Please note that the following is outline of the program in 2008 for the purpose of reference.
1st week
- Arrival (Orientation and Mobility Training is provided for participants with visual impairment)
- Briefing and orientation by JICA
2nd week
- Opening Ceremony
- Program Orientation
- Welfare Service and Measures for Persons with Disabilities (Lecture)
- Accessibility Check in Tokyo Metropolitan City (Experience)
- “What is the Rights of Personal Mobility?” (Lecture)
- Transportation accessibility in each country (Discussion)
- Leadership Skills (Workshop)
- Personal / Organization Report (Presentation)
- Tokyo Metropolitan Sports Center for the Disabled (Visit)
3rd Week
- Human Rights and Advocacy (Workshop)
- Peer Counseling and Peer Support (Lecture and session)
- “Welfare Service and Systems for Persons with Disabilities Ⅱ – from the perspectives of persons with disabilities” (Lecture)
- Home Visit
4th Week
- Movement of Persons with Disabilities to Bring Social Change
- (1) Japan Federation of the Blind (Visit and Lecture)
- (2) Tokyo Helen Keller Association, Inc. (Visit and Lecture)
- (3) Human Care Association (Visit and Lecture)
- (4) Japanese Federation of the Deaf (Lecture)
- (5) “Acorns in the Village” (Visit)
- Leadership Skills (Workshop)
- Watching the Film of “A Piece of Your Home (Furusato wo Kudasai)”
- How to Write Project Plan (Workshop)
5th Week
- Regional Visits to Hiroshima Prefecture
- (1) Barrier Free Tourism (Miyajima – World Heritage)
- (2) Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Peace Memorial Park (Visit)
- (3) Story about Atom-Bombing Experience by a Survivor of Atom-Bombing
- (4) Courtesy visit to Mayor of Hiroshima
- (5) “Peace Education promoted by Hiroshima Municipal Office” (Lecture)
- Regional Visit to Wakayama Prefecture
- Barley Village, Workshop for persons with mental disabilities (Visit)
6th Week
- Individual Training
- “Learning from Individual Training” (Opinion exchange)
7th Week
- Analysis of the Participants’ Organizations (Workshop)
- Organizational Management (Workshop)
- Strengthening the Participants’ Organizations
- – finding solutions to the problems and measures for further development (Workshop)
- Review of Project Plan and Presentation Skill (Workshop)
8th Week
- UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Lecture)
- Learning from former participants through JICA-Net (TV Conference)
- Presentation of Project Plan
- About JICA Volunteer (Lecture)
- Submission of Project Plan
- Evaluation, Closing Ceremony, Farewell Party