PROJECTS
SPF Program Agenda(2004)

Capacity Building for Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus

28,000,000 yen (Self-operated project)
SPF

  1. Policy Research The project will select eminent academics and researchers from the target countries to conduct policy research on the following subjects in collaboration with specialists from Japan, US, Russia and China.
    (1) Regional collaboration between the target countries
    (2) Problems in agricultural economics and their solutions in Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, and Georgia after accession to the WTO
    (3) Systemic transformation in the target countries
  2. International conference (Late June 2005):
    An international conference on various issues in Central Asia and the Caucasus will be held in Bishkek, with a total of thirty people invited from East Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus, and international donor organizations.
  3. Sending East Asian specialists to provide support for Pan Asia Fund projects:
    East Asian specialists will be dispatched to the target countries to provide support for projects, with the aim of strengthening the organic links between the project and various Pan Asia Fund projects in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
  4. Publication:
    The project will publish "Central Asia and South Caucasus Affairs: 2005" and reports of the policy research.
  5. Advisor
    The project will hire Dr. Boris Rumer of Harvard University as an advisor. He will advise in the selection of people to conduct policy research, and the themes of the international conference and seminar. He will also provide advice about the compilation of the 3-year project results and about future SPF programs.
  6. Collection, analysis, and dissemination of information
    The program will maintain an information dissemination forum on the website constructed in cooperation with Aki Press in 2003, and strengthen the function of the dissemination. In consideration of the present project results, SPF will also plan future programs in this area by collecting and analyzing more information from the view point of Japan and East Asia.

(Sixth year of a 6-year project)





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