What do we do? - Our Mission and Primary Activities
The Mission of JARCOM is to narrow socio-economic development gaps among ASEAN countries and to expedite regional integration through JICA's technical cooperation activities. To contribute to this Mission, JARCOM, through its annual process, facilitates and coordinates the following primary activities:
1. Assisting identification of priority development needs of member countries and facilitating a match of these needs with appropriate resources of other member countries that have a comparative advantage in a given field of cooperation.
2. Providing information on resources (i.e. on-going regional training courses, training institutions, resource persons/experts, etc.) available in the member countries through its web-based information management system and other media.
3. Providing technical and financial support to regional project formulation activities (e.g. fact-finding missions, project formulation seminars) based on agreements between resource and beneficiary countries and JICA country offices concerned. Mobilizing, as necessary, resource persons / experts / project formulation advisors to assist formulation of concrete project proposals.
4. Monitoring and reviewing regional cooperation activities implemented under the JARCOM framework, and disseminating "lessons learned" for further improvement of the cooperation framework.
5. Collaborating with other regional cooperation initiatives, such as the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) and Mekong Region Development, AMEICC (AEM-METI Economic and Industrial Cooperation Committee) which are in line with the mission of JARCOM.
