Kathmandu, July 4
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has dispatched
one new Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer (JOCV) to work in Nepal.
According to JICA Nepal, Miki Enomoto arrived in Kathmandu
on Tuesday and will join JICA Alumni Association of Nepal’s (JAAN) Integrated
Community Development Programme in Lele, Llitpur, from Wednesday.
JICA’s volunteer programme in Nepal was on a temporary halt
since the outbreak of COVID-19 in April 2020. With the arrival of Enomoto, JICA
assures that more volunteers will be coming to Nepal in the following months,
it said in a statement.
“Amongst the 17 goals of SDGs, each JICA volunteer is
working in Nepal to achieve one or a few of its targets. As per the SDG motto
‘No One Left behind’, our volunteers work at the grass-root level with local
people, which is the most significant advantage of this programme," read
the statement.
JICA also said that the programme's biggest achievement is
to promote partnership and friendship between the two countries.
JICA volunteer programme was founded in 1965 and allows
Japanese volunteers to work with the local people for two years to contribute
to the country’s socioeconomic development, making effective use of their
abilities and experiences.
The volunteers live among the local people of the country to
which they are dispatched to and pursue their activities enabling them to
ascertain development needs from the viewpoint of those living there as well as
promote mutual understanding and friendship between Nepal and Japan.
The first JICA volunteers came to Nepal in September 1970.
Since then, their activities have diversified in various sectors and
sub-sectors which include agriculture, health, education, forestry and
fisheries, repair operations, civil engineering, sanitation, sports, and
culture, as well as planning and administration.
The total number of volunteers dispatched by JICA in Nepal
in the last 53 years is 1,436.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 5 July 2023.
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