Conditions of JICA Volunteer Service
The JICA Volunteers term of service in principle is two (2) years including four (4) weeks of in-country orientation and Tok Pisin language training.
During term of volunteer’s engagement, recipient organization is required to:
- a) Provide free accommodation or a rental accommodation at their own costs
- b) Meet all costs of business travels & accommodation
- c) Provide leave entitlements (less monetary values) similar to the civil servants or local employees
- d) Apply exemption from customs duties and other government charges for imports and local procurement of work related equipments.
The Government of Japan will be responsible for:
Agriculture: SV Ito with students, PNG Education Institute, NCD
a) Costs of international travel from Japan to PNG and return after end of assignment term
b) Costs of domestic travel on dispatch & return after completion of assignment term
c) Costs of living allowances / salary
d) Costs of medical expenses
e) Life insurance during volunteers entire term in PNG
Dateline for Submission of Request
Volunteer recruitment is done twice a year in Japan
- 1 . Spring recruitment: request due before 1st January
- 2 . Autumn recruitment: request due before 1st July
JICA Volunteers are dispatched four (4) times a year
Eight (8) Priority Sectors of Current JICA Volunteer Program in PNG
- 1 . Education—Improvement of Primary & Secondary Education
- 2 . Human Resource Development—Japanese Language Education, Information Technology, Automobile Maintenance
- 3 . Infectious Disease Control—Malaria, HIV/AIDS, TB, etc.
- 4 . Improvement of Medical Services—Medical Supply Management
- 5 . Food Security—Agricultural Machinery, Aquaculture, rice growing, vegetable farming, etc.
- 6 . Rural Community Development—Tourism promotion
- 7 . Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas—Animal Husbandry
- 8 . Investment & Trade Promotion—Import & Export procedures, SME development
Infection Control: SV Watanabe & JOCV Nakamura in Kavieng
The JICA Volunteer Program
The Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer (JOCV)
The Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer (JOCV) program was incepted in 1965 by the Government of Japan as an organization under the supervision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to provide official technical assistance to developing countries. This assistance takes the form of young Japanese volunteers between the age of 20-39 working directly with the people of the host countries to transfer skills and knowledge.
Senior Volunteers (SV)
The Senior Volunteer (SV) program started in 1996 and can be described as a senior version of the JOCV program. Under this program, volunteers between the age of 40-69 with extensive skills & professional experience are recruited and dispatched to developing countries in accordance with requests received from the governments of those countries.
Science & Mathematics Education: JOCV Tomita in Good Shepard High School, Madang Province
JICA Volunteers in Papua New Guinea
In 1980 the JOCV program started in Papua New Guinea and became part of the overall technical assistance program of JICA when the JICA PNG Office was established in 1983 after the signing of the Exchange of Notes (E/N) between the Governments of Japan and Papua New Guinea. In 2001 the Senior Volunteer program was also included into the technical assistance program of JICA in PNG. Since then, JICA Volunteers have been dispatched to many different government departments, statutory institutions, line agencies, and NGOs in many different parts of PNG to undertake various technical assignments.
Pharmacist: JOCV Enomoto, Alotau General Hospital
JICA Volunteers Technical Fields in PNG
Since the beginning of the JICA Volunteer program in PNG, so far JICA volunteers have contributed enormously in enhancing technical cooperation in the following technical fields: health, education, human resource, sports & physical education, agriculture & livestock, food security, food processing & preservation, agricultural machinery, fisheries, information technology, civil engineering, automobile maintenance, electrical & communication engineering, audio visual education, investment & trade promotion, tourism, Japanese language education, rural community development, etc,.
Procedures for Requesting JICA Volunteers
- 1 . A prospective recipient organization is required to identify the technical assistance required of a JICA Volunteer and accordingly write a volunteer request letter to JICA PNG Office.
- 2 . JICA PNG Office will assess this request in line with its policy on volunteer dispatch program and make a response accordingly.
- 3 . An official volunteer request form will be sent to the requesting organization to complete and returned to JICA PNG Office.
- 4 . JICA PNG Office will forward the completed request form to the Department of National Planning for official formalization of the request.
- 5 . The Department of National Planning will endorse this request and forward it to the Department of Foreign Affairs.
- 6 . The Department of Foreign Affairs will endorse this request and forward it to the Embassy of Japan and to JICA PNG Office.
- 7 . JICA PNG Office will send this request to JICA Headquarter in Japan for recruitment and selection of a volunteer.
- 8 . JICA PNG Office will receive the final result from JICA HQ and convey it to the concerned government departments and the recipient organization.
Physiotherapist: JOCV Sekiguchi in Nonga Hospital, Rabaul
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