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Awards Entry

2014 Asia-pacific Conference
Circle of CareJCI JAPAN

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Entry Information
Award Program:

2014 Asia-Pacific Conference

Category:

NOM Information
National Organization:

JCI JAPAN

Kazuya Suzuki
E-mail: japan@jci.cc

National President:

LOM Information
Local Organization:
President:

JCI Osaka
Norimasa Nakatani

President Email: nori72nori72wanokokoro@gmail.com

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Basic Information
Duration : Jun.23 / Aug.20-25 / Oct.12-13 ,2013
Staff : 46 members
Embassy of Benin, Honorary Consulate of Cambodia, 26 universities, 36
Sponsors :organizations, etc.
Budget : US $87,528
Profit / Loss : None
In which UN MDG best
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
fit (if apply): ?:Who is benefited ?: Participanting students and citizens of Osaka
Objective :To get Osaka citizens to first be aware of people suffering from extreme
poverty, and understand the possibilites of resolving the issue. We tried toget citizens to realize that solving their everyday problems can lead toresolving various world issues. Our objective is to produce many active
citizens who will take proactive action to resolve issues.
Overview :Summary of project is uploaded on YOUTUBE.(2m33s)
JCI Osaka implemented the following program with the aim of changing
Osaka citizens to become active ones who will take proactive action toresolve various issues from around the world.
Theme of our program: "Circle of Care"
Agenda: To build a system in which we can solve various issues derivedfrom food.
[Contents of our program](1)We held "Peace Conference of Youth", with university students who willlead the next generation, in order to deepen their understanding of various
issues in the world.
(2)We selected a theme from the existing world issues, and helped
participating students create a sustainable action plan to resolve it.
(3)We showcased the action plan they made to Osaka citizens at a forum
and provided opportunities for many people to think about the approach tothe issues.
(4)We approached the issues in collaboration with organizations engagedin activities of world peace and international interaction.
(5)We provided opportunities for participant students to implement theaction plan at the forum.
Results :We provided opportunities for Osaka citizens to take positive action withthe aim of resolving various world issues.
Our program started with 56 students participating at first, and then spreadto 350 Osaka citizens at the forum.
Finally, the project plan was executed at an event where more than 20,000
citizens participated.
We could enhance many citizens awareness in world peace as shown
below:

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Impact to citizens
The number of participants
Jun. 23, 2013 "Discovery of Issues Program"
121peoples
Aug. 20-25, 2013 "Plan Development Program"
367peoples(203%increase)
Oct. 12-13, 2013 "Plan Execution Program"
427peoples(16%increase)
Results of a questionnaire
1. You became aware of various issues in the world and became
interested in them.
"Agree." and "Somewhat agree." 88.9%
2. You realized that the various issues in the world were related to yourown living environment.
"Agree." and "Somewhat agree." 91.7%
3. You agreed with the students way of thinking who were resolving theissues.
"Agree." and "Somewhat agree." 94.4%
4. You could imagine what how to create a better world.
"Agree." and "Somewhat agree." 80.5%
5. You were motivated to do something for suffering people.
"Agree." and "Somewhat agree." 97.2%
6. You were motivated to do what you could do if you had an opportunity.
"Agree." and "Somewhat agree." 88.9%
Impact to students
Results of a questionnaire
Preliminary survey was compared with Posteriori survey and change ofconsciousness was checked.
Awareness of participants of 74%
has been improved.
Impact to Local Organization members
The number of participants
Jun. 23, 2013 "Discovery of Issues Program"
45peoplesAug. 20-25, 2013 "Plan Development Program"
151peoples(235%increase)
Oct. 12-13, 2013 "Plan Execution Program"
247peoples(63%increase)
Actions Taken :Dec. 2012 Holding a planning session.
Jan. 2013 Conducting a pre-survey on various issues in the world.
Feb. 2013 Choosing a theme and deciding an application outline.
Mar. 2013 Requesting cooperation from various organizations.
Apr. 2013 Recruiting participant students.
May. 2013 Screening them.
Jun. 2013 Holding a seminar for participanting students.
Jul. 2013 Recruiting organizations to a forum and selecting them.
Aug. 2013 Holding a peace conference of youth and presenting an action
plan.
Sep. 2013 Preparing to implement the action plan.
Oct. 2013 Implementing the action plan.
Recommendations :Only a handhold of citizens contribute to people suffering from poverty inJapan. However, this is because they are not aware of it. They arepotentially capable of working on this problem.
We aim to enhance their motivation to change the world in the course of
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their daily life, which is one of MDGs.
1. Implementing our long-term program:
We promoted peoples positive changes through working on assignments,
participating in an orientation program, a world peace conference, andother events in our program throughout the year.
2. Enhancement of their motivation to act repeatedly:
People’s motivation to act continuously will be enhanced throughexperiencing a variety of things and achieving their goal in collaboration
with others. We provided opportunities for students to put the action plan
they made at the world peace conference into practice. As a result of this,they had successful experiences and their motivation to act continuously
was enhanced.
3. Many peoples and organizations participated in our program andhad a collaborative relationship:
Our programs achievements are expressed as below.
X-axis = the level of the students motivation to act continuously.
Y-axis = the number of participants in our program.
Our achievements = X x Y.
We implemented our program in which more people and organizations
could participate.

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Summary of project is uploaded on YOUTUBE.
(2m33s)As the cross boundary and regional relationship among
becomes more tightly knit in modern society, ourobjective is to develop young people who are aware ofissues.
[Sensitivity needed by young people]
1. To be able to regard various global issues as if it istheir own.
2. To be able to create a sustainable plan with the aimof settling global issues.
3. To be able to execute the action plan they
developed.
Our program, "Circle of Care" aligns with thefollowing JCI Plan of Action:
A. Impact To motivate local people to become
involved in one of MDGs.
B. Motivate To motivate participant students tobecome involved in a global society.
C. Invest To raise them to be future leaders who will
impact others and spread our movement.
D. Connect To build a relationship in which they can
improve each other continuously.
[Increase in the number of participants]
We could invite 4.6 times more students than thepreveious year, even with the same budget.
10 students in 2012 --> 46 students in 2013
[Sustainable Positive changes]
It enabled us to implement more programs with thesame budget as the previous year. In addition, we
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could change people, in a positive way, for the longterm.
1 times in 2012 --> 3 times in 2013
[Sharing formative experiences]
We appropriated our budget for providing
opportunities for many people to share our action planwe created in this program.
The percentage of the budget above: 41.8%
We took the following actions with the aim ofadvancing JCI Mission and Vision:-- Providing opportunities for students to take action
through approaching MDGs’ goal.
-- Raising them to be future leaders.
As a result, they put the action plan they created into
continuous practice. In addition, they are contributing
to communities through their activities.
For the reasons set forth above, we could advance theJCI Mission and Vision.

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443 members
45%[ Roles of facilitators ]Facilitators are neutral in a discussion and help group
work and discussions proceed smoothly with the aimof achieving an agreement and mutual understanding.
[ Roles of attendants ]Attendants are present in each group to help
facilitators. Facilitators coordinate the wholediscussion, on the other hand, attendants take care ofparticipant students close to them.
[ Roles of evaluators ]Evaluators listen to students presentations about theiraction plans and see whether they are feasible or not.
They also make students aware of a variety of things
through expressing their opinions and asking questions
to them as business people.

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Award Category criteria[ The number of participants in our program]
We implemented our program three times. We verified
whether people participated in our program repeatedlyor not.
[ Results of a questionnaire to participants ]We verified participants’ positive changes with the useof a questionnaire.
-- Increase in people’s interest in world issues.
-- Empathy to people who are approaching the issues.
-- Enhancement of sensibility to imagine an idealworld.
-- Enhancement of motivation to act proactively.
[ Evaluation by professionals ]Dr. Toshiya Hoshino, Professor at Osaka University
Dr. Virgil Hawkins, Associate Professor at Osaka
University They evaluated our program objectively.
[ The number of participants in our program]121-->367-->427 participants
We could see an increase in the number of participants
at each subsequent event.
[ Results of a questionnaire to participants ]-- Increase in people’s interest in world issues.
--> 91% increase-- Empathy to people who are approaching the issues.
--> 97% increase-- Enhancement of sensibility to imagine an idealworld.
--> 82% increase-- Enhancement of motivation to act proactively.
--> 91% increase[ Evaluation by professionals ]Participant students had earnest discussions andworked on the difficult task of what to do for people
suffering poverty. They organized a variety of
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programs full of ideas as below:-- They provided dietary education to children throughplaying a game.
-- They developed a smartphone application and an
education booklet which taught the importance of diet.
It motivated people in the community to cherish dietand their dietary habits.
[ Results of verification ]People who had not paid attention to people sufferingfrom hunger and poverty became aware of thesignificance of their activities through observing actual
problems and seeing people working on the problems.

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N/A-- Embassy of the Republic of Benin to Japan-- My Farm, Inc.
-- Kopernik Japan-- 34 organizations, such as International Interact
organizations, NGOs, and NPOs in and around Osaka(for example)-- Osaka Association for UNICEF-- Save the Children Japan-- CISV-Kansai-- Osaka NPO Center-- Human Note-- 24 HOUR TELEVISION (Japan TV channel)
etc.
* The name of organizations are on attached images.
We provided opportunities for international interaction
organizations, NPOs, and NGOs to share theiractivities with participants at their own booth.
It enabled Osaka citizens to become aware of theiractivities contributing to world peace and theimportance of acting with consideration for others.

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Award Category criteria[ Long-term impact to participant students ]After getting a job, participant students are expected tobecome active citizens who will enact positive change
in people through the following:-- To promote BOP (Base of Pyramid) business.
-- To produce a variety of new ideas.
-- To share and spread their activities through thenetwork they built in the program.
[ Long-term impact to local citizens ]We provided opportunities for local citizens to review
their own behavior through the educational handbook
and game the students created. Local citizens areexpected to become more concerned about various
world issues with the use of them. They are also
expected to evaluate the activities of variousorganizations, companies and governments properly.
[ Enhancement of the qualifications of attendants ]Whether we can promote students’ positive change or
not depends on the attendants. From the start of ourprogram, we will screen our members carefully andmotivate them to develop their knowledge of various
world issues. As a result of this, they will be able togive good advice with in order to solve the problems.
It is expected to promote students’ positive changes ina short period of time.
[ Supporters Association ]We need a sustainable support system (SupportersAssociation) in which participant students will keep
their experiences in mind forever.. They are expected
to lead local citizens, companies and organizations as amember of the association. It leads to an increase in thenumber of people who will think about various world
issues.
Our program is expected to be a sustainably viable one
in which the following is expected:-- People build a viable plan.
-- Local companies and organizations become
interested in participant students and their plans.
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active roles there.
-- They support our program.
By being independent from JCI Osaka, we canmaintain a support system for years. There is thepossibility that our movement will spread permanently.

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