## 1 Local Management Reform Project

Support is given to local governments that strive to realize simple and efficient administration through administrative and financial reforms, such as administrative organization and management reform, and create new vitality in the community.

## 2 Local Product Discovery and Brand Formation Project

Support is given to local governments that endeavor to strengthen the base of local industries through the discovery, utilization, branding, and so on of indigenous local resources, such as local products, nature, history, culture, and scenery, and build local attractions.

## 3 Low Birthrate Countermeasures Project

Support is given to local governments that tackle low birthrate countermeasures in a comprehensive and multilateral manner, such as the expansion of local child-raising support, the establishment of an environment in which women can give birth without anxiety, and the reform of ways of working to enable people to balance work and child raising.

## 4 Company Location Promotion Project

Support is given to local governments that endeavor to attract domestic companies, foreign companies, and companies making a U-turn from overseas to locate in the locality and thereby to strengthen local vitality and competitiveness.

## 5 Settlement Promotion Project

Support is given to local governments that strive to promote settlement by providing people who wish to make a U-or I-turn, such as members of the baby-boom generation and young people, with places where they can enjoy a healthy life in the countryside, achieve self-realization, or make a return contribution to society.

## 6 Tourism Promotion and Exchange Project

Support is given to local governments that tackle local vitalization and exchange by, for example, promoting symbiosis and circulation between urban areas and rural and fishing villages, local consumption of local products, and dietary education and attracting foreign tourists.

## 7 Community Regeneration Project

Support is given to local governments that tackle the revitalization of central urban areas as a part of community development and the realization of lively communities that are pleasant to live in for all people, including the elderly and children.

## Young People's Independence Support Project

Support is given to local governments that promote the occupational independence of young people, including NEETs (not in employment, education, or training) and freeters (job-hopping part-timers), and offer, for example, assistance for employment in the agriculture, forestry, and fisheries industries.

## Safe and Secure Community Development Project

Support is given to local governments that, among other things, promote measures to protect children from crime, crime-prevention activities by the local community, the healthy upbringing of young children, and local disaster-prevention measures, such as large-scale earthquake countermeasures.

## 10 Environmental Preservation Project

Support is given to local governments that make efforts toward energy saving, the development of new energy sources, the adoption of global-warming countermeasures, and the building of a recycle society, such as by promoting the 3Rs (reduce waste, recycle, reuse), as well as toward symbiosis with nature.