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

id	Project	Short	Description	Country
46	Senior Curriculum Design, USA	Community Ambassador Program for Seniors - A partnership between City of Fremont Human Services Department and 7 ethnic and faith communities in Fremont, USA has built curriculum and evaluation together.	Community Ambassador Program for Seniors - A partnership between City of Fremont Human Services Department and 7 ethnic and faith communities. ToP has been used to develop curricula, program design and evaluation. Raymond Grimm, USA from ToPSurvey.	USA
242	Legal Literacy in Monduli District Tanzania	The ICA Tanzania legal aid clinic is providing legal services to community members particularly women and children in fighting for their property rights after the death of the husband/children in Monduli District	Related to the low level of education there is also a low level of legal literacy. in Monduli district. After the trade liberalization policy there has been a move to increase agricultural activities and lessen pasture areas. Of late there has been an increase of squeezing pastoralists into areas that are non-viable for pastoral land use. Though customary land rights of pastoralist grazing land are still widely recognized but they give no protection against claims of agriculturists. Therefore the situation of land tenure in Monduli is one of the conflicts between the original Maasai population and what they see as intruders on their land. Besides unawareness about their land rights most of the people in Monduli do not know about their legal rights as stated in the constitution.	Tanzania
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
253	HIV/AIDS Prevention and awareness - Cote DIvoire	Raise awareness about HIV/AIDS, targeting young girls and teaching them about the dangers of risky behavior	ICA Cote dIvoire works with 70 families in the Brobo region to organize themselves in order to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS, targeting young girls and teaching them about the dangers of risky behavior. ICA Côte dIvoire also coordinated an awareness campaign in 2006 about the availability and reduced cost of anti-retro viral drugs, as well as Voluntary Counseling and Testing facilities. location -	Cote dIvoire
291	Music and Youth Peer Research - UK	Research project to figure out the affect of music on youth in Manchester, UK.	Young people came up with these project aims: We want to carry out a piece of research to find out how music affects teenagers in Manchester. Will will do this through questionnaires, interviews and mystery shopping. We aim to make contact with 250 people. We will do this through schools and friendship networks, including an online version of the questionnaire too. We will do this piece of research in 4 weeks. Do you think music could change a teenager life completely? Lots of people said yes to this question. They generally thought the affects would be positive more than negative. They said it can inspire people and help people to express their emotions, become more social, be a release and an escape, give confidence and a better view of life and be able tosee the world in a different light. They thought it could even help people to become healthier and happier, giving you better life choices and future path, including if it was a focus for your career. But also, people through that it can have a psychological affect on teenagers. It can make you more aggressive and more angry. It is important but as one person pointed out, music isnt everything, and is not on its own always that powerful, but can be a tool for good if used in conjunction with other things.	UK
341	Joyful Cotton	production of womens reusable sanitary pads in Dhulikhel		Nepal
344	CBO Alliance for Family Health and Social Welfare	An initiative in Kailali district, Nepal dealing with HIV prevention and education .		Nepal
354	The Severely Marginalized People of Routa and Gopalpur Villages	Human Development Training and Facilitation by Wayne Ellsworth of ICA Japan, and Peter Lasrado of partner HDCI, for The Severely Marginalized People of Routa and Gopalpur Villages In Madhepura District, Bihar, India, October 2014 Funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Japan	Nearly 250 people eagerly participated for four days from Routa and Gopalpur villages. They recalled what has happened in their villages since the flood of 2008, then listened to a Planetary Evolution talk. For the first time, they deeply understood how the world is rapidly changing. They realized their very existence here depends upon creating a new future. We all learned the steps necessary to change our lives, using the Octave of Learning system. The Economic, Social, and Educational Principles of Community Development had a resounding impact, especially the Village Educational Principles. They have school buildings, but the teachers are sub-standard, and the children from the project’s pre-schools are teaching their teachers and their parents! Sub-Groups of the participants wrote practical vision elements, thought deeply, then decided priorities and actions for working together for the next six months. location -	India
390	community Centres, Bihar	Second stage construction for the two community centers are almost finished. The third village has just settled the land dispute, and the contractor has just begun on the ground work for the third multi-purpose center. When completed, we will have finished 8 centers and done a variety of trainings in each village.		India