Training on Leadership Development on Facilitation and Participatory Strategic Planning

The training for the leadership development was conducted by ICA Nepal from March 20-23, 2018. It was a four days long training provided to Welt Hunger Hilfe and RIMS by ICA Nepal. There were total 18 participants present in the training session.
The main motive of the training was to improve the leadership characteristics of the participants. So, different programs were conducted keeping the main motive in mind. We had session on facilitation, empowerment, and leadership development to help the participant build the leadership characters. Similarly, conflict management training was
Training sessions were conducted by using various tools. The first way used was the presentation. Seminar presentations were conducted to teach the participants. Similarly, meta-cards and chat papers were also used during the training session as the training tool. These were used mainly with the motive of making learning easier and interesting for the participants. The other method used for the training was the ORID method. This method of training focused mainly on the interaction. In this method the participant were given the platform to have discussion and to share their ideas and thoughts among themselves and with the trainers. This framework enabled detailed reflection and learning and helped groups to get to the heart of the matter efficiently.
The certifications were provided to the participants on the last day of the training. In this way four days training for leadership development was successfully conducted by the ICA Nepal which was facilitated by Dr. Tatwa Timsina and co-facilitator were Mr. Hare Ram Bhattarai and Mr. Amba Datta.

also given that helps them build up relationship based on mutual understanding. In addition project planning, proposal writing and fund raising, monitoring and evaluation training as well as training on social ethics were also provided to the participants.

[Interview | A/Video ] LGBTI themed Dance performance at Astitwa2 by SilverMountainSHM Nepal Students

Let Our Vibes Entangle LOVE for Gaurav Kandel 

LOVE for me is Let Our Vibes Entangle. And that's what i could see in the LGBTI themed Dance performance by Silver Mountain School Of Hotel Management Student at Himalaya Events presents Astitwa2 Inter College Theme Dance Competition which will be aired later at Himalaya TV. 

Dress in a white t-shirt with a rainbow striped Love printed and black trousers, a lesbian couple love and a gay couple love story is narrated , " Feel her warmth, i feel good i feel safe - My lover is a man and when i hold him i feel his warmth, i feel safe " and plays the song Say You Won't Let Go by Famous British Singer Songwriter James Arthur where the lesbian and gay couple portrayed express their love for each other through the dance performance and suddenly at one time it stops. The lights tremble and the sound yells " Yestai Hun Afno Ijjat ko sath sath ma samaj ko ijjat falirahechan" ( These are the ones who don't care of their own prestige and are messing up the societal's prestige as well) and shows the hate crime that the society has been doing that with Lesbian and Gay Couples. And one of the Society Homophobic character screams and yells at one of the Gay portrayed character " Ta ke garira, yo keta sanga maya garera - Laaj chaina Samaaj le ke Vanla" ( What are you doing making love to a man without any shyness & fear about what Society may say or think ) and drags the gay character on the floor and trying to compel him to marry a girl. Just when he has handed over a garland and insisted to put the garland over the girl pauses and freeze. The Gay characters emotions and feelings are depicted and his love for the other guy replicating that it may go in vain through a musical performance continued by the Lesbian characters emotions and feelings for her love to the other girl she has been and expresses that with her performance and later jumps and cuddles her from the back but again replicating that too may go in  vain. And as the society compels and forces them to marry as a Man to a Women and smash them down. The sufferings and pain are depicted by other gay and lesbian characters come and share their love in all those sorrows - dims the light. A black dressed top with a grey legging a blonded wig hair enters a trans women character and plays Popular Australian Singer Songwriter Sia's The Greatest and she/they motivates both the gay and lesbian couple character asking them Don't Give Up and all of them express their courage and dance together. Later there it again shows the hate crime by the homophobic society characters discriminating as a SHAME and harassing a trans women but the trans doesn't gives up,  she/ they cries but she/ they sees herself/ themselves on the mirror and expresses on fighting back with the society flaunting the rainbow LGBTI flag all over. By the end, there are allies who join together from the society and raise a slogan, "Born Normal, Labeled by Society" 

Silver Mountain's BHM 1st Semester students Srijal Manandhar and Ashipal Khatri portrayed the role of Gay couple whereas BHM 3rd Semester students Sumiti Bajracharya and Samana Sherchan portrayed the role of Lesbian couple & Anish Tamang as the role of Trans. Satish Tamrakar, Rosis Maharjan and Adarsh KC portrayed the role of Society on the dance performance choreographed by the performers Srijal and Sumiti themselves. With lots of the support from the audience with standing ovations and love showered even all the three judges - Actress & Model Jyotsna Yogi, Former Miss Nepal Sugarika KC, Choreographer Prashant Tamang loved the performance and that made the performers SilverMountainSHM's win the Second Prize with Nepali Rupees 50 Thousand as Cash Prize. While, Orchid International College BASW students bagged the First Prize with Nepali Rupees 75 Thousand as Cash Prize.

Interacting after the performance to Robin Jha, Coordinator of Silver Mountain School Of Hotel Management on how he felt about the performance by his students 

"Gender stereotypes are set by society. Normality is also a stereotype. Anyone who is different comes across as challenge and the stereotype is questioned. So rather than looking with open rationale, society wants to suppress the difference. I personally am proud of our SilverMountain Kids today, they tastefully presented a thought provoking act, which I truly believe is on its own definition of ASTISTWA "

Interviewing to one of the performers Anish Tamang, here is what he has to say - 

At the end, 

Let's Love and share our support for everyone. 

Spread Smiles :)

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Asia Pacific Regional Meeting in Nepal

ICA Nepal got the opportunity to host the Asia Pacific Regional Meeting (APRM) this year. The meeting was held from 29 October
to 3 November, 2017 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The participants from Australia, Japan,Taiwan, India, Bangladesh, UK and USA participated representing their countries. On the first 3 days which was called Pre-APRM, ToP training on Facilitating Client Collaboration was facilitated by Mr.Lawrence Philbrook. Dialogue on ToP in Asia was focused on regional and global collaboration. This 3 day training was done by dividing participants in 3 different groups.bit different from past ones. The whole APRS was based on 3 thematic dialogues and all were observed and discussed on their respective project sites. Three thematic dialogues were Community Education, Community Governance and Leadership and Community Resilience (Climate change and Disaster Recovery).
For Community Education two schools of Bungmati were selected, Tri Ratna Cooperative School and Chunni Devi Basic Level School. After the observation of both schools, challenges, issues, and suggestions were drawn.
For Community Governance and Leadership, participants visited Changunarayan Women and Children Learning Center, Changunarayan. Here groups were made along with women of learning center and strength, challenges and action were drawn after group discussions.
For Community Resilience, climate change dialogues were carried out with the Creative Women Group at Banepa. Similarly, effects, challenges and actions of climate change were drawn after group discussions.
Overall the APRS went really well and it also discussed about the sustainability of ICAs. APRM, 2017 has been a memorable event in terms of thematic dialogue, project sites visits, interaction with communities and active participation from all.

After Pre APRM, there happened APRM which was later recommended to call Asia Pacific Regional Seminar (APRS) by Mr. Tatwa Timsina. This year APRS was