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

id	Project	Short	Description	Country
31	Foster Youth to Independence - USA	2nd year of planning in USA for the PASSAGE Coalition for the successful transition of foster youth to independence.	The PASSAGE Coalition for the successful transistion of foster youth to independence is finishing its second year of planning and implementation (convened by Casey Family Programs, youth-driven, 45 and growing charter member agencies. John Oyler, USA from ToPSurvey	USA
71	City Government Promotes Inclusion - USA	City of Fremont, USA, Human Services Department uses ToP methodology has been utilized to develop strategic plans for many of its divisions.	City of Fremont, USA, Human Services Department uses ToP methodology has been utilized to develop strategic plans for many of its divisions to expand our partnerships to include multiple ethnic and faith groups in delivering needed services to people who had previously been significantly underserved in our community. City of Fremonts Human Services Department. ToP methodology has been utilized to develop strategic plans for many of its divisions. It been used successfully to expand our partnerships to include multiple ethnic and faith groups in delivering needed services to people who had previously been significantly underserved in our community. Raymond Grimm, USA from ToPSurvey	USA
82	Agency Model Building on Child Behavioural Problem - Canada	Create a collaborative model between 6 different agencies on working with 6-18 years olds with behavioural problems who are falling out of the care system during their school years. Thunder Bay, Canada	Create a collaborative model between 6 different agencies on working with 6-18 years olds with behavioural problems who are falling out of the care system during their school years. Canada 2002	Canada
100	Difficult-to-Serve Consultation	Designed and facilitated large multi-stakeholder workshop on the difficult to serve. Agencies have great difficulty giving service or treatment to some people who have behavioural disorders, or who do not fit within the agencies specific mandate. Canada	Designed and facilitated large multi-stakeholder workshop on the difficult to serve. Agencies have great difficulty giving service or treatment to some people who have behavioural disorders, or who do not fit within the agencies specific mandate. Canada 2004	Canada
104	End-of-Life strategy consultation	Designed and facilitated multi-stakeholder consultation workshops on End-of-Life Strategy. These are needed to assist agencies to care for people who are in health care situations and are close to dying, all of which takes special care. Canada 2005	Designed and facilitated multi-stakeholder consultation workshops on End-of-Life Strategy. These are needed to assist agencies to care for people who are in health care situations and are close to dying, all of which takes special care. Canada 2005	Canada
227	India Afforestation and Reservoir Pond Construction in India	Long term Malegoan Cluster Project, India, involving water storage tanks, grocery store, tribal residential school, Environmental Education Centre, afforestation nursery at Malegoan, India.	Local wisdom - stone bunds built in small streams for water conservation and prevention of soil erosion. Over a few years, top soil is carried by water and collected between the bunds. When it is filled, farmers cultivate the land again.	India
234	Azpitia Demonstration Community for Peru	Azpitia gained national recognition in 1984 by winning the Bronze Shovel award as the most accomplished community in Peru.	Azpitia Project --The Human Development Project in Azpitia was the first ICA project of self-development in Peru. National Prize -- Azpitia gained national recognition in 1984 by winning the Bronze Shovel award as the most accomplished community in Peru. Many Advances -- Real accomplishments are visible today in agricultural technology, effective organization, appropriate tourism and a strong local economy. Self-Development -- This model community of self-development was built entirely by the people of Azpitia without outside financial aid. Replicable Method -- The method of development used was the formation of committed leaders who then facilitated the formation of the working economic and social associations which built the community.	Peru
269	Community displaced after flooding - Bangladesh	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, Bangladesh.	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	Bangladesh
284	Health and Sanitation - India	Large scale, multi-year, health, sanitation, drinking water, treatment camps involving hundreds of villages in and around Kendur Village, India.	Health and Sanitation 1. Health checkup camps organized quarterly ( 4times in yr) 2oo patients per camp. 2. For drinking water Well expanded at Dhangarwadi. 3. Eye checkup camp conducted in Kemsewadi s 100 patients examined 35 glasses distributed. 4. Health Awareness camp taken in new project area- Kendur Village & Shirur Taluka. 5. Govt sanctioned drinking water scheme at Katarkhadak & Khomboli- 10% amount and implementation. Health Awareness Camps:- Every year one-day Cancer and health check up camp is arranged with the help of Cancer Patient Aids Association. Over 200 patients are examined during each camp. People requiring further treatment was referred to reputed hospitals in Pune. Similar Health and Environment Awareness camp was arranged during the occasion of local religious festival of Khamboli village where hundreds of people gather from other villages also. Eye checkup camp was also organized and 100 patients were examined and 35 glasses were distributed. Also operations done in this camp. Also we have organized Health Awareness camp in the new project area Kendur Village and Shirur Talika. The people were present for the camp and had benefited through the things they listen about healthy life and healthy habits.	India
288	Sexual Health Services in Halton UK	Young people engaging to see how the health services in Manchester, UK can be used to reduce teen pregnancy and transmission of STI in Halton Region of UK.	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	UK
303	Accelerating Green Initiatives in Chicago	The ICA, with the cooperation of students and professors, is working to identify, engage, and connect the sustainability efforts in each of the citys 77 community areas	ICA-USA is the organizing sponsor of	USA
306	Greenrise Uptown Learning Laboratory in Chcago	The ICA USA 166,000squarefoot terra cotta building in the diverse Uptown neighborhood of Chicago is a gold mine of opportunity, not only for energy savings, but also for creat ing a living laboratory to showcase sus tainable and resilient community life	The Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) has launched the Greenrise Uptown Learning Laboratory with its flagship building at 4750 N. Sheridan Rd. Built in 1921, the 166,000 squarefoot terra cotta building in the diverse Uptown neighborhood of Chicago is a gold mine of opportunity, not only for energy savings, but also for creating a living laboratory to showcase sustainable and resilient community life. Energy Efficiency Pursued In ICAs 50 year history of promoting so cial transformation and systemic change, there has grown an understanding about how environmental degradation under mines human development work. The Institute has a strong moral commitment to pursue a bold plan to retrofit the building and make it energy independent. The vision is to create a healthy, energy efficient, mixed use building for agencies and clients to both live and work in. An important secondary effect of achieving this is to demonstrate that revitalization of a neighborhood can happen without displacing people or reducing services. Additionally, during implementation, ICA will partner with the City of Chicago and tenant agencies in the building to create new clean en ergy jobs and local employment. A total of $1,200,000 in funding has been solicited and committed for various parts of this plan, including lighting, windows, facade work, safety upgrades, elevators, insulation and replacement of kitchen appliances. The ICA has committed itself to a new hot water heater, cooling system repair and a roof replacement in anticipation of putting in rainwater catchment and a living roof. Professionals have been engaged to examine the potential for geothermal, solar and wind energy. Sustainable Food Source The tenant agencies are investigating the creation of a self-sustaining, ecologically innovative building including living walls, vertical window farms and waste prevention. A team is working on how to maximize the use of plants to insulate the windows, grow edibles and clean the air. They will be designing a food production system that includes inside greenhouses, window gardens, an outdoor rooftop garden and a community garden. Also planned are lobbies on each floor with vertical gardens, a rain catchment system for the building and systems for storing excess produce through canning, freezing and drying.	USA
320	Project Face Up - North Carolina	Telling Stories of Community Life in Southwest Central Durham, North Carolina.	Project: Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life is a documentary/public art project that grows out of local conversations about neighborhood goals in Southwest Central Durham, North Carolina. The project blended the Lehman Brady Joint Chair Professorship in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with collaborative documentary exploration and art-making in community settings across Durham. The projects open approach to building a loving community encouraged diverse participation in the enhancement of the aesthetic environment, as large public art installations expand awareness of historic and contemporary persons and places in Southwest Central Durham.	USA
329	Diepsloot Arts in Action - South Africa	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	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. .	South Africa
343	Womens Empowerment in India - Mumbai	to help with income generation programs like masala making, candles near Pune - Takako Shimizu		India
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
367	Profound Journey Dialogue	The Profound Journey Dialog reiterates the underpinnings of the various methods of courses of the Institute of Cultural Affairs. These methods are used in groups all over the globe.	The Profound Journey Dialog(PJD) is about the deep journey of our lives. Utilizing universal, inclusive language and offering empowering images, the PJD offers tools for persons to care for themselves as they care for the world - from the local to the entire Earth community. The PJD is an interactive event, building on four master journey images. Consisting of brief presentations, large and small group dialog, meal conversations, time for personal reflection, short contextual readings, and secular-spiritual rituals, the four sessions can be exhilarating, intense, transforming and celebrative. The Profound Journey Dialog reiterates the underpinnings of the various methods of courses of the Institute of Cultural Affairs. These methods are used in groups all over the globe. The Profound Journey Dialog is a recasting of the foundational understandings of the Institute of Cultural Affairs that have motivated thousands to volunteer in efforts around the world, helping to transform lives and communities for over 40 years.	USA
368	The Learning Basket	The Learning Basket parenting series is a series of two-hour sessions for parents of infants and toddlers that emphasize nurturing the learning potential of both children and adults.	The Learning Basket parenting series is a series of two-hour sessions for parents of infants and toddlers that emphasize nurturing the learning potential of both children and adults. The Learning Basket materials were developed by the Institute of Cultural Affairs in collaboration with Proliteracy Worldwide. The materials include a literacy manual, Parents are Teachers; the Play to Learn activity book which includes over 100 developmentally appropriate parent and child activities; and a hand-woven basket containing 18 objects, which complement the activities in the Play to Learn book. Each interactive session is designed to draw forth the involvement and encourage the leadership of the participating parents. The sessions are designed around the understanding that functional literacy involves developing competence in the use of the foundational skills of reading, writing, and voicing ideas and opinions. In addition to these foundational skills the model emphasizes developing confidence in one’s own cultural values and practices; the capacity to do critical thinking and problem solving; and the ability to take on responsibility to put ideas into action. Sessions are guided by Learning Basket parent session guides who employ an interactive teaching strategy based on the learning philosophy of Paulo Freire, Malcolm Knowles and Carl Rogers (1961); and drawing from the research of Taylor, Marienau, and Fidler (2000), Belenky, Bond, and Weinstock(1997) Packard (2003), and others. The sessions are designed around the theme of parenting and child development. In each session, participants engage in and lead conversations on themes in the Parents are Teachers literacy manual. In addition, session guides present key information about the effect of play on the development of the learning capacity of young children. Parents and guides also demonstrate play activities using the Play to Learn activity book; and each session includes play time with the children. Parents earn the objects in the Learning Basket through their attendance at each session.	USA
377	Zimbabwe and HIV Aids	50 small and medium enterprises have been launched resulting in income for welfare and education.	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	Zimbabwe
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
392	Doctors Professional Development, Mongolia	We recently began two projects in Mongolia. The first is the continuing professional development of doctors. We invited all the important stakeholders from the Ministry of Health, central hospitals and professional medical societies to a three-day strategic planning workshop. We got a great result. Many of the participants wanted to learn facilitation skills. Now we are training 20 of them to conduct participatory workshops for cultural and systemic change at their hospitals.	We have learnt that Mongolians, a nomadic people who value freedom, challenge and change, love discussions. For people who had been passively following top-down directions in the hierarchical culture, the sessions provided a release. They took an active part in discussing each focus question, and talked about their wishes, problems and the system. They enjoyed the process and were surprised to see that their discussions actually produced an outcome. They saw the power of participation! The facilitators were proud of what they had accomplished and were eager to use these processes in other settings. We plan to hold a Facilitation Festival in Mongolia at the end of this year to share and celebrate what they have accomplished. We believe we can establish an IAF chapter or ICAI associate member in Mongolia some day.	Mongolia