Project News

The 1st Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) Meeting for JICA "Project for Strengthening Teachers' Ability and Reasonable Treatments for Children with Disabilities (START)" was held on 2 November 2015. The meeting was chaired by Ms. B. Nasanbayar of Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (MECS), with Mr. D. Amarsaikhan of Ministry of Population Development and Social Protection (MPDSP) as Vice Chairperson.

During the meeting, Mr. Tetsuya Ishii of JICA Project Team presented the project summary, some accomplishments of the project as of October 2015 and planned activities related to Outputs 3 and 4 described in the Work Plan. Ms. Ts. Tsendsuren of Central Commission of Health, Education and Social Protection for Children with Disabilities (CWDs), and Mr. U. Ganbold of Ministry of Education also presented planned activities related to Outputs 1 and 2 respectively.

In the meeting, the following issues were discussed and agreed:

• Project title in Mongolia was agreed.
• Bayangol District was a selected as a pilot district of Ulaanbaatar.
• In addition to 4 special schools for intellectual disability, 8 general schools were selected as pilot schools. They are:

  	Special Schools	Elementary Schools
  Sukhbaatar District	Special School No. 25	School No. 16	School No. 35
  Bayanzurkh District	Special School No. 55	School No. 79	School No. 111
  Khan-uul District	Special School No. 63	School No. 26	School No. 34
  Bayangol District	Special School No. 70	School No. 28	School No. 113

• Both ministries agreed to bear "salary, honoraria and travel cost, related cost for counterpart personnel", and the cost for "printing and distribution of the products that are developed by Project" as prescribed in the Record of Discussion signed among MECS, MPDSP and JICA on 10 April 2015.
• Project Team will participate in a one month campaign to celebrate International Day (December 3) for Persons with Disabilities to be conducted by MPDSP.