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  • Date Posted: December 16, 2016
  • • The 97th CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • • 第97回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します。（2017年1月18日）

  • •“End-user Finance as a Means to Promote the Energy Access of the Poor”

    『貧困層のエネルギーアクセスを推進するエンドユーザファイナンス』

  • Chikako Fujita
    Arc Finance
    Project Manager

    藤田 周子
    アークファイナンス
    プロジェクトマネージャー

    Although ten years have passed since the development of solid and inexpensive solar lantern, still only a small portion of 1.2 billion people living in non-electrified area in the world have access to solar lantern. One of the biggest obstacles is its price. Even if the lantern costs only a few thousand yens, poor people still find it difficult to finance. A global NGO, Arc Finance, experimented diverse end-user-finance methods in 20 locations in five different countries, consequently succeeding to provide clean energy solutions to more than 500,000 households. In my presentation, I introduce diverse examples of microfinance, Pay-As-You-Go, and microgrid.

    貧困層向けの丈夫で格安なソーラーランタンが開発されて約10年経ちますが、その普及は世界の無電化人口12億人に比べると十分ではありません。大きな障壁の一つが価格です。たとえ数千円であっても貧困層にとって購入資金を捻出するのは困難です。アークファイナンスでは、さまざまなエンドユーザファイナンス手法を世界5か国20近くのパートナーとともに実証実験し、その結果50万世帯以上がソーラー等クリーンエネルギーのソリューションを購入しています。本講演では、マイクロファイナンス、Pay-As-You-Go、マイクログリッドなど複数の事例を紹介します。
  • Date Posted: December 5, 2016
  • • The 96th CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • • 第96回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します。（2016年12月7日）

  • •“Algae Change the World? Nourishment Revolution with Supirulina Produced in Zambia”

    『藻が世界を変える？ザンビア産スピルリナで栄養革命を！』

  • Kofuke Hara
    Alliance Forum Foundation
    Program Manager
    Developing Countries Section

    原　孝友
    一般財団法人　アライアンス・フォーラム財団
    途上国事業部門　プログラム・マネージャー

    In order to nurture well-educated and high-quality middle-class people in Africa, the Alliance Forum Foundation (AFF, Developing Countries Section) is promoting the improvement of people’s nourishment in a grass-route level by also working to develop financial institutions which enable to achieve AFF’s goal. In the presentation, I shall explain about a Spirulina Production Project in Zambia, using highly nutritious Supirulina produced in Africa.

    アフリカに教育を受けた質の高い中産階級層を育てていくため、アライアンス・フォーラム財団（途上国事業部門）では、草の根レベルでの栄養改善事業、政策レベルでの金融制度改革を進めております。今回は慢性的栄養不良問題を解決するため、アフリカ原産で栄養価の高い「スピルリナ（藻）」を使ったザンビアの事業についてご紹介します。
  • Date Posted: October 10, 2016
  • • The 95th CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • • 第95回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します。（2016年11月2日）

  • • “Waste Recycle Business of Materials Containing Mercury by Nomura Kohsan and its International Business Expansion Making Use of International Cooperation Promoted by the Minamata Convention of Mercury”

    『野村興産㈱の水銀含有廃棄物処理事業と、水俣条約を転機とした国際協力・海外事業への取り組みについて』

  • Yutaka Ichihashi
    Executive Director
    Nomura Kohsan, Ltd.

    This presentation first introduces the recycle business of Nomura Kohsan, which had in the past the largest mercury mine in Asia. Secondly, it explains how the Minamata Convention of Mercury changed the environment for mercury-related recycle business. And finally, how Nomura Kohsan benefitted from this convention to expand its international business based on the multilateral agreement for international cooperation. It will be a very interesting case to show how domestically-developed technology can be used for international business expansion, making use of international agreement.

    まず、かつては東洋一と言われた水銀鉱山にそのルーツを持つ野村興産㈱の水銀リサイクルビジネスについて、簡単な事業紹介をします。次に、2013年に成立し、現在条約発効に向けた努力が続く水俣条約の前後で、大きく変化した水銀リサイクルを巡る事業環境について解説し、そのうえで、途上国への技術移転を求める条約を踏み台に、二国間・多国間の国際協力メカニズムを活用した海外への事業展開が図れるようになった経緯についてご紹介します。日本で培われた環境技術を海外へ展開する事例として参考にしていただければと思います。
  • Date Posted: September 7, 2016
  • • The 94th CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • • 第94回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します。（2016年10月12日）

  • • “JOCV (Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers) Field Research Group: Reports from Kennya and Ghana”

    •『青年海外協力隊フィールド調査団、ケニアとガーナからの活動報告：

  • (1) “Report from Kennya: Is Career Education Effective to Prevent Children Coming Back to Detention Home – A Trial to Make Them Feel Not Wishing to Come Back” by Sayaka Matsuda (Just returned from JOCV mission)

  • ケニア　「キャリア教育は児童拘置所で有効か？　―「もうここには戻らない」と思わせるための取り組み—」
    松田沙弥香（帰国直後のケニア協力隊員）
  • In Kennya, teenage crime is very high. This research analyzes factors which may reduce imprisoned teenagers coming back to the prison. Based on hypotheses that role model exercises and career education are two key factors, a curriculum is actually developed and implemented.

    (2) “Report from Ghana: Villagers Can Teach You – Building a School from Scratch in Kanjarga Village in Ghana” by Tetsuya Hotta (Area of activity: Ghana; Amacho Tourist Association, Board Representative, NPO Let’s Build Schools)

  • ガーナ　「答えは村人が教えてくれる　～カンジャガ村でゼロからの学校建設～」
    堀田哲也（活動地：ガーナ共和国）島根県海士町観光協会　契約社員、ＮＰＯ学校をつくろう代表

  • It is a story of one young Japanese who landed in Africa for the first time, experienced Ghana living with daily surprises, established a school, and provided training to local people for self-sustaining the school.

    Coordinated by:
    Yosuke Kotsuji, Investment Officer
    International Finance Corporation (IFC) Kenya Office


    コオーディネーター：　
    小辻洋介：　IFC（世界銀行民間セクター部門）東アフリカ農業投資統括

  • Date Posted: June 24, 2016
  • • The 93rd CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • ・ 第93回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します。（2016年7月13日）

  • • “Initiative on the Development and Promotion of Malaria-preventive Olyset Net by Sumitomo Chemical”

    •『住友化学によるマラリア予防用蚊帳オリセットネット開発・普及の取り組み』

  • •Akira Taniuchi
    Division Head
    Health and Crop Sciences Sector
    Sumitomo Chemical Company, Ltd.

    谷内 晃
    住友化学株式会社生活環境事業部長

    •In the early 2000s, Sumitomo Chemical innovated the Olyset Net, an insecticide-treated mosquito net with long-term effectiveness, and then succeeded in its commercial production. The long-lasting insecticidal net (LLIN) has contributed a lot to reduce the malaria disease rate. Despite so in social contributions, I shall discuss about problems and future prospect of the product from a business perspective.

    •住友化学は、２０００年代初、マラリア予防用の殺虫剤含有の長期残効性蚊帳を発明し商業生産に漕ぎ着けた。Long Lasting Insecticidal Net(LLIN)は、マラリア罹患率の減少に大きな貢献があったとされているが、ビジネス面での課題や今後の展望について議論する。
  • Date Posted: May 17, 2016
  • • The 92nd CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • ・ 第92回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します。（2016年6月1日）

  • • “Smart Community in Honda’s Way: Experimental Case in Republic of the Marshall Islands”

    •『Hondaの考えるスマートコミュニティ
    ～マーシャル諸島共和国における実証実験事例』

  • •Naohiro Maeda
    Department Manager, Community Planning Department
    Smart Community Planning Office
    Business Planning Supervisory Unit, Automobile Operations
    Honda Motor Co. Ltd.

    前田　直洋
    本田技研工業株式会社
    四輪事業本部　事業企画統括部
    スマートコミュニティ企画室
    コミュニティ企画ブロック　ブロックリーダー

    •Honda is aspiring to contribute to the development of “sustainable and affluent society where people can enjoy moving freely” by combining the next generation personal mobility technology and energy creating and controlling devices. The present experiment of the Solar EV Project conducted in Republic of the Marshall Islands will be reported.

    •Hondaは、次世代パーソナルモビリティと創エネ制御機器の組み合わせで、「自由な移動の喜びと豊かで持続可能な社会の実現」を目指しています。現在行われている、マーシャル諸島共和国でのソーラーEVプロジェクトの事例を取り上げながら、Hondaの取り組みをご紹介します。
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  • Date Posted: March 30, 2016
  • • The 91st CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • ・ 第91回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します。（2016年4月20日）

  • • “Contribution to Realizing the Happiness of Bangladeshi Women Cherishing to Live in Ways One Likes”

    •『「化粧の力」を活かして 自分らしく生きたいと願うバングラデシュ女性の幸せの実現に貢献』

  • •Tsuyoshi Kato
    Strategy Group
    Sustainability Strategy Department
    Shiseido Company, Ltd.

    加藤　剛志
    株式会社資生堂
    サステナビリティ戦略部　戦略グループ

    •Shiseido’s activity to improve women’s status and support their activities in rural Bangladesh since 2011 will be reported. Advancing beyond CSR activities for contributing to solving women’s problems and gender-related social issues, it is trying to develop a globally-respectable sustainable approach based on Shiseido’s know-how and knowledge thus far accumulated through activities in rural communities. This project is designated as a model case of “Business Call to Action (BCtA)” of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
  • Date Posted: December 22, 2015
  • • The 90th CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • ・ 第90回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します。（2016年1月13日）

  • • “BOP Business for Delivering Light to Unelectrified Houses in LDCs and its Horizon”

    •『LDCs未電化家庭に明かりを届けるBOPビジネスとその地平‼』

  • •Naoki Matsuo
    CEO, PEAR Carbon Offset
    松尾 直樹
    (株) PEARカーボンオフセット・イニシアティブ
    代表取締役

    •PEAR Carbon Offset is trying to develop a BOP business to spread a Japanese-technology-based mini-solar home-system to unelectrified homes in Bangladesh and Egypt. I shall introduce philosophy behind this project and experiences relevant for small- and medium-sized firms to engage in BOP business, including a perspective on climate change. Additionally, I shall emphasize the importance of CSR activities to make use of other companies’ business activities, when this type of business is difficult to engage.
  • Date Posted: November 18, 2015
  • • The 89th CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • ・ 第89回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します。（2015年12月9日）

  • • “Shift from Not-challenging-risk to Risk-in-challenging-process!! Self-pedaling-powered Chair Cycle which Positively Work with Physically- challenged People (Experiences from JICA’s Grassroots Technical Cooperation in Vietnam)”

    •『やらないリスクからやるリスクへ‼
    〜障がいとPositiveに向き合うアイテム
    【足こぎ車いす】JICA草の根技術協力事業の現場から〜』 (詳細)

  • •Kenji Suzuki
    CEO, TESS Inc.
    鈴木　堅之（すずき　けんじ）
    (株)TESS
    代表取締役

    •TESS Inc. is the Minister-of-Economy-Trade-and-Industry-Award winner at the Japan Venture Awards 2014 for its new rehabilitation model and newly-developed walking- support-equipment. Its new model, “New Rehabilitation Model based on Patients’ Initiative,” focuses on patients’ self-initiated mobility by riding a “self-pedaling-powered chair cycle” which makes use of human reflex. The company started making a BOP initiative supported by JICA to promote the use of the equipment in hospitals in Vietnam and all over the country, hoping to develop a locally-suitable rehabilitation model as well as to nurture a significant number of human resources who link medical care and public welfare in this young and lively nation with the average age of 28.2.
  • Date Posted: November 13, 2015
  • • The 88th CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • ・ 第88回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します。（2015年11月18日）

  • • “JOCV (Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers) Field Research Group: Reports from the Philippines”

    •『青年海外協力隊フィールド調査団、フィリピンでの活動報告』（詳細）
  • ＊Skypeにて現在赴任中の隊員2名、会場にて今年帰国の1名が発表します。

  • •Coordinator: Misa Takaramoto (Mentor for the Philippines’ Field Research Group) Japan Asia Strategic Advisory
    (1) Yoshio Shintani (Province of Iloilo) “Research on Employment and Recruitment for Improving the Labor Force Participation Rate”
    (2) Kenji Yamaji (Province of Camarines Sur) “Research on Introducing Machineries for Improving Income of Coconut Farmers”
    (3) Ai Sugiyama (Province of Sorsogon)
    “Support of Women Social Participation through Handicrafts Work”

    •コオーデェネーター
    宝本美佐（フィリピンフィールド調査団メンター）
    アジア戦略アドバイザリー

    (報告者1) 新谷好生「農村部における雇用・求人実態の調査と就労率向上の取り組み」
    イロイロ州ドゥエニャス町役場　地域経済投資促進課（2014年10月～16年10月）

    (報告者2)
    山路健造「ココナッツ農家の収入向上に向けた機材導入のための実態調査」
    南カマリネス州ティナンバック町　農業事務所　（2014年10月～16年10月）

    (報告者3) 杉山愛「女性の社会進出と手工芸品を通した支援」
    ソルソゴン州グバット町サンタアーナ村（2013年5月～15年3月）
  • Date Posted: September 23, 2015
  • • The 87th CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • ・ 第87回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します。（2015年10月14日）

  • • “Solving Food/Medical Problems and Contributing to the Economic Empowerment of Women with Japanese-made Ice Battery – Trial in India ”

    •『日本製アイスバッテリーで食品/医療の問題の解決と女性の経済的活力の向上に貢献-- インドでの試み』

  • •Pankaj Garg
    CEO
    アイ・ティ・イー株式会社(Innovation Thru Energy Co. Ltd.)
    （報告は日本語で行われます。）

    •Ice battery is a refrigerant based on patents developed in the aerospace industry, which can be kept at a designated temperature for a long time without emitting CO2 and is used for a lengthy period of time. A Japanese inspection organization proves that the refrigerant does not have any negative human health effect, even when the container is broken. In contrast to usually used products, such as dry ice, ice battery is highly praised for its comprehensively higher performances in innovative applications, energy-saving, cost-saving, and environmentally-friendliness. More than 100 companies and medical institutions are already using it, for example, JAL, ANA, and Kintetsu Logistics Systems in the distribution industry, Fuji Electric in the electronics industry, Alfresa Pharma in pharmaceutical wholesaling, etc. Using this technology, ITE is now developing a BOP business by organizing poor daily farmers and introducing the low-temperature ice battery system to provide stably fresh milk to milk factories. The project mainly involves the women of low status and provides them opportunities to improve their economic conditions. This presentation mainly focuses on this Indian BOP project.
  • Date Posted: June 17, 2015
  • • The 86th CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • ・ 第86回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します。（2015年7月15日）

  • • “Offering Health Checks to People in Kenya. Free, but Profitable. Challenge through a New Business Model for the BOP ”

    •『ケニアで健康診断を住民に提供。無料なのに、利益が出る。BOP層向けの新ビジネスモデルへの挑戦』

  • •Jun Fukuyoshi
    CEO, AfricaScan, Inc.
    福吉 潤
    株式会社AfricaScan 代表取締役

    •People are becoming more health consciousness in Kenya, and those in the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) are expressing their interests in having health checks. CancerScan, Inc., which has been working to promote the use of health and cancer checks in Japan, thought about offering health checks in Kenya. However, they found that people in BOP are not willing to spend money for health checks, partly because they cannot afford to do so. To overcome this difficulty, CancerSan established its subsidiary, AfricaScan, in Kenya to start operating small community-based shops (presently four shops in operation). In communities, AfricaScan offers simple health checks at their shops for free to their customers. The cost of health check is covered from profits generated by selling food and miscellaneous goods at small local shops. In return for their preference to buy at their shops, they offer free health checks. Presented will be AfricaScan’s new challenge and business model for improving health conditions of BOP in Kenya.
  • Date Posted: May 8, 2015
  • • The 85th CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • ・ 第85回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します。（2015年6月9日）

  • • “A Project for Developing a New Rehabilitation Model Making Use of Self-pedaling-powered Chair Cycle and Nurturing Human Resources for Rehabilitation in Vietnam”

    • 『ベトナムでの足こぎ車いすを利用したリハビリモデル開発及びリハビリ人材育成プロジェクト』(詳細)

  • • Kenji Suzuki　　CEO, TESS Inc.
    鈴木　堅之（すずき　けんじ）
    (株)TESS 代表取締役

    • TESS Inc. is the Minister-of-Economy-Trade-and-Industry-Award winner at the Japan Venture Awards 2014 for its new rehabilitation model and newly-developed walking-support-equipment. Its new model, “New Rehabilitation Model based on Patients’ Initiative,” focuses on patients’ self-initiated mobility by riding a “self-pedaling-powered chair cycle” which makes use of human reflex. The company started making a BOP initiative supported by JICA to promote the use of the equipment in hospitals in Vietnam and all over the country, hoping to develop a locally-suitable rehabilitation model as well as to nurture a significant number of human resources who link medical care and public welfare in this young and lively nation with the average age of 28.2.
  • Date Posted: May 7, 2015
  • • The 84th CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • ・ 第84回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します。（2015年5月22日）

  • • “JOCV (Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers) Field Research Group: Reports from Ghana”（詳細）
  • (1) “Report from Fact-finding Investigation of Orange-producing Farms, Targeting to Increase their Income” by Shiho Mikami (Main area of activity: Ashanti Region in Ghana)
    (2) “Employment Creation Project for People with Hearing Disability” by Chisato Maruyama (Main area of activity: Ashanti Region in Ghana)

    Coordinated by:
    Yosuke Kotsuji, Investment Officer International Finance Corporation (IFC) Kenya Office

    『青年海外協力隊フィールド調査団、ガーナからの活動報告：
    (1) 「オレンジ農家の実態調査と収入向上を目指して」
    　　三上　志保　（活動地：ガーナ国アシャンティ州）
    (2) 「聴覚障がい者　雇用創出プロジェクト」』
    　　丸山　ちさと （活動地：ガーナ国アシャンティ州）
    調査団コオーディネーター：
    　　小辻　洋介 　IFC（世界銀行民間セクター部門） ケニア事務所
    　　インベストメント・オフィサー

    • • Content:
    (1) “Report from Fact-finding Investigation of Orange-producing Farms, Targeting to Increase their Income” by Shiho Mikami
    The southern part of Ghana is quite active in producing oranges. Despite so, a large number of oranges are discarded before getting to the market, because of poor production management and distribution problems. In this report, I shall present findings derived from my fact-finding investigation to identify the causes of discarding and wasting oranges, and then discuss solutions to the problems, which are hoped to improve the income level of orange-producing farmers.

    (2) “Employment Creation Project for Young People with Hearing Disability” by Chisato Maruyama (Main area of activity: Ashanti Region in Ghana)
    My fact-finding mission initially focused on the causes of low school enrollment ratio among young people with hearing disability. But finding the cause of its low ratio in the lack of employment opportunities after graduation, I have established an NGO called Tatsuno Otoshigo Project (TOP) to provide three types of employment opportunities: (1) for those who learned dress making techniques to produce Japanese summer casual wear for men and Japanese cotton summer kimono for women; (2) for those who learned cooking to bake bread in “Bakery Project;” and (3) selling Ghanaian traditional fabric “kente” produced by physically challenged youth. Based on such experiences in my TOP activities, in my presentation I shall report about the possibility and problems in employing physically challenged youth, issues which need to be solved to produce in developing countries and sell in Japan, and selling traditional products in Japan. My presentation also covers my proposal for solving these problems.
  • Date Posted: March 23, 2015
  • • The 83rd CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • • “Development of Sanitation Business in Uganda” （詳細）
    『ウガンダでの衛生事業開発』
  • ・ 第83 回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します。（2015年4月15日）
    ・ By Mr. Takeo Hojo General Manager, BOP Business Unit, Global Operations Division Saraya Co. Ltd.
  • • Content: People visit a hospital for getting medical treatments and making a recovery when they become sick or injured. However, it is quite surprising to know that as many as 16 million people in the world die due to intra-hospital infection. This risk in developing countries is twenty times higher than that in developed countries. Besides, it is often pinpointed that the carriers of infectious bacteria are medical staff. Saraya, established in 1952 when post-war sanitary conditions were extremely bad and when the number of dysentery cases were the worst in the Japanese medical history, has been consistently developing businesses focusing on the sanitation of fingers. I shall report on the progress in the manufacturing and sales of finger-sterilizing alcohol for medical facilities in a Ugandan subsidiary established in 2011.
  • Date Posted: December 26, 2014
  • The Next CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • • “Pentalemma: Polishing up Decision Making in the Present Complex and Uncertain World”
  • • 第82回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催します（2015年1月20日）
  • • Pentalemma is an online simulation that literally means “5 competing positions”. It aims to improve the quality of decision-making of business operating in a globalizing world. After receiving the first email, groups of users face a series of complex and uncertain circumstances under which will make a difficult decision. Scenarios depicting diverse virtual situations range from employee issues at a plant in Mindanao, the Philippines, to a disaster response in Kyushu, Japan. It will be introduced from an alliance that originated from an encounter at CSR-BOP Watch.
  • Date Posted: December 1, 2014
  • The Next CSR-BOP Watch Meeting Notice
  • • “The Olympics and Sustainability”
  • • 第81 回CSR-BOPウォッチの会合を開催しました（2014年12月18日）
  • • Many movements are now taking place, preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In the 2012 London Olympics, for the first time in the Olympic history, CSR standards were introduced and implemented in both its preparation and operation stages by an independently established organization with the support of the Olympic Committee. Whether such innovative practices for the sustainable development of the world will be continued in the Tokyo Olympics is quite an interesting and important question. To think about the issue, I would like to solicit your participation in the 81st CSR-BOP Watch. (Yoshitaka Okada)
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