ICA community development initiatives use a variety of empowerment strategies and impact economic, political and cultural development.

id	Project	Short	Description	Country
67	CommunityDevelopment Workshops - Bosnia	Working with World Vision Bosnia and Herzegovina and using ToP methods for facilitation of community development workshops. Slavica Bradvic Hanusic, Bosnia	Working with World Vision Bosnia and Herzegovina and using ToP methods for facilitation of community development workshops. Slavica Bradvic Hanusic, Bosnia from ToPSurvey	Bosnia
251	Solar Power - Cote DIvoire	Conservation and awareness projects in the Toumodi region of Cote DIvoire resulted in five villages now lit with solar power, solar water heaters in the Toumodi hospital	Environmental conservation and awareness projects in the Toumodi region during 2006 resulted in five villages now lit with solar power, as well as two solar water heaters operating in the Toumodi hospital. location -	Cote dIvoire
264	Indigenous Forest Resources Access - Nepal	ICA Nepal organized orientation, training, and the development of case studies for its national level workshop on indigenous communities and their often complex relationship to forests, including 12 recommendations.	With the support of Global Forest Coalition (GFC), ICA Nepal carried out activities that promoted the rights of indigenous communities access to and use of forest resources. It organized orientation, training, and the development of case studies for its national level workshop on indigenous communities and their often complex relationship to forests. During its workshop, ICA Nepal produced 12 recommendations to present to the Nepalese government for immediate consideration. The workshop identified political instability as one of the main underlying causes of rampant deforestation in Nepal. Other resolutions considered giving special care to the culture, skills, and traditions of indigenous populations, providing better education opportunities to local communities, compensating indigenous and ethnic communities for their products, guaranteeing free alternative energy for indigenous and ethnic communities residing in or near forest areas, and new government-led arrangements for cattle raising and grazing. ICA Nepal understands that Nepals rapidly growing population puts great pressure on natural resources. Through Eco-clubs and sustainable agricultural programs, children and adults respectively are encouraged to think about ways to use their environment in a sustainable way. Trees have been planted, and nurseries and kitchen gardens started as a result of this program. Furthermore, through training and facilitation, ICA Nepal has motivated thousands of people towards protecting the environment. - Nepal	Nepal
332	Tree Plantation at Dabhade, India	We maintain a permanent plant nursery at our Environment Education Center at Talegaon Dabhade	Tree plantation: We maintain a permanent plant nursery at our Environment Education Center at Talegaon Dabhade. Several varieties of forest trees, fruit trees and medicinal plants are raised and distributed to farmers in our project area. An average of 15,000 plants are raised and planted each year. These four projects support each other. The dairy provides cow dung fertilizer for agriculture and bio gas; agriculture provides fodder for dairy animals; bio-gas slurry is used as fertilizer; and tree plantation provides fodder/feed as well as fruit and wood.	India
341	Joyful Cotton	production of womens reusable sanitary pads in Dhulikhel		Nepal
353	Hydroponics and Compost Making Training in Bihar	This detailed report describes step by step how the training took place in each village. The villagers were eager to carefully learn this agriculture technology.	This detailed report describes step by step how the training took place in each village. The villagers were eager to carefully learn this agriculture technology. location -	India