COMPLETION REPORT
Kl-IEN SUAN KHAI
Lecturer
Mae Fah Luang University
School of Social Innovation,
As the most impoverished State in Burma/Myanmar, Chin State lacks primary development
dynamism such as education and healthcare. The recent reform in the country from 2011 to 2019has evidenced systematic policy implementation that benefited underprivileged States like
Chin State. Besides the Union and State governments’ direction, international grant assistancefor grassroots is highly effective for the beneficiaries．Significantly，The Japan Grant
Assistance for Grassroots Project (GGP) has progressive effectiveness exclusively in theeducation sector. The aid is effective because it suppo11s breaking one of the barriers
impeding the development of quality education in Chin State. It is the aid assistance tobuild school buildings, furniture, and other primary school resources. The four factors
impeding the development of quality education are the Chin State government’s weak decisionmaking power in the education sector, shortage of teaching staff and the incompetency of theexisting teachers, promotion of school level without thorough evaluation of the resources andsituation in the location, language barrier, insecurity, and poor learning environment.
According to the Chin State government’s data, Chin State has received 2,930.623 million
Kyats(approximately $1.780 million)from Japan for building(school, staff housing, and toilet),water unit, and furniture from 2015 to 2020. This amount includes different sources of aid
from the Government of Japan except the GGP. For the Japan GGP alone, since 2015, it reached$6,192,106 in total for Chin Slate. $5,130,404 is for the school building, and the rest isfor healthcare（health center and medical equipment). It is difficult to show the direct aid
effectiveness in number when it is for school buildings, desks and chairs, water, andhealthcare. Nevertheless, it is highly effective for the local people, students, and teachers
who enjoy the direct impact of having a formal classroom, restroom, staff housing, water unit
in schools, and healthcare center with proper desks, tables, and chairs. Teachers and students
state that the learning environment directly impacts the education assessment process thatthey can concentrate more with better class setting and equipment while enjoying daily basic
needs such as water system and toilet.
Many students were exposed to extreme weather conditions under minus degrees in thecold season and licking roofs in the rainy season during their studies. Some schools wereruined because of heavy rain and avalanche, and schoolteachers have no shelter to live in andno teaching tools. Many primary education schools have no water and lavatories, and the oldschools have no proper partition that hundreds of students must study in a hall-type termite
building. For all these sorts of school, Japan's generous grant aid has tremendous constructiveeffectiveness.
Uplifting the education stand and healthcare system has been a conundrum of theGovernment of Bunna/Myanmar that assistance from the international governments positively
impacts the grassroots who need the se1vices the most. It is the primary duty of the Governmentof the aid recipient country to make the education policy sound and effective, provide-1-

adequate resources (human, technique, financial), and cooperate with the internationalorganizations for assistance. Respectively for the education sector, if the Government ofJapan, through JICA and the embassy, could grant assistance, financial and technicalassistance to education training colleges and universities，it will have an incredible impact
competency efficiency students.

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