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Overseas Reports【Action plan progress report】

1) Course Leader:Hajime SUETA

2) Former Participant:

Mr. PEIXOTO GOES Guilherme

Feb. 10, 2020

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This issue of Overseas Reports covers activities being run in their homeland by participants whoattended the training course, “Operation and Maintenance of Sewerage System (B)”. Mr. Hajime SUETA,
the course leader, introduced us the mail exchange with him.

1. Introduction of the participant, who has given the report

Nickname

PhotoNameCountry

Period of JICA
Training Course

BRAZILJan.16, 2019
toMar.2, 2019

Mr. PEIXOTO GOES
Guilherme

Guilherme -sanLetter from Guilherme -sanBRAZIL

2. Profile of participants

Eight participants dispatched fromall over the world gathered inKitakyushu city (JICA Kyushu)
and studied “Operation andMaintenanceofSewerage
System (B)”2

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3. Message from Mr. SUETA, Course Leader
Guilherme-san is a civil engineer working at a water and sewage
public corporation (SANEPAR) in Parana State, Brazil. SANEPARworks on supplying drinking water and providing sewage service for 346
cities in Parana State; the sewage service covers 71% of urban populationin the territory. He takes charge of design, construction andmanagement of water and sewage systems for 33 cities including Curitiba(Capital of Parana State) among those cities. He is also in charge of construction, management andimprovement of newly constructed facilities.
There are 26 sewage treatment plans within the area of 33 cities he is in charge, and almost all theplants adopt UASB (Up flow Anaerobic Sludge Bed) method. However, the sewage treatment by

this method is difficult to conform to environmental laws and regulations becoming stricter andstricter. Accordingly, it is required to respond to new technologies and treatment methods such asactivated sludge process replacing the UASB as well as to adopt a design enabling economicallypractical operation of facilities. Under such circumstances, Mr. Guilherme participated in thistraining course.
The theme of Action Plan (AP) he prepared by utilizing the information and knowledge heobtained through 7-week training was “Introduction of a maintenance manual based on Japaneseexpert knowledge and methods.” The background of this theme seemed to be the requirements
lying against him to carry out facility management in compliance with the environmental laws
and regulations mentioned above, to provide sewage service for residents in the areas without
adequate sewage treatment system and, for this purpose, to reduce the construction cost andsecure economical practicability.
He came to know that, in Japan, sewage treatment plants over 40 years of service are stillworking normally because the service life of equipment and facility is elongated by a method called
preventive maintenance, and he decided to introduce this method to his country. It was the firsttime for me to meet the AP prepared by such an idea from among about 100 participants of whom
I was in charge until now; I was moved by his excellent point of view. In the AP, to executive
members, he presented a plan to arrange an implementation team composed of experts in various
fields as well as proposing other plans. According to the report from him this time, it seems thatthe contents of AP prepared in Japan are being executed as they are. In addition, introduction ofP-D-C-A cycle management is proposed.
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I hope him to prepare a manual suitable for his own country and take P-D-C-A cycle in theactivity in order to realize improvements for preferable corporation management and better
operation management of sewage treatment plant.

4. Letter from Guilherme -sanNovember 19, 2019
Dears
Sueta and Mafumi
It's been more than 8 months since the great time We had in Japan!
I'm grateful in tell you that all this time I've been trying to improve my daily activities withthe knowledge acquired in this experience.
So today I'm writing to tell you about what I've been done, and how my Action Plan is going.

Recent activity report
Since I returned to Brazil, I had to work in this Big Water Project. It will cost around Yen 3,000,000,000 !!
In spite of this Project been of water distribution, I made it have all the control and O & M, since the design
period. So now it’s part of the product that has to be done by builders contractors the creation involving all theareas (design, construction and operation) of the O & M Manual for the new facilities.
By now, this big Project is in bidding process. And I could return to the plan of involving my co-workings inO & M issues. So as I described in my Action Plan, first I had some meetings with my superiors, and we decide
to set a group to discuss and improve ours O & M Plans. This group has been done 3 meetings and now weare going to work in 4.0 O & M Plans, for 4 S`TP´s in different cities. I hope this group could improve theprocedures, mainly involving the design area in O&M activities, so they can describe what they predicted foroperation process (we realized that sometimes these information was lost) .
Besides this group, for 2 times I gathered some coworkers in a conference to tell them about JICA´sexperience. This meeting was about telling them how Japanese Technologies are, and how Japanese Sewer´sWorks are, showing them all the 5 contents I learned in JICA´s course. It was a great time, people loved
and though about sanitation in Brazil. At this time i shared the material I brought with them.

4Kitakyushu International Techno-cooperative AssociationIn other opportunity I went to a University to show them this experience as well. It was the same contents thatI showed in my company, but this time I wanted they to think about their daily activities and how this could
affect the environment, and again they loved the lecture.
So, the intention for me of sending this email was to get you to know that we are working/using the knowledge
acquired in Japan, and I'm thankful for this time.
Hope to see you some time, and If You come to Brazil, please let me know that I go see you!!

Coworkes meeting

O & M group meeting

University classThank you again.

Guilherme5

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5．Memories of JICA-KITA Training
Photo Album of the JICA / KITA Training Course（Jan.16, 2019～Mar.12, 2019 ）Practice of sewer pipe inspection

The memorial photo after lectureGroup representative report of "Training
Review Time"Group study for the “Training Review Time”

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