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

id	Project	Short	Description	Country
178	Womens Center Renovation	Village centre in Conacaste Village, Guatemala, is being renovated and expanded, and furnished with appropriate training materials and equipment. This center serves citizens of 25 surrounding villages, and also invites participants from Central America. Taught at this center is literacy, health and sanitation, organic farming, reforestation, and the training of teachers.	Conacaste village, with a population of 750, is approximately 50 km from Guatemala City. It is located in a dry region of Guatemala, and its development is even slower that other local areas. Key to the success of this area is the education of rural women, providing outreach to those who cannot travel to programs normally offered in distant cities. Consequently the village training center is being renovated and expanded, and furnished with appropriate training materials and equipment. This center serves citizens of 25 surrounding villages, and also invites participants from Central America. Taught at this center is literacy, health and sanitation, organic farming, reforestation, and the training of teachers. Villagers use the center for making community plans and for exchange programs. Women will be trained to assist in educating their children, and to prepare for taking leadership roles in their family and community.	Guatemala
183	Womens life improvement in Chaipas, Mexico	Three year program to develop womens skills for promoting reliance and organization through wide-ranging trainings such as leadership, literate education, life skill, and occupation training. Women are taking training, provided early childhood education for their children so that people in the slum are able to improve quality of their life comprehensively In Chiapas, Mexico.	Aim of the project is to Develop womens skills for promoting reliance and organization through wide-ranging trainings such as leadership, literate education, life skill, and occupation training. During women are taking trainings, we provide early childhood education for their children so that people in the Slum are able to improve quality of their life comprehensively. Terms of project was from from April 2005 to Marrh 2008 Cooperating organizations were Social Development Bureau and Education Bureau of the Chiapas State Government are cooperate as counterpart organizations. Local NGOs working in the project site area also participate in this Project. 6 model comunities in the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez(TGZ) and San Cristobal de Las Casas(SCC) in the Chiapas state in Mexico. Beneficiary of this project include Around 25 person of CP and NGO, and around 210 women who are participated into the trainings and their children. And after the women start to do their activity in their communities, beneficiary would be expected 2100 to 4200 women and their children. Photo report in the San Cristobal de Las Casas which our activity has already started. The residential compound of native people (left photo) and native woman selling their handicraft (right photo). There are variety of reason why those native people had to come to live in the city, but their circumstances of their city life is almost same in terms of inconvenient and poverty. Before trainings get started, project team organized community event for advertising the project and also animate the community on weekends in June. People learned vegetables by enjoying card game (center photo), and watched the Social Drama showing domestic violence (right photo). Since July, trainings have started. Women who knew this project through the event came to learn self esteem, medical plants, nutrition, etc. every 2 days a week in the training. On August 16 and 22, Sizuyo Sato and Wayne Elthworth from ICA-JAPAN had training for women. During their training, their children are took care of by person for early childhood education. Women who trained by social development bureau of Chiapas government before this prject also have participated into the leadership training of this project to be a leader in their community. On August 20, in the district of Patria Nueva in the TGZ, women of SCC and TZG got toghether and exchanged their experiences in the event. As on-demand traninig, mashroom plant trainigs have started. Mashroom house had bult by women and their family (left photo), and they are eagerly learning how to grow those mashrooms in the training(right photo). For the CP of the social development bureau and social education bureau of Chiapas government, ICA-JAPAN and ICA-USA had trainings for educating facilitation for the community. In this project, we also have activity to support to improve the quality of their life in the community. On August 22, ICA-JAPAN held community forum in the Cascajal district. Around 350 women and men discussed how they improve up the quality of their community through thinking of (vision) of 3 years after in terms of culture, economics, and politics. ICA-JAPAN shall support their activity as facilitator.	Mexico
254	Facilitating Agricultural Reform and Marketing in Soghd oblast - Tajikistan	Focus groups carry out the purpose of improving the DF members participation into the management process in the research fields and the introduction of actions into Dehkan farms, Tajikistan.	Gender equality and justice are an integral part of the project. It is not an individual direction but it is the subject that comprises the whole project. Accordingly the working plan is arranged and conducted by focus groups in 5 targeted districts: Kanibadam, Asht, Mastcha, Zafarabad, Spitamen. Focus groups carry out the purpose of improving the DF members participation into the management process in the research fields and the introduction of these actions into Dehkan farms. PO s EHIO Farhang va Tarakkiyot in this project is responsible for providing focus groups in the following districts: Zafarabad, Spitamen (2007) and Dj. Rasulov. The focus groups discuss the following key items: Certificate on right of land tenure Certificate availability for share Debts to investors and other organizations, bodies Management issues Transparency s reporting Salary issues Debts of investors in DF Land share re-registration Fertilizers, machinery Access to resources Gender Participation Membership in DF Relation/correlation of DF members, hired personnel Legal rights Trainers/facilitators of PO s EHIO Farhang va Tarakkiyot are conducting training sessions in targeted districts of (Zafarabad, Dj. Rasulov and Spitamen) on the topics of: Bookkeeping and registration for the financial operations of a dehkan farm, Financial analysis of DF, Budgeting and cash flow calculation in DF, and the DF business plan. After such training, trained DF members work as accountants in their dehkan farms. Using the strategy, Leading Dehkan farm and united farms (neighbouring farms), relative to the research field; regular information for DF members and employees is provided both for men and women. It also collects regular information for timely response to all project components. Other topics and issues are discussed to develop practical steps for their introduction. Focus groups are used as a tool for each of the 5 project components. At the same time they complete a function relative to mobilization and the informing of members, (women and men). Special attention is paid to gender equality while carrying out these measures, not only within the project framework, but in the everyday activity of DF and the organizations partners.	Tajikistan
287	Guns and Gangs in Old Trafford UK	The research project seeks to find out the best ways to address gang and gun problems in Old Trafford, UK.	The research project seeks to find out the best ways to address gang and gun problems in Old Trafford. The project gathered reliable information about the nature of gang and gun culture directly from young people by young people, in order to develop practical proposals to address the problem. The young people have been trained as peer researchers to carry out this project, which entailed developing a research method, carrying out face-to-face interviews, creating on-line surveys and facilitating a focus group. The project was for young people by young people and they have come up with a list of recommendations for all key stakeholders such as the Youth Offending Service, Greater Manchester Police, Trafford Housing Trust, The Youth Service, Probation, Schools, Safer Trafford Partnership, Community groups, National Government and young people themselves. The outcomes of the project were: trained 5-10 young people in peer research methods, including: exploring what peer research is with examples. developing a method for research e.g. an event, interviews or a questionnaire and critiquing the methods to decide which ones will best fit the project brief. understanding research ethics. undertaking role play and piloting to test the methods used and to anticipate difficult situations. Generating risk assessments for their activities. supported the young people to undertake the project in action with between 20 and 50 respondents/ young people consulted. worked with the young people to evaluate the project. write a report on the project and to disseminate the findings to all the key decision making bodies within the area and beyond. skilled up and develop the young researchers in the following: transferable research skills. self-confidence. a greater understanding of the issues in their area. presentation and facilitation skills. support the young people to play a greater role in community leadership. For the participants to find out more about the issue, and feel an increased involvement in their community and solving community problems. disseminated the findings and recommendations to a range of decision makers and community leaders on a local, regional and national level enabled the young people to generate ideas which they can take forward directly to make change happen to reduce the gun and gang problem	UK
300	Youth Participation Strategy with BARCA - Leeds UK	Youth participation events for Bramley and Rodley Community Action, or BARCA, to deliver a range of health, education and personal development services to young people and adults in West Leeds.	Bramley and Rodley Community Action, or BARCA, delivers a range of health, education and personal development services to young people and adults in West Leeds. In November 2004 their Youth Work Manager asked ICA:UK for some help in developing a youth participation strategy for the organisation. Although they had some young people involved in running individual clubs and programmes, they felt that not all of their staff were on the same page as to what youth participation actually meant and entailed. Process After several meetings and phone calls, ICA:UK facilitated an Away Day for BARCA in February 2005, designed to get their young people, staff and volunteers talking about youth participation and what it meant. During the day, BARCAs people: discussed the benefits and dangers of their young people participating in the organisation looked at the needs that young people had in order for them to participate, and the resources the organisation had to encourage that involvement learnt about Roger Harts Ladder of Young Peoples Participation see and ranked their own activities against that ladder ; created their own vision for young peoples participation within the organisation identified some next steps that each participant would take to make that vision happen. Outcomes BARCA has recently conducted an evaluation with the young people who attended the Away Day, to see what has changed within the organisation from their perspective. Amongst other activities, young people have now had the opportunity to: plan an event to recruit new members to one of their groups; interview new staff; train adults on how young people want to be trained; and evaluate their After School Club. Overall, the young people said that they were happy that workers listen and respond to their ideas and suggestions, and with their own current level of involvement. Thank you for facilitating our Away Day and assisting us to create our vision to take Youth Participation forward in both our business plan and, more importantly, within the delivery of our work. ... One important thing we learned that day was that we should never underestimate the ability of young people to deal with complex issues and, equally, to never underestimate adults ability to undermine young peoples participation. - Diane Law, Y outh W ork Manager, BARCA-Leeds.	UK
318	Novella Project - Tanzania	Educating over 1,800 farmers on constitution formation and their obligations within community development objectives.	To improve the efficiency of local government groups, training is given on resource management, planning and communication skills, including sustainable natural resource management. In 2007, ICA Tanzania launched the Novella Project which educated over 1,800 farmers on constitution formation and their obligations within community development objectives. Over the past decade, ICA Tanzania has established numerous projects which have furthered human development in areas across the country. While focusing on increasing the capacity of community members to participate in their own personal progress, the ICA Tanzania acts as a resource for community development.	Tanzania
324	Peace Building in Nepal	Proposal from ICA Japan 2012 for PeaceBuilding thru dialogues and vocational training and job creation	Proposal from ICA Japan 2012	Nepal
387	Leadership Training and Integrated Development, ICA Kenya	Positive self management programme People living with HIV and AIDS need much love and care. The high levels of stigmatization in marginalized communities hinders many from accessing medication due to fear of being rejected.It is for this reason that Leadership Training and Integrated Development takes the initiative to empower people living with HIV by equipping them with positive Self management skills so that they live comfortably and positively	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.	Kenya