Date: 15-17 December 2012
Introduction and Objectives
As a part of ITC held every spring in Japan, UNCRD conducts its follow-up projects in one or two selected participants' countries with the following objectives:
- to help the participants disseminate what they learned in the course to their supervisors, colleagues, and other stakeholders involved;
- to technically support the implementation of their action plans in compliance with their wishes;
- to see the training impact of ITC at the organizational/regional level; and
- to access training needs for the next ITC.
Since ITC 30 held in 2002, it has conducted four follow-up projects in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Mongolia, Bangladesh, and Bhutan. Especially through seminar-type of projects which were organized by initiatives of participants since ITC 31, what participants learned in the course has been widely disseminated and substantive discussion has been created not only on their action plan but also regional development as a whole, which has made a clear path toward implementation of their action plans and in fact implementation has already been started. UNCRD, through implementing a series of follow-up projects, has effectively achieved the above four objectives.
Previous ITC Follow-up Projects
- Seminar on "Poverty Mitigation" in Tansen, Nepal (December 2010)
- Seminar on "Sustainable Development and Human Security" in Colombo, Sri Lanka (September 2008)
- Seminar on "Improvement of Housing and Living Environment" in Dhaka, Bangladesh (April 2008)
- Seminar on "Urban Planning and Living Environment Improvement (LEI) with Community Participation" in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (May 2007)
- Seminar on "Rural-Urban Migration in Bhutan" in Thimphu, Bhutan (January 2007)
- Seminar on "Urban Planning and Land Readjustment for Sustainable Urban Development" in Sleman and Gunungkidul Regencies, Yogyakarta Special Province, Indonesia (March 2005)
- Seminar on "Regional Development, Urban Planning, and Housing Upgrading: International Policy and Experiences" in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (September 2005)
- Seminar on "Community-driven Urban Planning and Housing Upgrading: International Policy and Experiences" in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (September 2004)