Thematic Evaluation

Environmental Center Approach:
Development of Social Capacity for Environmental Management in Developing Countries and Japan's Environmental Cooperation
Feedback Seminar Report

March 2004
Evaluation Team on Environmental Cooperation,
Japan Society for International Development (JASID)

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Contents

  • Acknowledgement
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Map and Pictures
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Summary

1. Outline of Evaluation in 2002 and Feedback Seminars

  • 1.1The Background and Purpose of Acceptance of the JICA Evaluation Feedback Projects on Trust by the Japan Society for International Development
  • 1.2Research Team Members, Execution Measures, and Execution Schedule
  • 1.2.1.Research Team Members
  • 1.2.2.Execution Measures
  • 1.2.3.Execution Schedule
  • 1.3Outline of Evaluation in 2002
  • 1.3.1.Background, Objectives, Target and Methodology of the Evaluation
  • 1.3.2.Development Stages of Social Capacity for Environmental Management in Developing Countries
  • 1.3.3.Environmental Center Approach and Social Capacity Development for Environmental Management
  • 1.3.4.Development of Environmental Center Approach and Environmental Cooperation in the Future: Lessons and Recommendations

2. Evaluation Feedback Seminars (Domestic and International Approaches)

  • 2.1Seminars in Japan
  • 2.1.1.Evaluation Seminar in Japan
  • 2.1.2.Mini-Seminar for JICA Staff Members
  • 2.1.3.Another Supplemental or Subsidiary Approaches
  • 2.1.4.Significance of the Evaluation Seminars in Japan
  • 2.2Feedback Symposium and Seminar in the Recipient Countries
  • 2.2.1.Symposium in Indonesia
  • 2.2.2.Symposium in Thailand
  • 2.2.3.Seminar in China
  • 2.2.4.Lessons and Challenges from the Feedback symposium and seminar in the recipient countries

3. Lessons Learned from the Feedback Seminar

  • 3.1How to Bring Positive Impact out of the Seminar
  • 3.2Future Roles of the Environmental Centers and the Environmental Cooperation

4. New Knowledge Creation in Academic Research and the Working Organizations

  • 4.1Location of the Problem: the Lack of the Intelligent Internationally Competitive Power from Japan in the Field of International Development
  • 4.2Disincentives for Knowledge Creating
  • 4.3Requests from Academia to the Working Organizations
  • 4.4Conclusion

5. Theorization of Development of Social Capacity for Environmental Management

  • 5.1Concept of Social Capacity for Environmental Management (SCEM)
  • 5.2SCEM-Building and Institutional Change: Model of Social Capacity Building
  • 5.3The Development of Social Capacity for Environmental Management and Pollution-control Measures in Ube City
  • 5.4Conclusion

Responses to the Feedback Seminar Report of the Specific Subject Evaluation
Reference
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