| Grassroots Projects Overseas |
| Currently, JOICFP conducts various projects
in Asia, Africa and Latin America. JOICFP has promoted
the Integrated Project (IP)
combining family planning with improvement of nutrition,
maternal and child health, and parasite control in developing
countries. IP projects are diversified so that they meet
the various needs of the people in different situations.
Projects are conducted to improve: community health based
on the concepts of RH, adolescent health, primary health
care, environmental hygiene, and preventive medical care.
Furthermore, projects are also carried out to improve
economic conditions through income generating activities
(IGA), basic education, and the improvement of people's
daily living. |
| JOICFP emphasizes the continuation of
projects after assistance has stopped, and for communities
to own and manage their own projects. This sustainability,
as it is known, is enhanced by developing countries that
have accumulated experience through working with JOICFP
helping other developing countries in what is called "South-to-South
cooperation" in the fields of population and RH.
JOICFP actively supports this cooperation by, for example,
providing technical assistance in areas such as advocacy,
building of human capacity (training), and organization
of workshops. |
| Domestic Activities (Information,
Advocacy, Support Network) |
| The major pillars of JOICFP's activities
in Japan are information and advocacy on development issues,
particularly population issues and reproductive health
and rights (RH/R). In order to deepen people's knowledge
and understanding of world population issues and RH/R
issues, JOICFP organizes symposiums, lecture meetings
and seminars in cooperation with UN agencies, interested
international organizations, NGOs and civil organizations,
parliamentarian groups, the media and the Japanese government.
JOICFP also publishes periodicals and newsletters keeping
different interested parties, such as parliamentarians
and the general public, informed on the latest trends
and issues in RH/FP and population. |
| Since 1994, JOICFP has served as the
Secretariat for the Forum of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and NGOs to implement Global Issues Initiative: Population
and HIV/AIDS (GII). Together with other NGO members in
the forum, JOICFP is committed to advocacy for Official
Development Assistance (ODA) policies and implementation.
In 2001, the Infectious Diseases Initiative (IDI) was
added to GII, and GII/IDI projects are now being expanded. |
| Under a cooperation scheme with local
governments, the Municipal Coordinating Committee on Bicycle
Assistance (MCCOBA), JOICFP sends reconditioned bicycles
and spare parts to developing countries. The bicycles
are always in great demand, helping to meet the needs
of RH/FP field workers, public health nurses and the like. |
| JOICFP conducts fundraising campaigns
by collecting used stamps and prepaid telephone and railway
cards and selling them to collectors' shops. JOICFP also
sells fair-trade coffee and other products from project
sites, and profits are sent directly back to people at
the project sites. In addition, JOICFP directly contacts
the public through events such as international cooperation
festivals, regional expos, and exhibitions in public spaces.
JOICFP takes a multi-sectoral approach, and works with
other parties interested in areas such as the environment
to promote its activities. |
| JOICFP links these overseas and domestic
activities organically with research, training, publicity
and information material production programs in an effort
to conduct more effective international cooperation. |
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