Saturday, July 12, 2014

MILF: JICA offers Training Program for Young leaders in the Philippines

From the MILF Website (Jul 12): JICA offers Training Program for Young leaders in the Philippines



The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) offers training courses for young leaders in the Philippines this year age between twenty to thirty five years old who is working at government offices, duly recognized non-profit organizations, and development organizations.
   
In the JICA’s website, it said that, “Under the program, groups of young leaders, who will eventually become nation-builders in the future, are invited to enhance their specialties by experiencing and learning technologies and skills in Japan for a period of 18 days.”

“JICA is implementing the program with the view of contributing to more sustainable capacity development for young leaders through greater emphasis on specialized technical training in various fields”, it furthered.

Ms. Marry Ann Bakisan, Senior Program Officer, JICA Philippines Office said “This year there are four courses available to young leaders who may want to apply.”

“These are Fishery Using Resource Management Approach Course, Rural Development Course, Small and Medium Enterprises Development and Promotion Course, and Economic Administration (Industrial Development and Promotion) Course,” she disclosed.

Ms. Bakisan, however, said that every year courses are changeable. “This year these are the courses, the following year there’s a possibility to introduce another courses to be offered,” she said.

“In every course there are JICA centres in Japan who handle the program,” Ms. Bakisan pointed out.

Among the courses strategies according to Ms. Bakisan are lecture type to be facilitated by JICA experts and its partner’s organization in Japan, interaction with Japanese youth, building networks, and actual exposure in the field by which it could have value added to the learning of participants.

“Part of the output of the program in each courses are the action plan or proposal made by the participants…either they can present it to their organizations for funding or to submit this to JICA for support,” she said.

The JICA has a program called ‘follow up cooperation scheme’ which provide funds for the proposal according to Ms. Bakisan.

“The JICA will assess it and if it’s found good proposal then there is a possibility that they will going to fund it,” Ms. Bakisan said. 

The Training Program for Young Leaders or TPYL is a technical cooperation program aimed at promoting human resources development and nation-building in developing countries.

For more details of the said program, the applicants can visit the JICA’s website link at http://www.jica.go.jp/philippine/english/activities/activity02_03_02.html
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