Activities in Jamaica

Showing Sectors For Cooperation

IT Volunteer at Min of Education Region 1 Counterpart conducting a workshop. For Min Of Education Staff - 2011

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has been conducting volunteer program, one of its most important of its activities in Jamaica since the first dispatch of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers in 1989. Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) is a system of dispatching Japanese volunteers overseas. JOCV is one of the programs of the JICA aimed at providing technical assistance in developing countries.

120 Kinds of Expertise

• Agriculture, Forestry & Fishery
• Civil Engineering & Architecture
• Manufacturing
• Maintenance & Operation
• Health & Welfare
• Education & Information Services
• Sports

Senior Volunteer conducting training for crafters in jewelry making at the” CHUPSE Studio” – JAID Adult Centre Program.

Together with counterparts in the local organization in which they are dispatched, Volunteers help build the capacity of the host organization and support project and programs. They plan, collaborate and evaluate with the counterpart and other local staff. The purpose of the JOCV is for the volunteer and the local staff to learn and work together.

Previous sectors of cooperation include

• Automobile Maintenance
• Tennis
• Health Education / HIV Prevention / Health Instrument Maintenance/ Medical Staff
• Marine Engineering
• Woodcraft / Furniture Manufacturing
• Fisheries Technology
• Dyeing
• Electronics
• Rural Community Development
• Geotechnical & Hydraulic Engineering
• Agriculture
• Land Surveying
• Forestry

Senior Volunteer dispatched to National Works Agency (NWA) presenting a copy of a Study on GeoTechnical Engineering Practices in Jamaica.

JOCV Member dispatched to UWI instructing a Japanese.
language class

JOCV Member dispatched to the Hanover 4 H Clubs conducting an environmental awareness session at a primary school.

JOCV Member dispatched to the Salvation Army School for the Blind, teaching swimming to blind pupils at the institution.

JOCV Member, P.E. Instructor conducting a class at the Llandilo School of Special Education.

Senior Engineers at the National Works Agency with Senior Volunteer – Geotechnical Engineer at a PIOJ Presentation Session - 2012