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Japanese NGOs in India

. JICA Partnership Programme (JPP) activity in India

JICA partnership Programme (JPP) is an initiative under which Japanese NGOs, universities, local governments and public interest corporations are encouraged to provide better services, facilities and welfare to support sustainable livelihood to deprived communities in India. Since Indian Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play an increasingly a vital role in delivering development programmes to grassroots level, JPP supports collaborative projects between Japanese organizations and Indian NGOs, working at the grassroots level. In India, JPP projects have been implemented since 2004. As of September 2007, four JPP projects are ongoing, and three projects has been completed as bellow:

ON-GOING PROJECTS

(1) Kalimpong Project (West Bengal) :

Greenhouse Community Service in India .

The implementing agency in the project is Miyazaki International Volunteer Center (MIVC), a Japanese NGO based in Miyazaki, Japan, and the Local Counterpart Agency is Dr. Graham’s Homes (DGH) in Kalimpong, West Bengal, situated in the Himalayan foothills of north-east India, where 80% of the local residents are full-time farmers. DGH supports orphans and children in need in the area, and MIVC has been assisting DGH for the past fifteen years in sponsoring children and horticulture training. This JPP project aims to improve economic situation surrounding children in the area through income generation of the local farmers. For this purpose, the project shall build and operate a horticulture technology center and disseminate knowledge and skills gained there to the local people.

Project Detail -> (Ongoing JPP, MIVC –English- )

(2) Bellary Project (Karnataka) :

Ecologically Sustainable Rural Development through Community Participation with a Focus to Women’s Empowerment

This is a collaborative project between Live with Friends on the Earth (LIFE)”, Tokyo, Japan (Implementing Agency) and Mysore Resettlement and Development Agency (MYRADA), Bangalore, Karnataka, India (Local Counterpart). The project will cover 26 villages in the south-west area of Hospet Taluk, Bellary district where villagers, most of whom are farmers, cannot cultivate land area due to droughts, poor and inefficient distribution of water. The project aims at integrated watershed management by villagers, both men and women, and increasing cultivable land area and land productivity to enhance their economic livelihood base by facilitating villagers to form Watershed Development Associations (WDAs) and providing them with appropriate training with special focus to women’s empowerment.

Project Detail -> (Ongoing JPP, LIFE –English- )

(3) Srikakulam Project (Andhra Pradesh) :

Micro Watershed Management with Local Initiative

This is a three-year project from August 2007 to July 2010 implemented by SOMNEED, a Japanese NGO based in Gifu, Japan, and SOMNEED-INDIA, a registered trust in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) is one of the forerunners of micro watershed development. Amongst districts of A.P., Srikakulam District has one of the largest tribal populations. This project aims to achieve common property resource management through micro watershed management and forest regeneration with local (tribal community) initiatives, an important outcome of which is poverty reduction of the local people by enabling them to plan and implement natural resource management, to mobilize necessary resources for village development activities.

Project Detail -> (Ongoing JPP, SOMNEED –English- )

(4) Kushinagar Project (Uttar Pradesh) :

Education and Human Resource Development in Heath and Hygiene for Village People of North India

This is a three-year project from September 2007 to August 2010 implemented by India Welfare Village Society (IWVS), a Japanese NGO based in Aichi, Japan, Ananda Hospital in Kushinagar and Ananda Mission Charitable Trust(AMCT). IWVS in collaboration with AMCT established Ananda Hospital in Kushinagar in 1998 and has been providing free or affordable medical services to the people in the surrounding area. Based on the good rapport and relation of trust with local people already established through the medical service in the past 9 years, the project aims to prevent infectious disease and establish and sustain sanitary environment in the target area by providing basic health and hygiene education including maternal health to villagers especially to women and children as well as to nurture women health workers so that they can disseminate basic health and hygiene knowledge to the people in their communities.

Project Detail -> (Ongoing JPP, IWVS –English-)

COMPLETED PROJECTS

(1) Allahabad Project (Uttar Pradesh) :

Improvement of Extension System for Sustainable Integrated Agriculture and Agriculture Workers Training at Grassroots Level for Small-Scale Farmers in North India .

This is a collaborative project between Asian Rural Institute, Tochigi, Japan (Implementing Agency) and Allahabad Agricultural Institute, Uttar Pradesh India (Local Counterpart). In the project area, the heavy use of chemical fertilizer and pesticides had degraded the soil and natural environment leading to a lowering of the productivity of the land. This, in turn, had resulted in the impoverishment of small-scale farmers. To overcome this problem, the NGOs disseminated concepts and practice of low input, sustainable and integrated agriculture to the farmers. The project not only provided technical inputs in cultivation, but also helped in development of alternative marketing systems, with a focus on mobilization of women. The project covered 300 to 500 local farmers and 12 extension workers in Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh), Mussorie (Uttarakhand) and Diptipur (Orissa), who were trained to disseminate the farming knowledge and skills to other farmers.

Project Detail -> (Completed JPP, ARI –English-)

(2)Visakhapatnam Project (Andhra Pradesh) :

Creation of new type of producer-consumer relationship and common property resources through the linkage of urban-rural women’s Self help Groups (SHG’s)

The implementing agency in the project is SOMNEED, a Japanese NGO based in Gifu, Japan, and the Local Counterpart Agency is Mahila Action. Over the past few years, a large number of people have migrated from rural areas to Visakhapatnam city in search for a better life. This massive influx has resulted in the creating of slum communities, living in poverty with limited income opportunities. The JPP project aimed to create common property resources to improve the status of these communities, especially the women. It had been observed that women’s Self Help Groups (SHGs) in urban areas had access to the markets but had no commodities to sell while the SHG’s in semi-urban or rural areas produced commodities but had no access to the markets. The project aimed to build linkages between urban consumers and rural producers through training and capacity building of SHGs. Under this JPP project, members of women’s SHGs in slums of Visakhapatnam were trained not only in the establishment of commodity production facilities but also in its distribution and management.

Project Detail -> (Completed JPP, SOMNEED –English-)

(3)Chamoli Project (Uttarakhand):

Improvement of Sanitation and Raising Community Consciousness in Public Primary Schools in India

The implementing agency in the project is Terra People ACT Kanagawa (TPAK), a Japanese NGO based in Yokohama , Japan, and the Local Counterpart Agency is Mamta Samajik Sanstha . The targeted group was approximately 1200 students in 40 primary school and their families, teachers and community members of Ghat Block of Chamoli District of state of Uttarakhand. The project aimed to improve the target group’s awareness of health and sanitation by providing trainings and seminars.

Project Detail -> (Completed JPP, TPAK –English-)

. Other Japanese NGOs working in India

There are several Japanese NGOs working in India. Here are some of those:

Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement International (OISCA International)

World Vision Japan

India Japan Maitri Association

Seirei Asha Bhavan (Part of Seirei Group)

Association for Ophthalmic Cooperation in Asia

L-Angel International Volunteer Association

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