Kobe Institute of Computing, Syllabus 2023

1. Course Code2289
2. Course Title
S51e: Japan’s ODA (JICA’s international cooperation)
3. Teacher
TAKADA Hiroyuki
4. TermFall 2
5. Course Requirements (Courses / Knowledge for this course) and Important Information
None

6. Course Overview and Objectives
The objective of this course is to understand Japan's experience of Offical Development
Assistance (ODA) through specific projects and programs of JICA's international
cooperation. The course also targets to strength the students finding development issues
and drafting development assistance proposal to Japan through studying project orprogram which aims solving developmental issues of developing countries.
7. Course Outline
1 Course orientation, History of Japan's modernization
2 Transition of development theory, History and mechanism of Japan's ODA
3 JICA's profile, Assistance mechanism and contents
4 Budget volume and contents, Stakeholder of JICA's cooperation
5 Technical Cooperation
6 Case study of Technical Cooperation
7 Grant assistance and the case study
8 Loan assistance and the case study
9 Emergency Disaster Relief, Volunteer program
10 Citizen Participation, Public Private Partnership
11 Development issues
12 Country Assistance Policy
13 Development assistance proposal
14 Final presentation
15 Summary of the course
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8. Textbooks (Required Books for this course)
None

9. Reference Books (optional books for further study)None

10. Course Goals (Attainment Targets)(1) To understand the feature of Japan' Official Development Assistance.
(2) To understand JICA's international cooperation through specific projects andprograms.
(3) To study development issues and country assistance policy of Japanese
government.
(4) To become able to draft a project proposal for Japanese Official Development
Assistance.

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11. Correspondence relationship between Educational goals and Course goals
Educational goals of the school
Course Goals
High level ICT Basic academic skills
Specialized knowledge and literacyskills
Ability to continually improve own strengths
Problem setting(1)(2)(3)(4)
Ability to discover andHypothesis planning(1)(2)(3)(4)
Human skill resolve the problem inHypothesis testing(Tankyusociety
Practiceskill）
Fundamental
Ability to step forward
Ability to think through(1)(2)(3)(4)Competencies for
Abilitytoworkinateam
Working Persons
Professional ethics
12. Evaluation
Goals
Evaluation method & point allocation
examination
Quiz
Reports Presentation Deliverables
Other(1)
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Allocation
6040
13. Evaluation Criteria
Examination

Quiz

Reports

Presentation

Students must present in every class on own interest and/or experience
for Japan's ODA in line with the contents given in each class.

Deliverables

Final presentation materials will be subject of evalusation. Development
assistance proposal must be presented based on the student's own
interest in line with the Japan's assistance policy to the target country andappropriate formality of assistance modality.

Other14. Active Learning
Hourly percentage of active learning within the whole class time54%
1 Active learning such as problem solving assignment using theknowledge and skills acquired in class.

All the time

2 Active learning such as group works and discussions.

Sometimes

3 Outcome presentations and feedbacks.

All the time

4 Students actively make decisions on how the class should beconducted.

Not at all

15. Notes
1. This course will be conducted as hybrid intencive course by combining online andclass.
2. This course does not use textbook.
3. Students need to access open sources (Need internet-access).
4. Course materials will be provided on Moodle.
5. Presentation and deliverables will be done by individual
6. Evaluation will be made on presentation, deliverables.
* Further instruction will be provided in due course.

16. Course plan
(Notice) This plan is tentative and might be changed at the time of delivery

Lesson 1-2:Introduction of Japan's ODA(Lecture, 90 min.
/Discussion 90 Min.)As the start of the course, the goal of this course and evaluation method are provided
after self-introduction.
Then, the students learn history and feature of Japan's Official Development Assistance(ODA) .
The transition of international development theories will be reviewed.
In latter part, the students will present own idea about Japan's ODA on strength andweakness.
Lesson 3-4:JICA's profile(Lecture, 90min. /Discussion,90min. )The history and current organization structure of JICA will be explained with its functionand role.
The feature and the budget size will be explained on the types of assistance.
Relationship among JICA and stakeholders of Japan's ODA will be explained.
After the lecture, students are requested to present own experience on JICA's activity.

Lesson 5-6:Case study 1: Technical Cooperation(Lecture, 90min. /Discussion,90min. )The real projects will be introduced on technical cooperation. After the lecture, students
are requested to show own interest of the types of technical cooperation.

Lesson 7-8:Case study 2: Financial Assistance: Grants and(Lecture, 90min. /Loans
Discussion,90min. )The real projects will be introduced on grants and loans. After the lecture, students arerequested to show own interest on the types of financial assistance to solve own
development issue.

Lesson 9-10:Case study 3: Emergency Disaster Relief, Citizen(Lecture, 90min. /Participation and Public-PrivatePartnership
Discussion,90min. )The real projects will be introduced on emergency disaster relief, volunteer, citizen
partnership and public-private partnership. After the lecture, students are requested toshow own interests on the programs.

Lesson 11-12:Development issues and country assistance(Lecture, 90 min. /policyDiscussion, 90 min.)Students will be expected to choose the own interest of the development issue andcountry in the lesson. Development issues and country assistance policy of Japan's ODA
will be explained with the data resource. Students will study for appropriate development
issue based on Japan's country assistance policy. After the study, students will berequested to present the selected development issue and country at class.

Lesson 13:Development assistance proposal(Lecture, 45min.
/Discussion,45min.)Types of request forms will be explained on Japan's development assistance. Students
will study for appropriate type of development assistance proposal for the country anddevelopment issue which have been selected at the lesson 11-12. After the lesson,students will be requested to present the idea of the development assistance proposal forthe final presentation.

Lesson 14-15:Final Presentation, Summary of the Course(Presentation &Discussion, 150min. /Lecture, 30 min.)Students will give the final presentation to explain the draft of development assistanceproposal which has been submitted before the presentation.The Q&A and the exchangeof the opinions and comments will be conducted within the presentation.
After the presentation, the overall course will be summarized and sutudents are expected
to fullfill the online questionnaire for future improvement of this course.