Service Cooperation for JICA Projects
Cooperation to a seminar on land readjustment
Practical training sessions on land readjustment project in urban planning are organized for developing countries in South America, Africa, and Asia where urban development has become an urgent issue. We are in charge of practical seminars on business plan and land substitution design among such practical trainings.
Though a delay in the development of social infrastructure is still pointed out in Japan, some of those developing countries are facing a more serious delay in urban planning. With their rapid economic growth, the major issue in urban policy is how to implement the development policy and plan formulated in an urban planning master plan.
Japan introduced various managements of urban planning and approaches of urban development and has made improvements to deal with socioeconomic rapid changes including the one during the high economic growth period. We contribute to the realization of urban policy in developing countries through dispatch of experts and human resource development, utilizing our experience and skills we have gained during our engagement in Japan’s urban planning and development.
Land readjustment, which has especially contributed to urban development in Japan, is found to be effective in developing countries, too. We have been engaged in supporting introduction projects and human resource development in Thailand, Mongolia, Bhutan, and Brazil.
Exchanging messages and feeling sad
about leaving at a farewell party
Cooperation with dispatch of experts to the project on improvement in urban development technique
The population of the Kingdom of Thailand is concentrated in its capital city of Bangkok. Accordingly, an urgent issue in Thailand is to improve randomly developing cities and to promote systematic development of surrounding areas according to an urban planning. Therefore, Thailand is promoting the project on urban development planning nationwide. Japan is dispatching long-term experts for technical support from among the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), prefectural governments and Urban Renaissance Agency through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). These projects led Thailand to put Land Readjustment Act in force in December 2004, by which full-scale urban development started. We still dispatch short-term experts to Thailand as our technical support to local officials in response to MLIT’s request.
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