Country Report

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Country Report
JICA ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONOF THAILAND (JAAT)

• The 3rd JICA Alumni Regional Conference
• Bangkok, Thailand
• 12-14th December, 2003

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Profile of the association

• Establishment 1987
• Members 2,000 people
• The executive committee 15 people
• Consultants 20 people

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Operational Components

• Personnel
• JAAT Office employs 1 secretary.
• Budget
• JICA annually subsidized from the JICA Thailand
  office.

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Operational Components

• Management
• Association was legally registered in 1987.
• The executive committee to hold a position
• for 2 years and participate in monthly meeting
  with their consultants.
• The annually audit accounts and summarizes the
  report to the JICA Thailand office.

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Objectives

• To continue relationship between members.
• To strengthen good relationship between Thais and
  Japanese.
• To exchange academic contents, knowledge, art and
  culture as well as tradition.
• To stimulate development in accordance with the
  rapid changing world and use the knowledge for
  benefiting and advantages of our nations.
• To reinforce merit in order to develop attitude,
  ethics, capacity as well as virtue.

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Management

• Hold annual meetings to approve the association
  management and to elect the committee for the
  term of two years.
• Meeting of the management committee monthly.

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Management

• Report activities and a financial statement to
  the JICA Thailand office.
• Producing a CDROM of the JAAT members directory.

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Management

• Visited and discussed with the director and
  staffs of the JICA Thai office for the
  cooperation.

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Promote better understanding between all
membersand Japanese.
Activities
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1. Orientation

• Cooperate with the JICA Thailand office in
  organizing briefings, for new participants prior
  to their departure for JICA courses.

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2. Web Site

• The JAAT web site (http//www.jaat.or.th) was
  created in 2000 and provided the facilities
• News and Information for the JAAT
• Forums and e-mails
• Activities of the JAAT
• New member Application
• General information on technical and cultural
  issues.
• Link to the International JICA Office

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JAATs Home Page
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Activities Page
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JICA Offices Link
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3. Cultural Study

• - Boat trip taken on June 27, 2003 on the Nakorn
  Chaisri river for studying traditional Thai life.

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4. Technical Seminar

• - Cooperating with the department of Industrial
  Promotions in organizing the seminar of Waste
  Water Treatment on August 29, 2003 in the
  Ayutthaya province.

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5. Sharing Experience

• - Educational talk held on September 13, 2003 on
  Buddhism and IT conducted by Dr. Rojrung
  Suwannasuthi, the JAAT first president.

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6. Cultural Conservation

• - Participated and Promoted the Thai tradition
  Loy Krathong Festival on November 8, 2003.

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7. Sports

• - Bowling competition shared by our JAAT members
  and related organizations on November 16, 2003.

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8. Respecting our Royal Family

• - Celebrated His Majesty the Kings 76th
  Birthday Anniversary on December 5, 2003.

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Constrains

• Budget
• Annually subsidised by JICA which is insufficient
• Participation in activities
• Lack of involvement by the JAAT members in the
  activities.
• JAAT members come from various fields and level
  of ranks. Their interested in activities are
  varied.

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Future Plans

• To improve networking among members. There should
  be coordinators/representatives from various
  organizations.
• To seek additional budgets to operate
  self-sufficiently of the JAAT
• To promote the members potential for more
  utility throughout the country.
• To participate in an exchange program, such as
  home stay, projects with the JICA Alumni
  Organization throughout Asian countries.

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Thank you