Training and Facilitiations

Overseas ICA Facilitators in Bangladesh

ICA Bangladesh welcomed and hosted a number of foreign volunteers in Bangladesh who visited its projects, facilitated capacity building trainings and discovered Bangladesh since 2002. Tatwa Timsina who is a ICA Nepal colleague visited Bangladesh as Vice President of ICA International for the Asia Pacific and helped us in starting ICA in October 2002. He also taught Group Facilitation Methods and Social Styles course in Chandpur. In October 2005, we received Robyn and John Hutchinson from ICA Australia. We also had two colleagues from ICA India – Shubhnarain Singh and Tatwa Timsina from ICA Nepal. ICA International President Nelson Stover and ICA USA Director Elaine Stover visited Bangladesh in February 2007. They inspected ICA Bangladesh’s Ghoramara Human Development Project in Chandpur on 13 February. They along with Shubhnarain Singh from India volunteered two capacity building courses – Methods of Effective Participation on 11-12 February 2007 and Effective Living on 13-17 February 2007 at NILG, Agargaon, Dhaka.

Two Australian volunteers – Maria Maguire and Richard Maguire visited Bangladesh twice in the year 2007. They first volunteered two capacity-building training courses – Group Facilitation Methods (3-4 March 2007) and participatory Strategic Planning (8-9 March 2008) at Pacific Inn Hotel, Banani, Dhaka. They also facilitated Dhaka ICA team in preparing the second strategic plan (2007-2009) based on the first strategic plan (2006-2008). The first strategic plan was facilitated by ICA International President Tatwa P Timsina from Nepal, Robyn and John Hutchinson from Australia facilitated in October 2005 in Dhaka. In December 2007, they facilitated the revision of the Second Strategic Plan following their participation in the First Asia Pacific Regional Conference. They also assisted us in developing training and facilitation manuals in both English and Bangla.

Richard and Maria Magiure from Australia, Shankar Jadhab from India and Sarah Farina from Canada visited ICA Ghoramara Human Development Project in Chandpur on 7 December 2007. Tatwa P Timsina who is the first mentor of Dhaka ICA first visited Bangladesh team in 2002 and volunteered a training course on Facilitation Skills and Program Management during 17-21 October 2002 at Chandpur Law College for 20 NGO executives.

Lawrence Philbrook visited Bangladesh twice and volunteered three two capacity building training courses – Leadership Development in Organizations along with Evelyn Philbrook (29-30 November 2007), Facilitating Strategic Processes (18-19 March 2008). Tatwa P Timsina and Shankar Jadhav volunteered one course on Community Development Approaches, Proposal Writing and Fundraising (4-6 Decemebr 2007). Maria and Richard also visited ICA Bangladesh in December 2008 and Lawrence in January 2009 and Evelyn Philbrook, Janet Sanders, Tatwa Timsina in April 2009. During their stay with us, they facilitated some training and planning courses.