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Index
Preface 1. Essential Facts 2. Curriculum
3. Requirement for Application 4. Procedures for Applications 5. Other Matters
Annex 1 (doc file/ 45KB) Annex 2 (doc file/ 43KB)  

Preface

The Japanese Government extends official development assistance (ODA) to developing countries to support self-help efforts that will lead to economic progress and a better life for the citizens of those countries.
Since its foundation in 1974, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has implemented Japan's technical cooperation under the ODA program.
Currently, JICA conducts such activities as training, dispatch of experts, provision of equipment, project-type technical cooperation, development study, dispatch of cooperation volunteers (JOCV),survey and administration of capital grant aid programs.
The training program for overseas participants is one of JICA's fundamental technical cooperation activities for developing countries. Participants come from overseas in order to obtain knowledge and technology in a wide variety of fields.
The objectives of the JICA training program are:
(1) to contribute to the development of human resources who will promote the advancement of developing countries, and
(2) to contribute to the promotion of mutual understanding and friendship.
This course aims
(1) to enhance participants' knowledge upon vocational rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities,
(2) to introduce them various services for persons with disabilities in Japan and other countries, and
(3) to give them opportunity of exchanging opinions with each other in order to help them provide better services or develop better systems for persons with disabilities in their respective countries.
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1. Essential Facts

Course Title (No.) Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Promotion of Persons with Disabilities -Workshop Management- (J-05-00872)
Duration June 14, 2005—July 30, 2005
Deadline for Application
April 14, 2005
for acceptance of the JICA office (or the Embassy of Japan)
Number of Participants 10
Language English
Target Group Directors, managers and instructors at sheltered workshops/workcenters or vocational rehabilitation centers who resume duties in glass root levels (such as NGOs) concerning employment and vocational rehabilitation for persons with disabilities on their return.
Course Outcome The status of employment of persons with disabilities is expanded and improved.
Course Outputs
  1. analyze respective countries' major problems and issues regarding the management of vocational rehabilitation centers, sheltered workshops and workcenters by comparing with those of Japan.
  2. analyze respective countries' major problems and issues regarding the employment status of persons with disabilities, vocational rehabilitation, support systems for employment of persons with disabilities by comparing with those of Japan.
  3. formulate an Interim Report which intends to improve the activities of their own organizations.
  4. complete and submit Final Report to JICA after 5 months of the course.
Training Institution
Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (JSRPD)
Address :22-1,Toyama 1-chome, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0052, Japan TEL : 81-3-5273-0601 FAX : 81-3-5273-1523 (81 : country code for Japan, 3 : area code) JSRPD was founded to promote activities of persons with disabilities in every way possible both inside and outside Japan.Through international exchange, it strives to strengthen all relationships devoted to the promotion of rehabilitation of persons with disabilities. <Planning committee (assigned by JSRPD)> : The Planning committee includes social workers, psychiatric socialworkers, rehabilitation social workers, and professors.
Accommodations

Tokyo International Center (JICA TOKYO)
Address : 2-49-5, Nishihara, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0066, Japan TEL : 81-3-3485-7051FAX : 81-3-3485-7904 (81 : country code for Japan, 3: area code) If no room is available at JICA TOKYO, JICA will arrange accommodations for participants at other appropriate places.
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2. Curriculum

subject to change
The whole Program of the "Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Promotion of Persons with Disabilities -Workshop Management-" consists of the following stages.

Stage (Period) Activities
Preliminary Program
(Problem Analysis and Inception Report Writing)
(Feb. 2005—May. 2005)
  • In preparation for the program, each applicant is required to write an Inception Report on the subjects given in Annex 2. The main objective of the Inception Report scheduled at the beginning of the program is to clarify the problems and set up objectives for each.
  • The report should be submitted together with the Nomination Form (A2A3 Form) by April 14, 2005.
  • There will be an opportunity for participants to make presentation on their Inception Report. Please bring the report by data in floppy disks, CD-ROMs or M/Os. For the presentation, audiovisual aids, such as Power Point, a video player, slide projector, OHC and OHP are available.
Program in Japan
(June 14, 2005—July 30, 2005)
  • Participants are provided with opportunities to acquire knowledge about employment of persons with disabilities in Japan through a series of lectures, dialogues and case studies including field study as well as knowledge in countries represented by other participants through discussions.
  • Using acquired knowledge as catalyst, participants are expected to review their respective issues analyzed in the Inception Report and come up with an initial idea to improve their organizations, taking their local contexts into account.
  • At the end of the Program, participants are required to prepare an Interim Report of project which improves the vocational services of each own organization.
Program in home country
(Aug. 2005—Jan. 2006)
  • Within five (5) months after the end of the Program, participants and their organizations are expected to formulate the Final Report that includes a proposal of a pilot project for improved employment services for persons with disabilities.
  • Participants and their organizations might propose to implement a research or training project instead of a pilot project, depending on their necessities.
  • Implementation of the project shall be supported by JICA within the frame-work of "soft typed follow-up program" u pon the agreement of both parties. The scheme shall be applied to such activities, upon their requests, as a workshop, a further study and materials development which are necessary to disseminate or up-scale the contents of the Final Report.

The following major subjects will be covered in the course. (Please note that this is a provisional curriculum.)

(1) Inception Report writing (Preliminary Program)
(2) Introduction
Purpose:To understand institutional activities and to learn framework of vocational rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities in Japan.
a. Present social status of persons with disabilities in Japan
b. National policies and measures for persons with disabilities of Japan
c. Historical development of rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities in Japan with thecomparison of other countries
d. Vocational rehabilitation services of Japan
e. Employment measures for persons with disabilities in Japan
f. Social employment and workshop/workcenter movement in Japan
(3) Inception Report Presentation
Purpose:
1. To lay the foundation of mutual understanding among the participants and the Japanese relevant personnel concerning the present status and issues of persons with disabilities especially in employment, social participation, vocational rehabilitation services and workshops/work centers in the participants' countries.
2. To clarify the problems and set up objectives for each.
(4) Study of Vocational Rehabilitation and Social Employment Centers/Workshops and Employment Measures
Purpose:
To learn the situation of vocational rehabilitation, social employment centers / workshops and employment measures in Japan through the introduction and discussion.
(5) Facility Visits around Tokyo Metropolitan Area
Purpose:
To observe comprehensive rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities and social employment centers/workshops as well as ordinary enterprises and to visit related government offices.
(6)Workshop/Workcenter, Management Study
Purpose:
To understand the basics of rehabilitation services, marketing, accounting, production control, and public relations through practical work experiences in workshops/workcenters.
(7) Facilitator Skills Training: Basic training as a facilitator
(8) Local Visits
Purpose:
To understand some measures or activities taken by local government or local community. There are some characteristic facilities to see.
(9) Individual Training
Purpose:
To experience and study individually according to the participants' interests for workshop/workcenters, management and related vocational rehabilitation services.
(10) Wrap-up
a. Self-evaluation.
b. Interim Report: all participants are requested to submit and make a presentation of their own report at the end of the program in Japan.
c. Evaluation
(11) Finalization and submission of Final Report (Program in home country)
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3. Requirement for Application

(1) be nominated by their government in accordance with the procedures mentioned in IV-1 below,
(2) be in good health to undergo the training,
*As the schedule of this course includes many observation trips that would be too demanding for pregnant women, pregnancy is regarded as a disqualifying condition for participation in this training course.
(3) be directors, managers and instructors at sheltered workshops/workcenters or vocational rehabilitation centers who resume duties in glass root levels (such as NGOs) concerning employment and vocational rehabilitation for persons with disabilities on their return (those who work in glass root levels are put higher priority than governmental officers),
(4) not be serving in the military,
(5) have occupational experiences of more than two years,
(6) not be medical doctors or nurses,
(7) be no less than twenty-eight (28) years and no more than forty-two (42) years of age, and have a sufficient command of spoken and written English. (Those who need interpreter in course are disqualified even after the arrival to Japan.)
(8) not be a participant of any related JICA's training course in the past.
Attention
Participants are required;
(1) not to change course subjects or extend the course period,
(2) not to bring any members of their family,
(3) to return to their home countries at the end of their course according to the international travel designated by JICA.
(4) to refrain from engaging in political activities or any for of employment or profit or gain, and
(5) to observe the rules and regulations of their place of accommodation and not to change accommodations designated by JICA.

4. Procedures for Applications

  1. Government desiring to nominate applicants for the course should fill in and forward one(1) original and three (3) copies of the Nomination Form (Form A2A3) for each applicant, to JICA office (or the Embassy of Japan) by April 14, 2005
  2. JICA office (or the Embassy of Japan) will inform the applying government whether or not the nominee's application has been accepted no later than May 14, 2005
  3. Questionnaire (Annex 1) and Inception Report (Annex 2) are indispensable for selection of the applicants.Please submit both documents together with the Nomination Form.Otherwise, the applicants will not be considered for selection.
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5. Other Matters

  1. Pre-departure orientation is held at JICA overseas offices (or the Embassy of Japan) to provide the selected candidates with details on travel to Japan, conditions of training, and other matters. Participants will see a video, "Training In Japan" and will receive a textbook and cassette tape "Simple Conversation In Japanese".A brochure, "Kenshuin Guidebook" will be handed to each selected candidate before (or in the time of) the orientation.
  2. Participants who have successfully completed the seminar will be awarded a certificate by JICA.
  3. It should be noted that applicants who participated in JICA training courses in the past will be regarded as applicants with lower priority than those without any experience of JICA training.
  4. The Government of Japan provides the following allowances and covers the following expenses through JICA in accordance with relevant laws and regulations.
  5. Details : Round-trip air ticket between an international airport designated by JICA and Japan, accommodation allowance, living allowance, outfit allowance, book allowance, shipping allowance, expenses for JICA study tours, free medical care for participants who become ill after arrival in JAPAN (costs related to preexisting illness, pregnancy and dental treatment are not included), etc.
  6. Textbooks in Braille are available for participants with visual impairment.
  7. ASL interpreters are available for participants with hearing impairment.