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What is ICS? UK government funded development programme Teams of UK & local volunteers aged 18-25 Focused on three things: Project impact Volunteer personal development Creation of active citizens PRESENTERS NOTES- YOU DO NOT NEED TO USE ALL THE INFOMATION BELOW. USE WHATEVER IS USEFUL! ICS is a UK Government funded development programme that brings together young people to make a difference in some of the poorest communities around the world. ICS volunteers work on projects where younger volunteers can make a real impact and contribute to wider development programmes. Raleigh International is working as part of a consortium to deliver the programme. - Half the world is under 25. The ICS programme is about giving the right opportunity to young people, who have huge potential to make an impact in their communities. Both UK and host country volunteers are recruited to each project and volunteers are fully immersed in the local culture Volunteering offers a transformative experience for young people and an opportunity to help improve the lives of some of the world’s poorest people UK and in-country volunteers (ages 18-25) and Team Leaders (23+) are recruited to live and work together in communities worldwide, working with local project partners that have specifically requested volunteers to help. This provides cross-cultural exchange, allowing UK and in-country volunteers the opportunity to learn from each other Each project is designed to fight poverty and make a lasting difference by working with local people to meet local needs ICS does not stop when the volunteering placement ends; every ICS volunteer from the UK and from developing countries has to carry out an Action at Home project. This is a chance for volunteers to inspire and positively change their own communities through the passion and skills gained on their work placement

Who is Raleigh International? Creates lasting change through youth. Over 30 years experience. Delivering ICS programmes since 2012. 40,000 alumni from over 40 countries worldwide. PRESENTERS NOTES- YOU DO NOT NEED TO USE ALL THE INFOMATION BELOW. USE WHATEVER IS USEFUL! Sustainable development charity over 30 years experience, challenging and empowering young people to deliver projects in vulnerable communities and poor rural environments. We fund our work through trusts, individuals, companies and government. Raleigh’s vision is of a global community working to build a sustainable future. Raleigh offer two programmes: expeditions which young people join directly or through referral agencies, and people aged 25 plus join to help run the expeditions; and ICS. Raleigh run expeditions in Borneo, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, Nepal and Tanzania and ICS programmes in Nicaragua, Nepal and Tanzania.

Millennium Development Goals At the beginning of the century, around 200 nations came together to set and adopt eight goals for development, known as the millennium development goals. This represented a historic global commitment as it was the first time that so many governments and global institutions came together to pledge their commitment to tackling poverty. Each of these goals was an international target for reducing global poverty, ranging from addressing hunger to environmental sustainability. The target to reach the Millennium Development Goals was 2015.

The Global Goals PRESENTERS NOTES- YOU DO NOT NEED TO USE ALL THE INFOMATION BELOW. USE WHATEVER IS USEFUL! In September 2015, World Leaders committed to 17 Global Goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years (2016-2030).  End extreme poverty. Fight inequality & injustice. Fix climate change.  All ICS projects help to fight poverty and contribute to the delivery of the Global Goals. Themes covered are in line with these goals. Volunteers tackle issues by doing a range of activities such as: • Surveying community development needs • Infrastructure building such as eco-sanitation units • Running health and hygiene workshops or training sessions with local communities • Assisting in livelihood generation HIGHLIGHT THE SDG’s THAT YOUR PROJECT FOCUSED ON

Tanzania 67.9% of the population live below the income poverty line 21 million do not have access to safe water 20,000 children under five die each year from preventable diarrhoeal disease Health projects: improve access to water & sanitation Livelihoods: promote sustainable livelihoods in rural communities PRESENTERS NOTES- YOU DO NOT NEED TO USE ALL THE INFOMATION BELOW. USE WHATEVER IS USEFUL! - Between 2000 to 2013 Tanzania’s Human Development Index ranking improved from 163/169 to 151/169, but it remains one of the poorest countries in the world (UNDP HDI, 2013). - 67.9% of the population in Tanzania live below the income poverty line, and 33% live in extreme poverty (Human Development Report, 2010). 21 million do not have access to safe water (almost half the population of 44 million) and on average women and children spend over two hours a day collecting water. Access to toilets is even lower, with only a quarter of the population having access to safe and clean sanitation facilities and over 20,000 children under five die each year from preventable diarrhoeal disease due to unsafe water and poor sanitation. - Strong progress has been made in health, education and other basic services in the past decade, with over 90% of children now going to primary school. However, despite this dramatic increase in school enrolment, the majority of schools do not have adequate sanitation facilities, and those that do, in many cases have been unable to cope with the large increase in student numbers. Many schools have a single latrine for more than 200 pupils, and less than 10% of schools have functioning hand washing facilities. Furthermore, there is a lack of adequate sanitation facilities for children with disabilities. Lack of sanitation facilities and awareness of the importance of these issues can lead to increased disease, decreased capabilities, and inhibits the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. - DFID’s top priorities in Tanzania are wealth creation; improved governance and accountability; and achieving the MDG’s in relation to education, health, nutrition, water and sanitation. The Raleigh ICS project reflects these wider national strategies.   Raleigh started working in Tanzania in Summer 2013. Raleigh ICS in Tanzania is currently focusing on Health projects: Improving access to water and sanitation and livelihoods projects: supporting sustainable local enterprises. Use your project partner’s information: Sustainable Environment Management Action (SEMA), a Singida based NGO which strives to fight poverty and environmental degradation in the rural areas of the poor and marginalised communities of Singida Region. SEMA aims to implement an integrated community development project focusing on Water and Sanitation, Natural Resources Management and Rural Development. SEMA pays special attention to disadvantaged groups through facilitating dialogue around issues such as access and ownership of resources, the management and flow of information as well as good governance and human rights. SEMA stimulates and supports the villagers’ own initiatives and efforts to solve their problems. Maji na Maendeleo Dodoma (MAMADO) is an NGO that operates in all six Districts of Dodoma Region. MAMADO delivers water and sanitation development projects through its representatives in the region, with an additional focus on related issues such as health and economic development. DMDD are a church organisation implementing projects in Mbulu. Whilst they specialise in water projects DMDD also supports the implementation of sanitation and hygiene projects in pastoral communities. DMDD is implementing service provision work, such as providing community and artisan training for the construction of sanitation facilities, and in community projects like hygiene promotion. All three of these partners are supported by WaterAid. They all deliver very similar programmes led by the objectives required by WaterAid, who not only provide them with funding, but also with direct training and support tools.

Nicaragua 2.8 million people don't have access to adequate sanitation Health projects: improve access to water & sanitation Livelihoods: promote sustainable livelihoods in rural communities PRESENTERS NOTES- YOU DO NOT NEED TO USE ALL THE INFOMATION BELOW. USE WHATEVER IS USEFUL! Nicaragua remains one of the poorest countries in Latin America with a gross domestic product per capita of US$960; 48 percent of the population live below the poverty line, 17 percent in extreme poverty. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations identifies 1.5 million people as undernourished (WFP, 2012) Poverty and extreme poverty are overwhelmingly rural. With 41 percent of the country's population, rural areas contain 63 percent of the poor and 78 percent of the extreme poor (World Bank, Nicaragua: Poverty Assessment).  - Over 2.8 million people don't have access to adequate sanitation in Nicaragua, nearly half of the population. - Around 300 children in Nicaragua die each year from diarrhoea caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation. - 900 thousand people in Nicaragua don't have access to safe water. The strategic context surrounding Raleigh’s ICS programmes reflect and contribute to the Nicaraguan National Development Plan 2012-2016, emphasising poverty reduction and social equity which includes water shed management, climate change mitigation and empowering communities to manage their own natural resources. The Raleigh ICS Nicaragua projects focus on: Health: improving access to Water & Sanitation - Developing skills and capacities to manage community health issues, and Livelihoods projects: supporting sustainable local enterprises. Use your project partner’s information:   Raleigh have worked with Cooperativa Juan Francisco Paz Silva for the last 11 years. In the first couple of years they built 3 community centres, and then they started working on water projects as part of a campaign to ‘make poverty history’ in Achuapa. They coordinated their work through the strategic plan of the cooperative and the municipality. In the last 8 years they have installed water systems with local communities in nearly every community that didn’t have access to fresh drinking water. They have also undertaken projects such as composting latrines and a training facility for young people in the town of Achuapa. The Cooperative was set up by a group of farmers to sell sesame seed. With the help of the Body Shop they developed a market for their sesame seed and became the world’s first certified Fair Trade sesame seed producers. Aside from supporting their members in sesame, they provide their members with technical support, credit, training, health services and social project coordination. They also organise an International Music Festival once a year – this year’s theme was climate change. They have a team of technical workers and social promoters who support the farmers. Some of the social promoters deliver the social action projects such as the work with Raleigh. El Foro Miraflor, is a community based NGO whose mission is to support the communities of the Miraflor Moropotente area to develop the economic, social and environmental protection. They have been nominated by the government to be the ‘co-managers’ of the area which means that they are responsible for managing the reserve in partnership with the government and the local communities. They sub-divide the area up where the farms are supported by social promoters who advise the farmers on creating farm plans, farming organically and on the legislation around farming in a protected area. They work to a 5-year strategy which is divided up into a number of different areas. A particular focus is community participation of the different groups in the reserve including young people, women and farmers. Raleigh have worked with El Foro since 2004 and are one of their key partners in the delivery of the social projects. Raleigh have a new partnership with local NGO, INPRHU – it will be sure to fit into their long-term strategy for the area which is focused on education, human rights and rural development. They are one of the oldest NGOs in Nicaragua who originally were based across the country, and then in 1990 they split up into a network of regional organisations. INPRHU Somoto works in the North of Nicaragua. They have three main programmes: Education, Human Rights and Rural Development. Education includes their CEAR (Centres for Alternative Rural Education), which are very impressive institutions recognised by the government to deliver a technical rural education at a secondary school level. It is focused on marginalised young people who have dropped out from the conventional education system. The curriculum focuses on sustainable agriculture, alternative technologies and environmental sustainability. After passing through the three years of the CEARs the young people can join up to a youth run cooperative which promotes / supports small business development ANIDES is a relatively young and small NGO whose principal work is around natural resource management with communities. They have recently undertaken some nationwide consultancy on community led water / sanitation projects and they have an ongoing commitment to a number of communities in the Matagalpa area. They have a number of social promoters in the communities where they work. They also work in setting micro-credit groups called ‘community banks’ with women and farmers.

Nepal Nearly everyone in Nepal was affected in some way by the earthquake. Thousands of homes were flattened and lives and livelihoods of people across the entire country were impacted. Health projects: improve access to water & sanitation Livelihoods: promote sustainable agricultural livelihoods in rural communities PRESENTERS NOTES- YOU DO NOT NEED TO USE ALL THE INFOMATION BELOW. USE WHATEVER IS USEFUL! Nepal was struck by two earthquakes in April and May 2015 in which over 9,000 people died and more than 23,000 people were injured, flattening hundreds of thousands homes, severely impacting upon the lives and livelihoods of the entire country. Raleigh has had a team of staff in Nepal since January 2015 and following the devastating earthquakes, we have been working with the Nepali government to understand where our work can have most impact.   Raleigh is one of a very small number of volunteer organisations who have a general agreement signed with the Nepali government. That means we’re officially registered to work in the country and have the government’s support. Raleigh Nepal will be working in the districts of Gorkha (a northern district of Nepal near the Chinese border) and Makwanpur (in central Nepal, south-west of Kathmandu). Both of these areas were affected at varying levels by the earthquakes which occurred in April and May this year. Raleigh will support young people and rural communities in Gorkha and Makwanpur to recover from the disaster and build resilience for the challenges to come. Gorkha was one of the closest districts to the epicentre of the earthquakes; many of the region’s homes and livelihoods were destroyed or damaged. Vital services such as schools and hospitals have now been reconstructed. Young people are critical to the rebuilding of the communities impacted by the earthquake. After the initial response to the safety of the individuals affected by the disaster, the Nepali government has embarked on a reconstruction plan for the worst affected areas. This includes efforts to rebuild the homes, schools, roads, water systems and infrastructure alongside efforts to support people in getting their lives back to normal through business growth and development. The reconstruction work may take decades and young people need to be at the heart of this process to create a stronger more resilient society. Raleigh Nepal will be working on three main programme areas: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Livelihoods, Community Resilience and Youth Leadership. Groups that are working on the WASH programme will be working with local communities to: Identify their key WASH priorities Rehabilitate water systems and sanitation facilities Supporting the establishment of water-user groups and raise awareness about WASH-related issues The Community Resilience programming will have 3 main components: Improving housing in communities affected by the earthquake Supporting communities to implement practices which will reduce their vulnerability to climate change Supporting young people and women to develop livelihoods through entrepreneur training and small business development Youth Leadership will be focused on: Building the confidence, skills and knowledge of young people to be active global citizens. Encouraging them to learn about themselves as a person and fulfil their true potential  Project partner’s information: We are currently finalising the details of our partners in Nepal but they will be local organisations working on the areas above.

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