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Awards Entry

2014 Asia-pacific Conference
Global Network in our community
JCI JAPAN

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Entry Information
Award Program:

2014 Asia-Pacific Conference

Category:

NOM Information
National Organization:

National President:

JCI JAPAN

Kazuya Suzuki
E-mail: japan@jci.cc

LOM Information
Local Organization:

JCI Kanazawa

President:

Takanori Ura

President Email: uratakagt@yahoo.co.jp

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Basic Information
Duration : April –September 2013
Staff : 17 members
Ishikawa Pref., Kanazawa City, 5 governmental organizations, 8Sponsors :universities
Budget : 4,722 dollars

Profit / Loss : ０

In which UN MDG bestfit (if apply): ?:Who is benefited ?: Kanazawa City 460,000 citizens
Objective : JCI Kanazawa aims to develop global networks of young active citizens in
the community.
1. JCI Kanazawa creates opportunities for citizens to improve theawareness of global contribution.
2. JCI Kanazawa builds recognition of JCI and UNMDSs among
citizens.
Overview :A. JCI Kanazawa did these things mentioned below.
1. JCI Kanazawa researched and studied problems young
citizens in the community had.
2. JCI Kanazawa focused on multicultural problems Japanese
students in university and foreign students had.
3. JCI Kanazawa organized training courses in which thesestudents could transcend problems between their multiple
cultures and build a trusting relationship.
4. JCI Kanazawa informed these students of training courses
and called for participation.
B. 30 Japanese students and 20 foreign students took thefollowing training courses.
1. Understand each other’s differences in their nationalities,
languages, races and cultures.
2. Improve the awareness of global contribution by talking
about various world problems United Nations suggests.
3. Recognize JCI and UNMDGs.
4. Share what is learned in training courses with many citizens.
C. JCI Kanazawa called for participation from citizens and held
the following International Presentation Contest.
1. Students who took part in the training organized
opportunities where many citizens would improve theawareness of global contribution and recognize JCI and
UNMDGs.
2. They talked about their own way of communication split into
teams.
3. They provided opportunities for many citizens to improve
the awareness of global contribution and recognize JCI
and UNMDGs.
D. Citizens had the following opportunities by taking part inInternational Presentation Contest.
1. Recognize the importance of global contribution andimprove the awareness on it.
2. Recognize JCI and UNMDGs.
3. Change their awareness of global contribution by talking
about it with students in each team and make apresentation.

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Results :Actions Taken :1. In the questionnaire asking whether they transcended the problems
between their multiple cultures and built a trusting relationship, 66%of the students who took part in the training courses answered‘Yes, very much’ and 31% answered ‘Yes.’
2. In the questionnaire asking whether they improved the awarenessof global contribution, 83% of 100 citizens who took part inInternational Presentation Contest answered ‘Yes, very much’and 17% answered ‘Yes.’
3. In the questionnaire asking whether they recognized JCI and
UNMDGs, 78% answered ‘Yes, very much’ and 22% answered‘Yes.’
4. Students who took part in the training courses transmitted its
contents, JCI movement and UNMDGs from the website to theworld.
5. They were accessed 6,000 times from ten countries in twomonths.
Apr. 3
JCI Kanazawa called for students who would join the training
courses.
May 11JCI Kanazawa interviewed 65 students who applied and 50
students became members.
May 18Training Course 1 Understand Each OtherMay 25Training Course 2 Improve the Awareness of Global Contribution
Jun. 1
Training Course 3 Recognize JCI and UNMDGs
Jun. 21
Training Course 4 Share what was learned in the training courses
with citizens
Jul. 6
JCI Kanazawa held International Presentation Contest
Aug. 23
JCI Kanazawa and students had a meeting for the coming year.
Sep. 18
JCI Kanazawa gave LOM members a suggestion of the coming
year’;s project.

Recommendations : JCI Kanazawa accomplished the following goals.
‘Mutual Understanding’
1. Japanese students in university and foreign students talked about
differences between each other’s nationalities, languages, races
and cultures and understood each.
‘Improve the awareness of global contribution and recognize JCI and
UNMDGs’
1. They talked about various problems United Nations suggests andshared each other’s ideas.
2. As a result, they improved the awareness of global contribution andrecognized JCI and UNMDGs.
‘Provide opportunities for citizens to improve the awareness ofglobal contribution’
1. JCI Kanazawa improved the citizens’awareness of global
contribution by providing opportunities to join International
Presentation Contest.

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1. JCI Kanazawa provided opportunities for citizens to participate inInternational Presentation Contest.
2. Citizens built recognition of JCI and UNMDGs by participating in it.
‘Develop global network in the community’
1. Through carrying out the above activities, they transcended the
problems between their multiple cultures and built a trusting
relationship.

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JCI Kanazawa provided opportunities for citizens tochange their awareness in order to develop global
networks of young citizens in the community.
This project aligns to JCI Plan of Action in thefollowing respects.
‘The organization now recognizes that young active
citizens are asked to be involved in the community as amatter of today.’‘Develop young active citizens’
1. Japanese students in university and foreign
students who participate in JCI Kanazawa’s
projects talk about differences in each other’snationalities, languages, races and cultures andtake training courses to understand each other.
2. Those students who understand each other learn
the importance of improving the awareness ofglobal contribution and building recognition of
JCI and UNMDGs through training courses.
3. They act together toward the goal of sharing
what is learned in training courses to citizens.
4. They build a trusting relationship and positively
work on projects with JCI Kanazawa by acting
toward the same goal.
‘Young active citizens become engaged in thecommunity on their own’
JCI Kanazawa and students become engaged in thecommunity on by improving the awareness of global
contribution and communicating the importance ofrecognizing JCI and UNMDGs to citizens.
JCI Kanazawa managed its finances properly in thefollowing respects.
‘Management of the rent for the venues’
1. JCI Kanazawa obtained local government’s
understanding of its program and used thevenues of training courses for the students forfree.
2. JCI Kanazawa used the venues inexpensively
where many citizens improved the awareness ofglobal contribution and shared the importance of
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recognizing JCI and UNMDGs.
‘Management of students’activity expenses’
1. JCI Kanazawa confirmed the effect of thematerial expenses needed for training courses
beforehand and properly used them.
2. JCI Kanazawa confirmed in advance theexpenses for the website on which students
transmit their training courses to the world andproperly used them.
‘Promotion of JCI Mission’
1. JCI Kanazawa conducted training courses where
local Japanese students in university and foreign
students worked together toward the same goal.
2. JCI Kanazawa provided opportunities for themto create positive change through the process,that is, to build a trusting relationshiptranscending the differences between theirmultiple cultures.
‘Promotion of JCI Vision’
1. JCI Kanazawa provided opportunities forstudents to communicate the importance ofimproving the awareness of global
contribution and building recognition of JCI
and UNMDGs to many citizens.
2. They established the network for trusting eachother transcending the differences between theirmultiple cultures through the process.
3. They have grown to the point where they
continue and develop the activities and organize
plans to act with many citizens.

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17 members
100%
JCI Kanazawa members played the following
important role.
‘Contact for cooperative organizations’
1. JCI Kanazawa obtained the understanding of its
program from Ishikawa Pref. and Kanazawa Cityand used the venues for free.
2. JCI Kanazawa gained the understanding of the
program from them and the cooperation for
promoting participation in training courses fromJapanese students in university and foreign
students.
3. JCI Kanazawa gained the understanding ofInternational Presentation Contest from themand they cooperated with promotion of citizens’
attendance.
‘Contact for students’
1. JCI Kanazawa visited universities and promoted
Japanese students ’and foreign students’participation in training courses.
2. JCI Kanazawa organized students who applied
for training courses.
3. JCI Kanazawa organized those students’attendance.
4. After the training courses, JCI Kanazawa
summarized the questionnaire asking whether
they transcended the difference between theirmultiple cultures and built a trusting
relationship.
‘Contact for citizens’
1. JCI Kanazawa promoted citizens’ participationin International Presentation Contest.
2. JCI Kanazawa summarized the questionnaireasking citizens who joined whether they
improved the awareness of global contribution
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and whether they recognized JCI and UNMDGs.
‘Management of the website’
Students who joined properly managed the website on
which they transmitted the content of training courses,
JCI movement and UNMDGs to the world.

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JCI Kanazawa measured what impact on thecommunity it had by conducting the following
questionnaires to 100 citizens who took part inInternational Presentation Contest.
1. Whether they improved the awareness ofglobal contribution
2. Whether they recognized JCI and UNMDGs
3. Whether they think it necessary to continue
this project for the community
This project created the following impact on theactual community.
1. In the questionnaire asking whether they
improved the awareness of global contribution,
83% of the citizens who took part inInternational Presentation Contest answered‘Yes, very much’; and 17% answered ‘Yes.’
2. In the questionnaire asking whether theyrecognized JCI and UNMDGs, 78% of themanswered ‘Yes, very much’and 22%
answered ‘Yes.’
3. In the questionnaire asking whether they thought
it necessary to continue this project for thecommunity, 83% of them answered ‘Yes, verymuch’ and 17% answered ‘Yes.’
4. Three governmental organizations referred tothis project and conducted their projects.
5. Two universities organized projects for Japanese
students in university and foreign students using
this project as a reference.
6. JCI Kanazawa obtained a promise from all thecooperative organizations that they would
continue to cooperate in the coming year.

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JCI Kanazawa had the following benefit fromorganizing this project.
1. LOM members realized the necessity of the
project and increased their sense of participation
because many citizens improved the awarenessof global contribution.
2. JCI Kanazawa built recognition and manyorganizations promised to cooperate in the
coming year as well because many citizens
participated in this project.
Promotion of JCI Mission
1. JCI Kanazawa focused on the problems thatJapanese students in local university andforeign students could not build a trusting
relationship because of the differences
between their multiple cultures.
2. JCI Kanazawa provided opportunities for themto talk about the differences between eachother’;s nationalities, languages, races andcultures and understand each.
3. JCI Kanazawa conducted training courses towork together with them toward the same goal.
4. JCI Kanazawa created opportunities for positivechange in the process through which they built atrusting relationship transcending the differences
between their multiple cultures.
Promotion of JCI Vision
1. JCI Kanazawa gave training courses to Japanese
students in university and foreign students inwhich they improved the awareness of global
contribution and recognized JCI and
UNMDGs.
2. Japanese students in university and foreign
students provided opportunities for many
citizens opportunities to improve the awarenessof global contribution and share the importanceof recognizing JCI and UNMDGs.
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3. They built a network to transcend thedifferences between their multiple cultures andtrust each other through the process.
4. They have grown to the point where they
continue and develop the activities and organize
plans to act with many citizens.

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The expected long-term impact of this project is asfollows:
1. JCI Kanazawa gains cooperation of manyother organizations and develops global
networks of young active citizens in thecommunity by continuing this project in the
coming year.
2. JCI Kanazawa develops global networks ofmore young active citizens in various
communities around the world by transmitting
this project to the world.
3. JCI Kanazawa accordingly improves theawareness of global contribution in various
communities around the world and builds
recognition of JCI and UNMDGs.
The measures to improve the results of this projectis as follows:
JCI Kanazawa needs to develop more citizens who
have improved the awareness of global
contribution.
JCI Kanazawa conducts the followings in order for
more citizens to join this project.
1. JCI Kanazawa transmits this project to citizens
through publication.
2. JCI Kanazawa continues the project in whichcitizens improve the awareness of global
contribution.
3. JCI Kanazawa reports the results of the project
to individual organizations to gain theircooperation in the future.
4. Citizens who have created positive change talkto people close to them about the importance ofimproving the awareness of global contribution.

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