JICA-RI Researcher Tetsuya Kamijo Presents Research Results at the 12th Asia Impact Assessment Conference in Shizuoka, Japan

Tetsuya Kamijo form the JICA Research Institute attended the 12th Asia Impact Assessment Conference in Shizuoka, Japan, from August 20 to 22, 2018. He presented one of his researches results. The conference comprised 51 oral presentations and 37 poster presentations, with about 150 participants from 10 countries, including scholars and practitioners.

Kamijo spoke of the positive correlation between the discussion of alternatives and a sense of public involvement, based on the results of a quantitative text analysis of the minutes of meetings of three JICA projects: (1) the airport project in Guatemala, (2) the road project in the Philippines, and (3) the bridge project in Cambodia. He made comments that public was more likely to comment on alternatives when a simple method of alternatives analysis was used, and stakeholders, who discussed alternatives, showed a high sense of public involvement. He concluded that a simple method has the potential to activate a discussion of alternatives and could lead to improved public involvement.