Past BCCIC sponsored events
BCCIC Lunch & Learn with Youth Initiative Canada's James Kamau
As part of the ongoing Lunch & Learn series to share best practices amongst peers, the BC Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC) and Youth Initiative Canada (YIC) invite you to discuss youth empowerment through sport with YIC's Executive Director James Kamau.
Limited seating available. For those outside of the Greater Vancouver area, participation via telephone is possible. Please RSVP by 1:00 p.m. on Friday, March 23rd. Register here.
Fostering Essential Connections:
A Powerful Tool for Empowering Youth in Kenya
Guest: James Kamau, Executive Director, Youth Initiative Canada (YIC)
Date: Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Time: 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm. A light supper will be served.
Location: BC Council for International Cooperation Meeting Room
Suite 375 – 23 West Pender Street, Vancouver
Enter off parking lot on West Pender beside Chinatown Gates.
Look for the glass doors and buzz 3700.
EasyPark lot at 150 West Pender, between Cambie and Beatty ($1 per 30 minutes)
James will share one of Youth Initiative Canada’s best practices, the “Fostering Essential Connections” resource. This tool is composed of five key skills and behaviors used to maximize the connection between youth and coaches in YIC’s sports and empowerment programs in Kenya. This youth-coach connection produces positive outcomes both on and off the field, literally serving as its own behavior change agent.
James Kamau is an avid believer in the extraordinary potential of young people. While in high school in Kenya, he and four friends founded the Dagoretti Youth Development Organization, a community-based program focused on sport, environment, health and education in an impoverished neighbourhood. James was also an integral part of a movement that pushed the Kenyan government to establish a Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. He is the founder of Youth Initiative Canada (YIC), a non-profit organization engaging Kenyan and Canadian youth in multidimensional programs geared towards creating sustainable communities. He has lived in Canada since 2006 and was the recipient of the 2011 Canadian Living ME TO WE Social Action Award.
International Development Drinks
Making Connections Happen
The British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC) and Engineers Without Borders (EWB) would like to invite you to International Development Drinks at the Blarneystone Pub in the heart of Gastown.
Special guests this evening: Vanessa Timmer, Director, One Earth Initiative, and Janice Abbott, CEO, Atira Women's Resource Society
The evening will provide an opportunity to connect with major NGOs that are operating in Vancouver. Additionally, we will be hosting returned overseas volunteers, graduate students, professors, members of CIDA, and young social entrepreneurs. Join us for a night of socializing and sharing.
PE Hub Webinar: " Global Food Prices – What is going on?" (in English and French)
In 2007, grain prices started to rise sharply. They peaked in 2008 at the highest levels most grains had seen for 30 years. Then prices fell steeply, although not all the way back down to pre-2007 levels. In 2010 they rose again, and in 2011, prices set new records.
What is going on? Do international markets matter to poor people in developing countries? How? Do they matter to us in Canada? What might Canada do to make a difference?
On Tuesday, March 27 2012 at 2:00pm (EDT), Sophia Murphy, a consultant and Senior Advisor to the Minneapolis-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Trade and Global Governance program, will present an hour-long webinar in English on this topic. The webinar will be also translated in real time into French.
To register for this webinar, contact Sumeep Bath at the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation at pr@mcic.ca and please indicate if you would like to participate in the English or French-language webinar.
Please note that all times given are Eastern Daylight Time.
Sophia Murphy is a political economist with 20 years experience working on food, agriculture and international development. Her work is focused on the interests of developing countries in international food systems and the reforms needed in developed country agriculture to protect and promote the universal human right to food. Sophia is a consultant and Senior Advisor to the Minneapolis-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Trade and Global Governance program. She has worked for the United Nations in Geneva, and as a policy officer with the Canadian Council for International Cooperation, in Ottawa. Sophia has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and a master's (with distinction) from the London School of Economics in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries. She lives and works in Squamish, British Columbia.
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En 2007, les prix des céréales ont commencé à augmenter rapidement. Ils ont atteint en 2008 un sommet jamais vu en 30 ans. Puis les prix ont chuté, sans retomber à leur niveau d’avant 2007. En 2010, ils ont remonté et, en 2011, ils ont établi de nouveaux records.
Qu’est-ce qui se passe? Les marchés internationaux ont-ils de l’importance pour les pauvres dans les pays en développement? Comment? Ont-ils de l’importance pour nous au Canada? Que pourrait faire le Canada pour changer la situation?
Le mardi 27 mars 2012 á 14 :00 (HAE), Sophia Murphy, consultante et conseillère principale à l’Institut pour l’agriculture et la politique commerciale et pour le programme de gouvernance mondiale, à Minneapolis, présentera un webinaire sur ce sujet en anglais. Le webinaire sera traduit en français en temps réel.
Pour vous inscrire à ce webinaire, veuillez prendre contact avec Sumeep Bath, du Conseil de coopération internationale du Manitoba, à l’adresse courriel pr@mcic.ca et indiquer si vous voulez participer au webinaire anglais ou au webinaire français.
Veuillez remarquer que les heures indiquées correspondent à l’Heure avancée de l’Est.
Spécialiste en économie politique, Sophia Murphy a 20 ans d’expérience en alimentation, en agriculture et en développement international. Elle travaille sur les intérêts des pays en développement dans les systèmes alimentaires internationaux et sur les réformes qui s’imposeraient dans l’agriculture des pays développés pour protéger et promouvoir le droit humain universel à l’alimentation. Sophia est consultante et conseillère principale à l’Institut pour l’agriculture et la politique commerciale et pour le programme de gouvernance mondiale, à Minneapolis. Elle a travaillé pour les Nations Unies à Genève et elle a été agente de politique au Conseil canadien pour la coopération internationale, à Ottawa. Sophia a un diplôme en politique, philosophie et économie de l’Université d’Oxford et une maîtrise (avec distinction) de la London School of Economics en politique sociale et en planification dans les pays en développement. Elle vit et travaille à Squamish, en Colombie-Britannique.
1st Annual Women Warriors Conference - Indigenous Voices at UNBC, Prince George
Through BCCIC’s support of their Public Engagement Proposal Fund, the GNN has sponsored the Equipo Peruano de Antropología Forense (EPAF) Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team to bring Gisela Ortiz to Prince George from Lima, Peru. Gisela will provide a lecture on vulnerable Indigenous peasant communities of Peru affected by 20 years of armed conflict. Registration
International Development Drinks
The British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC) and Engineers Without Borders (EWB) would like to invite you to International Development Drinks on February 15th 2012 at the Blarneystone Pub in the heart of Gastown.
This evening will provide an opportunity to connect with all major NGOs that are operating in Vancouver. Additionally, we will be hosting returned overseas volunteers, graduate students, professors, members of CIDA, and young social entrepreneurs. Please join us for a night of networking, socializing, and sharing.
Year of the Dragon: Social Enterprise, Women and International Development
Seats still available for the public presentation and networking reception
YEAR OF THE DRAGON : Social Enterprise, Women and International Development, Friday, February 10th, 3:30 til 5 pm!
For more information and to reserve your seat before Noon on Thursday, Feb. 9th, click here: http://socialenterpriseworkshop.eventbrite.com/
International Development Drinks - October 2011
Making Connections Happen.

The British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC) and Engineers Without Borders (EWB) would like to invite you to International Development Drinks on October 5th 2011 at the Blarneystone Pub in the heart of Gastown.
This evening will provide an opportunity to connect with all major NGOs that are operating in Vancouver. Additionally, we will be hosting returned overseas volunteers, graduate students, professors, members of CIDA, and young social entrepreneurs. Please join us for a night of networking, socializing and discussion.
Our June event featured an attendance of over 100 guests. To view photos from that evening, check out our photo album. After you have registered, join our International Development Drinks fan page.
If you are interested in volunteering at the event please get in touch with the organizers:
Sasha Caldera (sasha@fairtradevancouver.ca)
Annabel Wong (info@bccic.ca)
Registration information to come!
International Development Drinks - June 2011
Making Connections Happen.

The British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC) and Engineers Without Borders (EWB) would like to invite you to International Development Drinks on June 2nd 2011 at the Blarneystone Pub in the heart of Gastown.
This evening will provide an opportunity to connect with all major NGOs that are operating in Vancouver. Additionally, we will be hosting returned overseas volunteers, graduate students, professors, members of CIDA, and young social entrepreneurs. Please join us for a night of networking, socializing and discussion.
Our March event featured an attendance of over 100 guests. To view photos from that evening, check out our photo album. After you have registered, join our International Development Drinks fan page.
If you are interested in volunteering at the event please get in touch with the organizers:
Sasha Caldera (sasha@fairtradevancouver.ca)
Annabel Wong (info@bccic.ca)
International Development Drinks - March 2011
Making Connections Happen.
The British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC) and Engineers Without Borders (EWB) would like to invite you to International Development Drinks on March 9th 2011 at the Blarneystone Pub in the heart of Gastown.
This evening will provide an opportunity to connect with all major NGOs that are operating in Vancouver. Additionally, we will be hosting returned overseas volunteers, graduate students, professors, members of CIDA, and young social entrepreneurs. Please join us for a night of networking, socializing and discussion.
Our January event featured an attendance of 144. To view photos from that evening, check out our photo album.
After you have registered, join our International Development Drinks fan page.
If you are interested in volunteering at the event please get in touch with the organizers:
Sasha Caldera (sasha@fairtradevancouver.ca)
Annabel Wong (info@bccic.ca)
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