A Memorial Group Photo at the closing ceremony of JICA Training Course in FY 2012, “Operation and Maintenanceof Sewerage System and Waste Water Treatment Technique (B)”【Overseas Reports】

A Report from a Former Participant

Course leader : Mr. Hajime SUETA
Former participant: Mr. Irfan Bahadir ONDER

March 20th, 2014

Training Division
Kitakyushu International Techno-cooperative Association

- Introducing Baha-san (his nickname), who is playing a major role in promoting andimproving sewerage systems in his homeland (Turkey) after completing his JICA
technical training course This issue of Overseas Reports covers the current situation of Mr. Irfan Bahadir
ONDER (nickname Baha-san), a participant from Turkey. This is the second issue ofOverseas Reports, following on from the one about Mark-san (Mr. Mark LEKGJONA),
a participant from Albania who was on the same training course as Baha-san.
Baha-san from Turkey- He e-mailed Mr.SUETA on his
current activities.

Mark-san from Albania- He e-mailed Mr.SUETA on his
activities to in Oct.2012.

Mr. SUETA
Course Leader

1. Profile of Mr. ONDER
Mr. Onder works for Iller Bank in Turkey as a civil engineer. Iller Bank has a long history ofsupporting infrastructure improvement by financing local authorities including municipalities.

2. Recent Activities of Mr. ONDER- Jan., 2013

He participated in a JICA/KITA training course in Kitakyushu, Japan.

Mr. LEKGJONAJMr. ONDER

Mr. ONDER

At Mt. Sarakura covered with snow

Mr. LEKGJONAJ

Storm simulation booth at Tokyo Life Safety Learning Center

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- May, 2013 He reported to Mr. Taichi MINAMITANI of JICA Turkey Office and Mr. Rüya
ARSLAN of Program Office on his training output after returning to hishomeland, Turkey.

Please click here toread Mr. ONDER’sPresentation- Jan., 2014 He reunited in Turkey with his training course mate,
Mr. LEKGJONAJ who enjoyed staying in Istanbul
with his fiancée for five days.

Mr. ONDER(center)with Mr. LEKGJONAJ& his fiancée in Turkey- Feb., 2014 He e-mailed Mr. SUETA on his activities related to sewerage in Turkey as
below.
Dear Sensei,
Sorry for the delay of the report I mentioned but due to some urgent works
and lack of visual material, I postponed the preparation of the report. This is notexactly a formal briefing report, but a little bit more informative paper.
As we spoke, after I returned to Turkey, I prepared a short presentation toJICA Turkey Office Representative MINAMITANI Taichi and Programme Officer
Rüya ARSLAN on May, 2013. It is generally based on a summary of technicaltraining with visuals and teaching materials, social earnings from my point of view
and Action Plan. You can find the presentation at the attachment of the e-mail. I
would like to mention about my effort on the Action Plan, which was as you know
more likely a social project rather than a technical application. As you remember,
my main aim is to raise the awareness of society about the importance of clean
environment, more specifically clean water. To have clean water sources, one
should have treated the wastewater to preserve the sources of clean water that arebasically outlet points of wastewater. decreased. (Normally it is a high visualquality animated video). That project was not conducted by me but I was in touchwith them so I decided to share that with you. In the future, I am planning toadvice and contribute to the municipalities (that I am responsible of theconstruction of WWTPs) to organize some educational materials about WWTP andtrips to WWTP for school children from different ages. For now, this would be agood example for my ongoing Action Plan application.
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As for the daily works, In the International Relations Department, we arefinancing the construction of 6 WWTP and 5 sewerage-wastewater network in
different municipalities with JICA loan. We have also more than 20 ongoingprojects financed by different International organizations like World Bank,European Investment Bank and ongoing negotiations with more International
Finance Organizations in different sectors like drinking water and solid wastemanagement. Co-operation for Urban Transformation Projects, Educational
Technical Programs for Local and Foreigner professionals are some more daily
work subjects for me nowadays.
Other than those things I mentioned, we are still in touch with friends from ourtraining, (thanks to Internet) but more than chatting on Internet, we actually met
with Mark LEKGJONAJ from Albania. Mark and his fiancée visited İstanbul onJanuary, 2014 for 5 days and they were my guests for those days which we visited
historical places like Hagia Sophia Museum, Topkapı and Dolmabahçe Palaces, thefamous Blue Mosque and more. We realized that our training course not only
thought us well about WWTPs and Sewerage systems but also helped us toestablish a great friendship with common grounds and similar way of living. Again,I want to thank you all JICA and KITA members who made our training fruitfultechnically and socially by helping and leading us for approximately 2 months.
I am looking forward to hear from you again Sueta-San, and I want toespecially thank you and Joomi-San for taking care of us during our training.
İRFAN BAHADIR ÖNDERPlease click
to here toPleasehereclickview the animated video
mentioned above.

Please click here to lookthroughthebooklet
mentioned above.

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３. Message from his course leader, Mr. SUETA

Looking at the job report he submitted before coming to Japan, I see that I had jotted
down, "An engineer working at a bank. Coordinator for JICA-funded aid projects. Theknowledge gained through the training will probably be of use to him in his own work, but thecontent of the training may be too on-site oriented for him."
However, Baha-san is convinced that the construction of wastewater treatment plants isessential in order to preserve a clean water environment, and that it is his job to assist that.
He therefore absorbed all available information related to sewerage systems, no doubt withthe strong belief that he must pass on that knowledge to local authorities. With that attitude,
he actively soaked up the extensive content of the two-month course, from sewerage system
planning concepts to actual operation and maintenance.
I was absolutely delighted when I got an email from Baha-san saying that he waspublicizing the need for specific sewerage system maintenance to local authorities. It really isa great joy when the results of our training can be seen in a tangible form.
I hope that he will continue with his efforts to develop the sewerage system industry inTurkey.
Good luck, Baha-san!!

4. Outline of the training course where he participated in Japan(1) Course Name

: Operation and Maintenance of Sewerage System and Waste Water Treatment Technique (B)(2) Course Leader : Hajime SUETA(3) Training Period : January 16, 2013 to March 8, 2013(4) Participants: 9 participants from 8 countriesa) Albania b) Palestine c) Turkey d) Iraq e) Mauritiusf) Angola g) Colombia h) Costa Rica (2 members）

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5. Conceptual Framework of the Training Course where he participated in Japan

Overall Goal
Effective sewerage system and its wastewater (sewage) treatment techniquewill be established in participants’ organizations.

Implementation after due
consideration in
自国での検討～実施
participants’respectivecountries

Project Goal
Necessary Knowledge and technique relating tosewerage system and its wastewater (sewage)
treatment will be shared within participants’organizations.

Training in Japan
Module Output(4)Module Output(5)Being able to propose sewerage systems
improvement plans as “Action Plans” for theparticipants’ respective countries

Beingable
toexplainnecessaryknowledgeforindustrial
wastewater
treatment and pretreatment
facilities for discharge tosewerage systems
Module Output(3)Beingabletoexplain
necessaryknowledgeformaintaining sewerage systems(sewer network, wastewater(sewage) treatment plants)

Module Output(2)Being able to explain necessary
knowledge
forplanning
anddesigning of sewerage systems(sewernetwork,wastewater(sewage) treatment plants)

Module Output(1)Being able to explain basic
knowledge of sewerage systems
and its wastewater (sewage)
treatment

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6. Photos from the JICA/KITA Training Course （January to March, 2013）6