Overseas Reports【Current Activities of a Former Participant】

Sandra-san reported her current activities
in Bolivia

1) Course Leader: Yoshio MIKI
2) Former Participant:
Ms. ADUVIRI CHAMBI Sandra Karina
March 25th, 2015
Training Division
Kitakyushu International Techno-cooperative Association

～We introduce how a former participant (Sandra-san) is playing
an active role in her homeland of Bolivia after completing
her JICA/KITA technical training course～This issue of Overseas Reports covers the activities of Sandra-san, a participant in the "Small andmedium enterprises/local industry activation for Central and South America" training course, after her
return to her homeland. Course Leader Miki told us about Sandra-san's activities.

１．Introduction of a former participant who reported to us from Bolivia

Nickname

Country

Training Period

Sandra-sanBolivia

2015/7/29～
2015/8/29

Name

Ms. ADUVIRICHAMBI
Sandra Karina

Report from Sandra-sanBolivia【Small and medium enterprises/local industry activation for Central and South America】training course

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２．A message from Mr. MIKI, course leader

Mr. Miki, Course Leader

A visit to a company during the training course
Sandra-san is in the front row on the left,Course Leader Miki is in the center

Sof the front row

andra-san is a technician in the Unit of Innovation and Management Resources at the「Centro de Promoción de la Mujer Gregoria Apaza」. The center is an NGO whose
mission is to support gender equality, and it aims to provide financial support for
women's rights. Sandra-san's role in that is to improve the lives of women and their families byformulating various reform plans to boost the productivity of SMEs headed by women, andimplementing them in collaboration with the public sector.
Sandra-san is extremely hard-working and earned an MBA after graduating from university.
She then worked as a consultant on various projects before taking up her current position,
where she has now been working for four years.
The impression I gained during the training course was that she was extremely positive andasked questions that were very much to the point. I was often surprised and impressed by herdynamism.
The theme of her action plan is "Improving the business management of small andmedium-sized business centers via a gender-based approach". Its strategy is to implement suchpolicies as human resource training programs according to the work level or kind of SME,
textile business management models, plans to boost the productivity of SMEs, and operationalorganization strategies with a gender-based approach.
She had gained hints for it during her training course in Japan from such sources as
industry-university-government cooperation and women's activities to revitalize agriculturalcommunities, and I felt that her action plan was extremely pragmatic and perceptive.
It really brought it home to me that she comes up with such ideas because she always has an
accurate grasp of the realities, understands the feelings of the people she expects to resolve theissues, and really takes her work to heart.
That is why she sent in a report on her activities one month after her return to Bolivia. It is agreat source of encouragement to a course leader when there are participants who tackle theirtasks as earnestly as this, and it enables us to taste the sense of achievement and joy thatcomes from contributing to society. I am filled with gratitude towards Sandra-san.

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3．The training course in which Sandra-san participated and the program objectives

Training course：

Small and Medium Enterprises/Local Industry Activation forCentral and South American Countries

Activities inHome country

Program Objective

Attending the Program inJapan

Support for SMEs and policies to nurture local industries
are promoted in the organizations to which theparticipants belong

Teaching unit objective (1)To understand Japan's policies to promote SMEs, thepromotion of local industries and their own role as therepresentative of a government agency, and tocategorize the issues facing their own country.
Teaching unit objective (2)To understand the management expertise andmarketing required to support SMEs and promotelocal industries, and to categorize the issues facing
their own country.
Teaching unit objective (3)To understand the essential benchmarks by visiting
SMEs and local industries in Japan, and tocategorize the issues facing their own country.
Teaching unit objective (4)To become capable of drafting policies to promote
SMEs and local industries in the participating
countries.

3４．Activities of Sandra-san◆1st Report: Received October 3, 2014 (Written in Spanish)
1) General situation
An action plan progress report just one month after returning home upon
the completion of the JICA training course on August 29.
2) Details about the activities(1) Deployment in her own country of what she learned in Japan.
(2) Held the 1st El Alto Summit for Women Working in Micro-Enterprises,
an industry-academic-government collaboration co-hosted with the El Alto
Local Federation of Small Businesses and Micro-Enterprises (*1).
(*1) An association covering such varied production sectors as textiles,
lumber, leather, metal machining, goldwork, glass products,
small-scale dairy farming and workers in the service industry
3) Requests
Sandra-san wanted the current status of her activities to be shared withall the parties concerned.
- It was shared within the Training Operations Department at
JICA Kyushu.
- The status of her activities is scheduled to be made public on theKITA homepage.

◆2nd Report: Received November 26, 2014 (Written in English)
1) General situation
Submission of "Report on my recent activities" in the prescribed format
for Overseas Reports manuscripts
2) Details about the activities
As covered in the 1st Report, held the 1st El Alto Summit for Women
Working in Micro-Enterprises, an industry-academic-government
collaboration co-hosted with the El Alto Local Federation of Small
businesses and Micro-Enterprises.
Additional documentation included the action rules of the "Declarationfrom the El Alto Summit of Businesswomen and Women Working in
Small Enterprises", which was handed to the mayor of El Alto at thesummit.
第１報は、日本語に翻訳して紹介します。
◆ Please refer to the report documents. (Click the link on the rightfor the documents)
第１報は、英語で報告されましたので和訳して紹介します。

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Please click hereto read his report◆3rd Report: Received December 21, 2014 (Written in Spanish)
1) General situation
Basically a report on the progress with her action plan, but this time in "Report on
my recent activities" there is a detailed report on the additional activity described
in Item 3 below.
(1) Involvement of the principal actors in the textile manufacturing chain(2) Training course for young business people at the Institute Normal Superiorof Education Alternative – Franz Tamayo(3) A virtual international conference "Creation of Social Businesses Aimedat Gender Equality""A collaboration with Ramon-san from the Dominican Republic, another participant
in her JICA training course"[Note] Ramon-san from the Dominican Republic: Assistant Coordinator ofthe SMEs, Business Administrator at the Ministry of Industry andCommerce2) Comments from Sandra-san
I applied what I had learned in my JICA training course and our experience ofOne Village One Product specialty shops and business centers. I am also putting
into practice the problem-solving methods.

５．The course leader's impressions on Sandra-san's reports on her activities in her homeland1)

In all the time that I have been in charge of JICA training courses, I have never received
such frequent reports. I am extremely proud of Sandra-san, and I think that one
important factor in this is the system of featuring Overseas Reports on the KITA website.

2)

JICA training courses bring together a group of complete strangers who study hard together,and one great hope of JICA training is that participants who share the same concerns
should collaborate together after returning to their home countries. I was deeply movedby the fact that this was achieved this time.

3)

They will enable me to create an upward spiral in future JICA training courses. In otherwords, I will be able to further improve aspects that were of use in the field, and supplement
any aspects that were lacking. I keenly felt that this too is one of the fruits of follow-ups.

第２＆３報は、スペイン語の原文で紹介します。

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Photo Album of the JICA/KITA Training Course

Sandra-san after receiving her course
completion certificate from President
FurunoA group photo after a lecture

The participants at their studies

The participants on a field trip

Watching a soccer match on a day off

The firework display after the match6