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May 2005:

 

ICDP ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING IN OSLO

The ICDP annual general meeting took place in Oslo on the 28th May. The ICDP development ”story” over the last 4 years, was looked at from 3 key aspects: project development, organisational development and program development.

Project developments in the last 4 years were considerable, with large scale ICDP implementation in Angola, Colombia, Macedonia, Norway, and increasingly so in Sweden and Denmark, with a cluster of smaller projects in Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, and a new project in Mozambique. Training workshops were also held in Kyrgyzstan, Uruguay and Australia.

With respect to organisational development it became clear that in a number of countries, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Macedonia, Ukraine, there is lack of administrative structures able to collect information and report about ICDP activities to the ICDP international. It was agreed to consider the issue of withdrawal right from start, i.e. to ask ourselves when starting new projects what would happen when ICDP withdraws.

There were also substantial program developments: ICDP produced a lot of new materials; there are manuals and accompanying audio-visual materials, articles and books in quite a number of different countries and for different target groups.

Decisions were taken to start making some organisational changes to make space for future wide  expansion of ICDP in the world.  Different working groups were set up: to explore alternative organisational models, to work on information gathering, to develop further our promotional materials and to formulate an overall strategic plan for development.  One possible line of development was discussed in the discussion paper presented to the Foreign Ministry.

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