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Community-based Alternative Schooling Project

This project strengthens a program in Nepal to provide alternative educational opportunities to children who are not covered by formal education and unable to attend school. It also provides assistance to non-formal education in a partnership with NGOs.
Project websites:
・http://www.casp-nepal.org/ (in English)
・http://www.jica.go.jp/project/nepal/0602442/ (in Japanese)

Project to Support the Development of Women's Capacities in the Mayan Region in the State of Quintana Roo (Proyecto de Apoyo al Desarrollo de Capacidades de Mujeres en la Region, Maya, Estado de Quintana Roo)

Launched in March 2007, this three-year project aims to construct a model to assist women through the state government of Quintana Roo, mainly the Department of Women's Affairs. This project forms a practical assistance model by developing many types of handicrafts with a group of Mayan women and having the women produce, distribute, and sell the handicrafts.
Project website: Under construction

Project for Strengthening Primary Healthcare in the Province of Samana (Proyecto para Fortalecimiento de Atencion Primaria de Salud en la Provincia de Samana)

Regional healthcare services in the Dominican Republic are very poor. Hospitals are flooded with patients and do not work the way they are supposed to as inhabitants tend to go there just for very minor injuries or common cold. This ambitious project aims to address such situation by improvingregional healthcare services. The Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance evaluates highly the project's achievements so far and is going to promote the project as a model of regional health services in the country.
Project website: Under construction

The Project for Strengthening Child-Centered-Approach Phase 2

This project concerns basic education in Myanmar. It disseminates child-centered education throughout the country in cooperation with the Ministry of Education of Myanmar through training to teachers and research on classroom lessons.
Project websites:
Phase 2: http://www.jica.go.jp/project/myanmar/0701893/ (in Japanese)
Phase 1: http://www.jica.go.jp/project/myanmar/0301103E0/ (in Japanese)

Comprehensive Outreach and Fish Breeding Project

This project helps improve livelihoods of small-scale fish farmers in the Philippines through better fish culture technologies. One of the main activities of the project is to improve fish culture technologies of the counterparts at the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC). The project also promotes environmentally friendly fish culture technologies to address the negative impact of intensive fish culture that has been growing in recent years.
Project website: http://www.jica.go.jp/project/philippines/0600936/ (in Japanese)

Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Human Capacity Development Project

This project aims to improve the capacities of Muslim officials of the ARMM government in Mindanao Island in the Philippines. In Mindanao, due to a long armed conflict, the ARMM government's administrative capacity is low, causing poor services to the people and delays in the development of social and economic infrastructures. To address this situation, this project implements training for ARMM officials in administrative management, infrastructure development, and economic development.
Project website: http://armmhcdp.info/

Project on Enhancement of Local Governance and Community Empowerment in Micro-Watersheds in Misamis Oriental

Targeting barangays, or villages, in intermountain areas, this project aims to improve management of micro-watersheds at the community level. Moreover, the project aims to maintain a proper balance between management of micro-watersheds and livelihood improvement through cooperation of Misamis Oriental Province, municipalities, and barangays.
Project website: http://www.jica.go.jp/project/philippines/0600956/ (in Japanese)

Project on Improvement of Local Administration in Cambodia (PILAC)

To provide administrative services that match the needs of residents and reduce poverty, the national government of Cambodia is implementing the decentralization and deconcentration reform to delegate authority to local governments. The reform established councils at the capital, province, municipality, and district levels that play the main role in providing administrative services. The project improves capacities of government officials such as capital and provincial council members, provincial governors and deputy governors, and other high officials by implementing training on law and administration, and aims to build a human resource development system for local administration.
Project website: http://www.jica.go.jp/project/cambodia/0601331/ (in Japanese)

Capacity Enhancement Program of Metropolitan Iloilo-Guimaras Development Council and Banate Bay Resource Management Council Inc. (Coastal Resource Management Sub-project)

This project aims to improve the coastal resource management capacity of the Local Government Unit (LGU) cluster in Iloilo Province in the Philippines. The LGU cluster takes the lead in implementing resource management activities in the target area such as crackdown on illegal fishing, resource preservation and regeneration, and educating inhabitants on the importance of resource management.
Project websites:
http://www.iloilo.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=219&Itemid=268
(in English)
http://www.jica.go.jp/project/philippines/0600958/01/index.html (in Japanese)

Study on Formulation of Master Plan on Sustainable Use of Fisheries Resources for Coastal Community Development in the Caribbean

This project aims to examine coastal fisheries management and the diversification of fisheries in a comprehensive fashion and promote proper use of fisheries resources in the Caribbean region. Accordingly, the project grasps the state of the development of rural areas and fishing villages as well as the needs of residents in such places, formulate a master plan for sustainable use of fisheries resources in the Caribbean region through cooperation between government and fisher folk, and issue recommendations on fisheries resource management activities. The project is an unprecedented development study that covers an entire region in cooperation with regional organizations.
Project website: Under construction

Project of Capacity Development of Provincial Rural Development in Northeastern Provinces (PDRNEP)

To provide administrative services that match the needs of residents and reduce poverty, the national government of Cambodia is implementing the decentralization and deconcentration reform to delegate authority to local governments. The reform established councils at the capital, province, municipality, and district levels that play the main role in providing administrative services. This project is implemented in the provinces of Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri that the 2003 Report on the Millennium Development Goals rates as the least developed in Cambodia. More specifically, the project carries out training and pilot projects for officials of the Ministry of Interior, provincial and district governments, and sector departments. The goals of the projects are sustainable local development by residents, and improvement of the capacities of provincial administrators for strategic formulation and implementation of development projects.
Project websites:
http://www.jica.go.jp/project/cambodia/0601408/index.html (in Japanese)
http://www.ncdd.gov.kh/projects/ncddprojects/prdnep (in English)

Project for Enhancing Capacity of Public Investment Program Management (PCAP2)

Targeting local governments and all the central government ministries of Laos, the project aims to disseminate the management and control methods of a public investment program and strengthen human resource development systems. Ultimately, the project aims to have the public investment program in Laos become able to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate all of its activities within budgetary limits.
Project websites:
Phase 1: http://www.jica.go.jp/project/laos/0245099E0/index.html
Phase 2: Under construction