Institute for Community Design

Noticias de Republica Dominicana!
Aunque la pandemia se está acelerando en el mundo, ¡no impedirá que avancemos D-HOPE! ¡Cualquiera puede ver las aperturas del evento hoy a través de Zoom!

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Luego de extenderle un afectuoso saludo, el Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Mipymes , a través del Viceministerio de Fomento a las Mipymes y La Agencia de Cooperación Internacional del Japón (JICA) les hacen formal invitación al acto de lanzamiento del programa Exhibición Descentralizada de Programas Vivenciales D-Hope, el 16 de julio de 2020, a las 10:00 a.m. Dominican time zone.

Este programa constituye una herramienta de desarrollo comunitario que busca contribuir a la dinamización de las economías locales, dando participación a la comunidad en la exhibición de todas sus actividades productivas y buscando la mejora y diversificación de sus productos y servicios para generar un impacto positivo para sus habitantes.

El mismo se llevará a cabo vía Zoom, frente a la desafortunada situación que vivimos con el COVID 19, comparto la agenda del lanzamiento del catálogo y el enlace para unirse:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84462874869?pwd=RXlrdHZMWmxic0RZczFHU090a0xRQT09

ID de reunión: 844 6287 4869

Contraseña: 39831

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The project for community-based entrepreneurship for rural development in Dominican Republic is closing this month and we have visited to support the D-HOPE implementation in Montecristi province!

We are launching the first catalog with 60 entrepreneurs soon and we hope to have a fruitful outcome in the future!

Thank you for the Ministerio de industria, comercio y MIPYMES on the collaboration of the project! We wish you all the best!

Congratulations for your successful completion of the “life in Japan” as they say, Bhutanese participants! And thank you so much for our collaboration in this project for 6 years!!!

We appreciate all your efforts towards the cottage and small industry development and we hope to see approx. 350 D-HOPE champions’ success in the future!

Two days discussion for the action plan! This coming March, we will finalize the community entrepreneurial capacity and rural enterprise development project in Bhutan.

In this training, the participants focused on promotion issues to hold a workshop combined with empowerment evaluation and then business idea development with tour operators! So, we expect from this workshops to develop some tours based on hands-on programs.

Very interesting workshop plan has development and we are very excited to see actual implementation of the work!

JICA training for Bhutan 2nd week! Today we visited Hiji city in Oita prefecture to get some hands-on experiences!

Today Bhutanese participants discussed policy issues identifying stakeholders, organizing policy structures of small and cottage industry as well we tourism policies.

The last year of training for Bhutan's project for Community Entrepreneurial Capacity and Rural Enterprise Development.

First JICA Training of 2020, we have started the training on the Community Entrepreneurial Capacity and Rural Enterprise Development for Bhutan with 5 participants!

This is the last activity of the project that has been implementing 6 years. Since it will be the last we are looking at the future direction of the department of cottage and small industry policy with D-HOPE in Bhutan under the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Empowerment evaluation (E.E) for training government officials in Thailand!

Our institute is expanding E.E method for newly officials in the community development department of ministry of interior in Thailand.

Today, our first trial of E.E for new officers’ training went very enjoyable and we saw officials became more motivated and empowered by sharing thoughts and their changes! Among all the officers, they chose one CHAMPION officer and the room became very emotional that MC was in tears!

From the experiences of Thailand as well as other projects, we would like to make a continuous efforts on D-HOPE, E.E and other rural development issues in 2020 too! We hope to provide more materials and readings too.

Thank you all the followers and everyone who’s involved with us in 2019 and we wish you a merry Christmas and happy new year!

Last day of training for Bhutan delegation in Thailand, we had a lecture on evaluation issues and CDD officials took an initiative to conduct empowerment evaluation for the delegation!

Thank you for the collaboration CDD as well as JICA Bhutan and Thailand to make this opportunity for the D-HOPE project in Bhutan.

We wish all the best and luck for Bhutan to integrate community-based tourism with D-HOPE in the future!