Community leadership development through training and facilitated meetings, strategic and action planning and Self-help community groups (one for rickshaw and one for dressmaking) Needs Assessment and Planning Community-driven needs assessment and planning continued with visioning and action workshops s part of a process that has been ongoing since 2004 -Bangladesh

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1. Dairy cooperative business started- 55 farmers. 2. 400 Poultry chicks distributed to 20 families. 3. Multiple business training & Guidance for 10 days s 300 women participated. 4. Group business started s Candle making, papad, Incenses & washing powder- 22 women. Also we have taken 55 farmers twice to visit the Rahuri Agriculture College to study the new techniques of the advance farming and agriculture. Cooperative Dairy Scheme A Dairy cooperative have been registered with 50 members. The farmers are taking efforts to increase the milk production with use of good quality grass to the animals. For that they need to use irrigation water to irrigate the land where the animals can eat the grass. They have also constructed the centre to store the milk. The milk container with cold storage has also provided and now currently about 200 litters of milk is collected and sold every day to Katraj Cooperative Dairy in Pune. 20 new families are being assisted through dairy by purchasing crossbred cows. Many new Dairy proposals are being processed through banks also. Animal husbandry camp was arranged to educate farmers regarding animal care and dairy management. To provide other income source to the farmers we have given 400 chicks to 20 families to start poultry business. It was helpful to increase their income level. Also provided multiple business training and guidance for 10 days to 300 women and it was beneficial to all of them. ASmall Saving Groups has started some small business from their funds such as candle making, papad making, incenses and washing powder etc. In the beginning 22 women started in groups.

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Halton Youth Service commissioned ICA:UK in 2008 to work with a group of young people to train them in peer research and to support them to undertake an enquiry into sexual health services in Halton. The rationale for the work is to see how the current sexual health provisions for young people can be improved in order to help achieve the local targets for reducing teenage pregnancy and STI transmission. There was a team of four young people who worked on the project. The team had three young men in it and one young woman. All the young people currently attend school or college. The team carried out the project in the following stages: Training in peer research Designing the most appropriate methods of research to use Devising an online questionnaire and e-dissemination of the questionnaire Preparing and delivering a consultation focus group session to evaluate sexual health publicity Designing a set of audit questions to use for mystery shopper visits and creating appropriate characters for the visits Carrying out mystery shopper visits to local sexual health providers Evaluating and documenting the work Drawing up a list of recommendations for how local services can improve their service to young people

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A little town in Tamil Nadu, India, is attracting a new kind of traveller s the volunteer tourist. Instead of lazing on the beach, shopping or touring historical sites, many of the visitors to Auroville, 160 km south of Chennai, spend their time working on the earths environmental problems. The streets of the town are filled with people from all over the world involved in projects ranging from reforestation to sustainable farming. Auroville was set up by the followers of the late Indian philosopher Aurobindo with the backing of the Indian government. The universal town has a population of about 2,000 people from more than 30 nations. Despite its other-worldly aura of spirituality, it is also involved in more practical and innovative pursuits. Prominent among them is its forestation work. The town lies in a region which was once a verdant Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest (TDEF) but is now a desert ridden with gullies and ravines. Since Auroville was founded in 1968, its residents have reforested more than 800 hectares of the townships 2,000 hectares of land and turned them into an oasis for many TDEF species of plants and animals. They have also set up organic farms to feed their community and in the process are pioneering in sustainable farming methods. Dharmalingham Vinasithamby.

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Commencing in 2007, Global Studio worked over a period of three years in Johannesburg in the downtown and in the townships of Alexandra and Diepsloot. In 2008 and 2009, work focused entirely on Diepsloot, a township of approximately 160,000 people where some 70% are under or unemployed. Diepsloot is on the northern edge of Johannesburg, 24 kilometres from the city centre. Global Studio subsequently developed working relationships with Diepsloot Local Government, the Community Development Office and local community groups. Community dialogues and research identified major issues with respect to information and communications, housing, the environment, and 1. Diepsloot women learn to insulate their shacks. 2. Student-community collaboration to fix leaking drains the importance of arts and culture - in the form of visual arts, music, dance and theatre. In a communication-poor township strategically located community chalkboards provided messaging centres, and a meeting place. With advice from local communities, students developed a method of insulating peoples corrugated iron shacks, and passed on the skills needed to do this.Drainage and sanitation provided major environmental challenges. Throughout the most densely settled reception area there are prefabricated concrete toilets, built in pairs, with a water standpipe and semicircular drain attached to one wall. Leaking drains, an ongoing problem through blockages caused by food wastes, were solved with an inexpensive and ingenious double sieve system made out of plastic paint buckets. .

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Results of Interventions
An evaluation report conducted in March 2009 indicated that:
People in the community have changed behaviors, perceptions, attitudes and beliefs and are living more responsibly.
Stigmatization for people living with HIV (PLWHA) has been significantly reduced. People know their status and have begun to take control of their lives rather than just surviving. Those in the Positive Self-Management groups have tools to be in control of their condition. 700 people in Mwala District receive ART and need Positive Self management Training.
District health office has increased village interaction, including mobile testing campaigns.
There is mandatory testing and education about mother to child transmission for
pregnant women in clinics. ICAK HIV/AIDS prevention education also creates
awareness.
Methods and Tools
Baseline information about HIV and AIDS in community provides information to
design the program.
Prevention curriculum was reviewed and revised in 2007 and Positive Self-
Management training manual was reviewed and revised in 2010 to be relevant and focused on the community.
Staff was trained in curriculum: ICAK has three trained personnel and two community resource persons able to deliver prevention education and Positive Self-Management trainings.
Neighborhood community groups of 15 – 20 are trained, monitored and evaluated. The director received train-the-trainer training in PSMP from Stanford
Relationship with Health System
The relationship between ICAK and the Mwala District Health Services has been good and prevents duplication of efforts. ICAK is a member of Mwala District Health Stakeholders Forum. Ministry of Health staff conducts mobile volunteer counseling and testing (VCT) in the communities with the assistance of ICAK staff and community resource people. ICAK works in ministry satellites where people living with HIV and AIDS receive ART and VCT to conduct PSMP training with PLWHA.
Lessons Learned:
Community involvement in HIV/AIDS trainings is very important.
Do needs assessment and baseline studies to guide community knowledge and behavior
Community resource persons are key to sustainable projects.
Empowered people living with HIV/AIDS are the best ambassadors to train others
living with HIV.
VCT facility and/or testing should be provided in the community so everyone knows their status.
Partnership and collaboration is important for any development organization that will make an impact in development work.

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In 2002 ICA Zimbabwe launched the HIV/AIDS program focusing on prevention in Mufakose District, a peri- urban area outside Harare, with 4000 families directly involved, resulting in extended impact to 40,000 people. The HIV rate was 24%. In 2003 Rotary International became a partner. In 2007 a needs assessment in five communities – Mufakose, Kambuzma, Budiriro, Rugare and Crowborough North – resulted in a three-year program launched in 2009 called Hunger, Humanity, and Health (3H) which focuses on business development, savings, youth training, HIV/AIDS awareness training and Living Well. The program evolved based on the needs identified in the communities. During that time, 50 small and medium enterprises have been launched resulting in income for welfare and education. More people go for HIV testing, resulting in increased HIV/AIDS knowledge. In 2007 alone, 700 disclosed their HIV status. The prevalence rate has dropped from 24% to 16% 
Women’s microcredit programSelf Help Approach
Living Well Program
Youth as Facilitative Leaders
Prevention – included as part of every project

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1.WATER LTID has helped Ngomano Community reduce the distance to water points for 180 households from 5kms to 2kms by construction of sub surface dams which serves as a great water reservoir to Ngomano Community.
5. 2.FOOD SECURITY: LTID has improved access to food for Ngomano Location from one meal per day to three meals throughout the year. This has been achieved by trainings offered to the community on dry land farming methods, provision of drought tolerant food crop seeds,farmers have been involved in improved poultry rearing and improved goat rearing.
6. 3.HIV and AIDS. LTID has been offering HIV and AIDS prevention education training to Ngomano Community. In addition LTID facilitates access to Voluntary Counseling and Testing Services through mobile VCTs. Those people living with HIV have been trained on Positive self management and are taking charge of their health by living positively. 
4.SELF HELP GROUPS. Village savings and Loaning Association (VSLA) through self help groups in each village has given the women voice and power to manage their saving by LTID. All the household basic needs are catered for at the self- help group level.30 self help groups have been established in Ngomano Location.
8. LTID distributes 30 male goats to 15groups in Ngomano Location. The goats are meant for Local goats upgrading. LTID distributes Ken brow chicken to Ngomano Community.