JICA community dev’t training slots

Japan’s community development training program for young Filipino professionals is now accepting applications, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) announced on Friday.

The Knowledge Co-Creation Program (KCCP) Young Leaders is aimed at promoting goodwill and knowledge-sharing with developing countries by learning from one another.

Selected participants will learn and showcase best practices on civic cooperation, local development, and marketing and branding of agriculture products.

“Japan’s economic success did not happen overnight. We also learned from other countries throughout our industrialization history. With this program, we’d like to share our successes and failures so recipients of the training courses will find useful experiences that they can apply to their respective fields and organizations,” JICA Senior Representative Aya Kano said in a statement.

During the 16-day training, participants will visit agricultural cooperatives in Japan and learn their rural development history from different organizations.

They will also visit Aichi Prefecture and study their irrigation and infrastructure projects.

Aichi Prefecture is a manufacturing hub in Japan and is known for its various industrial sites from traditional ceramics and textiles to cutting edge ones such as automobiles and aerospace.